Okay, so if there was a vat of nuclear waste in front of you, and an infallible scientist told you that if you were to dive into it there was a 99.9% chance of you dying a slow painful death, but a .1% chance that you would come out just fine and WITH superpowers to boot (for the purposes of this thread, you'd come out with any characters power you desired.) Despite the HUGE risks, would you jump in?
Why or why not?
Last edited by Merlyn on Mar 16th, 2012 at 05:05 PM
Yeah i think i'd do it. Don't have a lot going on right now, so no big deal if i died from it.
Superpowers are just to tempting to pass up even with the tremendous risks lol
.1% means there is practically no chance that you'd actually get superpowers. If the chances were 40%, I'd at least consider it for an entire second before saying no.
Last edited by StyleTime on Mar 16th, 2012 at 07:46 PM
We're also forgetting the religious and idealistic martyrs that would take the plunge to save our planet if the idiots and d-bags started running amok with their powers.
Like I said, it would kill LOTS of stupid. I'm all for it.
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I think this would be the biggest problem....but this being the problem not just stupid people would die considering people could be getting Franklin Richards or worse kinda power.
Im just thankful some of the way more powerful beings wouldn't be very mainstream so it would be unlikely that their powers would be obtained.
I'd pick a character with the ability to travel through time. This way, if I survived the vat, I could come back and show myself it worked. Since I haven't done that, I'm assuming I died.
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Shinier than a speeding bullet.
That presumes some things about the nature of time travel. It's handled differently in different universes, and even different writers. Not a bad plan, I enjoy a good loophole. But it's not without some risks, it's just lessening them.
To close that loophole, the OP should specify the limits of time travel (or other potential loophole powers). I think most people though assume a single timeline view, wherein you go back, you change something in the past, and you change the future. This is looked at more critically when the grandfather paradox rears its head. Then we look at a multiple timelines approach: you go back, change something, but all you've done is create a new timeline, where that change was supposed to happen. While I personally prefer the latter, I think the average joe/jane thinks of time travel as the former.
And it was in that light my thought was posted.
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I would kill the scientist then take a sample of the toxic waste and distill it. Also make sure nobody else is aware of the vat. After testing it on random fodder supplied by my hired goons I will centralize the component needed whilst testing it with my own DNA until I get favorable results.
Then I'll take my power!
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