Interesting superpower questions

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Handing stuff to the King.

[Whd]

 


Despite the good music that was made in the past (and some good music today, though the majority is crap), Imma pick video games, hands down.

I guess I'm the retro man and casual guy.
I'm trying to be the connoisseur and mr hardcore
I wanna be the online dude - and of course professional gamer so I can live of it and compete in tournaments all over the world.
I guess Rhythm dude is music games (like guitar hero and just dance)?

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Video games. I like music, but video games keep my hands busy, and give me something to do. I don't write or play music, I listen to it, and if I have no keyboard or game controller in front of me, I'm just vegging out at the computer, plugged into a song until I play it to death, and don't feel like hearing it anymore.

And my game play is casual. I like to play, but I'm not that awesome at it, and I don't go overboard, being so competitive to be the absolute best. I personally don't care if I win, as long as I have fun (and as long as the winner isn't a douchebag about winning).

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[Whd]

I'd be come a Jedi, hands down. Lightsaber + I can haz Forcy-Powahs? I'm down with that.

- Fighting with the Avengers would be cool, but maybe you're just a cop.
- Playing Quidditch is awesome, but it's just a sport. Maybe professional, but rather be a accomplished wizard who does Quidditch ion the side
- I haven't seen Dr Who, so I don't know what a Companion does and is capable of.
- Jump the Stargate as what? A civilian? Engineer? Soldier?
- Travel at Warp Speed on the Enterprise as what? A kid, civilian, officer, captain, mechanic?
And besides, I can do that as a Jedi with my own ship (Obi Wan to the Clone facility in Attack of The Clones or on board of a cruiser.

And God yes, I would read the shit out of that book. And be sure to have it digitalized so I'd always have it with my on my mp4-player.

 

[Myself]

A "companion" in Dr Who is simply a human being who travels with the Doctor. No special traits.

I think I'd go for Jedi as well.

[WonderDrow]

About the book.

It would be ironical to read something like "On that day many hours were spend on reading this book".

[Celadon's Penultimate]

I'd have to go with Jedi. Seeing other people be awesome would make me feel left out, if I couldn't do the same.

And about the book, I think it depends on what sort of read it is. If it's like a novel, then no; I'd get too wrapped up in how well my life is detailed, that I'd probably end up reading ahead, to find out how awesome or awful my life turns out. If it's a journal, it'd likely be too boring, and I'd probably get through to crucial things too fast. If it was something like an encyclopedia, though, and I was able to skip through to important events (like who I marry, how many kids I have, when I die), then I'd much prefer that. That way, I could know what pages to go to, and what to skip past.

Also, it'd be cool if the book changed with every day (as in, the page on a particular day doesn't fill in until the day is finished), or if it changed based on decisions I make.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Travel at warp speed. Advance human technology 200 years. Colonize Mars.

[Whd]

Probabaly Superman, than Gogeta SSJ 4 and that mech is history.
At the party, probably all those things in that order.

 

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

I'm not sure either you or the person who made that picture understands what a lightyear is.

This is not the greatest battle of all time. This is not even a fight. You could throw every superhero ever created in the history of mankind at that thing, and it would never even notice. It would take longer to traverse it's pinky finger than the planet Earth has existed. The universe itself, the whole thing, is estimated to be about 13.75 Billion Years. Moving halfway across that thing would take longer than literally all of history.

The observable universe, just the small part of it that we can see, is 93 billion light-years. If this thing was within the observable universe it would fill over 50% of it.  It's drill fills the entire observable universe five times over.

The sheer scale of a creature 50 billion lightyears tall (just tall, we have no idea how much space it actually fills) is existentially terrifying. I am horrified just thinking about this. If that thing was holding just our solar system in it's hand, you now what we would call it? Space!  We wouldn't be able to tell it's shape, so we would never know. Can you imagine how much mass it must have? If it ever moved it would shatter whole galaxies.

The scale is unimaginable. Literally unimaginable. The human brain is incapable of it. Try to visualize even a single lightyear, you can't. Not accurately. The human brain was never meant for dealing with that sort of distance.

If it was right next to you, it would just be a flat plane stretching on and on into infinity. You would have no idea what you were looking at. It would be like looking down at the surface of the Earth.

[Myself]

I agree; even if it were composed of hydrogen, the lightest element in the universe, it would not be visible; its sheer size would give it such enormous gravity that it would crush itself and form a black hole not measured in solar masses, but galactic masses. If its mere existence did not doom the entire universe, it would be a miracle.

If it were composed of hydrogen gas, at that scale it would compress itself enough to generate sufficient heat to initiate fusion. With that much fuel, it's life would probably be measured in seconds. It would generate a supernova capable of destroying entire galactic superclusters and the resulting radiation would wipe out most, if not all, known forms of life in the universe. The remaining mass would then collapse to form a black hole larger than all other black holes in the the past, present and future of the universe combined.

I could be wrong, of course, for two reasons; one, I'm not a astrophysics expert and two, even our currently known astrophysics would likely break down at that size; this thing is so big the science of the big cannot cover it.

Thinking about this has made me add another item to my New Beginning to-do list; create a pocket dimension identical to ours, only without life, then create this monstrosity and see how long the universe lasts, most likely on a TV screen with popcorn.

[Myself]

I just realised something else; the black hole may be so large that it would never evaporate via Hawking Radiation; the bigger a black hole, the slower the decay. At that size, the rate of decay may be 0. Nothing short of as-of-yet unknown particle decay resulting in loss of mass or New-Beginning level superpowers, particularly reality manipulation, would end the black hole.

Another think to think about is that the picture itself is a physical impossibility due to red shift and the age of the universe. Light would require 50 billion years to get from one end to another, but the universe is only about 13.798 billion years old, give or take 37 million years. Therefore, the light coming from the top of that monstrosity is more that three times as old as the known universe, meaning the light we see in that image would have to have begun its journey long before the universe began. Even if it somehow did, over the course of its journey, redshift would stretch even gamma rays to forms of radiation with wavelengths measured in lightyears.

The idea of the battle is terrifying. Superman's punches will do little to such a monstrosity, so he may well attempt to make use of heat vision, which could ignite any number of chain reactions in the body of the mech. The mech would almost certainly have more mass than the rest of the known universe combined.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

The thing is, the mech doesn't collapse in on itself. It doesn't. You know how a green lantern ring makes stuff out of willpower? That thing is composed of the same sort of stuff, so I don't think you can use physics to describe the way it acts when exposed to heat or pressure.

No one could do anything to it. I mean, would you notice if a molecule was attacking you? Because that's the scale this thing is at.

At the distance you would have to be at to see the whole thing, it could walk away and your great-grandchildren would never know it had because of how far the light would have to travel.

[WonderDrow]

Here's a video to get an better idea about the size of Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
I know Superman once dragged Planets on a chain.  But that Mech could swipe a few solar systems with one swing.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Yeah, it really surprised me with how absolutely huge that mech is. I love it.

Techne would make devastating use of it.

[Myself]

[Celadon's Penultimate]

And just imagine if Computress' home race, the Technari, were to get a hold of it...

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

It would be useless to them unless they had the spiraling double-helix DNA necessary to generate power for it.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Hm, funny you should mention that.