What Would Your Superpower Be?

Pocket dimensions. Like hammerspace or portable holes:

That or stretchy/growy powers like Plastic-man or Apache Chief.

I’m a sucker for the second/third string superhero.

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“Sir, we’ve been able to find out who’s been destabilizing the dollar and creating mass inflation…”

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I am now trying to picture all the mishaps from the scientific team working the Stargate while they were trying to figure out that one prior to the movie and TV show.

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In fairness, @TobinL never specified where the $500 appears from.

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So it would not be a victimless crime then?

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I dunno, I think the US Mint wouldn’t miss a couple mill.

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So it’s theft from our taxes then? Or, even worse, some poor schlub gets pinched for $500 going missing every other day?

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Why do you hate free lunches?

Hmmm…okay, relieve it from Russian oligarchs’ currency speculation accounts then. Stealing from a thief and all.

But I’m also wondering how much you could really spend if you had to do it in $500 increments. I’d think you’d need a lot of magic wallets to destabilize the dollar.

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I was just thinking of easier terraforming. Mars doesn’t have enough atmosphere, Venus has too much; make a wormhole to split the difference. :slight_smile:

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Depends on how often it gets used. There are those that would set up a robot arm to mine it day and night…

And you can’t hate what doesn’t exist!

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Is it too late to pick a super power?

I’d want Cold War Russia… (Well, USSR) has it been taken yet?

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I some doubt Earth’s biosphere would be totally on board with that :wink:

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I am just picturing the people creating the wormhole either being sucked in or blown to the back of the lab because they forgot to take into account atmospheric pressure differences on both sides of it. Like either being in a submarine or a jetliner with a hole in it.

Its totally the kind of thing they would overlook by accident.

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I think you may be eliding the reason @TobinL just wanted $500 in the wallet at a time :money_with_wings:

Back of the envelope, if you managed to spend $500 every hour, 16 hours a day, 365 a year, you’d clock a little under 3 million a year.

Touché mon mutant…touché.

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More or less enough I want to able to pay for most things out of pocket and still need a job for things like mortgage and big ticket items.

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But, if you wanted to buy a sports car that runs $100,000 you’re reaching there 200 times, which is going to wear you down. It’s the larger things that are going to get you. I mean, why not buy your $300,000 house with cash? To spend money you worked for seems foolish. You just have to reach into your walled 600 times. And have someplace to put it.

Well sure, right now. That’s before you realize you can be a millionaire if you reach into your wallet six times a day.

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The catch there is that would get attention vs paying cash for the weeks groceries with some luxury items thrown in like fresh Halibut, etc.

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This puts me in mind of the plot to Brewster’s Millions.

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