Marilyn's Photos - Nov 6 2025 - Ask any question

 

Ask any question.  Today it is possible.  The most popular questions that people ask are “what to watch”, “what is my ip”,  “how to do … something” and “what time is it”.   At ahrefs.com you can find out the 100 most asked questions on Google globally.  What is today, what to watch, what is my ip, where is my train and how many days until Christmas. That’s across the planet.  In the U.S. the top questions include “who is winning the election” - there seems to be an election somewhere in the U.S. at any given moment. Here are some curious moments.  Seven hundred and fifty thousand people asked what dinosaur has 500 teeth.  Over 660,000 people asked how to decorate a fish tank.  Over 910,000 people want to know how many weeks there are in a year.  That one amazes me.  Consider the irony.  The person is literate, is using a keyboard so one can assume some wealth, and yet doesn’t know how many weeks in a year.   And then that dinosaur question… The dinosaur with over 500 teeth is such a popular question because it was an internet meme in early 2021 that challenged people to search for the answer.  It was part of a “Don’t Google” meme - that’s the same as the call to mental action of  “don’t think of a pink elephant” - in which you mentally picture a pink elephant.    “Nigersaurus taqueti, a sauropod that lived 110 million years ago. It had a unique, wide, and straight-edged muzzle with a "dental battery" of over 500 replaceable teeth for non-stop grazing on low-lying plants. “ The teeth were replaced every 14 days.  The Nigersaurus was known as the Mesozoic cow.  I looked out last night and saw the big moon, called a November beaver supermoon. It was surrounded by a sort of mist, so quite mystical.  This picture of the moon on our street comes from 2017.  Looks like a search light

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Oct 11 2023 - The Universal Question

 

What's it all about? The universal question.  And to see a question mark in the universe seems perfect. That's how we see this question mark in the photo taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.  The focus of the picture is is a pair of actively forming stars. But down in the corner is the unmistakable shape of a question mark. And the answer?  "It's "all about projection," Garcia Marin explains. She says the reason we see the galaxies in a question mark shape is a result of both the angle with which they have encountered each other and our own point of view." The "composite of a half-dozen infrared images — went viral on social media sites like X (formerly Twitter) and Reddit after the European Space Agency (one of the three agencies behind the telescope) shared it late last month, prompting the ESA to clarify weeks later that "it's not a hoax." And that's the story.  But there are lots of answers on Reddit: "Finally we have found the question for that 42"  "The riddler strikes again?" "I don't know what it is but it was obviously put there by the same creatures that built the face shaped mountain on Mars." “It’s a white hole.” - The Cat "Maybe some galactic Stranger and Freak mission from Galaxy Theft Auto."   "If we knew, it wouldn’t be a question mark…"   Here's one of the Fall Berry bushes - Beautyberry (Callicarpa).

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What if...

Wake Up on the Bright Side    What If questions are considered the questions that reimagine the future.  Forbes tells me so. The forbes.com article tells me that a 'what if' question is one where the brain usually holds no previous precedent, paradigm or example to rely upon for an acceptable answer, so the answer heads to a different area of the brain. The Forbes article goes on to present these questions for our consideration: • Health: "What if I felt energetic, focused and ready to go every morning?" • Adventure: "What if I took the most outrageous adventure of my life this year?" • Wealth/Investments: "What if I had $5 million in liquid assets invested by 2025?" • Learning: "What if I finally learned to paint with watercolors?" • Team: "What if we doubled our sales this year?" Here's a question that seems very familiar.  It is the premise for a series of novels/movies (by Robert Ludlum).    What if you woke up one morning with only the clothes you sleep in all alone in another country unable to speak the country’s language? And here is Einstein's famous 'what if' question: "What if I could ride a beam of light across the universe?"