Hypotheticals for Hat Chat ep.133

Here we go!

Option 1

You enter a talent contest, but you must use a new talent you don't currently possess. You have 24 hours to learn a new talent, with the goal of winning the contest. What talent do you choose?

Option 2

What would be the best/worst/most interesting planetary conditions you could come up with that would impact society/humanity the most? (E.g low or high gravity, high oxygen density allowing for megaflora and fauna, plentiful but dangerous oceans of rare metals, something about Venus being a gas giant)

Option 3

Present you is visited by past/future you, they swap places with you, and you are sent back in time to the dawn of earth and must now live to repeat the cycle and swap places with your present self. You are immortal until the swap and any of your actions will not change currently known history since you were always part of the timeline. You will also be given a box for visualisation Imagine a TARDIS that has wifi/ all currently available internet, Unlimited energy, and a food replicator which you can scan foods into to save and duplicate later. It can not travel like the TARDIS but no matter what is inside you can move it with a simple cart the contents inside will not be affected by the normal passage of time (not including living things). You are given one week to prepare what foods you save in your replicator, and how would you interact with history/ what historical events or places would you visit; and Would you use this to influence the present,  Or would you just stay in the present. You have better than human memory so you can remember your time you spent in the past. You also can photograph or videotape as you please and will not be caught.

Examples:  you could show people of the wild west west world and tell them it's the future with no repercussions. You could meet Jesus and record him to see if anything from the bible is legit. With several billion years without people you could research and invent technology like teleportation or an infinite power source while collecting pet dinosaurs like pokemon. Even build a wakanda like civilization if you wanted to. Watch every movie, read every book. Even visit your younger self in some way that you know won't affect the timeline.