Darth Tanner wrote:I havn't seen the film so what sort of limitations are there on the amount of mass that you can 'jump' with? I seem to remember jumping buses from the trailers so is there anything to stop you wearing a space suit and jumping satalites or the shuttle into orbit. Human space elevator.
With running your own parcel company your going to be raking it in, just a 15kg parcel crossing the atlantic costs in excess of £150, and you could do one every minute for an hour a day to earn a fortune, not to mention what you could charge for say ten hour delivery times (the shortest you could claim without breaking cover)
If everyone on SD.net has this ability though I'd be rather worried about some members stealing nuclear warheads and nuking various enemies. If we get Mike to destroy all his servers and back ups will that leave anything that could still be used to trace us?
A good-sized apartment is about the absolute limit of what someone can take without dying, apparently. Some guy tried to take a whole building, and died doing it (though that was implied, not explicitly stated).
Delivery business does seem to be the way to go. Nice job, perfectly legal and above-board, and plenty of both cash and spare time to mess around with.
The ability to jump to places you have been is useful if you have traveled a lot but I suppose on finding out about this ability you can afford the expenditure of traveling to set up a transport company.
I see myself just using it for the mundane things like going to the shop etc. I expect to keep it to myself and not openly display it because I dont want to be disected or otherwise 'experimented' on by people. Addtionally, I really dont want to be burdened with the possibility of stupid worshippers and the 'helpless' wanting you to rescue their kitten up a tree etc.
Doing it on the quiet is easy but I want to be able to live my life, not cater to the needs of every individual with a problem and eventually your going to reach a point where the demands will be too much. The moment you start saying 'no' or if you 'fuck up', you get people tearing you down for being different and digging at your flaws and still expecting you to help them.
No thanks. I use my power for me and the situations important to me. The rest of the world has managed this far without 'Jumpers' and I am not going to 'change the world' on my own. I will leave that to everyone else here and given some of the suggestions made already I am even more certain that staying low is the best option when 'gold bars' start disappearing from banks 'mysteriously'. It is highly likely with such a large amount of people having this ability that at least one person will get caught or otherwise expose themselves.
With that in mind. I find a really remote place and setup a decent 'lair' that I can Jump to and live a nice happy life. Tall mountiain perhaps or maybe find some place at the very depths of the ocean...
I think the first thing to do if we all got this ability in the manner described would be to delete my account superfast, before one of you munchkins drops me in the crap with you overly ambitious plans.
Delivery business is a good idea, but an even better one is human travel. Just take a large bus and a jumper, and you have an easy, perfectly safe, almost instant form of mass global travel that could destroy the long haul airline industry almost overnight. Think how much money you could make doing that...
frogcurry wrote:I think the first thing to do if we all got this ability in the manner described would be to delete my account superfast, before one of you munchkins drops me in the crap with you overly ambitious plans.
Delivery business is a good idea, but an even better one is human travel. Just take a large bus and a jumper, and you have an easy, perfectly safe, almost instant form of mass global travel that could destroy the long haul airline industry almost overnight. Think how much money you could make doing that...
...holy crap. I thought I had some good ideas, but wow...that's a doozy.
I think I'd prefer to keep it quiet and simply avoid long commutes. Would solve my current issue about relocating for a better job - get a job anywhere and simply jump to it and back. Best of all, I can sleep in a little longer and avoid shitty traffic.
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I wish I were psychopathic enough to find out if you can telefrag someone.
"The 4th Earl of Hereford led the fight on the bridge, but he and his men were caught in the arrow fire. Then one of de Harclay's pikemen, concealed beneath the bridge, thrust upwards between the planks and skewered the Earl of Hereford through the anus, twisting the head of the iron pike into his intestines. His dying screams turned the advance into a panic."'
Broomstick wrote:Mike will need to post a picture first, right?
I think I'd prefer to keep it quiet and simply avoid long commutes. Would solve my current issue about relocating for a better job - get a job anywhere and simply jump to it and back. Best of all, I can sleep in a little longer and avoid shitty traffic.
Mike posted some pics of his house in his blog right? Well...when he is inside of his house.
just take a large bus and a jumper, and you have an easy, perfectly safe, almost instant form of mass global travel that could destroy the long haul airline industry almost overnight
Except it would be impossible to prevent your passengers finding out that you have a magic power, not to mention your going to piss all the world governments off by potentially destroying all forms of border controls.
If your a less moral person think of the billions you could make in the drug trade though!
Having just read a review of the film on the net do jumpers have the ability to jump without people noticing them coming out of thin air? This would solve a lot of problems but seems a bit silly to me.
Get busy living or get busy dying... unless there’s cake.
I think if we mobilized as one cohesive organization, we could really make the world a better place - without killing anyone. I mean, if we all dedicated one day a week for a concentrated humanitarian effort or something. We could save people afflicted by natural disaster, help transport food and clothing and medicine, help with locating and mobilizing resources, communications, that sort of thing.
We'd be superheroes! There's like, a thousand of us. Ditch those inactive members and assholes, we're still hundreds strong and I'm sure we're all decent guys. We can...Save the World!
And then go FUCK YEAH!
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If your a less moral person think of the billions you could make in the drug trade though!
Yeah, and get killed in the back of your head.
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Darth Tanner wrote:[
Having just read a review of the film on the net do jumpers have the ability to jump without people noticing them coming out of thin air? This would solve a lot of problems but seems a bit silly to me.
They don't have any kind of special ability, but most people don't seem to notice, as long as they're just jumping quietly (and not, say, in the middle of a fight).
If your a less moral person think of the billions you could make in the drug trade though!
Yeah, and get killed in the back of your head.
Especially when the rest of us find out about this and don't want the bad press.
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Jumpers can only go to places they've been or been in close proximity to at some point.
That means that we're all pretty well fucked in the event of a witch hunt. Not only does every government in the world know who we are (because you literally need almost everyone on the same page to actually catch most of us), but they most likely will have a pretty easy time of piecing together a fairly precise map of our jump range. Bank card usages and international travel records would be just about good enough to do that, seeing as how none of us, except maybe Shep, are paranoid enough to have prepared for something like this. There are a few thousand of us, and hundreds of thousands to millions of them.
My suspicion is that we're hiding out in caves, working for the first government that finds us, or dead, with very few exceptions. Just spam our faces as most wanted one at a time, and eventually we're out of the game.
I had a Bill Maher quote here. But fuck him for his white privelegy "joke".
Jumpers can only go to places they've been or been in close proximity to at some point.
No, they can jump to everywhere they've seen, even on a photo, IIRC. So just run down with a Google Earth and you're fine do jump anywhere.
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Jumpers can only go to places they've been or been in close proximity to at some point.
No, they can jump to everywhere they've seen, even on a photo, IIRC. So just run down with a Google Earth and you're fine do jump anywhere.
So the first priority is to get a bunch of issues of National Geographic, and look at all the pictures.
Vendetta wrote:Richard Gatling was a pioneer in US national healthcare. On discovering that most soldiers during the American Civil War were dying of disease rather than gunshots, he turned his mind to, rather than providing better sanitary conditions and medical care for troops, creating a machine to make sure they got shot faster.
He tried early on to jump somewhere he saw only in a photo, and he couldn't. Looked at the empire state building, said "been there" and was able to jump to it.
I had a Bill Maher quote here. But fuck him for his white privelegy "joke".
Amazing how no one even bothered reading my idea of Bettering the World with our Great Powers by exercising Great Responsibility.
You dicks
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Shroom Man 777 wrote:Amazing how no one even bothered reading my idea of Bettering the World with our Great Powers by exercising Great Responsibility.
You dicks
Bettering how?
Saving people from natural disasters and such if I can, that's definitely something I could get behind. Changing governments and such...that kind of falls outside the purview of Great Responsibility (which, to my mind, has to involve a whole heaping dollop of Restraint).
Changing governments and such...that kind of falls outside the purview of Great Responsibility
Perhaps. But maybe not so: you can teleport to a clearly dickhead leader and tell him "Look, that's the deal: you take up reforming your nation and your government, or I kill you. Don't waste your time trying to do the opposite."
Next time, plant a huge bomb on his travelling path in an instance, and port back. Make it explode right before him. Leave a message at the site "I could've killed your sorry ass now, but there's a second chance for us all".
Hell, you could instantly force world peace - the first person who orders war has signed his own instant death warrant
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Hm... normally the Americans are accused of meddling too much in the affairs of others, but this time it's the Russian advocating such.
Maybe it's just that I'm smart enough to realize I don't have all the answers, either. If I eliminated one dickhead I don't have a way to guarantee a worse one won't take his place, and I'd rather have more of a life than teleporting here and there taking out the Bad Guys.
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.Leonard Nimoy.
Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.- Malcolm Reynolds, Captain of Serenity, which sums up my feelings regarding the lawsuit discussed here.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy
FireNexus wrote:He tried early on to jump somewhere he saw only in a photo, and he couldn't. Looked at the empire state building, said "been there" and was able to jump to it.
Are you trying to tell me he had actually travelled normally to every location on the photos that covered his appartment like wallpaper? There are hundred, if not thousands of locations around the world.
And when he did try that first long distance jump, it was still when he was a kid and he still hadn't gotten the fine control he would have later in life; hence the massive crater the in toilets and the way he was shaking apart his little room whenever he came back with more money, which he would later be able to negate entirely. Fifteen year old David could not do it, but later in life could. The Empire State Building was like the Library, in that he had good memories there, and it was in the same building as the Empire State Building.
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- PeZook
