Sleep.
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.
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
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
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.
Fuck the middle of nowhere. Times square. Basically the same at that point.
Fair! And time space shit is my jam. (Stein’s gate is an awesome visual novel, manga, anime / piece of media) if you haven’t see it … You’ll have a field (Heh) day
No idea. But did you hear about the thousands of neonazis who all died at exactly the same time? Crazy stuff…
… 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.
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?
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.
Wow. I was just going to snoop around people’s houses…
Shoot every single nuke to space and detonate all nukes in space.
As long at time restarts after that lot we’re golden.
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.
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.
Nothing.
My cat is asleep on my lap. I am now trapped for all eternity.
Panic
Why? You have plenty of time to work things out
That’s why you always carry a towel
How else to achieve the status of hoopy frood
Possibly arrange for some billionaires to meet their demise.
Look at the movie cashback
Disrobe a bunch of women?
Disrobe a bunch of women then get really good at figure drawing
No, I think they’re just going to watch it a bunch of times.
boobs
for legal reasons and to avoid the community burning me at the stake I will provide no further context.
Your honesty is respectable.
I’ll cheers to that
I choose to believe that you will run around flashing people. Wouldn’t that be embarassing if time suddenly starts running again!
Reminds me of a little fantasy I had as a kid. But with dicks.
For further context, see the movie Cashback.
2006?
That’s the one.
I also boobs.
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Additionally, I also for legal reasons & to avoid being banished by all communities, will provide no further context.
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.
Finally. Sleep.
First, I take a long rest. Then, I might nap a bit.
This is the way.
Steal a bunch of weed and freezers to store the weed
Nah, you don’t want to freeze it. Just get some airtight containers.
That’ll make the heist a bit easier on me
World domination
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
