You [might] have a chance to gain superpowers...
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?
Originally posted by Digi
This needs to happen. Would kill a lot of stupid in the world. And give 1/1000 of the stupid super powers. But I could live with that.
Hell no.
Let's say 1 out of every 1000 people in this world is stupid enough to take that offer. Thats 7,000,000/1,000 = 7,000,000 (Seven million).
Of those 7 million, 1/1000 got superpowers. 7,000,000/1,000 = 7,000.
That's seven thousand morons running around with super powers. I can say with relative certainty that at least 6,000 would be douchebags.
Originally posted by Cogito
Hell no.Let's say 1 out of every 1000 people in this world is stupid enough to take that offer. Thats 7,000,000/1,000 = 7,000,000 (Seven million).
Of those 7 million, 1/1000 got superpowers. 7,000,000/1,000 = 7,000.
That's seven thousand morons running around with super powers. I can say with relative certainty that at least 6,000 would be douchebags.
Most would kill each other or themselves within hours. It wouldn't be quite that bad.
Originally posted by BlackZero30x
not if everyone picked Invulnerability! lolthat's the only power I would want!
OP sounds like you wouldn't have a choice though.
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.
Originally posted by Digi
OP sounds like you wouldn't have a choice though.
Originally posted by Merlyn
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.)
Originally posted by Digi
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.
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.
Originally posted by MerlynNo. I wouldn't jump in. Why?
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?
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.
Originally posted by Mindship
No. I wouldn't jump in. Why?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.
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.
Originally posted by DigiYou're fun at parties, aren't ya?
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.
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!