If you had the powers of the Q. What would you do?

[Gingerbread Demon]

I would create the cure for cancer and that would upset a lot of people in the health industry. That would be glorious.

I'd cure HIV / AIDS and a few other diseases that baffle science. The world would either love that or hate it.

 

[Sgt_G]

I don't know if I'd want Q-powers, but recently I was moved to "ask" for super-powers. I wanted the ability to reach thru the phone line and/or internet and slap the stupid out of the *bleep* on the other end.

 

[φ of π]

I would create the cure for cancer and that would upset a lot of people in the health industry. That would be glorious.

I'd cure HIV / AIDS and a few other diseases that baffle science. The world would either love that or hate it.

In a similar vein, I'd make wilful ignorance and anti-intellectualism a terminal illness.

 

[Amaris]

I would cure every illness.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I would cure every illness.

But you'd make scientists look foolish if you did that.

 

[Amaris]

But you'd make scientists look foolish if you did that.

Well, I doubt it would make them look foolish. Remember, I'm the one with the god-like, near omnipotent powers. It would have nothing to do with science.

 

[Spot261]

Extinct perhaps in the sense that we wouldn't resemble humanity as we know it today or even a 1000 years from now.

I would also:
4. Make sure humanity doesn't destroy itself
5. Make sure humanity travels the stars and reduce the chance that a freak cosmic event destroys it

You'd willingly inflict humanity on the galaxy?

 

[Bagofmostlywatr]

I watched "absolutely anything" the other day, I suspect if I were trusted with the power, it would turn out fairly similar to that.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

You'd willingly inflict humanity on the galaxy?

Why what's so bad about humanity?

Oh hang on........

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I'd make it a universal law that all people had to have at least 8 cats and if you didn't have at least 8 cats you would grow ill and gradually fade unto death. I'm a kind god, it's gradual enough for you to get your ass out there and get the cats.

 

[urbandefault]

All you can eat tacos.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I just thought of a great prank I could do with my powers.

I'd release all the gravity at every major airport on Earth for exactly 3.55 minutes at 3.55 on a Tuesday afternoon.

It would have "experts" and all scratching their head trying to find some meaning in the timing of it and the duration.

 

[rahullak]

You'd willingly inflict humanity on the galaxy?

Any affliction caused by humanity can be controlled by the Q continuum. Or so it is believed...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

If I had Q powers, I suspect that I would get bored at a very rapid pace. Before you know it I'd end up like the other Q from "Death Wish".

Because if you can do anything, what's the challenge? Where's the thrill? Like "The Cage" showed us, our strongest dreams are about what we CAN'T do.

Or, to put it another way, there's this...

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

If I had Q powers, I suspect that I would get bored at a very rapid pace. Before you know it I'd end up like the other Q from "Death Wish".

Because if you can do anything, what's the challenge? Where's the thrill? Like "The Cage" showed us, our strongest dreams are about what we CAN'T do.

Or, to put it another way, there's this...

That is true, but you would still be basing things off your human mindset which doesn't know everything..... Having Q powers does not turn you into a super genius.... You'd still have your ordinary human brain and limited worldview ....So things would be new to you still.

At least that is how I had perceived this.

 

[Doom Shepherd]

"We've secretly replaced all the radioactive material in North Korea with glow-in-the-dark Play-Doh. Let's see if anyone notices."

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

"We've secretly replaced all the radioactive material in North Korea with glow-in-the-dark Play-Doh. Let's see if anyone notices."

OMG imagine if that actually did happen. Fun time

 

[Doom Shepherd]

OMG imagine if that actually did happen. Fun time

There would totally be a Q-channel for announcements of this sort.

"Attention: Trump's hair? Now actually an animate life form. And a yellow-dog Democrat. You're welcome."

"I am bored, so here's some geoengineering, I'm making a large freshwater lake in the Sahara. That is all."

"Guess what? Kale now tastes like bacon."

"Enough already. All endangered species are now bulletproof."

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

There would totally be a Q-channel for announcements of this sort.

"Attention: Trump's hair? Now actually an animate life form. And a yellow-dog Democrat. You're welcome."

"I am bored, so here's some geoengineering, I'm making a large freshwater lake in the Sahara. That is all."

"Guess what? Kale now tastes like bacon."

"Enough already. All endangered species are now bulletproof."

You forgot one......

On Christmas day T Rex will no longer be extinct, and just for fun we've brought back Raptors too.

 

[Doom Shepherd]

You forgot one......

On Christmas day T Rex will no longer be extinct, and just for fun we've brought back Raptors too.

Sorry, the only Raptor I tolerate is the one I share an office with, and that's only because he has a PhD.

https://twitter.com/RaptorDr