ryubyss

how would you prove to 18th century version of JREF that meteorites can crash to Earth and win the equivalent of $1,000,000? or "mesmerism"? or mirror neurons?

more to the point, why didn't you take on Kent Hovind and prove that evolution exists and win $250,000?

(the meteorite analogy I took from the works of Robert Anton Wilson.)

1) I admire your work a lot. I have not seen a work of yours which have failed. how do you know what ideas will work?

2) did you always intend It's Such a Beautiful Day as a trilogy? or did you just decide on a sequel to the original short and so on?

3) why haven't you won an Oscar by now? (as opposed to the usual formula Disney/Pixar.)

couldn't they argue that you traveled to a mine on the other side of the world, say, where that combination of minerals occurs more frequently? or that you painstakingly created the meteorite from rare minerals in a forge and passed it off as a natural event?

as for eyewitness accounts, well, you know what they would say.

the main obstacle would come down to, could you believe that a rock could fall from space or couldn't it.

as for the other example (apart from the others you did not touch upon), he could also stipulate such a narrow set of circumstances that you could never win.

you can probably tell that I consider your $1M challenge has a lot in common with these hypothetical scenarios.