Never…..

Questions and Fluther are ‘togetherness, foreverness’.

As long as humanity keeps advancing, there will be new problems to overcome. According to Jacques Ellul’s Ambiguities of Technology, advancements in technology will always raise more questions than they answers, so we should expect to be in business a long time!

Dec. 21, 2012 ~

@pete,

nice

There will never come a time when all questions have been asked. No matter how many questions are asked, there is always one more. I used to carry a folder to staff meetings that was labeled in large letters on the front: “Now what?” There’s always that one.

Questions are a vital force. Questions drive human behavior. There’s a question at the beginning of every road (and not necessarily an answer at the end). Questions are philosophy, questions are science, questions are art. A life without questions is not worth living.

When I stop asking questions, you will know I am dead.

I want the last words on my lips to be a question.

But…the last one will have been asked on Fluther when the whole grid goes down, when no one can afford to use energy for this kind of entertainment any more, when we have all been forced to pull the plug on our DSLs and cables and satellite dishes and revert to paper and pencil. When that happens, I hope there’s something left of the old infrastructure so we don’t have to reinvent everything we thought was obsolete.

That’s like asking when there will be a word for everything.
Never.

Ya’ll are taking this question terribly seriously. I don’t know why.

I’ll tell you this: it has been conclusively proven by scientists working in secret chambers shielded from all cosmic rays (except one, but we’ll get to that later), that humans will have acquired every quanta of knowledge in the universe as of July 82nd, 8432. If you don’t believe me, go ask the scientists. Just don’t bring a cosmic ray with you.

Taking things seriously is a form of entertainment for me. I do it because it’s fun.

I dunno. Some questions are begging…. just begging to be made fun of. Making fun is fun, too.

But sometimes making fun is serious. Is it not?

SA-weet, @pete.

If it’s serious to be funning, and fun to be serious, why do we even bother to use the words to describe anything?

Now, Jeruba, you have done it! My head is hurting! I could do without all this seriously funny seriousness.

@Daloon, the Moebius strip is a metaphor for everything.

@Jeruba: I never met a phor I didn’t like. and the kline bottle?

Yes, maybe also a Klein bottle, but I am partial to Moebius strips myself (and they’re easier to make!). And metaphors. I am a huge fan of metaphors and ambiguity.

I’ll bet you’ve never tried to make a klein bottle!

Well, it can be dangerous, because if you fall in, you fall out.

Q: At what point in time will all questions have been asked on Fluther?

A: When the power runs out and Fluther ascends to Plato’s C4v3.