Mr_Brain

Space officer, I just managed to take these things away from a clearly insane person! Here, have them and make sure no harm can be done by them! (Alternatively, activate the detonator.) You are pulled over near this year's Annual Easily Enraged Science-Fiction Fan Convention. In your car, there are several items with controversial statements about which science fiction universe or character within a science fiction universe is best. In addition, there are crude drawings of very violent conflicts, titled "What those nerds will do to each other once I've brought this stuff inside". Furthermore, a video camera is located in your vehicle.

Oh, hello, sir! I'm on my way to the lab where I will try to downsize this doomsday device in order to destroy this toxic waste and the local population of this invasive plant species. You are pulled over near a newly built bridge. On your back seat, there is a laptop running simulations of that bridge's collapse, an industrial-grade power drill and a plasma cutter.

Well, officer, as you can see, I only have a few pieces of paper with a few words written on them here. No need to pull me over, is there? On your back seat, there are a bottle of water (empty), several pieces of wrapping paper (torn) and a mysterious box with a blinking red light that makes ticking noises. You are located near a facility which, according to your bumper stickers, you oppose strongly.

Oh, hello, officer! Isn't it a lovely day to wear costumes? Unfortunately, I forgot mine at home, so only my friends here get to wear theirs. Is something wrong, sir? Oh, that is not a real gun, we're just playing. You have a large bottle of hydrofluoric acid, a cow's skeleton and 37.4 kilograms of glitter (not in a container).

Granted! This wish is granted by giving you a high-powered suit like Iron Man's. I wish for sparkles.

Granted, and you get to live in a really nice habitation module in an autonomous colony with a lot of nice people and a wormhole back to Earth, for communications or trade. I wish for cybernetic augmentation to be a thing and cheaply available to everyone.

Nope. I like being alive more than having rep I didn't earn. Push this button for laser guns.

Consider that the kerbals' Sun is not our Sun. Its size is that of a red dwarf, so it should actually be red by that metric.Source

It has been pressed. I'll just buy a lot of dirt and gravel and then sell this dirt and gravel. Press this button to become resistant to UV radiation and skin cancer, but you will lose the ability to synthesize vitamin D in your body.

I return to the comm equipment and salvage any usable parts – the case, wires, capacitors, anything that seems useful.

I give up on trying to get the communications equipment working and look for supplies. I encounter RainDreamer, who looks somewhat paranoid and nervous, and start a conversation, mentioning that the comm devices seem to be beyond repair.

I look for communications equipment and try to get it running again. I'm not particularly successful, which isn't very surprising considering I hardly know anything about communications equipment. I ask the next person who enters this room for help.

I look out the window to figure out which planet, moon or other astronomical body we are on.

You finish writing your post sooner than you would usually have, which allows you to go to the store to buy some food sooner. However, because of this, you are hit by a car that would have missed you otherwise. Several of your organs are damaged severely, but you can survive if you can just receive a new organ. And you're in luck: Not far from you, because of a rare genetic anomaly, a person has two of the required organ and is willing to donate the second one. However, that particular person reads your posts on this forum and hates how you abbreviate things like "What's the worst that could happen?". Therefore, you don't get the organ and die. Later, that person regrets not having donated the organ and suffers from extreme guilt and depression. That person's entire family suffer as well, the family breaks apart, and the children, who had the potential to fulfill their dreams, instead end up in a dead-end job they hate because of their ruined childhood. All because you couldn't be bothered to spend a few more seconds typing. I think of excessively unlikely scenarios. What's the worst that could happen?

No. I'm cruel and heartless. Push this button for unicorns.

I love the book and I'm certainly looking forward to this.

Stanley decides to have a good look at the vial of death stored on a shelf next to the blue line, and then continues on the path. Soon after, he comes to a set of 3 open doors.

The extreme power usage due to the extreme volume causes your electricity provider to cut the power to your home. Your fridge doesn't get any power anymore and your food spoils. That's the worst that could happen. I explain some math to a friend. What's the worst that could happen?

You post a picture of it on the forums, and it implodes because of all the "Fake! Jeb is never scared!" posts. I set the moon on fire. What's the worst that could happen?

There was something like this on Twitter once, but I can't seem to find all #ScottManleyFacts that I remember were tweeted. Some I remember or found (those that I found now have the usernames of those that tweeted them): Scott Manley can fully utilize the Oberth effect at apoapsis. Scott Manley doesn't achieve orbital velocity. Orbital velocity achieves Scott Manley. Scott Manley can soft land on Jool. (@ManleyFacts) Scott Manley does not alter his trajectory, he repositions the universe. (@drxzcl) Scott Manley raises his perikee above his apokee and gains velocity on the way up. (@drxzcl) @matiasricarte: "[scott Manley] is the Chuck Norris of KSP" – @ActsOfAndrewB: "Come on, when did you ever see Chuck Norris pull a space shuttle out of a flat spin?" When Scott Manley DJs, he spins the cosmos, not tunes. (@felisconcolori) Scott Manley doesn't exploit the oberth effect, the oberth effect exploits Scott Manley. (@NorwegianRJ) Scott Manley is able to use time acceleration in real life. (@ActsofAndrewB) Scott Manley can fly an engineless spaceplane to orbit by pumping fuel around. (@tnn2) And, about Danny2462 rather than Scott Manley: Danny2462 collided with Mun once. Mun crashed. (@TPJerematic)

As you open KSP, all you visual enhancement mods heat your computer up quite a bit. This isn't a problem for you, though. However, the hot air from your computer rises up into the atmosphere, slightly disturbing the jet stream, which changes the mass distribution of Earth slightly. This changes the gravitational influence Earth has on a particular asteroid, the orbit of which is disturbed and will now hit Earth a number of years from this time. Inspired by KSP, you become an aerospace engineer and, when the asteroid headed for Earth is detected, you become the head of the team at NASA that will deflect the asteroid. You and your team succeed in protecting Earth, and because the hero who saved us all could only do so because of KSP, many millions now buy it. Because of the huge influx of new, inexperienced players, Squad decides to make KSP much easier and more unrealistic in order to appeal to the masses. You killed KSP. I hope you're happy now. I build a laser cannon. What could possibly go wrong?

Umm... Is the "Mun" in the title intended? Someone may have been playing too much KSP... Also, great pictures! My best picture of the Moon (just typed "Mun" myself...) so far is... less impressive. Taken with my phone and a cheap telescope.

Granted, but now everyone around you insists it should be "maths", which you know is not so and which drives you literally crazy. I wish for a license that authorizes me to poison the pigeons in the park.

Currently, in many ways, biology still beats technology. But once artificial superintelligence and self-replicating nanobots are a thing, that will change.

At first, nothing special happens. But a few months after you start, a law against non-productive creation of entropy is passed in your country to delay the heat death of the universe. Everyone other than you now only ever does anything that directly benefits the economy anymore, but you are unaware of this because you're too busy posting to notice any of the news about this new law. It only takes the authorities a few days to find out that you "waste" your time on the internet and you're taken to prison, where you are put into cryogenic stasis so your metabolism is reduced to zero so you don't create any more entropy. A few decades later, humanity destroys itself in an incident involving a rubber band, two gallons of milk and the color green. Because you are in stasis, you survive. Millennia pass, and eventually aliens visit Earth. They find you and bring you aboard their ship. There, they release you from your sleep and allow you to join their society as a free citizen. Fortunately, they also breathe oxygen, drink water and need similar nutrients to humans. However, the only food known to them is your least favorite food and you never got around to learning recipes back on Earth, so you will have to eat that for the rest of your life. I go skydiving above an active volcano in which there is a nuclear reactor where a meltdown worse than Chernobyl is taking place.