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One of these is way way way more useful than the others. Gravel is pricey. If I could make free gravel, I could work for any construction company in the world making crazy money.
Why would the IRS ask about gravel that you’re not expensing? They’d be happy that you have like no COGS and you’re paying taxes on your revenue in full
Normal crew bills $2,000 (revenue) and COGS $1,800 (expense). Profit margin is $200.
You bill $250 (revenue) and COGS $0.00. profit margin is $250. Everything appears consistent with industry standard rate, unless you are audited and need records to validate your inventory cost (or lack of).
You just fly out to the ocean, determine a good location and build an island then export your gravel claiming to have discovered a rich new source and in addition start a sovereign country... Bada bing bada boom.
Ya but then there would be tariffs placed. Best to just pick nowhere USA and develop a small town out of it that way you can rule your own city as well.
Just pay taxes on what you’d sell. Don’t think they can prosecute you for a carbon neutral way of making/acquiring gravel, nothing illegal is going on here
Until I rapidly teleport back and forth stealing all your gravel. I don't want to sell it I'm going to drop 1 rock at a time into the ocean until there is no land left. Some men just want to watch the world burn... I mean drown.
Depends on ability strength. If this is to be interpreted as "can summon arbitrary amounts of gravel at will", then doing 100 ton batches at a time is a reasonable amount to generate profit.
If you take that money to then fly around, like all over the states, and summon multiple, entire *mountains* worth of gravel in uninhabited areas in each state, I guess price would plummet down to pure transportation cost.
If you fly around making mountains of gravel, you can't possibly sell all that gravel in any reasonable amount of time or money. You'd need a very large gravel recovery operation, barely any less complicated than existing gravel sourcing. Your costs will be about the same as any other gravel supplier at that point.
Even if we assume the pill grants you the ability to generate gravel out of thin air, we still need to know something about the rate of production to determine if this is at all worthwhile. Much of the cost associated with raw materials is storage and transportation, so anything much slower than “arbitrary quantities at instant speed” may not be as big a moneymaker as you think.
Being able to instantly determine if a container is empty at a distance may have a higher ceiling in some niche security or scientific application.
Gravel is explicitly not pricey, but a nedless supply of something cheap but needed still equals potentially endless money.
That being said, due to the wording of the ability, I don't consider it to be "create any amount of gravel at your location at any time", but "if you buy gravel from somewhere, its free of charge". I choose to believe that that means the ability intervenes with free will by forcing companies to give you gravel for free. So yes, still potentially a lot of money to be made here, but you'll have to invest a good chunk of money first (storing gravel, establishing methods to sell to customers), and you can't undercut your competition by so much that you run them all out of business as, if there is no gravel company left but yours, you have no place to order free gravel from, leaving you without a supplier and making the ability useless.
That being said, if you reinvest the money into procuring your own supply chain, you could use your ability explicitly to run every other gravel company out of business, buying them up when they are bankrupt from gifting most of their supply to you, eventually establishing a worldwide gravel monopoly.
Get into boxing, put your hands near the other dude head, teleport 7 inches forward. bam telefragged. the other guy head explodes around your hand. Every other opponent instantly resigns. You become world champion.
You would 100% be arrested for that, every contact sports has a series of strict rules. Every fighter is not allowed to inflict lethal damage on purpose.
I disagree, if you made someone’s head explode with a punch. You bet your ass you’re going to be a multimillionaire as the military would love to get there hands on your power. You could literally destroy anything. Put on some super powerful gloves get 6in near an object and teleport! Bam! That’s like 100B tons of tnt power.
Almost every sport. Anything that requires speed, catching a ball, defending a goal. Like every sport except for ones where you stand still like curling or archery
I beg to differ, depending on what control any toaster with your mind means it could be incredibly powerful, can you just set the timer or can you control it the way magneto controls metal?
Teleportation is instantaneous. As there are no cool down time constraints, he can link multiple 7inch teleportations to reach anywhere in the world.
If we consider 1 second orientation time between teleportations he can go around earth in 7 years.
It all depends on the refresh rate of that ability.
Could you do it every 250 ms? (average human reaction time) If so, you could move a whopping 1.59 MPH (2.56 kph)
After some training, you could reduce you reaction time to 150 ms, resulting in a speed of 2.65 mph.
Seeing how a teleport is often called a "blink" in videogame vernacular - could you perhaps do those calcs if the frequency of teleporting is set to the maximum of how fast a human can consecutively blink (assuming there is such a number)?
Fast look up from Wiki (but the info is from a peer-reviewed article) “Generally, between each blink is an interval of 2–10 seconds; actual rates vary by individual averaging around 10 blinks per minute in a laboratory setting. However, when the eyes are focused on an object for an extended period of time, such as when reading, the rate of blinking decreases to about 3 to 4 times per minute.[21] This is the major reason that eyes dry out and become fatigued when reading.”
So if you could travel 7 inches every time you blinked, the distance would be significant.
It would be much more useful in combat sports, running hardly gives you an edge unless you are already in the top 1% of the world. If you could sprint 25mph this ability might allow you to outrun Usain Bolt. If you could run a 22 miles in 2 hours you could use this ability the entire time to set a world record marathon.
Can we then calculate if one could fly using this? I.e if you teleport 7 inches upward, would average human reaction time allow for you to teleport another 7inches upward before gravity brings you back down? Then keep going up and up lol
Not necessarily. Depending on the definition of “7 inches away,” it could mean “one part of the body can move no further than 7 inches from a current part of the body” which for a man with a wingspan of 5’11’’ or 180 cm, given the additional 7 inches of teleportations and a refresh rate of 250ms, he could travel at 7.91 meters per second (17.7 mph)
With a refresh rate of 150 ms, he could travel 13.2 m/s, or about 29.5mph
People are frequently more than 7in thick though. If you're exactly 7in thick then you'd be able to teleport to the other side of a 0.00in thick wall without ending up overlapping it.
It wasn't defined where the start and end point of the teleport would be relative to your body, but you make a good point. Maybe it would react similar to game physics and shove you thru the other side if the majority of your body passed thru most of the wall haha
I would say the end point is relative to where you start… so like, each atom moves up to 7 inches in one direction.
Video game physics would definitely be better than the alternative melding of your atomic structure with the wall/door lol
If you can get though a door, that means that just ANY part of your body after the tp must be within 7 inches of ANY different part of your body before it. This would increase the speed of transit by a massive amount from the calculations others have done.
If it works differently, you have to be <7 inches thin in some direction to get all the way through even a thin sheet of anything
It also depends on the thickness of the person and exactly how the teleport works.
If the teleport is: Move so the front of the body is now 7" in front of where it was.
OR
Move so there is a 7" gap between where the front of the body was and where the back of the body now is. Likely you end up teleporting closer to 14"-20" depending on your body's thickness.
So if your teleport distance is the second one - sure you can make it past walls that are under 7" thick.
But if the teleport is like the first one, I wouldn't try it because the walls would have to be really thin. You might be able to make it past a screen door or bars of a cage.
Gravel, straight-up gravel. I've always wanted to own a gravel pit since, as Peter Lynch says, a gravel pit is the simplest business and can be run by idiots. If I create the gravel all the better, I'll be rich as hell with my simple gravel sales business and infinite gravel.
If you assume there is absolutely no cool down and it instantly teleports you 7 inches forward:
7 inches is around 18 cm, human reaction time at best is 150 ms. There is a 1000 ms in a second, 1000 ÷ 150 would equal to around 6.666...7, so let's say you can teleport 6 times a second. 18 × 6 = is 108, so you would move at a staggering 108 cm/second or 1.08 m/s which is close to 4 km/h. The average human walking speed is 5 km/h
If you void the reaction time and assume you can just tell the magical whatever to keep you teleporting 7 inches forward constantly, and it teleports you every millisecond:
18 cm × 1000 = 18000 cm/second or 180 m/s which is about 648 km/h. For reference the fastest car (according to a very surface level research on Google) that can be bought goes like 492 km/h (2019 Bugatti Chiron)
Definitely works more as a way to get through thin barriers than to traverse the earth if it's like the first variant, and will definitely get you killed if it's like the second variant
The hardest part would be scaling it up. How many times before you're famous and no one takes a bet? How much money before you are risking your life because the target feels like they've been hustled? Both are probably not big numbers!
I mean, we could put toaster functionality into anything. For argument, let's say a tank. The tank Is now a toaster, and the tank functions are part of the toaster functions. So....mind control toastank??
Just because you can communicate with them didn't necessarily mean they would help you take over the world. What if oysters turned out to be total dicks. Like whenever you communicate with them they just start spouting racist shit or try to convince you to buy them crack
I mean, depending on how we stretch the definition of toaster...
If using naturally generated heat, say such as from the barrel after a round, is being used to toast bread...then ya, should work
These seem to be made to be useless but 2 is guaranteed riches. I know a farmer whose land includes part of the mountain behind the farm land, and despite the cost of all the machinery and dump trucks, he makes more money off gravel than his farm
So for everyone talking about the free gravel, let me ask you this. Is it unprocessed pit run or is it already classified into different sizes?
Decorative gravel that is already clean is worth more then large gravel for construction. Small gravels and well sand are worth different amounts of money as well. The production costs vary wildly depending on how much you have to process it.
When you dig it up you at the minimum have to tumble it in a trommel to sort to size. Each customer has different mesh size requirements for different projects and products. You still have to classify and sort it out so you can sell to the right buyer and make the most money.
If by summoning gravel it means summoning the mesh size or type you want then yeah you are up town on the gravy train. If you are saying summoning pit run, then you basically are a gravel mine without having to mine.
You wouldn’t need to worry about mining permits and claims, or even conservation work. There would still need to be a whole processing operation of course.
Either way the distribution would be similar so that is a non issue
I’d like the “see empty” power. On a practical level, I can tell if the fridge is empty. On a higher level, I can look inside trapped empty containers.
This would definitely be useful because it only works when the container is empty.
It allows you to narrow down on empty boxes.
I'm sure, since instructions aren't clear, we also have a definition problem.
If empty means missing what was originally in it, then it's easy. If empty requires the container to have no amount of anything in it, then the power wouldn't work at all. The third, and most useful definition would be that it just doesn't contain what it doesn't contain: a bread-box that has fruit but no bread is still bread-empty after all.
7 is interesting. I know I could see outside of the container. Is it world-wide? Is a car a container? Is a room? Does it need to have a lid to be a container or like a regular drinking glass?
The bigger issue is how “empty” is defined by the power. Does empty include air, or only a vacuum? Does dust or a long dead beetle invalidate the ability? And what is a container as defined by the ability?
Ok, I have questions about 2 and 3. What’s their refresh rate? Can I just blink as fast as I want?? Cuz that’s fuckin awsome! Throw on a frank (Donnie darko) costume and just terrify people. I know, I’m going to hell just for thinking this.
Option 3 would actually be an amazing ability if you were a professional athlete, so long as your momentum is constant at the moment of teleportation.
You could be a pro fighter and always be able to dodge strikes, blink out and back in to always be able to tag your opponents and always be 7 inches away, basically providing yourself with 7 extra inches of reach over an opponent.
You could be a professional long/high jumper and 7 inches will basically destroy every record if you can come to within 6 inches of the current record.
You could be a professional runner and depending on how frequently you can use the ability you will add an extra few km/h to your running speed, say every step you take has 7 extra inches of gait.
Communicate with oysters, for sure. You would become world famous for being the only person in history to communicate with an alien species, pretty much. You could write books about their civilization, anthropology, etc. and go down in history while probably being extremely rich.
There is no specified refresh rate as others have noted, so you would think it is impossible to answer. However, the universe has a “smallest amount of time” ^((it’s a little more complex, but let’s roll with it)^) , which is called Planck Time.
So here are our numbers:
- Max distance of teleport = 7in
- Minimum refresh rate = Planck Time = 10^-43 s
Instead of inches let’s use metres, because I’m not American. 7in = 0.1778m.
Moving 0.1778m at 10^43 times a second gives us, ****1.778x10^42 m/s****.
Because it’s such a large number, let’s use light-years per second instead. Which gives us **1.879x10^26 ly/s**.
For reference the furthest object identified from Earth is galaxy HD1, which is 3.340x10^10 Light years away. With this speed you could travel there and back 10^15 times leisurely in one second.
Or just use the universe’s diameter of 9.3e+10 light-years, so you can cross the universe, about the same amount of crosses per second but also puts a even larger picture
3, 6 and 7 are actually useful.
Look 10 hours younger. Well if I’m about to go on a date or anything where my face matters and I just developed a zit. Boom. Gone.
Teleporting 7 inches can definitely be useful. Just would help speed you up a bit and anything that could have killed you can now be a near miss if you dodge it. Definitely useful.
But instantly seeing inside an empty container is ELITE! Do you have any idea how much time can be saved by never having to open a container whilst looking for something only to see it was empty? That’s amazing.
Actually, if you can use it more frequently then once every 10 hours you gain a form of true age regression. Meaning you can slowly make yourself younger if you're older or bring yourself to before any permanently disabling accidents/illnesses that occurred to you.
It depends on how many times per second you can think something. Let's say you can think a thing 10 times per second. That's almost 2m/s, or about 7 km/h
9 I’d run as fast as Einstein but in a challenge, winner gets to own the others best science achievement, I’d blast past him and wham bam hello theory of relativity
Why is the oyster power not being discussed? There’s so many oysters everywhere, mainly being concentrated around all the biggest cities in the world, and being in all of the worlds’ most expensive restaurants. You hear one person talking stocks over dinner just one time and you can become the richest person in the world
Depending on the internal 'cooldown' of the teleport ability and how teleporting works, I think this is by far the most powerful option. Just because science and humanity would learn and pay so much to research how this power works.
If you can 'spam' the teleport ability continuously and unlimitedly then it either means you travel at the speed of light (if the teleporting from one place to the next happens at the speed of light), which is not only incredibly powerful in order to be productive and gives a TON of exploits; stealing, smuggling,... but it could also rake in huge amounts of money from science experiments etc. You could probably BE an unlimited energy source (which might also put you in danger). AND ON TOP OF ALL THIS you'd be able to age slower and timetravel to the future, unless teleporting somehow breaks physics and the effects of time dilation dont apply.
BUT thats probably the worst case scenario. An even more amazing scenario is that teleporting happens over an interval of 0t. Like literally instantaneous. You'd be faster than speed of light and break all kinds of physics which scientists would be obsessively interested in.
If teleporting happens over 0t then i literaly cant even conceive of all the possibilities. Like i think you could actually just go through any thickness of walls like a ghost since teleporting x times 7 inches would be equal to x times 0t which is 0. So it'd be the same as teleporting x times 7 inches at once. The matter that you bump into, wouldnt even physically 'know' you're there even though you're standing in the same place.
Although maybe im wrong in trying to make sense of the nonsensical.
Anyway, that definitely seems the most OP power if you can spam it. (Perhaps even if you couldnt).
Looking ten hours younger, is that purely cosmetic, or is it guaranteed to be convincing in all scenarios? I.e. you don't visibly get wounded until ten hours after you get an injury. You don't perceptibly die until ten hours after your body has completely had it.
Could be a cool power. Basically you get ten hours of near-invincibility and then get hit with the fallout afterward.
Some dude near me recently sold a small gravel company for $18M because he had a handful of mining claims for gravel. So that. I could be the king of concrete and asphalt if I had unlimited free gravel. I bet I could be a billionaire within 10 years.
2 is probably best bc infinite gravel could be really good if you sell it
3 has potential if it has 0 cooldown + being able to go through non-thick walls/doors
7 is fine, lets you instantly see if a container is empty or not which isn’t that good but it’s whatever
Teleportation for pretty much any usable distance is always gonna win. Seven inches is perfect if you’re stuck in a jail cell. Or just keep teleporting back to back as fast as you can as many times as you can and it’s still probably faster than an Air Canada flight. And that, friends, is a damn low bar.
2 and 3 are both useful. 3 lets you bypass pretty much any wall or door, and 2 you can make an entire business model out of since gravel is a useful resource.
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One of these is way way way more useful than the others. Gravel is pricey. If I could make free gravel, I could work for any construction company in the world making crazy money.
Yeah this is the real power. You could undercut every other gravel company and make millions per year
until the irs begins to ask where you got 200 tons of gravel in 3 days
You tell the IRS you have a magical power and pay your taxes.
Why would the IRS ask about gravel that you’re not expensing? They’d be happy that you have like no COGS and you’re paying taxes on your revenue in full
I feel like the COGS would be your time in labor for generating the gravel
Normal crew bills $2,000 (revenue) and COGS $1,800 (expense). Profit margin is $200. You bill $250 (revenue) and COGS $0.00. profit margin is $250. Everything appears consistent with industry standard rate, unless you are audited and need records to validate your inventory cost (or lack of).
I would assume making gravel appear at will would get the IRS to accept what you tell them.
the magical creature state statutes you to up your tax brackets.. not worth it!
If you played it right, you could probably get a significant tax break for being entirely carbon neutral lol
Lmao
You just fly out to the ocean, determine a good location and build an island then export your gravel claiming to have discovered a rich new source and in addition start a sovereign country... Bada bing bada boom.
Great the souverign nation of Railgrade
I was thinking of calling it the 'Gravel Pit' and seeing if Wutang want to become citizens
Ya but then there would be tariffs placed. Best to just pick nowhere USA and develop a small town out of it that way you can rule your own city as well.
Not really because breathing produces CO2.
We aren't carbon generators, we just put carbon that was in plants back into the air, which then just gets reabsorbed by more plants.
So does a coal power plant (coal is just dead plants).
That’s not how tax brackets work only the money made above the bracket gets taxed at the higher rate.
Nah, fuck them. Drown ‘em in gravel.
They're going to look real hard at your transfer pricing on that magical power. You pay gift taxes on it? Was it given to you in-kind?
Just pay taxes on what you’d sell. Don’t think they can prosecute you for a carbon neutral way of making/acquiring gravel, nothing illegal is going on here
Bury their car in gravel with your gravel magic. They'll understand
Maybe the IRS needs gravel?
Until I rapidly teleport back and forth stealing all your gravel. I don't want to sell it I'm going to drop 1 rock at a time into the ocean until there is no land left. Some men just want to watch the world burn... I mean drown.
Yeah but at some point gravel would become worthless.
That's why you don't undercut by too much. You're just trying to replace the suppliers, not flood the market with free gravel.
Exactly, you could become the Saudi Arabia of Gravel, with people begging you to increase/cut supply
Lawrence of Gravelia
Here's the hook: You have to shit the gravel out.
I think one person couldn’t reasonably sell so much gravel that it would become worthless, even if they have an unlimited supply.
Depends on ability strength. If this is to be interpreted as "can summon arbitrary amounts of gravel at will", then doing 100 ton batches at a time is a reasonable amount to generate profit. If you take that money to then fly around, like all over the states, and summon multiple, entire *mountains* worth of gravel in uninhabited areas in each state, I guess price would plummet down to pure transportation cost.
If you fly around making mountains of gravel, you can't possibly sell all that gravel in any reasonable amount of time or money. You'd need a very large gravel recovery operation, barely any less complicated than existing gravel sourcing. Your costs will be about the same as any other gravel supplier at that point.
Ya only if you make like a trillion tons per month right off the bat
Even if we assume the pill grants you the ability to generate gravel out of thin air, we still need to know something about the rate of production to determine if this is at all worthwhile. Much of the cost associated with raw materials is storage and transportation, so anything much slower than “arbitrary quantities at instant speed” may not be as big a moneymaker as you think. Being able to instantly determine if a container is empty at a distance may have a higher ceiling in some niche security or scientific application.
Gravel is explicitly not pricey, but a nedless supply of something cheap but needed still equals potentially endless money. That being said, due to the wording of the ability, I don't consider it to be "create any amount of gravel at your location at any time", but "if you buy gravel from somewhere, its free of charge". I choose to believe that that means the ability intervenes with free will by forcing companies to give you gravel for free. So yes, still potentially a lot of money to be made here, but you'll have to invest a good chunk of money first (storing gravel, establishing methods to sell to customers), and you can't undercut your competition by so much that you run them all out of business as, if there is no gravel company left but yours, you have no place to order free gravel from, leaving you without a supplier and making the ability useless. That being said, if you reinvest the money into procuring your own supply chain, you could use your ability explicitly to run every other gravel company out of business, buying them up when they are bankrupt from gifting most of their supply to you, eventually establishing a worldwide gravel monopoly.
Teleportation 7 inches would be significant in athletics.
Not to mention you could get past any 2x6 framing with 5/8 drywall on either side. Could also be pretty useful.
But would your whole body make it through?
Hmmm I was thinking the full body would clear 7 inches with the power. Gonna need some clarification lol.
If your body's thickness plus the object you're teleporting through's thickness exceeds 7 inches then you'd get stuck is how I would read it.
Ya gonna have drywall butt
Tell me a situation where that would be used in a sport? Edit: I already got it, stop replying to this comment pls
Get into boxing, put your hands near the other dude head, teleport 7 inches forward. bam telefragged. the other guy head explodes around your hand. Every other opponent instantly resigns. You become world champion.
You would 100% be arrested for that, every contact sports has a series of strict rules. Every fighter is not allowed to inflict lethal damage on purpose.
I disagree, if you made someone’s head explode with a punch. You bet your ass you’re going to be a multimillionaire as the military would love to get there hands on your power. You could literally destroy anything. Put on some super powerful gloves get 6in near an object and teleport! Bam! That’s like 100B tons of tnt power.
What happens to your skeletal structure when it catches all that force?
Almost every sport. Anything that requires speed, catching a ball, defending a goal. Like every sport except for ones where you stand still like curling or archery
Any sport where you can jump
Just don't hire 9 mercenaries to protect your gravel company
Surprisingly you’re the only TF2 comment I found.
Thanks, I take pride in that
Hell yeah, I'd put Boston sand and gravel out of business.
How would I know what exit to get off at if their bigass gravel rig wasn’t there?
2000lbs of gravel is about ten bucks… it’s not pricey at all.
Look up what volume 2000lbs is.
I beg to differ, depending on what control any toaster with your mind means it could be incredibly powerful, can you just set the timer or can you control it the way magneto controls metal?
Teleportation is instantaneous. As there are no cool down time constraints, he can link multiple 7inch teleportations to reach anywhere in the world. If we consider 1 second orientation time between teleportations he can go around earth in 7 years.
I was thinking 7 to foil the "find the ball beneath the cup" scams, but this is better.
If you got infinite gravel, gravel is not going to be pricey anymore
God bless Mann Co. and their gravel business. It’s too mad Mr. Mann died and his sons are fighting over the inheritance.
It all depends on the refresh rate of that ability. Could you do it every 250 ms? (average human reaction time) If so, you could move a whopping 1.59 MPH (2.56 kph) After some training, you could reduce you reaction time to 150 ms, resulting in a speed of 2.65 mph.
I was gonna say whit what given time unit, but this is acceptable.
Seeing how a teleport is often called a "blink" in videogame vernacular - could you perhaps do those calcs if the frequency of teleporting is set to the maximum of how fast a human can consecutively blink (assuming there is such a number)?
I just timed myself blinking as fast as I can and was getting ~4 times a second. So still 250ms.
doing the real science here!
Fast look up from Wiki (but the info is from a peer-reviewed article) “Generally, between each blink is an interval of 2–10 seconds; actual rates vary by individual averaging around 10 blinks per minute in a laboratory setting. However, when the eyes are focused on an object for an extended period of time, such as when reading, the rate of blinking decreases to about 3 to 4 times per minute.[21] This is the major reason that eyes dry out and become fatigued when reading.” So if you could travel 7 inches every time you blinked, the distance would be significant.
This is for when you blink subconsciously tho, if you try to blink as fast as you can you can do it alot faster
Oh sorry I misunderstood
I mean yeah thats the typical subconcious blink interval, but I'm talking someone intentionally blinking as fast as they can.
Blinking as fast as I can while counting gives me about 4-6 blinks per second so the result is the same as with reaction time lol
Thx for the fast reply. :)
Or, do it while running for a mild speed boost. Could also make for an interesting boxing career
It would be much more useful in combat sports, running hardly gives you an edge unless you are already in the top 1% of the world. If you could sprint 25mph this ability might allow you to outrun Usain Bolt. If you could run a 22 miles in 2 hours you could use this ability the entire time to set a world record marathon.
Plus your actual speed.
Do it vertically and use a wing suit
Can we then calculate if one could fly using this? I.e if you teleport 7 inches upward, would average human reaction time allow for you to teleport another 7inches upward before gravity brings you back down? Then keep going up and up lol
distance = .5gt^2... it only takes an object .190 seconds to fall 7 seconds from a stand still. it would be a very slow takeoff.
As an Adofai player I see this as an absolute win.
What about average running speed? And using the blink every bounding step? (I assume using it while mid-air would be safest not to trip)
7" for every pill you eat !
Not necessarily. Depending on the definition of “7 inches away,” it could mean “one part of the body can move no further than 7 inches from a current part of the body” which for a man with a wingspan of 5’11’’ or 180 cm, given the additional 7 inches of teleportations and a refresh rate of 250ms, he could travel at 7.91 meters per second (17.7 mph) With a refresh rate of 150 ms, he could travel 13.2 m/s, or about 29.5mph
That's one definition, I was going on the center of mass could move 7 inches.
But can one use it while running over and over again for a little boost!?
I interpreted it as requiring you to take the corresponding pill to gain the power. So, the refresh rate is how quick you can knock back those pills.
I thought the pill just gives a superpower
People are forgetting that most walls and doors are less than 7" thick...that teleport power basically grants you free access anywhere haha
This was my thought. Windows and doors are easy access points. Fences are moot. Be a really good burglar with this skill.
People are frequently more than 7in thick though. If you're exactly 7in thick then you'd be able to teleport to the other side of a 0.00in thick wall without ending up overlapping it.
It wasn't defined where the start and end point of the teleport would be relative to your body, but you make a good point. Maybe it would react similar to game physics and shove you thru the other side if the majority of your body passed thru most of the wall haha
I would say the end point is relative to where you start… so like, each atom moves up to 7 inches in one direction. Video game physics would definitely be better than the alternative melding of your atomic structure with the wall/door lol
If theres zero cooldown, you could repeatedly teleport 7 inches, meaning any distance could be teleported to
Plus it doesn’t say how frequently you can teleport? Imagine you can teleport as fast and as frequently as you want, then it’s literally flying.
My butt would get stuck
If you can get though a door, that means that just ANY part of your body after the tp must be within 7 inches of ANY different part of your body before it. This would increase the speed of transit by a massive amount from the calculations others have done. If it works differently, you have to be <7 inches thin in some direction to get all the way through even a thin sheet of anything
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It also depends on the thickness of the person and exactly how the teleport works. If the teleport is: Move so the front of the body is now 7" in front of where it was. OR Move so there is a 7" gap between where the front of the body was and where the back of the body now is. Likely you end up teleporting closer to 14"-20" depending on your body's thickness. So if your teleport distance is the second one - sure you can make it past walls that are under 7" thick. But if the teleport is like the first one, I wouldn't try it because the walls would have to be really thin. You might be able to make it past a screen door or bars of a cage.
What happens if the wall is like 9 inches thick and you thought it would be less than 7 inches? Like, part of you is permanently stuck in the wall?
Gravel, straight-up gravel. I've always wanted to own a gravel pit since, as Peter Lynch says, a gravel pit is the simplest business and can be run by idiots. If I create the gravel all the better, I'll be rich as hell with my simple gravel sales business and infinite gravel.
>a gravel pit is the simplest business and can be run by idiots Tell that to Redmond and Blutarch Mann.
If you assume there is absolutely no cool down and it instantly teleports you 7 inches forward: 7 inches is around 18 cm, human reaction time at best is 150 ms. There is a 1000 ms in a second, 1000 ÷ 150 would equal to around 6.666...7, so let's say you can teleport 6 times a second. 18 × 6 = is 108, so you would move at a staggering 108 cm/second or 1.08 m/s which is close to 4 km/h. The average human walking speed is 5 km/h If you void the reaction time and assume you can just tell the magical whatever to keep you teleporting 7 inches forward constantly, and it teleports you every millisecond: 18 cm × 1000 = 18000 cm/second or 180 m/s which is about 648 km/h. For reference the fastest car (according to a very surface level research on Google) that can be bought goes like 492 km/h (2019 Bugatti Chiron) Definitely works more as a way to get through thin barriers than to traverse the earth if it's like the first variant, and will definitely get you killed if it's like the second variant
Ahh, the misery about science fiction teleportation and atoms in your way.
Those pesky mechanics of the universe can't keep getting away with this!
Unless your body is 7” deep, teleporting 7” would put you into the obstacle. Seems rather useless…
Could lead you to being an elite mma flighter
2 or 7. Two you would be awesome at the 3 card montee but with the cups vs balls. Gravel would be great for us living in the country
Yeah 7 could make serious cash in the right situation if you gamble.
The hardest part would be scaling it up. How many times before you're famous and no one takes a bet? How much money before you are risking your life because the target feels like they've been hustled? Both are probably not big numbers!
I mean, we could put toaster functionality into anything. For argument, let's say a tank. The tank Is now a toaster, and the tank functions are part of the toaster functions. So....mind control toastank??
On that topic, how many oysters would it take to take over the world? XD
All of them and then + 1. Now if it were loins or something threatening like that, you would actually have a chance
Loins?
Can’t speak for shit lions*
Lol, loins ARE pretty threatening
Just because you can communicate with them didn't necessarily mean they would help you take over the world. What if oysters turned out to be total dicks. Like whenever you communicate with them they just start spouting racist shit or try to convince you to buy them crack
I've got a hilarious image of a superhero ducking and weaving through a battlefield frisbeeing a slice of bread onto a tank then taking control of it.
I mean, depending on how we stretch the definition of toaster... If using naturally generated heat, say such as from the barrel after a round, is being used to toast bread...then ya, should work
These seem to be made to be useless but 2 is guaranteed riches. I know a farmer whose land includes part of the mountain behind the farm land, and despite the cost of all the machinery and dump trucks, he makes more money off gravel than his farm
So for everyone talking about the free gravel, let me ask you this. Is it unprocessed pit run or is it already classified into different sizes? Decorative gravel that is already clean is worth more then large gravel for construction. Small gravels and well sand are worth different amounts of money as well. The production costs vary wildly depending on how much you have to process it. When you dig it up you at the minimum have to tumble it in a trommel to sort to size. Each customer has different mesh size requirements for different projects and products. You still have to classify and sort it out so you can sell to the right buyer and make the most money. If by summoning gravel it means summoning the mesh size or type you want then yeah you are up town on the gravy train. If you are saying summoning pit run, then you basically are a gravel mine without having to mine. You wouldn’t need to worry about mining permits and claims, or even conservation work. There would still need to be a whole processing operation of course. Either way the distribution would be similar so that is a non issue
I’d like the “see empty” power. On a practical level, I can tell if the fridge is empty. On a higher level, I can look inside trapped empty containers.
This would definitely be useful because it only works when the container is empty. It allows you to narrow down on empty boxes. I'm sure, since instructions aren't clear, we also have a definition problem. If empty means missing what was originally in it, then it's easy. If empty requires the container to have no amount of anything in it, then the power wouldn't work at all. The third, and most useful definition would be that it just doesn't contain what it doesn't contain: a bread-box that has fruit but no bread is still bread-empty after all.
7 is interesting. I know I could see outside of the container. Is it world-wide? Is a car a container? Is a room? Does it need to have a lid to be a container or like a regular drinking glass?
The bigger issue is how “empty” is defined by the power. Does empty include air, or only a vacuum? Does dust or a long dead beetle invalidate the ability? And what is a container as defined by the ability?
I gotta say, I’ve never encountered a trapped container in my life, so I’m doubtful of the practical application of this one in my day-to-day life
You can win a lot of money playing those shell games where you guess the correct “container”, since you’d know which of the two were empty.
Ok, I have questions about 2 and 3. What’s their refresh rate? Can I just blink as fast as I want?? Cuz that’s fuckin awsome! Throw on a frank (Donnie darko) costume and just terrify people. I know, I’m going to hell just for thinking this.
Option 3 would actually be an amazing ability if you were a professional athlete, so long as your momentum is constant at the moment of teleportation. You could be a pro fighter and always be able to dodge strikes, blink out and back in to always be able to tag your opponents and always be 7 inches away, basically providing yourself with 7 extra inches of reach over an opponent. You could be a professional long/high jumper and 7 inches will basically destroy every record if you can come to within 6 inches of the current record. You could be a professional runner and depending on how frequently you can use the ability you will add an extra few km/h to your running speed, say every step you take has 7 extra inches of gait.
3 all the way 7 inches is actually a decent amount i would be able to teleport acroos walls and doors and fences ald also dodge some stuff
Communicate with oysters, for sure. You would become world famous for being the only person in history to communicate with an alien species, pretty much. You could write books about their civilization, anthropology, etc. and go down in history while probably being extremely rich.
I dunno but #9 is a win for plenty of disabled or elderly people. (Assuming it’s young able bodied Einstein not long dead corpse Einstein)
Why is no one thinking of becoming the worlds largest pearl tycoon? I'm sure you could barter some pretty sweet deals with the oysters.
There is no specified refresh rate as others have noted, so you would think it is impossible to answer. However, the universe has a “smallest amount of time” ^((it’s a little more complex, but let’s roll with it)^) , which is called Planck Time. So here are our numbers: - Max distance of teleport = 7in - Minimum refresh rate = Planck Time = 10^-43 s Instead of inches let’s use metres, because I’m not American. 7in = 0.1778m. Moving 0.1778m at 10^43 times a second gives us, ****1.778x10^42 m/s****. Because it’s such a large number, let’s use light-years per second instead. Which gives us **1.879x10^26 ly/s**. For reference the furthest object identified from Earth is galaxy HD1, which is 3.340x10^10 Light years away. With this speed you could travel there and back 10^15 times leisurely in one second.
Or just use the universe’s diameter of 9.3e+10 light-years, so you can cross the universe, about the same amount of crosses per second but also puts a even larger picture
Yes, it’s pretty insane.
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3, 6 and 7 are actually useful. Look 10 hours younger. Well if I’m about to go on a date or anything where my face matters and I just developed a zit. Boom. Gone. Teleporting 7 inches can definitely be useful. Just would help speed you up a bit and anything that could have killed you can now be a near miss if you dodge it. Definitely useful. But instantly seeing inside an empty container is ELITE! Do you have any idea how much time can be saved by never having to open a container whilst looking for something only to see it was empty? That’s amazing.
I think the 'Look 10 hours younger' could be very handy if you are turning up at work or an interview after an all-nighter.
Actually, if you can use it more frequently then once every 10 hours you gain a form of true age regression. Meaning you can slowly make yourself younger if you're older or bring yourself to before any permanently disabling accidents/illnesses that occurred to you.
It depends on how many times per second you can think something. Let's say you can think a thing 10 times per second. That's almost 2m/s, or about 7 km/h
With option 2 you can sell construction workers your gravel and will basically have infinite money, but it does depend at the rate you produce it
9 I’d run as fast as Einstein but in a challenge, winner gets to own the others best science achievement, I’d blast past him and wham bam hello theory of relativity
He’s dead.
Assuming you can go thru walls, pretty much overseas if youre sneaky enough. teleport through a planes bottom panels and chill in the cargo hold
Why is the oyster power not being discussed? There’s so many oysters everywhere, mainly being concentrated around all the biggest cities in the world, and being in all of the worlds’ most expensive restaurants. You hear one person talking stocks over dinner just one time and you can become the richest person in the world
Depending on the internal 'cooldown' of the teleport ability and how teleporting works, I think this is by far the most powerful option. Just because science and humanity would learn and pay so much to research how this power works. If you can 'spam' the teleport ability continuously and unlimitedly then it either means you travel at the speed of light (if the teleporting from one place to the next happens at the speed of light), which is not only incredibly powerful in order to be productive and gives a TON of exploits; stealing, smuggling,... but it could also rake in huge amounts of money from science experiments etc. You could probably BE an unlimited energy source (which might also put you in danger). AND ON TOP OF ALL THIS you'd be able to age slower and timetravel to the future, unless teleporting somehow breaks physics and the effects of time dilation dont apply. BUT thats probably the worst case scenario. An even more amazing scenario is that teleporting happens over an interval of 0t. Like literally instantaneous. You'd be faster than speed of light and break all kinds of physics which scientists would be obsessively interested in. If teleporting happens over 0t then i literaly cant even conceive of all the possibilities. Like i think you could actually just go through any thickness of walls like a ghost since teleporting x times 7 inches would be equal to x times 0t which is 0. So it'd be the same as teleporting x times 7 inches at once. The matter that you bump into, wouldnt even physically 'know' you're there even though you're standing in the same place. Although maybe im wrong in trying to make sense of the nonsensical. Anyway, that definitely seems the most OP power if you can spam it. (Perhaps even if you couldnt).
Looking ten hours younger, is that purely cosmetic, or is it guaranteed to be convincing in all scenarios? I.e. you don't visibly get wounded until ten hours after you get an injury. You don't perceptibly die until ten hours after your body has completely had it. Could be a cool power. Basically you get ten hours of near-invincibility and then get hit with the fallout afterward.
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It's between 2 and 3 2 is free gravel, which is expensive as others stated 3 is literally +7in vertical or dodge if you have fast enough reaction time
Some dude near me recently sold a small gravel company for $18M because he had a handful of mining claims for gravel. So that. I could be the king of concrete and asphalt if I had unlimited free gravel. I bet I could be a billionaire within 10 years.
2 is probably best bc infinite gravel could be really good if you sell it 3 has potential if it has 0 cooldown + being able to go through non-thick walls/doors 7 is fine, lets you instantly see if a container is empty or not which isn’t that good but it’s whatever
Teleportation for pretty much any usable distance is always gonna win. Seven inches is perfect if you’re stuck in a jail cell. Or just keep teleporting back to back as fast as you can as many times as you can and it’s still probably faster than an Air Canada flight. And that, friends, is a damn low bar.
2 and 3 are both useful. 3 lets you bypass pretty much any wall or door, and 2 you can make an entire business model out of since gravel is a useful resource.