If you could have the worlds undivided attention for 1 minute...

[BassamAF]

I am hoping this is a question people actually take some time to think about rather than people posting 'I would rickroll everyone'.


All right now, take a minute to think about this.
Assuming temporarily there was a way to get everyone in the world to focus on you for exactly one minute, and to actually understand exactly what you are saying, what would you say and/or do?

I actually bring this up from an old question I saw from reddit when they interviewed Astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/bwe6j/neil_degrasse_tyson_answers_your_questions/
And I thought it was a really interesting question that would give some cool answers.

This was his reply if you don't feel like reading the entire thing.

"If you could get one minute of undivided attention from every single human being on this planet, what would you use it for?
I would tell them that the atoms of out bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust."

I honestly would probably stutter and mess things up, but if I do get the chance, I'd probably apologize to everyone I have met, and to people I would meet. Just to be on the safe side.

How about you?

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

I would come on blind drunk and slurring.

'Everyone.... *hic*... you SUCK!'

 

[HeySeansOnline]

I would go into a small explanation of all the reasons we should stop killing each other and go colonise the Moon and Pluto and begin building space fleets. Including meteors, other life forms, distibution of the population, building solar panels on other planets, etc.

 

[The Procrastinated End]

I would most likely insult everyone with all the stupid things they've done.

 

[wooty]

If I did have the worlds attention, I would absolutely love to say something along these lines.

**Geass Spoilers enclosed**

Spoiler

 

[Kollega]

I'm not sure if i could put it as profoudly as Tyson, but three messages i'd like to deliver are:

- One of equality, peace, and respect for all living things.
- One about the neccesity of expansion into space and colonization of it.
- One regarding a simple fact: CATS ARE NOT EVIL DAMMIT!

And if i had any time left, i'd probably shoehorn something about Lombaxes in.

 

[Marter]

I would tell people to make an effort when speaking.

The word "have" is not pronounced like the word "half".

Once I fixed that, I would give a shout out to people that I care about.

 

[Kpt._Rob]

I would make everyone watch 45 seconds of Firefly, and I'd use my remaining 15 seconds to tell anyone who doesn't know already just what Fox did to Firefly. And if I had some time left over, I might make some helpful suggestions as to what people should do to Fox for canceling Firefly.

As the result of giving everyone in the world a common enemy (the bastards who canceled Firefly), I would have simultaneously given Fox the punishment they deserve, and united the world into a new era of peace... except against Fox.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

"99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer..."

Or read some depressing poetry. Because whatever I say people wouldn't take it seriously anyway.

 

[Fogold]

Go play a video game.

Seriously, they're awesome.

 

[Scobie]

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[Gunsang]

I don't think I would be able to get any serious point across in 1 minute, if at all. That said, I would probably spout apocalyptic nonsense or just cuss the world out. I would also probably tell people that Putin's a bad-ass.

 

[silver wolf009]

If i get control via telepathic link: " Fools of the earth hear my words and beware, this is your fate!" and then proceed to set off a nuke.

If in any other form of contact, play MEGADETH with the video loop of 5 seconds where justin bieber gets hit again and again and again and again by that watter bottle.

 

[Jedamethis]

I'm not sure if i could put it as profoudly as Tyson, but three messages i'd like to deliver are:

- One of equality, peace, and respect for all living things.
- One about the neccesity of expansion into space and colonization of it.
- One regarding a simple fact: CATS ARE NOT EVIL DAMMIT!

And if i had any time left, i'd probably shoehorn something about Lombaxes in.

Probaby something along the lines of this.

 

[Jasper Jeffs]

I'd tell them that all their popstars like Cheryl Cole, Beyonce, whoever the fuck, as well as people like Barrack Obama all take a shit on a regular basis. I think people have forgotten this. It doesn't matter who you are, when people are reminded that you frequently give birth to that brown stankin' package, you're looked at differently. "Oh, Cheryl Cole is fit? Yeah I agree, but imagine her taking a shit.. not so fit now."

 

[lee1287]

get my acting career out there and my underwear model stuff out there. If the situation can do it, damn it i can too.

 

[Firoth]

Rant as quickly as possible about how people like Sarah Palin and the entire cast of Jersey Shore give Americans a bad name and that not all of us are like that.
But, I'd rehearse it first and if I couldn't fit the message adequately into one minute, I'd probably say something like: "...You're all idiots...Stop it. Bad world!"
Or, another one going towards my first point, I'd get the addresses of everyone on Jersey Shore and tell everyone to write them down and then send letters of how they feel about the cast, whether it be good or bad, and we'll see if they get more fan letters, hate mail or "lulz, you idiots are funny" mail. And I'll hope that with enough of the second and third we can break their souls, and maybe turn them into real people.

 

[Palademon]

(Assuming this would be like having Lelouch's Geass) I would explain the human characteristics I cannot deal with and try to make the world as judemental as me. Explain that the idea of money is a fail killing lives and for the love of God, REPLACE ALL POWER PLANTS WITH MACHINES TO COMPRESS HYDROGEN POWERED BY OTHER RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES OR ILL SHOOT YOU WILL MY GIANT ROBOT.

I would also ask them to make me a giant robot.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

"Hey mum, I'm on the telly! Did you remember to feed the cats? You better have, you keep forgetting. Oh, I'll need to borrow a bit of money again too etc.."

Just talk about completely inane things to my mum. I like the idea of completely wasting the whole world's time.

 

[Cynical skeptic]

One minute isn't sufficient time to explain anything. Especially not to the simpletons that comprise 90% of humanity.