Try to fly through these god damn rings
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Relocate anyone with a net worth of >$500 mil to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
You don't do anything about the wealth? Someone else will get hold of it in no time after your 48 hs are past
I look at it like this: if you've accumulated that much money AND have had time to use it to help others, and haven't? Glub glub time.
If you've suddenly stumbled into ludicrous wealth because a psychotic demigod drowned one of your forebears? Well, it'll take at least 48 hours for you to put that money to more philanthropic use. I figure we can give those folks at least that much of a grace period to decide to be better.
The next Superman can handle them if that's not enough to change their attitude.
And realistically, this would create so many power vacuums all at once that civilization would probably collapse overnight, but you can only get so realistic with superpower hypotheticals.
Enact land reform and nationalisation of resources in countries that want it.
Help with infra development.
If super intellect is available, then fusion, vaccines and similar stuff. Also setting up some cheap manufacturing of medicines.
Hurl mar-a-lardo, NYC, and Delaware into the sun. After that probably break the hotdog eating world record.
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Does having superpowers fix my executive dysfunction? Cause if so then like, I dunno, clean my house, catch up on admin, do everything I've been unable to do
Step 1 - Immediately relocate all Israelis to their country of origin (within prisons) and bring Palestinians back to their land.
Step 2 - Remove the infrastructure maintaining the puppet occupation of Korea.
Step 3 - Remove all weapons from the US/EU and deliver them to communist governments and natives.
Step 4 - Do the same with industrial/technological capacity.
Step 5 - Translate/Copy theory and deliver it to everyone on earth.
Step 6 - Build a bunch of Renewable Energy plants all over the world.
Step 7 - Destroy the Oil industry.
Step 8 - Nap in the sun but lose track of time and lose my powers so I disintegrate.
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Lemmy has some good ideas.
Not sure if that's fast enough, but I would try to visit all the planets in our solar system. And then head out to see what's in the Oort cloud.
No comic-buff here, but is Superman fast enough for that?
In the OG movies he goes so fast that he goes faster than light and turns back time. At least I think that was the idea. So yeah, he could do FTL travel. Given that he accelerated to that point in about a minute, it's probably doable all within an hour.
Considering it takes around 8 minutes for the sunlight to reach us, I think even a fraction of the speed of light would be enough.
No. The inner edge of the Oort Cloud is 10 light days away. The outer edge of 100 ld away.
The math looks like:
- 1 AU is the distance from the Sun to Earth.
- The Earth is 8 light minutes from Sol
- The inner edge of the Oort Cloud is (minimum) 2,000 AU β 16,000 light-minutes, or 11 day light days.
- The outer edge is about 100,000 AU away; that's about a year and a half to get from the inner edge to the outer edge, traveling at the speed of light.
The Oort Cloud is not only mind bogglingly far away, it's about 50x deeper than it is away from the sun.
Those are minimum estimates; some estimates have the inner cloud edge 28 AU away.
The original Superman wasn't a god, but it got hyperbolic over the years with one-upmanship until he was indistinguishable from a god. Canonically, beings regularly travel between star systems, so FTL is not uncommon in the DC universe. Heck, in Invincible (not DC), even relatively low-power beings travel FTL all over, all the time. Spacetime doesn't work the same in comics. So, Superman can travel FTL, and the Oort Cloud would be reachable. But he'd have to travel at least 20x the speed of light to get to the Cloud and back in a day, and thousands of times faster if he wants to explore it at all, or see the outer edge.
I wasn't aware the cloud was that far away. Thanks!
It's surprisingly far away! Shockingly far. It baffles me every time I stop to think about it; it's so incomprehensibly far, I am incapable of visualizing how far it is, no matter how many times I play with the scrollable solar system web page.
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Lots of regimes will fall.
The Democrat/Republican one would be first on my list
Probably do some miracles on national tv and populated areas, then create a new book club. Create sanctuaries for book study groups. Assign leaders across the world from those who protect the people.
This time the book is written using formal logic so itβs impossible to misunderstand and pick and choose what you want to follow. It only provides a logic framework of being kind and empathetic to others, respecting their rights(and what rights are), and consent, etc. This time the book will be timeless with no contradictions.
Then kindly βconvinceβ a couple of billionaires and world leaders to donate 99.9% of their wealth to the new cause. 48 hours are too short to change the world for good. But you can kickstart a brilliant process towards a great future.
DC...Trump to the moon to fix - Trump.
Stratosphere - blow all the CO2 out into space and fix global warming.
Schwarma after with friends.
Oh yeah, grab the great plastic pollution bomb in the pacific and hurl it into the sun then use fry-eyes to burn every plastic manufacturer on the planet.
That's actually a great subject for an XKCD What If - What if all of the CO2 was suddenly removed from the atmosphere, all at once?
Probably not good either. We kind of need the O2 in it and the C probably too. Just in other forms.
The planet would enter a permanent snowball earth phase.
You would need to get rid of the other sycophants
Every politician - Hmm, it turns out our path hasn't been dangerous at all! Let's do the same things but in overdrive!!
Couple of these here 50 states gotta go. I'm annexing them on behalf of Rhode Island. Try to fuckin stop me. Wait does anybody know my powers only work for 48 hours? Cuz otherwise I think I can bluff
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Oh! This one jar that is freakin stuck super bad.
Can you do the trick from the movie and turn back time?
You can, but you turn back time to before you were Superman, but still moving that speed, so you just atomize.
That still has a lot of possibilities :). Just rinse and repeat til you get everything right. A groundhog Day with superman powers hmmm.
I'd sleep the two days, nobody would mess with me.
Stop wars non violently by disarming all parties involved. I know, they'll arm up again after the 48 hours but all I need to do to protect myself is get a haircut and fake glasses.
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Fly everywhere. I'm having breakfast in Paris, lunch in Cairo, and dinner in Kyoto, and checking out a bunch of other places in between. Also doing approximately all of the cocaine so I can stay awake for the whole thing.
Probably watch a bunch of tv shows and fall asleep, if it lands on a weekend.
I have some rewrites I'd like to make to the US constitution.
Oh, bless your heart. Thinking that the Constitution has any sway whatsoever in 2025.
That's where I'll need to flex my con artist muscles.
You know that one scene in season 1 of invincible where Omni man is on that alien planet? Basically that.