If you could do one thing, and then another thing...

[Kurt_]

I'm in that mood where I'm in imagination land.

[offtopic]
Stephen: Butters, time for breakfast!
Butters: Gah! Oh, jeez. It was just a dream.
Stephen: Come on Butters, mom's cooked waffles and nanas for you.
Butters: Oh mom, dad, I dreamed I was in Imaginationland and then terrorists attacked it.
Stephen: You are in Imaginationland. This is a dream.
Butters: Huh?
Mayor of Imaginationland: Hey! Wake up stupid!
[/offtopic]

And being in imagination land, anything is possible. So here is my question to you, fellow imaginatorians:

1) If you could do, have, see, etc. any one thing within the known laws of our universe (ie. no anti-gravity, faster-than-light travel, etc.), what would it be?

2) If you could do, have, see etc. any one thing unbound from anything, what would it be?



My answers:

1) Grow up, marry, have some children, etc. You know how it goes. Or lots and lots of money!

2) There are so many things, I don't know where to start. I certainly couldn't narrow them down to one.

- How about an everything machine? Or an ANYTHING machine?

-The ability to shape-shift.

- Complete dominance over thoughts (brain swapping, hypnosis, brain altering, brainwashing, mind reading...)

- A machine that creates living organisms. Imagine a little army of blob-things playing on your desk at school, or a girlfriend/wife you design and create yourself. (And could kill off it she doesn't suit your needs, since she never existed in the eyes of any country in the first place! )
Honey, stop that. Honey. Please Stop that. You're really starting to piss me off, *expletives*. ***BANG!!!***
The next day, you make a new one! Talk about a new wave of anger-management techniques!

Those are listed in order of want, from most to least. Of course, an anything machine is cheating, it's like the #1 wish is for more wishes.

[lifeisbetterwithketchup]

[Jongamer]

Hell yes!! Time travel!

[Sir Games-A-Lot]

No 1.

To build a counter-cryptographic quantum computer, for um... "Research Purposes".


No. 2

To have FTL capable interstellar colony ship with facilities to terraform hostile planets into self sustaining livable environments.

[Sangheilios]

1) If you could do, have, see, etc. any one thing within the known laws of our universe (ie. no anti-gravity, faster-than-light travel, etc.), what would it be?

Faster than light travel IS possible, see here: http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xht ... y_id=21850

By creating entangled photon pairs, communication is possible across INFINITE distance INSTANTANEOUSLY. As in not in a nanosecond, or even an attosecond or a yoctosecond; the data is in one place and then the next with no time in between for transit. And we even have the technology to make this happen now (quantum computers).

Although, in the real world everyone still uses classical computers, which won't reach the limit of their potential until 2050. But this method of communication will revolutionize unmanned spaceflight - the current delay for issuing commands to a planetary rover, for example, is several minutes I believe.

[Sangheilios]

Also antigrav has already been done, and it's really easy too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev_train

[bicostp]

Time travel sounds fun.

They're making limited numbers of reproduction Deloreans starting next year. They're made form the original dies and build with new parts and engines. Apparently the interior will get a minor update but from 20 feet away it will look identical to the originals. $58,000 isn't bad for a brand new, build-to-order, customized sports car that any geek will instantly recognize. Of course this is also good for the six-thousand-some-odd originals still out there, since parts will be made again. Some day... In the future, after the D200...

[Sir Games-A-Lot]

Also antigrav has already been done, and it's really easy too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev_train

I'm pretty sure that's not considered true anti-grav, you're just temporarily resisting the earth's gravitational pull, no different than a helicopter or balloon or whatever.

[Shadeslayer]

Hmmm...

1) To marry my girlfriend and raise a family.

2)To have the powers of superman (minus the allergic reaction to kryptonite!).

Sounds good to me!

[teraflop122]

1) Infinite Longevity- to never die, barring an explosion, being shot through the head, getting hit by a car, etc.

What's a 200 year space voyage when you live forever?

2) Immortality.

[project_failure]

How about an everything machine? Or an ANYTHING machine?

an everything machine will build everything (bad idea). An anything machine will build anything (also bad).

[bicostp]

How about an everything machine? Or an ANYTHING machine?

an everything machine will build everything (bad idea). An anything machine will build anything (also bad).

What about a "build whatever I tell it to in the quantity I specify" machine?

[Ecksem Diem]

To build a counter-cryptographic quantum computer, for um... "Research Purposes".

Would that run Crysis?

1) Meet some damn Moties.

2)

[Skyone]

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[soundwave]

1) If you could do, have, see, etc. any one thing within the known laws of our universe (ie. no anti-gravity, faster-than-light travel, etc.), what would it be?

Faster than light travel IS possible, see here: http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xht ... y_id=21850

By creating entangled photon pairs, communication is possible across INFINITE distance INSTANTANEOUSLY. As in not in a nanosecond, or even an attosecond or a yoctosecond; the data is in one place and then the next with no time in between for transit. And we even have the technology to make this happen now (quantum computers).

Although, in the real world everyone still uses classical computers, which won't reach the limit of their potential until 2050. But this method of communication will revolutionize unmanned spaceflight - the current delay for issuing commands to a planetary rover, for example, is several minutes I believe.

But that's not faster-than-light travel, its faster-than-light communication, you can't communicate a ship from Earth to Gliese 581 c, or whatever other Earth-like planet we come to. The closest they've come is quantum teleportation, which is still in its early stages, and still won't work for the applications most dream up for it.

And magnetism isn't anti-gravity.