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Time has somehow stopped, but you can move. What do you do?
a year ago by weirdbeardgame to c/asklemmy
Sterile_Technique 95 points a year ago path: 0 19433549, hotness: undefined, score: 95, children: 3
weirdbeardgame 16 points a year ago
... and how'd that floating knife get there? Just, floating where they just happened to be standing ... Weird!
Adderbox76 8 points a year ago
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.
NotASharkInAManSuit 56 points a year ago
Suffocate or get immolated trying to move from the friction of the now solid air mass.
NotASharkInAManSuit 17 points a year ago
Nobody cares.
NotASharkInAManSuit 13 points a year ago
Sure.
Raglesnarf 45 points a year ago
boobs
for legal reasons and to avoid the community burning me at the stake I will provide no further context.
rumschlumpel 29 points a year ago
I choose to believe that you will run around flashing people. Wouldn't that be embarassing if time suddenly starts running again!
ramenshaman 6 points a year ago
I'll cheers to that
captain_aggravated 1 point a year ago
For further context, see the movie Cashback.
captain_aggravated 1 point a year ago
That's the one.
Hossenfeffer 6 points a year ago
This is the way.
killea 29 points a year ago
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.
weirdbeardgame 13 points a year ago
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
killea 4 points a year ago
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.
weirdbeardgame 3 points a year ago
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
primrosepathspeedrun 1 point a year ago
Fuck the middle of nowhere. Times square. Basically the same at that point.
BussyCat 2 points a year ago
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
Wildmimic 26 points a year ago
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?
kescusay 7 points a year ago
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.
Yeahigotskills2 3 points a year ago
Wow. I was just going to snoop around people's houses...
HurlingDurling 2 points a year ago
Shoot every single nuke to space and detonate all nukes in space.
stoy 2 points a year ago
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.
Quetzalcutlass 25 points a year ago
Nothing.
My cat is asleep on my lap. I am now trapped for all eternity.
DeathByBigSad 15 points a year ago
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 😈)
rumschlumpel 14 points a year ago
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.
givesomefucks 12 points a year ago
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"
sharkfucker420 14 points a year ago
Steal
Archangel1313 6 points a year ago
Yup. This is the only honest answer.
ramenshaman 13 points a year ago
Possibly arrange for some billionaires to meet their demise.
MisterNeon 13 points a year ago
Go find an Aztec god. Someone is bound to be in charge of this mess.
SlartyBartFast 10 points a year ago
Take a fuckin' nap, and then a week to myself
AlternatePersonMan 9 points a year ago
Panic
EmpatheticTeddyBear 9 points a year ago
That's why you always carry a towel
Supervisor194 6 points a year ago
How else to achieve the status of hoopy frood
CameronDev 3 points a year ago
Why? You have plenty of time to work things out
minkymunkey_7_7 4 points a year ago
You become a photon. It's the only way to answer the conditions.
quediuspayu 3 points a year ago
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?
captain_aggravated 3 points a year ago
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?
HuskerNation 7 points a year ago
Is air stopped as well because you very quickly cook to death
Cabbage_Pout61 2 points a year ago
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
mic_check_one_two 3 points a year ago
I mean, if time is stopped then everything would technically have an infinite amount of inertia.
Cabbage_Pout61 1 point a year ago
Hum, I'd assume time stop would actually be better as super speed then. Almost close to light speed, enough to make things seem frozen.
HuskerNation 2 points a year ago
No air would mean no way for your body to cool. You would cook yourself to death
Breathing is another problem
Pyr_Pressure 2 points a year ago
Although that would also mean no radiant heat would be transferred to you from the environment. Would you freeze or cook if the only source of heat around is your body heat?
Semi_Hemi_Demigod 7 points a year ago
Suffocate probably
Hello_there 7 points a year ago
Look at the movie cashback
Hello_there 2 points a year ago
Disrobe a bunch of women then get really good at figure drawing
NeedyPlatter 7 points a year ago
Intimidate a French man by moving him back to his original postion on the stairs while I pose dramatically. /ref
weirdbeardgame 4 points a year ago
While talking about how great I am with my STANDO POWA
obinice 7 points a year ago
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
Reverendender 5 points a year ago
Inherently!
scathliath 7 points a year ago
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.
Jaxia 6 points a year ago
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.
charade_you_are 6 points a year ago
Shit myself but that's my answer for most things
Jankatarch 5 points a year ago
Sleep or study or both.
ivanafterall 4 points a year ago
Is time going to restart? Otherwise the languages seem pointless.
macaw_dean_settle 4 points a year ago
Sleep.
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thermal_shock 3 points a year ago
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.
HazardousBanjo 2 points a year ago
Have fun for like an hour then go crazy and interact with frozen people like Will Smith to the mannequins in I Am Legend
AceFuzzLord 2 points a year ago
Depending on how long, I can think of a bunch of people across the globe that could use an acid bath.
daggermoon 2 points a year ago
World domination
quediuspayu 1 point a year ago
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.
HubertManne 1 point a year ago
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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