Time has somehow stopped, but you can move. What do you do?
Time has somehow stopped, but you can move. What do you do?
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No idea. But did you hear about the thousands of neonazis who all died at exactly the same time? Crazy stuff...
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... and how'd that floating knife get there? Just, floating where they just happened to be standing ... Weird!
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That is unironically a really cool premise for a sci-fi noir mystery novel. A detective has to figure out how multiple people in different parts of the world are all killed in exactly the same moment.
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boobs
for legal reasons and to avoid the community burning me at the stake I will provide no further context.
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I choose to believe that you will run around flashing people. Wouldn't that be embarassing if time suddenly starts running again!
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Your honesty is respectable.
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I'll cheers to that
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I also boobs.
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Reminds me of a little fantasy I had as a kid. But with dicks.
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First, I take a long rest. Then, I might nap a bit.
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This is the way.
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Immediately panic. Why did it stop? How do I start it? Am I still aging? Can I still die?
Fuck FuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuck
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Lol probably freeze to death. Photons stop moving, molecules stop vibrating. Electronic devices probably don't function/respond. So I could sleep (forever), no video games/tv/movies. Time travel trips me up; like I could walk around, but would time stopping fuck with the cohesion of matter/reality etc? Think you need a few more preconditions for this poll.
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That's fair. I was trying to keep it broad to incite discussion. But since we're getting deeper sciencey with that. Let's assume that physics still includes active friction, gravity and heat transference especially since you can move. This is something like a gravitational anomaly that has affected the time space continuum in that you can move even though "Time" is stopped and everyone else is frozen in the moment
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Alright so I can do aforementioned things, read books, build a cabin in the middle of nowhere, etc. And I was thinking about what Zathras said, if I could drive I could probably weave around people without incident. It just occurs to me what might happen if time started moving forward meanwhile. Also dependent on that factor, the political and social ramifications, oh my. Easy Luigi mode, if I were so inclined. I've seen time travel depicted so many different ways and with so many different rules so its made me particular.
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If photons and therefore likely all molecules stopped moving then you wouldn’t really have a way of losing heat as that eliminates conduction, convection, and radiation. But if we assume our body still works completely unfrozen then we would still need to burn calories and generate heat and without a way of shedding that what we would probably overheat and die, or depending on the limitations suffocate from lack of air if it’s all “frozen”.
Also if like everything just stopped suddenly like for example the planet earth stopped moving you would also get thrown pretty far from the rapid acceleration which could also kill you.
Basically what I am saying is it’s a much more useful question if you make the assumption that all living beings freeze but the universe doesn’t and maybe can be even better thought as plants and single cell organisms don’t freeze as that also limits the question a lot
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Release the Epstein files, and since they won't need it anymore, transfer Trumps and Elons Cash to me; afterwards start a looooooong list of cash transfers to everyone NOT in the Epstein files. I hope i don't age while time is stopped, because that might take a while. While i'm at it, go down the list of Top 100 richest people and fucking do it again. Keep a respectable sum for myself, but only in the "me and the closest to me will never have to worry about money again"-region, not more.
Steal Denuvo's encryption keys.
Defenestrate Putin (and Medvedev just to make sure the war ends), then pull the same move in Israel. Personally slap every Russian and IDF soldier who willingly went into war.
Destroy all the North Korean artillery and rockets aimed at Seoul and place notes in front of SK politicians informing them about the new situation.
Dismantle the surveillance networks - all of them. Let every Citizen know how much information their state had about them - except for Cartel/Mobster types, those i put on skateboards like cardboard cutouts and let them ride down a steep hill into prison gates.
Do i still have time left?
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Dude, time is stopped. You can keep going until you want time to start again. And I've got a list for you:
- Every single kiddy diddler? Suddenly in prison, with piles of evidence of their crimes.
- You can solve every missing persons report where anyone is still alive. It'll take you a while, but you've got the "time."
- Every bribe of every politician - and especially justices of the Supreme Court - exposed with thorough documentation.
- Go around and erase all medical debt and all student debt. All of it. Use some of Elon's money to do it.
- Find and reunite families that were split up by Trump's family separation policies.
- Cut Russia off from the internet entirely. They've demonstrated that they're not ready to join the broader civilized community. Pay special attention to permanently offlining the "Internet Research Agency."
I'm sure I could come up with more.
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Wow. I was just going to snoop around people's houses...
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Shoot every single nuke to space and detonate all nukes in space.
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The moment the Ukraine war ends, Russia and eastern Europe will see an extreme wave of violent crime that will keep going for years.
The moment the Russian soldiers come back to Russia and discover the inflation is way worse, lack of jobs since the economy has transformed into a war economy, and more crap.
The only income will be crime.
Have fun.
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The russian mafia is nothing new, and to be honest, that scenario is still better than what we have now. at least they just try to survive then.
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As long at time restarts after that lot we're golden.
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Nothing.
My cat is asleep on my lap. I am now trapped for all eternity.
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Remove as many nazis and nazi sympathizers as I can, probably.
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So you will arbitrarily choose to do "justice" yourself? Yea nah, I’ll pass on that
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Quickly get into every missile silo and jerry-rig a way to remote control them, move all the personnel out of the silos, lock access, set up cameras in all of them, then find a way to resume time. Once time resumes, announce that I have control over all the nukes, launch a high-atmosphere blast near DC, Moscow, Beijing, London, Paris, to prove it, become a global dictator.
A benevolent dictator, of course. (pinky promise 😉 just trust me bro 😈)
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Your high altitude warning shots would wreck civilization. Read up on the starfish prime tests.
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better have a dead man switch on that or you're going to have every intelligence service on the planet gunning for you before you can get a lot of dictatoring done.
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Steal
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Yup. This is the only honest answer.
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Hit refresh and reset buttons and wonder why my devices don't work. Honestly no idea what I'd do once I figure out what's going on - any socially/legally unacceptable behavior would be a huge risk because I'd have no way of knowing how long the timestop lasts.
TBH I'd probably just try to wait it out, maybe take a walk outside and take a look around.
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Hit refresh and reset buttons and wonder why my devices don’t work
David Wong wrote a book where time would stop, but he actually put thought into it. So like, a field of grass was basically a field of razor blades because nothing else could move.
Fog and clouds could be walked on, a bunch of other stuff that made sense but is rarely thought of.
I think it was "This book is full of spiders"
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Possibly arrange for some billionaires to meet their demise.
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Go find an Aztec god. Someone is bound to be in charge of this mess.
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Finally. Sleep.
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One could arrange a lot of pranks with a time freeze...
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Take a fuckin' nap, and then a week to myself
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Panic
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That's why you always carry a towel
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How else to achieve the status of hoopy frood
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Why? You have plenty of time to work things out
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Would I be blind since the photons won't be flowing into my eyes anymore??
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You become a photon. It's the only way to answer the conditions.
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Or would you see the photons that are present where your eyes are at the moment, and by moving around you see the photons that already were where you just moved, still approximating normal vision?
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Only if you stand still? Would you be able to sweep photons by moving around? Would you leave dark trails behind you as you move around?
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Visit trumps campaign office and adjust the campaign speech at “Four Seasons” to actually be at “Four Seasons Landscaping”
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I got a house full of books, notebooks to write my partners notes, and sleep. If it seems to last more than I don't know, a month? Probably walk to an Ocean, then see if one can walk or drive across one. Try and figure out why time seems stopped.
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Is air stopped as well because you very quickly cook to death
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Would there be enough friction to cause that? I'd assume you wouldn't be able to breath first, since the air wouldn't go into your lungs
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Look at the movie cashback
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Disrobe a bunch of women?
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No, I think they're just going to watch it a bunch of times.
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Disrobe a bunch of women then get really good at figure drawing
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Intimidate a French man by moving him back to his original postion on the stairs while I pose dramatically. /ref
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While talking about how great I am with my STANDO POWA
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Do I retain my inertial momentum? If so, I immediately slam into the ground or shoot up into the sky, turning into a fine mist or burning up instantly, or both.
If the planet (and the universe) stop moving, but I don't, I'm dead, haha.
Similarly if we say that I don't retain that momentum, what happens to my ability to see? Light is no longer travelling, so I'll be mostly blind? Will I be able to move through the air, given that I'll be pushing on time-frozen air molecules? If I can move them by exerting force, are they sufficiently sparse that they have somewhere to move that doesn't require pushing even more frozen air, to the point that moving becomes very difficult?
Will air that I've moved continue to move after I breathe it out, or will it go back to being frozen in time, such that I can't sleep or stay in the same spot for long, because I will build up an unmoving cloud of CO2 around my face and die?
What other ways can you think of that would make pausing time this way suck or kill you? :-D
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Suffocate probably
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Is there a time limit?
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Inherently!
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Depends on what time of the day/night it is and where I am. I imagine if I am at home, sleep or play computer games. If I am at work I am screwed... Fighting to drive home if other cars are stuck in time would not be fun. Would have to borrow a motorcycle or a slim form of transportation to get home. Or just bunker down at a local restaurant (that has alcohol) until time resumes. Doesn't sound like an ideal situationat all unless I am at home or can get there easily.
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Shit myself but that's my answer for most things
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This barely relates
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Sleep or study or both.
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Or a sleep study. Efficiency! 😃
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Lots and lots of reading and learning. Especially languages
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Is time going to restart? Otherwise the languages seem pointless.
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Languages unlock not just more knowledge but also ways of thinking
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Die from asphyxiation, presumably.
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Sleep.
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I scream "Stop! Hammer time!" and then go looking for a hammer.
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Steal a bunch of weed and freezers to store the weed
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Nah, you don't want to freeze it. Just get some airtight containers.
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That’ll make the heist a bit easier on me
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Apparently, set all of reality on fire simply by existing in a state of singular hyper-agitation.
Thanks, universe. 🖕🏻
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Was a tv show back in the day where a girl had powers to touch her fingertips and pause time. Always wanted that power to sleep longer, do large projects without interruption, etc. I think it was called Out of this World, her dad was an alien and they communicated through some weird walky talkie sphere thing.
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Fun show. Remember it fondly.
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Since the entire would would go dark. I’d probably sit around in darkness and wait for time to start again.
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Have fun for like an hour then go crazy and interact with frozen people like Will Smith to the mannequins in I Am Legend
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Depending on how long, I can think of a bunch of people across the globe that could use an acid bath.
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Do a little bit of stress testing then go to bed
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World domination
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I don't know, depends on where I find myself in at the moment. One thing I know for sure, the first few hours would be to nose around.
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Try to fix it since I don't seem to have initiated it or know if it will ever end. It gets kinda wierd as so I can interact and move things? But if I play a tape or video it won't play yeah? Its a pretty fucked situation.
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I'd finish hate-reading The Fermata
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Nuke USA and 3rd world countries like switzerland
Catch up on sleep.
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