You get a suit of power armor (RAR!)

[Elheru Aran]

Right, well I'd rather have less things collecting dust around here than I have to...

On topic: What would I do?

Take a quick jog around the world, I guess. Not really but I'm not going to get rid of it without having some fun first. As to where to get rid of it? Sell it to MIT or some tech school. Let them have a shot at cracking the tech and deriving applications. Better them than the military or the government, even if the government/military is probably going to take a lot of the technology anyway.

[Borgholio]

I wonder if NASA would be in the running to buy this thing? It's space-tight, right? This would be very useful to replace the normally fragile spacesuits and allow astronauts to perform heavy lifting if they were sent to the Moon or Mars.

[Elheru Aran]

I wonder if NASA would be in the running to buy this thing? It's space-tight, right? This would be very useful to replace the normally fragile spacesuits and allow astronauts to perform heavy lifting if they were sent to the Moon or Mars.

There's a thought, but it sounds kinda bulky and that's a penalty for space travel. I doubt they'd say no, though. Might even be able to jockey it into a free stay on the ISS.

[Purple]

I wonder how difficult it would be to get this thing to a volcano and dump it in there.

[Borgholio]

I wonder how difficult it would be to get this thing to a volcano and dump it in there.

It surprises me how much effort people will go through to be so wasteful...

[Zixinus]

Of course, realistically most of us won't be able to hide the damn thing. At least not in an apartment. I can't imagine managing to bring this thing ANYWHERE without lots of people asking what the hell is making that noise and/or taking photos about it to be posted on social media. I would need a furniture-moving pickup truck to move it anywhere and then I'd have to find a good spot to hide it. Maybe use it to make your hiding place?

Heh, a lot of SDN-ners all making superhero bunkers.

Volunteering as an astronaut with one would be awesome, the security feature would give us prestige-access. I could volunteer at the ESA.

It surprises me how much effort people will go through to be so wasteful...

It would be cartoonishly funny though. And if you make a video of it, nobody can pester you for "no, really, we know you are hiding it, tell us where it is".

[Purple]

It would be cartoonishly funny though. And if you make a video of it, nobody can pester you for "no, really, we know you are hiding it, tell us where it is".

Exactly. Especially if it's a major tourist spot or something and I get a lot of witnesses see me gently nudging it off the ledge.

Also, I wonder if it could survive inside? Like if yes than we might be talking about a whole different dip in lava.

[Arthur_Tuxedo]

I'd probably sell it to Elon Musk, and if he weren't interested, I'd start a local delivery service for heavy appliances.

[Axton]

I would probably trade it for an Incontinent Ballistic Missile that I would then bury in the backyard -- just to keep one of the damnable things out of circulation for the next hundred years or so.

[Axton]

That was supposed to be Intercontinental. :facepalm:

[Zixinus]

Are you trolling with that suggestion?

[bilateralrope]

I would probably trade it for an Incontinent Ballistic Missile that I would then bury in the backyard -- just to keep one of the damnable things out of circulation for the next hundred years or so.

Congratulations, you got a missile buried in a fully functional silo.

[Axton]

Are you trolling with that suggestion?

No. I mean that the best use I can think of for the thing is to use it to take a weapon of mass destruction off the table. Seems like the best way to potentially save lives with it.

[Zixinus]

How in the world would that even work? ICBMs are not something to be traded.

And even if by some miracle you did, they'd just make another one. You solved nothing.

[Axton]

Well, what about using it to set off the nukes, then?

[U.P. Cinnabar]

Well, what about using it to set off the nukes, then?

You won't survive the experience, annndd...I see no downside to that.

[Purple]

Well, what about using it to set off the nukes, then?

You won't survive the experience, annndd...I see no downside to that.

You mean aside from the fallout?

[Zixinus]

Well, what about using it to set off the nukes, then?

Also has several problems, first of which: the suit doesn't make you invincible. You will get killed once they start bringing out anti-vehicle/anti-tank weaponry, plus actual tanks and helicopters (including drones that are armed with hellfire missiles). If you brake into a military bases that has anything heavier than an assault rifle, you will be killed. Very likely before you even get near anywhere where there are nukes, once they see a guy in power armor marching towards them aggressively.

Need I remind you that the thing does not come with any weapons?

Second, you can't set off nukes by accident or by firing at them, not only do they not work that way but are quite deliberately designed so.

Third, even if by some miracle you do set it off, you just nuked yourself.

Fourth, even if that plan works by divine intervention, again, they'll just make more to replace the ones lost and you have changed nothing but bring yourself atop the official kill list. And ruin having power armor for the rest of us who may have wanted to use it for legitimate purposes like emergency rescue, in which case, thanks for being that idiotic asshole that ruins a good thing.

[Axton]

Well, what about using it to set off the nukes, then?

Also has several problems, first of which: the suit doesn't make you invincible. You will get killed once they start bringing out anti-vehicle/anti-tank weaponry, plus actual tanks and helicopters (including drones that are armed with hellfire missiles). If you brake into a military bases that has anything heavier than an assault rifle, you will be killed. Very likely before you even get near anywhere where there are nukes, once they see a guy in power armor marching towards them aggressively.

Well, duh, you don't march toward them aggressively. You just sort of... stroll up to them, in a very friendly way.

[Purple]

Well, duh, you don't march toward them aggressively. You just sort of... stroll up to them, in a very friendly way.

You'll be dead before you cross the perimeter. And besides, even if they do just let you walk in and you do manage to set a nuke off and you get out of it alive you still have to deal with the problem inherent in setting a bloody nuke off in a shallow open pit. Among them being monumental amounts of fallout as all the dug up earth is thrown up, irradiated to lethal levels and scattered for kilometers upon kilometers of landscape to pollute the land for ever more.

[His Divine Shadow]

My country does not in fact check every ones mail all the time.

You're telling me that a 3-400kg parcel could shipped through your country's post without anyone batting an eye?

We ship multiple of those from my work per week. I ordered two pallets of paving stones for my backyard, they where 4 metric tons. Why would anyone bat an eye?

Obviously it won't be shipped USPS small parcel.

[Zixinus]

Well, duh, you don't march toward them aggressively. You just sort of... stroll up to them, in a very friendly way.

I take it you didn't read the rest of my post?

[Axton]

...even if they do just let you walk in and you do manage to set a nuke off and you get out of it alive you still have to deal with the problem inherent in setting a bloody nuke off in a shallow open pit. Among them being monumental amounts of fallout as all the dug up earth is thrown up, irradiated to lethal levels and scattered for kilometers upon kilometers of landscape to pollute the land for ever more.

Right, exactly. What's the downside?

[Axton]

Well, duh, you don't march toward them aggressively. You just sort of... stroll up to them, in a very friendly way.

I take it you didn't read the rest of my post?

I did; I just didn't have any objection to the rest of it.

[Purple]

...even if they do just let you walk in and you do manage to set a nuke off and you get out of it alive you still have to deal with the problem inherent in setting a bloody nuke off in a shallow open pit. Among them being monumental amounts of fallout as all the dug up earth is thrown up, irradiated to lethal levels and scattered for kilometers upon kilometers of landscape to pollute the land for ever more.

Right, exactly. What's the downside?

So wait, your plan is to go down in history as a radioactive super villain? In that case nothing really. Well aside from what I imagine would be one hell of a heightened cancer risk on your part.