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This is just for fun. You can assume you retain full use of your faculties. I don't have anything to add to the question, although that may change depending on the responses. The twenty year time period is arbitrary.

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 This is, maybe, appropriate for a blog post. – Mariano Suárez-Alvarez Jul 10 2010 at 13:18
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 I encourage votes to close. – S. Carnahan♦ Jul 10 2010 at 13:35
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 Given the reaction of the public, I'd rather ask not what your question would be, but how quickly will it be closed. – algori Jul 10 2010 at 14:49
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 Harry -- I also have several technical questions I'd very much like to see answered. But I don't seriously think that what prevents people from answering those is them spending hours trying to figure out a clever question to come up with on mathoverflow after 20 years is a coma. – algori Jul 10 2010 at 16:04
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 @algori: the potential to generate interesting answers is not a valid reason to keep a question open. As we've discussed on meta multiple times, almost any question has this property. – Qiaochu Yuan Jul 10 2010 at 17:21
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closed as off topic by Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Ryan Budney, Pete L. Clark, José Figueroa-O'Farrill, Steve Huntsman Jul 10 2010 at 14:16

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Do people still ask a lot of inane questions on MO?

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Can't decide between "update me on the Millennium Problems" and "Is Wikipedia still there?"

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 Uh, you could just check the Clay Institute website and Wikipedia, respectively. – Kevin Lin Jul 10 2010 at 16:37
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 That kind of answer would certainly reassure me that noting much had changed. – Charles Matthews Jul 10 2010 at 17:01
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 This answer-response might be the greatest thing on MO. – Steve D Oct 13 2010 at 2:58

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