Submitted 1 year ago by justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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I would probably would go with 1 and 4. I read an article awhile ago they were used to detect quality of water. I would have the ability to further interpretate what is wrong with the water by talking to the oysters. Might make money along the way and save people/ environment at the same time. As for 4 well is for obvious reason.
But if you look 10 hours younger, does this mean that in the daytime you look like you did when you were asleep the previous night?
Lol my mistake I read that as 10 years younger. Well no going back now.
I at least like the toaster if we assume instantaneous faster than light control. If I can sit and watch a feed of stocks and toggle a buy/sell toaster hooked up to the stock market 250 ms away, I can pretty easily beat the market and make money.
Similarly you could use the empty container rule to have someone communicate with you by toggling the empty state of a container. If you sense/not sense the container you have a reliable binary communication channel and Morse code is pretty viable too. But it’s probably best for a predetermined action because you’re racing the latency of light here and we’re not multiplanetary yet so you’ve only got hundreds of milliseconds margin to work with. Unless you contract with NASA or anyone yeeting things into space. Build an instrument that can Morse code via empting/filling a container and suddenly voyager can send us instant communication. Combine it with a set of control toasters and that’s pretty valuable too.
Teleportation: is there a cool down? Because most places can be teleported to in increments of 7 inches if I can chain them.
Where does the nose grow?
Say some phrase in Khitan, then teleport. Become a world-famous magician as no one would believe you’re actually teleporting. The Khitan is for the show. Also drive all those people trying to debunk your trick insane.
Plus it’d be incredible for heists, there’s no mention of a cooldown so just spam it and piston-translocation glitch your way through some complex.
As long as I’m still indecisive could we find out how fast Albert Einstein really was? Maybe for some of us it’s still an improvement.
His friends called him “Lightspeed Einy”.
Are we talking Albert Einstein at his peak, or Albert Einstein now?
3 and 7
I assume you can chain teleport and thus move pretty fast. Seeing that a container is empty can be useful I imagine.
Cheat at the cup and pebble game.
Yes the seeing empty containers still give you information.
Teleporting didn’t specify a cooldown.
ZOOM! plus 7 inches is still enough to bypass doors.
Put a ruler on the ground in front of your foot, at the 7 inch mark is where the front of your foot will move to. Sideways and you are stuck in something, forward or backwards and you are stuck in something.
You couldn’t even teleport through a sheet of paper unless you were thinner than 7 inches.
7 is a power your character has in Fallout 4 and Starfield.
Somehow I doubt oysters have anything interesting to say
What type of molecules can be present inside the container for it to be considered “empty”?
Where would you break in? The only thing I can imagine is like a bank vault, but the doors to those things are crazy thick.
Supermarkets.
I’m sure there’s a lot of houses it might work for. 2x4 studs with half inch sheathing and facade plus half inch drywall is only like 5 inches
1 & 2 - as CEO of The Happy Oyster company and Gravel Unlimited lI’m absolutely smashing it financially, even with the terminal lamentations of a million misled oysters in my ears.
3 and 7 no contest
Either 2 and 3 or 3 and 7.
Free gravel is fantastic, a ton of practical things to be done with it and is otherwise expensive.
Teleporting 7 inches away is enough to get you past many barriers and walls, that’s not insignificant. This seems the coolest to me.
Being able to determine if a container is empty or not seems pretty cool as well although I can’t think of a good example of how this would be useful.
The rest are hilarious.
I’m thicker than 7 inches. My belly and ass would be stuck. Even in glass
2 and 3 are the obvious choices, however id pick 3 and 5. Here are the only interesting pills available.
You can sell it
that’s enough to go through a wall
a smart toaster can be programed to send commands outside of itself, essentially allowing you to control anything you had prepped for this before hand
Would be funny to feed this one to a person who had just died and watch their color come back, really fuck with the autopsy
Instantly cures any physical ailments preventing you from running/walking (unless we mean current albert einstein, in which case corpses cant move.)
(3) that’s enough to go through a wall
No it’s not. You’re more than 7" thick. Even if you got right up against the wall, your nose pressed up against it, the back of your head is maybe 10" away. You teleport 7" and congratulations, you’re halfway through a wall.
Most doors will never be locked, at least.
So you’re telling me cyberpunk 2077 is possible, I just have to learn how to code via telepathy and my cyberdeck is a toaster?
By repeatedly teleporting 7 inches you can fly.
You’re flying around while I’m stuck on a pile of gravel, talking to clams and you’re laughing?!
Step 1: cut off a limb Step 2: cry in pain for 9,5 hours Step 3: take pill #6
Imagine being dead and looking alive for 10 hours
If #8 also included being able to write the language as well, I’d definitely pick that. I could become famous and influential in linguistic circles and probably make good money off of it for a short while. Then I could use that money to fund a few projects I’ve wanted to do for a while, like making a modern Vib-Ribbon for PC.
7 and 3, no contest. With the ability to see inside containers and short teleport, a person could become a master thief fast
Well…you can see inside empty containers. What’s in non-empty containers would be anyone’s guess
You could at least confirm if a container is indeed empty or not though. I could see that being useful in some weird situations. For example if someone hid something in a container yard, you can at least rule out all the empty ones.
3 and 8. Teleporting is a neat party trick and speaking an extinct language would make me sound smart.
3 and 7. 3- you could get all those things that were just almost at your reach. Also, is it 7in of displacement or 7inches in front of where you are, like there’s a 7in wall you can go through it? 7- if you can’t see through it it means it’s full. That’s so freaking helpful!!!
3 and 7 I will trade gravel for everything I can.
1 and 2. The gravel to sell and the oysters to get a sense of how communications with other animals work. If I can communicate with an oyster, my understanding of communication could potentially extrapolate to higher animals.
Deal or No Deal wouldn’t work as the briefcases all have something inside of them: a placard with a dollar amount
I would take the toaster one just so I could mess with my friends
Choosing 3 and 7 seems the most intuitive to me. 3 to move to inaccessible places with like glass windows as separation. 7 to check if containers are empty or not.
I wouldn’t interpret 7 inches as the amount of a gap you can cross - I would interpret it as literally translating your body 7 inches in one direction. Unless you can fit your body between two planes 7 inches apart, you’re not going to be teleporting through any barriers.
Definition of teleportation: “Teleportation is the hypothetical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them.” Again this is scifi stuff at this moment. So with this definition I can technically cross barriers which are less than 7 inches like for example glass panes
Depending on the limitations, teleporting a short distance should allow you to practically fly.
I will make 10’s to 100’s of thousands paving roads with gravel and be more than willing to pave roads for people who can’t maybe afford it without consequence.
Empty containers may be profitable as well since I could verify which shipping containers could be skipped for further processing, saving hundreds to thousands of hours of time, over time.
5 to grant me an unstoppable botnet of all the smart toasters out there, 7 to get ansible capability
THATS NOT IN THE PLAYBOOK JOHN
Definitely #5 so I can shut up that Demented Toaster!
Ah, so you’re a waffle man!
Do I have to pick two? Because I just want #6
Easy. Just pick #6 twice so you can look 20 hours younger instantly. =P
Does that mean if I pick #9 twice I can run twice as fast as Albert Einstein?
You can, not you must.
It doesn’t matter if it’s in a can or a bottle I’ll only take one pill!
3 and 8
Then I can Time Warp to the past and become a king! Or holy figure
You have died of dysentery
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Khitan and gravel, khitan would be a boon for linguists and i could help them document it until other people can learn to speak with me, and free gravel could be used to pillar up to places if done fast enough and could potentially clog things
psud@aussie.zone 1 year ago
That’s two of us. Khitan is no longer dead!