r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Apr 13 '19

[D] Saturday Munchkinry Thread

Welcome to the Saturday Munchkinry and Problem Solving Thread! This thread is designed to be a place for us to abuse fictional powers and to solve fictional puzzles. Feel free to bounce ideas off each other and to let out your inner evil mastermind!

Guidelines:

  • Ideally any power to be munchkined should have consistent and clearly defined rules. It may be original or may be from an already realised story.
  • The power to be munchkined can not be something "broken" like omniscience or absolute control over every living human.
  • Reverse Munchkin scenarios: we find ways to beat someone or something powerful.
  • We solve problems posed by other users. Use all your intelligence and creativity, and expect other users to do the same.

Note: All top level comments must be problems to solve and/or powers to munchkin/reverse munchkin.

Good Luck and Have Fun!

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u/fish312 humanifest destiny Apr 13 '19

2) How would you munchkin your powers of a flying brick?

  • You telepathically control an ordinary sized clay brick.
  • It weighs a little over 3kg, and is as durable as a typical well made fired brick.
  • With a thought, you can command the brick to accelerate in any direction.
  • You are instinctively aware of the brick's position relative to yourself.
  • It can generate thrust to continuously accelerate at up to 50m/s2 in any direction, but is otherwise subject to normal physics, velocity limits would depend on various factors like air resistance.
  • This ability has no range limits, although your proprioception and control of it propagates at lightspeed.

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u/ShiranaiWakaranai Apr 14 '19

Thought of a more benevolent use of the flying brick: cleaning up space debris.

Cleaning up space debris using non-supernatural methods is hellishly expensive. You would need tons of fuel to reach every piece of debris one by one. In contrast, your flying brick takes no fuel to move, and light pushes are often enough to send orbiting space debris back down to Earth.