Submitted 7 months ago by Stamets@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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3 and 5 can be overpowered if the superpower has no cooldown or limit
2, 7, 8 can assure you big wealth in some jobs
1, 4, 6 doesn’t appear to be very useful, and having a second nose could be quite inconvenient on the forehead, in the armpit or above the arse, while being very parasocial
9: While i think running at the speed of albert einstein relative to the earth would be kind of meh, i would reconsider if it is Albert’s running speed relative to the moon
Albert Einstein can probably run faster than me honestly so I’m going with that
He’s ded tho.
He just wants you to think that
This free gravel, can I summon it whenever and wherever I want, or do I have to wait for it to be delivered? If it’s the latter, I will take Khitan. Resurrecting a dead language sounds fun.
Can I take a pill that gives me a whole sub for discussing these?
3 would get you through almost any door. Definitely my choice.
7 though, this would make you a star in the DEA. Imagine seeing inside everyone’s tires, and then you find one you can’t see inside. “Whatcha got in those tires, son?” I’m sure there could be other uses.
You could run a business on free gravel but you’re mostly paying for processing and delivery so you would only have a small edge on your competition. It’s still a lot of work and big heavy expensive trucks.
Depends on what is meant by “free gravel”, though. Given the effects of the other pills, it gives me the impression I can just summon gravel on command. In which case, I’d only have to pay for my own transportation.
I thought the same thing about 3 until I realized that I’m more than 7 inches tall/wide/deep, so I can’t actually pass through anything, just get horribly mangled when I make it halfway through the door.
Now here’s the million dollar question: how many times per second can I teleport? Because if I can teleport at let’s say 1khz… now we’re talking
Teleport 7 inches away easy lock in:
Teleport up 7 inches on a generator perpetual motion machine.
Walk through thin walls / safes.
Repeatedly teleport forwards never have to walk again.
Teleport out of bed every morning.
Teleport our of clothes at night / sexy times
Look cool af.
Hell, not even that. You could become a world class boxer or UFC fighter. You can basically slip any punch or attack instantly and you can teleport your fists into the sweet spot to score a knockout. You would be an amazing baseball player as well, you can teleport to perfectly hit any ball at just the right angle. As a quarterback you would be insane too, you can readjust to any play instantly. In fencing you’d basically be unstoppable, you can dodge everything. For any sport or physical activity being able to teleport 7 inches is insanely overpowered. The person who came up with this doesn’t play any sports.
Unless your body is less than 7 inches wide, all but the first one of those is going to involve nightmarish scenarios of walls, clothes, etc. getting stuck in your body.
Then teleport again
Does momentum reset after a teleport? Could I jump off a cliff and teleport left and right like going down stairs?
Free gravel for life could be a game changer.
You still pay the shipping fees.
The pill said nothing about that.
Gravel is basically free already. The real cost is putting it where you want it to be.
I mean that is the best pill. It’s like inheriting a free quarry. I could instantly undercut every other quarry and would not need to maintain any of the crushers or land to provide any type of gravel.
I’m definitely choosing that one for sure.
ANY toaster. If you go to a wedding or any formal event with drinks, you can control whoever’s giving the toast. That could be pretty powerful.
Also, anything that generates enough heat in the presence of bread is, in fact, a toaster.
Puppeteering at its finest.
Even if we decide that the teleport might not get you through doors, if you could spam it faster than (works out maths…) 10 times per second, they you could hover, or really slowly fly (about 0.8 inches per second horizontally)
Could definitely use free gravel
3 means general immunity to locked doors and restraints
Okay, I’ll bite this time.
If you pick 9 and then cut your legs off, you’ll have the ability to run as fast as Albert Einstein with his legs cut off could.
Imagine how fast that guy could go if he devoted his life to building performance accessibility aids instead of pursuing physics. He probably would have robotic cybernetic legs that outperformed any human runners.
- Don’t see any use.
Not sureMight be useful, but who noes
FTFY
- …Depends as well on the definition of empty.
“Yep, another container that does not contain a perfect vacuum. Should have taken the free gravel pill…”
Depending on how fast you can teleport you could move pretty quickly. Even 12 teleports a second gets you 4.5 mph in any direction. Could be useful depending on the cooldown but for any significant speed you’d need to teleport really quickly. 20 teleports a second is almost 8 mph
It does raise the question on if this could be useful in some sort of hand to hand combat situation. What happens if I my first is 6" away from your face and I teleport 7" forward? I guess the same question applies to walls. If I can just teleport through matter, then it’s usefulness is suddenly quite high.
Only if you don’t value your hand. Perhaps you could teleport a hammer into someone’s face
The seven inches enderman right there is more useful than you think when you can stack the teleports together
Gravel can be turned into sand. Sand can be turned into concrete and glass. So this one scales pretty quickly.
On the other hand, all I have to do is build a single toaster robot that can build other toaster robots and I’m on my way to toaster robot army.
Just overload the toasters of your enemies and burn down their houses
Is that a clean 7 inches, or would teleporting sideways cross over with some space I previously occupied?
There’s no cooldown so you can teleport an infinite distance as long as it’s magic Star Trek teleportation and not The Prestige murder based teleportation
Star Trek teleportation might also be a bit murdery. You are disassembled to your molecules, sent over in a high energy beam and reassembled. Also there’s a mild risk to end up in an evil mirror universe.
I would be the Gravel King. You need gravel, you come to me. I would be a benevolent king though. I would grant gravel to those that need it.
It doesn’t say the quantity, though. It might be a very small amount every so often. But, if that’s not the case, and if we also get to choose where the gravel appears, then I’m using it to construct a man made island out in international waters.
Yeah, the devil is in the details. Is there a cooldown? Are there quantity limitations? Location could be interesting because you could put ten tons of gravel a mile high and drop it. You could have Nasa pay you to quickly assemble a compacted gravel mini-moon at a lagrange point for a space dock.
Exactly. This one is infinite money glitch
Are we talking about Albert Einstein in his prime, or Albert Einstein now?
Could we put Einstein’s bones in a centrifuge, and run at 200km/h?
7 has the mild convenience of quickly eliminating any empty containers from search for whatever you’re missing. But really Free Gravel is the winner here.
How do we define empty? Is air empty? If yes then at which gas do we delineate empty vs not empty?
7 inches is a lot. Almost too much you could say. 5 is enough… Right?
2 and 7 of course
I could do so much with free gravel, you have no idea.
If you have even the most-basic business sense, this instantly turns you into an uber-wealthy gravel tycoon.
Given that “Internet of Things” devices like smart toasters can be used as targets/jumping off points for cyberattacks, that one could turn you into a god who could hack with your brain (in a semi-controlled manner).
If you look inside (even using magic ability), it will be predicted and then it will be empty. It will be even harder for you not to look.
If it works like that, you would be in huge demand by the bomb squad and for demilitarizing weapons.
Free gravel, then sell it. Just make sure to not summon too much gravel so the price doesn’t go down.
3 and 7 are pretty OP if used correctly
Like Wish.com Nightcrawler. You can hide so fucking well, as long as there are a bunch of empty containers around.
The teleport 7 inches thing might be nice for getting through locked doors
I worry about those who are thicker than 7 inches. That might cause some Cloverfield Paradox shit, where your innards wind up fuzed with a door. Skinny folks only.
I mean, it doesn’t say there’s a cooldown, so in theory you could just spam it a shitton of times and no matter how thick the door is, you’ll get through it.
Yeah, it’d be really important to understand how the 7 inches are measured. Like…is it 7 inches in the same way I mean 7 inches when I say it? Or more like a literal-on-a-ruler 7 inches?
You appear in the closest unoccupied space.
That is exactly what I though. There are benefits to this one for sure.
Award2242@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Putting a toaster inside a robot so I can control it with my mind and have an army of these