ten questions to ask an alien

1. Please provide a short proof of Fermat's last theorem1.
2. Please provide a short proof of the Goldenbach conjecture1.
3. Can anything travel faster than the speed of light?
4. Can an omnipotent God make a stone he/she cannot lift?
5. Is this phrase false?
6. Can you understand Joyce's "Finnegans Wake"?
7. Is π periodical at any point?
8. Is the universe inflating, deflating, or infinitely expanding?
9. Where's the Higg's particle?
10. What's your favourite colour?

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1. Sagan, Carl. "The Demon-Haunted World". Headline Book Publishing (1976)

earth·ling /ˈɜrθlɪŋ/

2. a fixen
3. a squirrel
4. a horse
7. a race horse
8. pigs
9. chicken
11. dogs
12. stray dogs
14. dogs in shelters
21. dogs that shouldn't have been gassed in chambers
24. you
25. me
39. an elephant
40. the same elephant, in a circus
41. the same elephant in a circus, dead - from fatigue, malnutrition, horrible living conditions, and abuse
44. a seagull
45. two pigeons
46. a prime minister
47. the same prime minister with flu, enjoying a soup together with his medication, as he sits in front of his TV in his room that overlooks the swimming pool
49. a child under five in africa, dying of preventable diseases
50. another child in africa, dying of preventable diseases in the same year
51. another child in africa, dying of preventable diseases in the same year
5,000,456. another child in africa, dying of preventable diseases in the same year
5,000,553. a seal in Canada
5,000,557. a commercial seal-hunter in Canada
5,000,558. a lawyer who prosecuted the seal hunter
5,000,559-64. a family of 5 who did not act in any way against the seal hunter, and continued wearing baby seal fur coats.
5,002,322. monkeys
5,002,327. a monkey who dances
5,000,328. a monkey who cries
5,000,340. a scientist who burns a monkey
5,000,341. another scientist who kills an animal within the same hour from the first scientist
5,093,985. another scientist who kills an animal within the same hour from the first scientist
6,187,423. another seagull
6,698,250. three parrots
9,381,477. a dolphin
9,381,478. a baby dolphin killed accidentally from careless, immoral and irrespective ways of fishing
9,381,501. a dolphin, tortured and killed by an illegal japanese fleet, later sold as a delicacy
10,477,184. the CEO of a company which is responsible for the pollution of the Nigeria delta, responsible for the deaths of thousands of animals, the destruction of rare habitats, the pollution of water, the deaths of fetuses that died because of their mothers drinking polluted water
10,477,185. the CEO's two-year old daughter
10,477,186. the CEO's dying grand-mother with leukemia
10,477,187. a fetus dying in her mother's body because of highly polluted water and no essential medication available in the country
6,782,487,339. humans who make choices
6,782,489,746. humans who have an impact with their choices
6,782,489,747. us
6,782,489,748. me
6,782,489,749. you.