YouTube already does this in a less invasive way. “Here’s this random video on theory crafting how we can put life on Mars that we just thought you might like.”
“I [Carl Sagan] can remember one occasion, taking a shower with my wife while high, in which I had an idea on the origins and invalidities of racism in terms of gaussian distribution curves,” wrote the former Cornell University professor. “I wrote the curves in soap on the shower wall, and went to write the idea down.”
It’s a two-edged sword: yes, you’re probably doing great work, but on the other hand it might come off as annoying and give science a bad name.
I wouldn’t mind some random knock on my door once a week or so by someone who wants to sit down and teach me some random scientific principle or spit out fast facts. One would have to watch out for false priests though. “did you know that vaccines are nanobots injected to support Bill Gates?” or something.
Fun fact, their meeting places, "Kingdom hall"s are translated “Rikets Sal”. On more than one occasion the letters in their signs have been rearranged over night to “skitarsle”, roughly “poopybutt” :D
New Zealand here, I've only had it once in the last 5 years and it was awesome, they turned out to be from a doomsday cult that believes God is a living Korean woman or something like that.
It does. It got to the point I explained the concept of trial by combat to them, and said if they really believed, they would fight me-me armed them not.
Never worked.
So I got a grab bag of cheap sex toys to keep by the door the moment I got my first place (was homeless when I turned 18) and ‘would you like to talk about Jesus’ became ‘trick or treat’.
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