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In the "Famous Last Words" thread someone mentioned "What does this button do?" A group of us came up with a question some years back that ends with "Would you or would you not?" Setup: Someone had come forward with a box with a single button on it. He claims that if the button is pushed, all life as we know it would cease to exist. In exchange for not pushing the button, he wants a billion dollars. Somehow he manages to convince the powers that be that he is serious and the box is functional. At a large public ceremony, the billion dollars is paid and everyone leaves the building. You are the person who has to clean up afterward. The box is still there. Would you push the button, perhaps discovering this guy just pulled off the biggest hoax in history or perhaps ending life as we know it? Or would you not? Me? No question. I'd push the button. If nothing happened, I'd laugh my ass off. It it worked as advertised, no one would know because all life has ceased to exist. What about you?