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Boris Godunov is offline Boris Godunov
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Portland, OR
Aug 2001
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Actually...throw out all of my previous suggestions.

a Time Warp Virtual Reality Room.

That, my friends, would be THE thing. I think I'd die from starvation if there wasn't an auto-boot from the room every so many hours. (Hopefully that's a feature.)


Dude, was just about to say a Holodeck wherein outside time stopped...

Sava is offline Sava
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Mar 2001
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If I had that computer thingy, I would conquer the world... there's no doubt

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Sep 2002
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  Old Post 26-01-2003 09:22
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mrmitchell can't stop thinking of all the chicks in the Virtual Reality Room

mrmitchell is getting dizzy from the excitement

mrmitchell needs to take a nap

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  Old Post 26-01-2003 09:24
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(sorry for that terrible color; i didn't know it would be so ugly and i am too lazy to edit it. )

(just highlight it)

BTW, maybe in the VR-Room i can have a Future Predictor that tells me how ugly the color will be...

JohnT is offline JohnT

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Mar 1999
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mrmitchell sounds like he's about to leave the confines of Apolyton for his "special" bookmarks.

Skanky Burns is offline Skanky Burns
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Aug 2001
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  Old Post 26-01-2003 09:26
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Biology Nerd at Minnesota State University Moorhead
Sep 2000
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  Old Post 26-01-2003 09:37
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A quantum PC so I'm not waiting 4 minutes for the next turn in the late game of Civ3.

Personal jets.

Time Machine

Enertron, more time for Civ3 and 'Poly.

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Mar 1999
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  Old Post 26-01-2003 11:11
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MOO3!

Static Universe is offline Static Universe
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Dec 2002
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  Old Post 26-01-2003 11:13
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A good book that never ends.

Dis is offline Dis
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Feb 2000
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a woman that thinks I'm the sexiest man alive

Loif is offline Loif
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Jul 2002
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The perfect man.

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Feb 2000
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perfect man?

He already exists. He is me

Kalius is offline Kalius
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Aug 2002
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  Old Post 26-01-2003 13:03
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A good computer in my house.

That will never happen

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Oct 2002
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  Old Post 26-01-2003 13:38
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mind machine interface

Urban Ranger is offline Urban Ranger
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The City State of Noosphere, CPA special envoy
May 1999
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Enertron- A device that provides the equivalent of eight hours of sleep in just a few minutes.


That's a good one.

I myself want to have the Star Trek replicator.

Urban Ranger is offline Urban Ranger
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  Old Post 26-01-2003 13:54
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Fusion power.

Asher is offline Asher
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Nov 1999
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A truely everlasting gobstopper.

Lancer is offline Lancer
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Oregon Coast, USA! or Bohol, Philippines!
Apr 1999
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  Old Post 26-01-2003 14:07
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A food machine that pumps out an endless stream of food without putting anything in. I'd take it to the Philippines and feed everybody.

A device that would fill the oceans w/fish again and one that would regrow all the forests.

A widget that would tell me that 'if you make a friend outa this guy, he'll turn on you eventually'. Or, 'catch up with that guy, there's a friend worth having.'

A pizza teleporter so I could have a fresh, hot, cheese pie from Newton Pizza in Newton NJ...without ever having to go to NJ again! If you go there tell Sam that Lance sent you.

He'll say "who da **** is Lance?" ...but he makes a great pizza pie.

Proteus_MST is offline Proteus_MST
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Dec 2001
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  Old Post 26-01-2003 14:29
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With this computer would be a USB component that is as follows: a small box... a pebble is placed in this box, and transforms the pebble into anything I want when I put a drop of water on it. I describe what I want to the computer and it engineers the device/object.


Some kind of Replicator,
yep thats what I want to.

You give some matter into it,
maybe a stone, a leaf or something else and the Device transforms the moleculse and atoms into something new after your wishes.

But I would also like a Duplicator,
where you have to give the thing you wish to be duplicated into a small box and the device just makes a perfect Copy of it (O.K., where is my 100 Euro-Note?)

Proteus_MST is offline Proteus_MST
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Dec 2001
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intelligent life


Sorry, this wish is impossible to fulfill.

There is no intelligent life, at least not on this planet

Inverse Icarus is offline Inverse Icarus
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May 2001
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replicator. scan anything you want, get a map of it's make up, on whatever level is feasible (molecular, quark, etc), and recreate it. add communication compatibility and be able to replicate materials on earth and send the map to another planet, to allow them to replicate it there.

it aint too far away.

Worthingtons is offline Worthingtons
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Jan 2002
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True 'Q' like Powers.

Skanky Burns is offline Skanky Burns
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Aug 2001
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  Old Post 26-01-2003 14:45
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Accessing the 'net via a chip in the brain - which is implanted into everyone at birth.

Urban Ranger is offline Urban Ranger
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  Old Post 26-01-2003 14:50
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Originally posted by Proteus_MST
You give some matter into it,
maybe a stone, a leaf or something else and the Device transforms the moleculse and atoms into something new after your wishes.

But I would also like a Duplicator,
where you have to give the thing you wish to be duplicated into a small box and the device just makes a perfect Copy of it (O.K., where is my 100 Euro-Note?)


Either of these renders capitalism obsolete, because there will be no scarce resorces anymore - except time.

Proteus_MST is offline Proteus_MST
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Dec 2001
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Either of these renders capitalism obsolete, because there will be no scarce resorces anymore - except time.


Yep, the trick is to keep the invention secret, if you´re the one who has invented it

Switch is offline Switch
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This just in, water has been discovered on Mars...
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Soma.

Or better, a pill like soma, but also incorproates Enertron and the work-out pill.

And I am completely against any sort of chip in the brain. It could lead to chips that could convey any ability the user requested. If you ask me, I will explain my answer, but for now it's off topic.

Inverse Icarus is offline Inverse Icarus
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Accessing the 'net via a chip in the brain - which is implanted into everyone at birth.


i discussed this with some people in my minds and machines (cognative science) classes, and the general consensus is that it would be great for a lot of things (imagine being able to define any word by thinking about it, recalling historical facts etc) but there are a LOT of drawbacks.

most notably, getting hacked.

not to mention that a lot of fake/incorrect information is put onto the web, it would be hard to distinguish it all.

another problem like this is related to telekenisis. if someone transfers a though into your head (or, if the internet did it), how readily would you distinguish it from your own? couldn't someone transmit thoughts of, say, pro-nazi ideals, and you may actually think they are your own thoughts?

imagine getting your neural chip "flooded" by some lame IRC kiddie with a grudge. bah. too scary for me.

Andemagne is offline Andemagne
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Dec 1999
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Money that grows on trees


but dear Skanky, money do grow on trees here in Finland.

Az is offline Az
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MACEDONIA - It's the name of the sovereign country to the north of Greece
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I live-forever machine.
A full-sensory hologram device over the Ultra-fast internet.
fusion power.
a spaceship that looks like a jet fighter, but can go to space, and fly as fast as you can, even faster than life...
A device that would make all men, and all women good looking, smart, intelligent and good-hearted....

ok, now I am just being childish.

Paul Hanson is offline Paul Hanson
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Aug 1999
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The West Wing second season DVD box set.

 
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