Delightful Posted July 14, 2015 Posted July 14, 2015 What would you do? Write a book, start a business, start a relationship or a revolution? Serious or silly. Go. 1
Kobold King he/him Posted July 14, 2015 Posted July 14, 2015 Become an omnipotent entity with the ability to engineer unlimited "unfailable" situations. Loan my powers to you guys in exchange for undying devotion and upvotes. 3
+Slowswift Posted July 14, 2015 Posted July 14, 2015 Become President and actually fix this country. Become a master musician. Invent time travel. Cheese.
Blaze1616 he/him Posted July 14, 2015 Posted July 14, 2015 I'll try to fail. The paradox you'd create would destroy us all. 2
Matrim Bloody Cauthon he/him Posted July 14, 2015 Posted July 14, 2015 cure cancer. throw people I hate off of skyscrapers in such a way that they would not be harmed. the rush they would feel before they hit and realized they were fine would be priceless.
Delightful Posted July 15, 2015 Author Posted July 15, 2015 cure cancer. throw people I hate off of skyscrapers in such a way that they would not be harmed. the rush they would feel before they hit and realized they were fine would be priceless. That would be like the greatest adrenaline Rush ever. I say that would only work if they're the type who gets dizzy from roller coasters.
Blaze1616 he/him Posted July 15, 2015 Posted July 15, 2015 throw people I hate off of skyscrapers in such a way that they would not be harmed. the rush they would feel before they hit and realized they were fine would be priceless. Interestingly, I read in a journal paper some time ago that you'd don't die from the impact with the ground, you die from the heart attack you suffer once you realize you're going to die. Not sure how true it is, though, as I haven't bothered to see if others get the same results.
Delightful Posted July 15, 2015 Author Posted July 15, 2015 That sounds like a design defect. Why would a brain be like "I'm about to die so let's just make sure" 1
Blaze1616 he/him Posted July 15, 2015 Posted July 15, 2015 It was more like working your heart too much. Think of it like an engine, or a motor. Work it too hard, too fast, and it'll eventually break apart.
Blaze1616 he/him Posted July 15, 2015 Posted July 15, 2015 From what I understood, yes. Your heart can't handle the stress it's put under from the panic. I might be mis-remembering the paper, though, as I read it some 6 or 7 years ago.
Left he/him Posted July 15, 2015 Posted July 15, 2015 I would clean upl the majority of corruption and bad organization in all governments and change cultures and economies to stop them from coming back. 1
+Slowswift Posted July 15, 2015 Posted July 15, 2015 Interestingly, I read in a journal paper some time ago that you'd don't die from the impact with the ground, you die from the heart attack you suffer once you realize you're going to die. Not sure how true it is, though, as I haven't bothered to see if others get the same results. Well, assuming you didn't have a heart attack on the way down, if the cliff was high enough, you'd be pretty screwed anyways.
kaellok he/him Posted July 15, 2015 Posted July 15, 2015 I think that i would be boring and simply succeed.
Delightful Posted July 15, 2015 Author Posted July 15, 2015 I think that i would be boring and simply succeed.Succeed at what?
kaellok he/him Posted July 16, 2015 Posted July 16, 2015 Succeed at what? Aww, OK, I'll play for real (sorry, my inner troll/minor jerk sometimes hits post before I can hit cancel.) I would create something artistic and enjoyable, probably a novel. I am currently very very good at ruining and breaking things, but creating them is HARD. (And i DO try, but the results are generally poor or worse.) Oooh, it would also be fun to not fail at being awesome. Or to fail at falling.
Kaymyth she/her Posted July 16, 2015 Posted July 16, 2015 Interestingly, I read in a journal paper some time ago that you'd don't die from the impact with the ground, you die from the heart attack you suffer once you realize you're going to die. Not sure how true it is, though, as I haven't bothered to see if others get the same results. If that were true, we wouldn't see freak survivors of super-lucky falls. There are people who have survived skydiving accidents (like parachute didn't open) just out of sheer luck. I've heard a similar theory that goes, "If you die in your dreams, you die in real life. That's why you wake up just before impact." Well, I can tell you THAT isn't true. I've died in nuclear explosions in my dreams. There's definitely a moment of, "Oh, crap, I'm gonna die. Yep, there's the blast...I'm dead." *distinct post-death pause* "Oh, wait, OK. I'm awake now, whee!" 1
Delightful Posted July 16, 2015 Author Posted July 16, 2015 Now that I think about it, I think I've also died in dreams. I don't remember details though.
Kaymyth she/her Posted July 16, 2015 Posted July 16, 2015 Now that I think about it, I think I've also died in dreams. I don't remember details though. It's a weird thing to happen. My failed find-the-nuclear-bomb-in-the-amalgam-city dreams happened after binge watching a bit too much 24.
Blaze1616 he/him Posted July 16, 2015 Posted July 16, 2015 If that were true, we wouldn't see freak survivors of super-lucky falls. There are people who have survived skydiving accidents (like parachute didn't open) just out of sheer luck. There's always going to be exceptions. I simply found it interesting. It's a weird thing to happen. My failed find-the-nuclear-bomb-in-the-amalgam-city dreams happened after binge watching a bit too much 24. ...It's possible to watch too much 24?
Kaymyth she/her Posted July 16, 2015 Posted July 16, 2015 There's always going to be exceptions. I simply found it interesting. ...It's possible to watch too much 24? It's an interesting theory, to be sure, but I don't think the data backs it up. If it did, we'd have a statistically significant number of cases where people die of heart attacks while in mortal danger, and we really don't. Movies and TV do, sure, but not real life. And science has figured out that our bodies' stress reactions can't tell the difference between "boss is yelling at me" and "ohgodohgod I'm about to get eaten by a bear!" Basically, if we were likely to die when presented with a situation in which we thought we were about to die, we never would've made it out of the cave man stage. And....I would say yes, it is. That point happens when you start trying to do Jack Bauer's job in your sleep. I can defeat monsters all night long, but I am apparently absolute crap at trying to thwart domestic terrorists.
Blaze1616 he/him Posted July 16, 2015 Posted July 16, 2015 And....I would say yes, it is. That point happens when you start trying to do Jack Bauer's job in your sleep. I can defeat monsters all night long, but I am apparently absolute crap at trying to thwart domestic terrorists. I wonder how you'd fare against terrorist monsters?
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