Yes looks like it. Just rebooted it - should be okay now.
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I tried to have a balance of questions over these 6 areas:
* Biology
* Economy
* Environment
* Politics
* Science & Technology
* Society
I also tried to have a balance between questions that you would think for certain would be a 'yes' like the Pi one and a 'No' like the cannibalism one.
Layered on top of this was my own personal views on what's 'unusual' about our own society and a desire to get people actually thinking about us, not the aliens. Do we really need Jails and religion and countries? Is there another way? Maybe we could have a justice system without Jails, for example. That's what's behind the UN question - probably not a good question - but something I think about often.
I regret not thinking about the family question. That would have been a good one.
After an hour on HN there are 44k responses in so far. Here is a summary sorted the percentage that agree/answered "yes".
23% Is gold valuable to them?
25% Do they eat aliens (i.e cannibalism)?
25% Can they time travel?
29% Do they have political parties?
31% Do they use base 10 maths?
31% Do they have compulsory taxation?
32% Do they have a United Nations?
34% Are there countries?
35% Do they have elections?
37% Do they have mobile phones?
38% Do they have insurance?
40% Do they have slavery?
40% Is there unemployment?
41% Do they have brands?
41% Is there advertising?
42% Do they have poverty?
43% Do they use money?
44% Do they have religion?
45% Is there a world leader?
45% Do they have double helix DNA?
48% Do they have private property?
52% Do they have corruption?
53% Do they wear clothes?
54% Is there theft?
54% Is there a market for second hand goods?
55% Do they have pills/oral medicine?
56% Do they have male & female?
58% Are there jails/prisons?
58% Do they eat animals?
60% Do they have pets?
60% Do they have shops?
61% Do they have governments with authority over individuals?
62% Do they have wars?
62% Do they have judges or courts to adjudicate disputes?
64% Do they use recreational drugs?
65% Do they have police?
65% Are there roads?
67% Do they practice euthanasia?
68% Do they have electronic computers?
69% Have they developed Artificial Intelligence?
69% Do they have fiction (books and movies)?
71% Do they live in multistory buildings?
71% Do they know about and agree with our periodic table of the elements?
72% Do they have a sewage system?
73% Do they know about and agree with the theory of relativity?
73% Do they sleep?
73% Do they have doctors and hospitals?
74% Do they have something like cement/concrete?
75% Do they have space travel?
78% Do they eat plants?
82% Do they grow old and die?
84% Do they have standardised weights and measures?
84% Do they have eyes?
85% Do they have something like the internet?
87% Do aliens know about Pi?
88% Are there cities?
89% Do they eat?
89% Do they have reading and writing?
92% Are there animals and plants (other than the aliens)?
I wasn't really expecting this level of interest to be honest.
I hadn't used Pixabay before but it was perfect for this. It was a bit of mucking around to have 3 different image sizes for each question -so yes that took a while. About 6 hours including the domain and server setup I would say. The code was the easy (and fun) part.
I suspect all the stuff I wrote back in the late 80's and early 90's has long been switched off at some point, which is kinda sad. It would be hard to run today: EBCDIC mainframe stuff and 16 bit PC stuff.
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=reactjs%2C%20angular...