Max

I’ve read that the human brain capacity has 2.5 petabytes worth of memory storage. I have an excellent memory for details; even super obscure things that happened decades ago. I only have an average IQ but my recall is very good especially when my memory is jogged or if I had read something more than 1 time. I read that people with Autism may have better memories; and it is possible I am on the spectrum due to my lack of social skills. I also have read that people with larger visual cortex’s have better memories as well. This would imply that part of the brain is bigger and has more “space”. Yet I have read that forgetting is due to retrieval problems and not the inability to store stuff. Yet their are also a handful of people who remember everything and that is not the norm by any stretch of the imagination. So what’s the verdict. Is my memory better because I have a thicker, larger brain matter with more space OR is the retrieval system in my brain wired better OR 

because I constantly “replay” memories in my mind because I have OCD. Is that helping strengthening the memory creating the illusion that I have a good memory?

In one of John Michael Godier’s latest videos on Astroengineering projects he started by saying that present day humanity is either at the very beginning of huge technological development OR at the very end. I agree with him but I wonder which it is. What does everyone else think? Stiegler said technology is always evolving so I am leaning towards the former. 

So over the last few months; I’ve been having difficulty concentrating on things. When I was reading a book; it took me far longer to read as I kept going back and re-reading it as I felt I was skimming through it and not concentrating on the content. I need to re-watch YouTube videos because I feel like I didn’t absorb the content. I’m reading a new book and I feel like I’m just reading it too fast and not absorbing the message. I have two projects. One recreational and one for school and I can’t start them. I keep getting distracted and the school project requires me to read a bunch of stuff that bores me so I haven’t started it yet. It’s due in a week. I am in grad school by the way. I have severe OCD and I am heavily on meds for it. I am also almost 28 years of age. Is it possible I am developing ADHD. I would take a test to determine this but I know that when I take it; my brain will subconsciously concentrate so I can protect myself from any scrutiny. 

In high school I asked a girl out on Facebook. I got no response and the following day I was told she was scared of me and then blocked me. Yet, fast forward to adulthood and her husband met her through messaging her on Facebook. She didn’t seem to have a problem in that situation so it’s just me, right, and not the fact that I used social media? I’m just unappealing. 

I watched an episode of 48 hours about a serial killer named Israel Keyes who was apprehended in 2012. He was a horrible monster who killed at least 12 people BUT he also was a loving father and boyfriend. It doesn’t make any sense. How could he switch between two drastic modes? He also had a job and friends but in secret; he killed people, raped them and buried their bodies in lakes. He genuinely loved his daughter and after she was born, admitted to investigators that he could no longer kill children. He displays many signs of psychopathy yet he seemingly had an island of humanity in a sea of evil. What is about his brain that causes the literal Jekyl and Hyde? Is it something neuroscience can’t explain yet?

I’m a 27 year old virgin and I’m a huge loser. The only contact I have with people my age are over text and some interaction with people on my Zoom sessions for Grad school. I will never have sex because I am hideous and weird. Girls laugh at me and dare me to like them so they can crush me. I can’t induce lucid dreams and true working VR is a long way off so I was wondering if their is anything I could do to simulate a vagina. I masturbate all the time but I wanna stop as I am wrecking my bedsheets. I once heard that a sticking it in a hot water bottle with lotion is pretty close but I’m not sure. I’d rather not get a flesh light or any type of sex toy because my parents have access to my bank accounts and it will be very strange and problematic so I’m wondering if their was something homemade I can use. 

Isaac Arthur is a popular YouTuber who explores different topics in futurism. He makes a new video every Thursday and he is amazing. In June, one of his episodes is called “Galactic screwups”. I love looking at his Google Doc and guess what he is going to cover based on the title. Yet the “Galactic screwups” one is stumping me. Isaac often talks about highly advanced societies employing gamechanging super-advanced tech that can alter the universe on a grand scale. So basically, their is little to nothing “impossible” on Isaac’s channel. What do you think he will cover in “Galactic Screwups”? My theory is that he will cover stellar engineering projects that may go awry and wreck planets or stars but I would like some other opinions on obscure hypothetical mistakes future humans or aliens might make. 

I was reading an article for one of my Library Sciences classes about the decline of Wikipedia and I was very alarmed. Editing has gone down dramatically and it is privately funded so if people lose interest completely; it would surely close down. That’s fine; but I basically revolve my recreational life on reading the info on the Star Wars Wikipedia; which is known as Wookieepedia. It’s very important to have this info at my fingertips so I can write fan fiction and take an in-depth look at various offshoots of the franchise. JonahDimes, an amateur YouTube futurist said it Wikipedia might end in the ‘30’s. Do you think Wikipedia will close down and will it effect the fandom maintained wiki’s?

My great-uncle told me his IQ was 180 and I believe him since he started reading at age 3 and was able to build a robot and learn languages easily. He also was learning differential geometry right before he died. He took the IQ test when he was a child so that 180 is lower; probably 150-160. Do any of you Yahooites have an adult score IQ of 160 or above? If so 2 things. 

1. What special things are you able to do?

2. Do you sometimes feel like you don’t relate to anyone. My uncle did. 

It seems like the average people in the world are *******. I mean I’m not saying everyone is a serial killer or pedophile but most people you encounter are rude, aggressive, impatient, self-centered and love to make fun of or talk down to people both in real life and on the internet. I try my best to be nice to everyone and I don’t understand why most people are just horrible. Even here on Yahoo Answers; you get people who don’t want to help; they just want to demean or chastise. Why is the human race so flawed? Maybe it’s better if we go extinct. 

I DON’T want to work at McDonalds but grad school is hard and I wonder if I can make that it through. I am in Library Sciences second semester. 

I don't have a photographic or eidetic memory but I have an extremely good memory for details and information. I can remember the plots of books I read years ago, and dialogue and scenes from movies. I remember things from as far back as 2 years of age with strong clarity. I can even remember obscure conversation topics I had years ago, dreams I had years ago, and even feelings I've had at certain ages. When I say feelings, I mean my perspectives based on my age. How I felt the time I liked a girl, things that seemed bigger or more challenging when I was younger like giving up the bottle or pacifier etc. I also get aggravated when people repeat things as I have remembered what they said. Don't get me wrong; I forget things like everybody else but I was curious as to why my recall is so good. My IQ is only slightly above average and I suck at math. My brother probably has an way above average IQ; he can do physics and fix electronics but his memory is awful. He even says "I don't remember what I had for breakfast today." What is different about our brains? Do I have more neurons? Are certain parts of my brain thicker or bigger?

I don't have a photographic or eidetic memory but I have an extremely good memory for details and information. I can remember the plots of books I read years ago, and dialogue and scenes from movies. I remember things from as far back as 2 years of age with strong clarity. I can even remember  obscure conversation topics I had years ago, dreams I had years ago, and even feelings I've had at certain ages. When I say feelings, I mean my perspectives based on my age. How I felt the time I liked a girl, things that seemed bigger or more challenging when I was younger like giving up the bottle or pacifier etc. I also get aggravated when people repeat things as I have remembered what they said. Don't get me wrong; I forget things like everybody else but I was curious as to why my recall is so good. My IQ is only slightly above average and I suck at math. My brother probably has an way above average IQ; he can do physics and fix electronics but his memory is awful. He even says "I don't remember what I had for breakfast today." What is different about our brains? Do I have more neurons? Are certain parts of my brain thicker or bigger?

Growing up, all the braniacs acted like they were better than everyone. Why? Your intelligence is determined by your genetics and has nothing to do with you

I'm on tons of meds for Obsessive compulsive disorder but lately, I have this new problem that's driving me crazy. At certain points in a day over the course of every few days, I will have moments of total euphoria where I feel everything is right in the world and then I will "crash" to a feeling of hopelessness and that nothing matters. I've gotten so used to this that now I "wait" for the euphoria like someone waits until they do a drug or something like that. My therapist has suggested I keep a mood journal for this week but I think I need a mood stabilizer, yet I am afraid to tamper with my current cocktail. I am on Clonazepam, Fluoxetine, Wellbutrin and Olanzapine. Do you think I need to add a mood drug as well?

Sometimes I wonder about what couples talk about, mainly anything to do with their previous relationships. I don't have an ex, I was an ex-admirer. I liked this girl in high school and she didn't like me and decided to make it a game to make me feel bad and get the whole school in on the "joke". At the end of Senior Year, I got my "revenge" and made her feel extremely foolish in front of the whole school and she was furious. Now she is getting married, and I DON'T care at all but I am curious from a sociological point of view. Does she discuss me with her fiancée. I personally don't think so as I "won" and she is very prideful so I don't think she wants to talk about a perceived weakness but I could be wrong.  Do you think I was ever a dinner topic?

For me; It was the early learning that we could not move faster than light and their is so much universe out their to tease us

I am very intrigued by the idea of a telescope powerful enough to see the surfaces of exoplanets in not just the Milky Way galaxy but other galaxies as well. I saw Cosmos with Neil Degrasse Tyson a few weeks ago and he said that gravitational lensing can be used to see the surfaces of exoplanets in the galaxy. Yet I want to take it a step further. In the Isaac Arthur Megatelescopes episode, at the end, Isaac said a hypothetical lens made of dark matter could warp spacetime and allow you to see much further distances, but did not specify how far. This article seems to back up his theory.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/889jaz/scientists-...

So basically, could a hypothetical dark matter lens be used to possibly see the surfaces of intergalactic exoplanets?

I was recently looking at a comic reprinting of Retro Sci Fi Tales # 9, and the synopsis on the site spoke about a story of the "Exposition Universelle", where at a fictitious worlds fair in Paris in 1878, they unveil a "grand inter-galactic telescope so powerful that it can view the surfaces of planets in distant galaxies". This highly intrigued me as our strongest telescopes, can at best, see blurry images of exostars in only our home galaxy. Now last Sunday, I watched Nova with Neil Degrasse Tyson, and Tyson said that using the sun as a gravitational lens; we could potentially see the surfaces of exoplanets in our home galaxy. This is amazing but lets take this one step further. Imagine you are an astronomer in say the Star Trek universe Milky Way or the Star Wars galaxy and want to see the surfaces of planets in distant galaxies as intergalactic travel (as opposed to interstellar travel) is still sketchy at best. What kind of hypothetical method of imaging could possibly be powerful enough to achieve this? You would have to see past the intergalactic void which would be quite a long distance even for Star Wars hyperdrives. Clarketech science is welcome.

My Grandma was in a medicated coma, but she told me she didn't remember what she experienced. I was always fearful that if I was in a coma, my mind would experience what would be described as sleep paralysis and I would hear what everybody would be saying but be unable to respond. What's it really like to be in a coma?