Hypothetical Question #43: (Skip the prose for the question)
You end the night like any other, gazing into the computer screen. You head on over to the Escapist hoping for some comedy, some fulfillment, and intellectual stimuli. Unfortunately none is to be had this night. You head to your bed and rest on the fluffy pillow that you prefer because it has the perfect amount of stuffing for your neck.
Everything is dark, you smell something moldy and old... suddenly a hand wrenches the bag that had been covering your head. Your head is pounding, probably because you were drugged or possibly bludgeoned. You look around the room and see a well dressed elderly man sitting in a rather extravagant chair, a throne even. He introduces himself and explains that he has brought you here for entertainment. Your eyes wander the rest of the room and spot a number of heavily armed guards with M16s trained on you.
The Question!
He explains that he will pay you an exuberant amount of money if you teach him about something. Anything! It's your choice as to what you teach him. However, he continues by adding the following rules:
1) It must be a topic that you know a lot about.
2) The information must be legitimate, what you say is checked by intelligence officers observing from another room.
3) It cannot be something the man already knows. Unfortunately you know nothing about this man or his interests and he refuses to tell you. Therefore you should probably talk about a topic that not many people know about.
4) Failure to comply with these rules will result in your immediate execution.
As for me?
I am a Mathematics / Science / Information Technology secondary school teacher. I would probably lean towards IT because the Elderly aren't really well versed with technology in general. However, if I wanted to throw a curve ball I might start talking about a Synchrotron or some fundamentals of Quantum Physics.
You end the night like any other, gazing into the computer screen. You head on over to the Escapist hoping for some comedy, some fulfillment, and intellectual stimuli. Unfortunately none is to be had this night. You head to your bed and rest on the fluffy pillow that you prefer because it has the perfect amount of stuffing for your neck.
Everything is dark, you smell something moldy and old... suddenly a hand wrenches the bag that had been covering your head. Your head is pounding, probably because you were drugged or possibly bludgeoned. You look around the room and see a well dressed elderly man sitting in a rather extravagant chair, a throne even. He introduces himself and explains that he has brought you here for entertainment. Your eyes wander the rest of the room and spot a number of heavily armed guards with M16s trained on you.
The Question!
He explains that he will pay you an exuberant amount of money if you teach him about something. Anything! It's your choice as to what you teach him. However, he continues by adding the following rules:
1) It must be a topic that you know a lot about.
2) The information must be legitimate, what you say is checked by intelligence officers observing from another room.
3) It cannot be something the man already knows. Unfortunately you know nothing about this man or his interests and he refuses to tell you. Therefore you should probably talk about a topic that not many people know about.
4) Failure to comply with these rules will result in your immediate execution.
As for me?
I am a Mathematics / Science / Information Technology secondary school teacher. I would probably lean towards IT because the Elderly aren't really well versed with technology in general. However, if I wanted to throw a curve ball I might start talking about a Synchrotron or some fundamentals of Quantum Physics.
