# Ask the guy who is from 100 years in the future **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 11, 2012, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490 "2012-04-11T20:22:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/61 "2012-04-12T16:51:22Z")
What style do people wear their pubic hair? Do people still cover their genitals? ---
**Author:** ![RalfCoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@RalfCoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RalfCoder)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/62 "2012-04-12T18:06:25Z")
Are/were/will you be able to thaw Ted Williams and Walt Disney and all those corpsicles at Alcor and the other cryogenic preservation companies? Can you cure all diseases yet? AIDS, cancer, Alzheimer’s, hangnails? What new ones crop up in the next 100 years? Will I be able to get some sort of augmented memory soon? I’m hoping for something like a USB port just behind my left ear, so that I can plug in my USB drive and listen to music without those annoying earbuds. What’s a vacation like at the hotel at L5? ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/63 "2012-04-12T19:20:31Z")
Did they ever find Amelia Earheart, Jimmy Hoffa, or Judge Crater? ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/64 "2012-04-12T19:25:00Z")
What are next week’s lottery numbers? and why didn’t you do this a couple of weeks ago, when the jackpot was 500+ million? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/65 "2012-04-12T20:14:26Z")
Is the [Rudolph T.V. Special](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=48886) thread still being bumped every year? And is the Celebrity Death Pool still being played? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/66 "2012-04-12T20:25:41Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > What are next week’s lottery numbers? > > and why didn’t you do this a couple of weeks ago, when the jackpot was 500+ million? Why do you think he came back now? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/67 "2012-04-12T21:12:58Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > And is the Celebrity Death Pool still being played? What young (but at least 18 yrs old) celebrities die in 2013. I want to win the Celebrity Death Pool in 2013. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/68 "2012-04-12T21:28:09Z")
Can you travel to 2036 (or 2000) and kill John Titor? And is kick-boxing still the sport of the future? ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/69 "2012-04-12T22:06:26Z")
I promise I will get to your questions, everybody, but I am currently trying to clean up a little mistake I made related to my time travel. There is nothing to worry about, I promise (but you may want to stock up on cough drops and goggles as a precaution). ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/70 "2012-04-13T16:10:50Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Did they Erase Lincoln when they stopped using pennies? History’s greatest vampire hunter? I think not! ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/71 "2012-04-13T16:22:27Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > What new genres of music were invented in the last 100 years? Punk Throat Singing is probably the most significant, comonly referred to is Chezzer Rock, although it is pronounced nothing like how it is spelled. > [@](#): > > Whatever happened to North Korea and their dictatorship? It’s still there and it’s still run by the progeny of Mark Zuckerberg. > [@](#): > > Has Africa become full of prosperous democracies or are the countries there still troubled? Yes, every country in Africa is extremely wealthy and fully Democratic, except for Djibouti and Sierra Leone…and Chad…and Democratic Republic of the Congo…and Mali…and Malawi…and The Gambia…and Zimbabwe…and South Sudan…and Namibia…and Mozambique…and Chad…and Eritrea…and Niger…and Togo…and Cameroon…and the Central African Republic…and Tunisia…and Libya…and Tanzania…hmm, come to think of it, no they haven’t. > [@](#): > > When was the first AI politician? The first AI politician was Al Gore. > [@](#): > > What happened to energy? Do you still need coal, gasoline and natural gas? Are wind turbines and solar-voltaic considered primitive compared to what you have now or do you just have really advanced forms of the kinds of energy generating technology we have now (fossil fuels, wind, solar, nuclear, etc)? We have been able to harness the power of Cat Videos into a virtually endless supply of fuel and energy…and we repealed the Law of Thermodynamics. (Thank you President Palin!) > [@](#): > > Is it possible for someone who is not heavily augmented with technology to understand and function in your society? Even in 2012 it is becoming harder to function w/o internet and a smart phone (at least function efficiently). Sure, if you want to look super foolish walking around without your Immersion Helmet. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/72 "2012-04-13T16:23:37Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Does Facebook exist in 2112? Se the answer to the question about North Korea. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/73 "2012-04-13T16:25:59Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > So I take it either you’ve discovered the wonderful television show Futurama from our time, or it’s still popular in the future 🙂 > > Was there anything else that Futurama accurately predicted about the future? Predicted is a stretch considering all of their source material was from the future. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/74 "2012-04-13T16:27:00Z")
> [@ataraxy22](#): > > What questions would you ask of the man from 2212? I did ask him whether Justin Bieber was still alive (He is!) ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/75 "2012-04-13T16:28:51Z")
> [@ArrMatey](#): > > Does my novel ever get published? What’s a novel? > [@](#): > > Just what -was- the deal with the horses? (I’m sure from a historical perspective the question’s a pretty obvious one) Scientists still have no idea where all the horses have went, but I am happy to report they have all returned (albeit slightly more evil). ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/76 "2012-04-13T16:33:22Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Galactor the Evil Galactic Overlord has been pushing his forces towards Earth for quite some time now. Has he ever successfully invaded Earth? Is Queen Galacta IX still queen of the galaxy in 2112? If you mean the crazy guy and his girlfriend who took over the Mall of America in 2056 then yes I suppose he was successful, if by success you mean he was shot down in a hail of pulse bullets outside of Forever 21. “Queen Galactica” as you call her was thrown into Mauna Loa Volcano. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/77 "2012-04-13T16:35:01Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > how many years off was the 1973 movie Soylent Green? Nothing like that has happened as of yet, although Taco Bell is still around, so you never know. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/78 "2012-04-13T16:36:58Z")
> [@Darryl\_Lict](#): > > What style do people wear their pubic hair? Do people still cover their genitals? Yes of course people still cover their genitals. I am not sure how to answer the other question. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/79 "2012-04-13T16:41:50Z")
> [@RalfCoder](#): > > Are/were/will you be able to thaw Ted Williams and Walt Disney and all those corpsicles at Alcor and the other cryogenic preservation companies? Sure, we thawed them right out and buried them in the ground. > [@](#): > > Can you cure all diseases yet? AIDS, cancer, Alzheimer’s, hangnails? What new ones crop up in the next 100 years? No we cannot cure all diseases, but AIDS is imminently controllable and Cancer and Alzheimer’s are cured through gene manipulation therapy. Hangnails, sadly, has wiped most of Australia. The most damaging new disease is called Neville’s Disease, which causes overnight Evilness. > [@](#): > > Will I be able to get some sort of augmented memory soon? I’m hoping for something like a USB port just behind my left ear, so that I can plug in my USB drive and listen to music without those annoying earbuds. Soon? No. Ever? No. > [@](#): > > What’s a vacation like at the hotel at L5? You can check in, but you can never leave. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/80 "2012-04-13T16:44:07Z")
> [@campp](#): > > Did they ever find Amelia Earheart, Jimmy Hoffa, or Judge Crater? Yes, all three were found together in Cliff Clavin’s Kitchen. (that’s a little joke, sorry, I know this is a deathly serious thread). Actually no they were never found, I suspect because no one is looking for them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490.md?page=5)