Re: Welcome To The New Age
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 8:50 pm"I'm not volunteering for testing that, Cam," he answered patiently.
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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 8:50 pmRe: Welcome To The New Age
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 9:32 pm"Fine. Be that way."
Re: Welcome To The New Age
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 12:46 am"Hey, I'd love to help to cure cancer but I don't feel like duplicating my mutation would be a viable method. The effect on world hunger alone would be devastating."
Re: Welcome To The New Age
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 12:50 am"World hunger's a relatively easy problem to solve, if people just listened. People are the hard problem."
Re: Welcome To The New Age
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 1:01 am"Well, yes... but what's your solution?"
Re: Welcome To The New Age
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 1:10 am"Pym particles. Reduce people's overall mass, they require fewer calories to survive. They need fewer calories, food will last longer. Food lasts longer, shortages stop being an issue."
Re: Welcome To The New Age
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 1:41 am"Shrink people? What about predatory animals?"
Re: Welcome To The New Age
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 1:47 am"Well, I don't think they're currently suffering a food shortage."
Re: Welcome To The New Age
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 1:49 am"They definitely wouldn't be with snack size humans running around."
Re: Welcome To The New Age
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 1:58 am"Well, you could shrink them, as well."
Re: Welcome To The New Age
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 2:25 pm"That would take a hell of a lot of Pym particles."
Re: Welcome To The New Age
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 8:05 pm"Scale's only an issue of funding."
Re: Welcome To The New Age
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 8:41 pm"Well shrinking the animals would lead to plant overgrowth and shrinking those too would defeat the whole idea."
Re: Welcome To The New Age
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 10:27 pm"Not the farmed food. Keep that normal size, tended by technology."
Re: Welcome To The New Age
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 11:51 pm"It's not an ideal solution from a logistical perspective... but I can admit it's oddly practical."
Re: Welcome To The New Age
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 12:04 am"And practically odd, or so I'm told."
Re: Welcome To The New Age
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 1:36 am"You do have that going for you," he chuckled. "Not like I have room to talk with a whole second personality."
Re: Welcome To The New Age
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 4:34 am"You said he knows everything you know, but he has his own level of control when you're shifted?"
Re: Welcome To The New Age
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 2:39 pm"He pretty much drives, yeah. And unlike now, I don't 'talk' to him much when I'm in the backseat. I guess we're more one then."
"Or he really is a foreign entity controlling me like I feared before I got a psychological handle on my powers," he joked.
"Or he really is a foreign entity controlling me like I feared before I got a psychological handle on my powers," he joked.
Re: Welcome To The New Age
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 5:59 pm"I mean, it would be difficult to prove that he was not."
Re: Welcome To The New Age
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 7:01 pm"If he is then he's a very beneficent symbiotic mind-thing."
Re: Welcome To The New Age
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 7:07 pm"Well, that's the point of symbiosis, in the long run. Beneficial to both halves of the equation."
Re: Welcome To The New Age
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 7:59 pm"I get a mental cheerleader, he gets to be a ridiculous shark person. Everybody wins."
Re: Welcome To The New Age
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 8:01 pm"Precisely."