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Are KFC buckets going to hold up okay in landfills and stuff? Like, for future historians. Because if they don't, the future historians are going to be super-confused by the phrase "pick up a bucket of chicken." They'll be pretty sure chicken doesn't literally mean chicken and buckets don't literally mean buckets, in that context. On the face of it, the phrase doesn't make sense.

Basically I'm saying that we need to bronze a KFC bucket, for the future.

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Do non-bullshit scientists ever KickStart research they can't get get grants for?

Obviously this would be most useful for stuff you can make sound interesting to laypeople - more like "which of these natural supplements, if any, helps you achieve orgasm?" than "can we reproduce the results of the badly-designed study linking this gene to the ability to metabolize this substance?" - but it seems like it could be doable.