If you had the powers of the Q. What would you do?
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This sounds like it's headed in the direction of what I would do.
Step 1. Bring back every human that ever lived, and take all of them and put them in suspended animation for the moment. Put them at their optimal age and optimal possible health - including mental health and a healthy empathy for other lifeforms. Make them ageless, and give them the flight and invulnerability of Kryptonians. I'd make it so they are all able to speak, understand, read, and write the top 10 most currently common human languages in addition to the languages they already knew, and I'd also make them all technically literate at at least a 2016 layperson's level. (I want them able to use the Internet, and indoor plumbing.
) Make it so that any offspring they have will have the same optimal health and abilities, and will only age to their optimal age.Step 2. Adjust the Earth to make it large enough and at the right distance from the Sun to comfortably accommodate all of those people, including distributing mass around under the surface to keep surface gravity the same. It would be geologically stable, with a comfortable climate range everywhere except for certain famous areas like the Sahara Desert or Antarctica, and features like Abu Simbel and the Great Wall of China, which would still be present here and there in their original form AND in the form they are presently in, for the people who like those sorts of things. There would be HUGE arcologies (enclosed cities) for people to live in, using 25th century Star Trek technologies. So everyone would have privacy, plenty of space, personal holodecks (including programs that replicate perfectly where they *were* living and places they liked to go before I did all of this), replicators, etc. And there would be parks and common gardens and other social recreational places, too - bowling alleys, pool halls, libraries, bars, etc. Automated, non-sentient monitoring systems connected to transporters would work to prevent people from doing violence to each other by transporting them away whenever that sort of activity is detected. OUTSIDE of the arcologies, the world would be given back to the wild. People could choose to live out there, if they want, but robots would make sure that they weren't destructive to nature, and their right to be out there on the surface would be revoked if they caused too many problems.
Step 3. I'd put ships in orbit around the planet that are capable of comfortably carrying large numbers of people across the vast distances of space, and facilities capable of making more of them. And the ships would have the ability to produce new arcologies for people to live in. And I would make it so that people can teleport anywhere that humanity has already been (unless they're being held in timeout because they tried to hurt someone inside one of the arcologies). BUT, the ships would only travel at sublight speed.
Step 4. I'd make sure that space has plenty of things to keep humanity interested - and I'd do that with a procedural generation system that I wouldn't directly monitor, so that even I could be surprised by what we find. But I'd make sure that what was generated didn't run over any other life or any other wonders that might be out there already.
Step 5. I'd put all of humanity into their new homes, including me, and I'd wake us up, with a fake message from a fake alien civilization telling everyone that they have made some adjustments to our world because we remind them of them when they were a younger species, and they like us, and they look forward to meeting us someday, when we're ready and have traveled the Universe and found them. I'd have the message tell everyone to consider it a very elaborate game of Hide and Seek, and that we're "it".
Step 6. Give myself the powers of Green Lantern, only without the need for a ring or battery, and then also the power to bestow to or take away from anyone, including myself, any attribute of any mortal fictional character. And then give up the powers of Q. And never tell ANYONE that I was responsible for any of this.
Not that I've ever given any of this much thought.
Good thing there's an infinite number of them, then. "If you want a vision of the future, imagine Hermione Granger punching Draco Malfoy in his stupid face - forever."
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Oooh I would remake the Earth to be as big as Jupiter but in the right zone for life in terms of orbit... I'd add a 2nd Moon into the sky which would confuse people, and when they wake up they find the Earth is bigger..
The confusion would be entertaining.
Just to annoy people I'd give the EU the tech for interstellar travel and also watch how that plays out. It would annoy the US a lot to see they were not there first.
The confusion would be entertaining.
Just to annoy people I'd give the EU the tech for interstellar travel and also watch how that plays out. It would annoy the US a lot to see they were not there first.
Speaking of super-systems
https://planetplanet.net/2014/05/23...ar-system-part-5-putting-the-pieces-together/
https://planetplanet.net/2014/05/23...ar-system-part-5-putting-the-pieces-together/
Wouldn't that devastate the Earth due to the altered tidal forces?
Not if it was hollow and had a crust made of a very, very light material, so it had next to no actual mass to pull gravitationally with.
^ Sorry for the double post, but thinking about this, it brought to mind an image of the world's scientific community rushing to put together an exploratory expedition, astronauts getting out, planting a flag... and popping the whole thing. 
If you want to embiggen Earth, why not just make a Dyson Sphere or a Ringworld? Room enough for trillions upon trillions. Just recreate the continents over and over again on the inside surface area as a prank.
Of course, resources would have to come from somewhere.
Of course, resources would have to come from somewhere.
A Q can alter the laws of physics at will. Suspend conservation of matter and energy, and make what you want. Or, if you really want to be picky about leaving that in place, just pull all of the material out of an uninhabited star system on the far edge of a galaxy on the other side of the universe.
I *was* thinking of duplicating the continents over and over, though.
Ooh I like that.
Just on the 2nd Moon what if it was the same size as our current Moon and just a little further away in orbit?
Size mostly isn't the important attribute - unless it was big enough to blot out the sun part of the time. The concerns are mass/density and the gravitational inverse square law. If you're talking about a moon that is the same size *and mass* as our current Moon, then that would still cause all sorts of tidal shifts - even if it was put at a distance from the Earth that would keep it from *directly* making a difference, it would still shift the orbit of the Moon, which would have effect. But there are ways to put a second moon that appears the approximate same size as our current Moon that could have minimum effect. My hollow moon suggestion being one. There would just be some careful calculations that would need doing. Which would be trivial for a Q. Or, a Q could just cheat, and make a second moon that doesn't have a gravitational effect on anything more than, say, 50 meters above its own surface. Or, heck, one that everyone just thinks they see, but isn't even really there at all.
Don't want to break physics too much though, because it either means you'll make the rest of the universe a much less fun place to play in, or you'll have to constantly be coming back and performing new miracles to keep the local physics consistent with life - sparing them from meteors the Dyson Sphere's gravity drags in, saving the Moon-2 from spiraling out of orbit when a regular-density meteorite hits it, and so on. Being a nanny isn't what being Q is all about.
Or, heck, one that everyone just thinks they see, but isn't even really there at all.
OMG careful with that last one. There's actual humans now that think the Moon is fake, the actual Moon.
Well, *you're* the one who said:
so I was just trying to help you with that. An illusory 2nd Moon would be *extra* confusing, yes?
Well, *you're* the one who said:
so I was just trying to help you with that. An illusory 2nd Moon would be *extra* confusing, yes?
Indeed it would be....... I was agreeing.
But I was also serious. Google it there are people that actually think the Moon we see in the sky is fake.
It's really a top secret spaceship that's been disguised as the moon for the past 50,000 years.
spills coffee everywhere.
In this scenario, I am Q I don't have ancestors
I remake Earth to be 70% land and 30% water....oops sounds like Vulcan lol
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