No, I mean, it's the fact that it is what it is that makes it special. Why would you destroy something like that when you have so much to learn from it.
[QUOTE=CheeseMan;35884460]Looked it up, it's not 173, it's 682.
(On why 343 (God) cannot just destroy 682, in a thread on the forums)
It's incredibly easy to destroy 173. The reason people have carefully sidestepped the whole "it's literally a concrete statue why can't you just break it" is because, well, you can break it. If it weren't able to be broken they'd have put that in the article.[/QUOTE]
I had forgotten 343 was "God," and so I read all of that imagining the researches asking 343 Guilty Spark to destroy 682.
[img]http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/174858_138491642854726_544922_q.jpg[/img]
"A tactical pulse of this installation would bring about total destruction in a 25,000 lightyear radius. Specimen six-hundred and eighty-two would not survive this firing, but under our understanding, has a high probability of returning to us in roughly forty-three thousand, eight-hundred and twenty-nine minutes; a return time of approximately one Earth month."
[QUOTE=latin_geek;35884494]No, I mean, it's the fact that it is what it is that makes it special. Why would you destroy something like that when you have so much to learn from it.[/QUOTE]
Or you know, hilarity and an easy way to get rid off extra D-classes.
[QUOTE=latin_geek;35884494]No, I mean, it's the fact that it is what it is that makes it special. Why would you destroy something like that when you have so much to learn from it.[/QUOTE]
Oh, right. I suppose that's one way it could be taken as. I know that they occasionally use the inter-dimensional drink machine to get liquid gold to get extra funds for themselves, so using SCPs to aggrandize themselves is not an impossible thing. But 173 ain't a very knowledge-dispensing SCP unlike some of the ones like the Book of Endings, so I guess the reason they don't blow it up is because they don't know what'll happen if they blow it up, and also the out-of-character reason is who wants to blow up the cool shit to begin with
[QUOTE=Calkkuna;35879925]That is really common here, there larvae whose name I don't remember do that. Then they eat the leaves off the whole tree and it suffers a lot, poor thing.
If I'd saw a SCP with that as a pic I'd just skip because that isn't even weird to me.[/QUOTE]
That's actually a picture taken after the flood in Pakistan a few years back. Spiders would migrate into trees and live by the hundreds of thousands per tree. It's estimated to have saved quite a few human lives, by killing mosquitoes a whole lot more effectively, and thus reducing the malaria-rates that often follow floods.
The way I always saw it is just 173 is some sort of cursed statue but to think it could be living or in some way secretly sentient is freaky. Still find it funny that they think it is important enough to see a statue break some necks here and there :v:
Tbh there's no reason to not encase 173 in a vice or a shaped container and let it do it's business through a hole in the bottom of it from where it can be safely cleaned so the only purpose of having a large chamber for it is to kill D-classes
173 is the first SCP written ever, it's terribly written from a technical standpoint because this is before the SCP stuff even existed. It's basically just a creepypasta, so really it's unfair to hold it to the standards of the rest of the SCPs. It's full of holes and all that's correct, yes, but it'd detract from the atmosphere of it anyway.
I've been thinking more and more about a potential SCP over the past few weeks, but I haven't gotten the time to writing it. It basically boils down to this;
1. The SCP is an electromagnetic phenomenon, which is created through an incredibly strong magnetic field. One example of doing this is leading large amounts of electricity through a large inductor. It was initially created from an experiments with electromagnetism; either from a superpower such as America or Russia, or from the foundation itself.
2. All atoms that are within the field are 'supercharged'; the atoms can bind an infinite amount of electrons in the atoms' valence shell without becoming unstable, and affected atoms will actively seek out additional electrons to bind to. All atoms that binds to a supercharged atom becomes supercharged themselves.
3. This allows for the creation of new, complex molecules, and these are referred to as 'specimens', 'compounds' or 'substances'. The real danger is not the potential of these molecules, but that the atoms may continue to bind their surroundings into one molecule. Worse case scenario is that the entire world is created into a single molecule.
4. But the bonding process is slower than those of natural charge, so you would have the potential to counteract further bonding with the use of hydrogen. As hydrogen only has one electron it can effectively close of a bond of an molecule. Molecules that are closed of with the use of hydrogen are called 'closed-bonds' supercharged molecules, and are available for testing and experiments.
5. There's a real danger of the phenomenon being replicated, and the Foundation actively seeks to prevent further experiments that may cause the phenomenon.
I would like to hear what you people think about this, if it sucks, or has too much science stuff. I would also like additional ideas or suggestions to change one or several ideas. I probably won't be able to start writing it any time soon, though.
[QUOTE=Combiner8761;35885112]I would like to hear what you people think about this, if it sucks, or has too much science stuff. I would also like additional ideas or suggestions to change one or several ideas. I probably won't be able to start writing it any time soon, though.[/QUOTE]
I can roughly understand it, but you'd best put it in layman's terms for the proper article, just so everybody's clear on what it does.
But what exactly would happen if a person were subjected to this? I doubt having all your atoms go bananas would be very good for your health.
[QUOTE=Cone;35885525]I can roughly understand it, but [B]you'd best put it in layman's terms for the proper article, just so everybody's clear on what it does.
[/B]
But what exactly would happen if a person were subjected to this? I doubt having all your atoms go bananas would be very good for your health.[/QUOTE]
However, not necessary.
[URL]http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1859[/URL]
[QUOTE=Cone;35885525]I can roughly understand it, but you'd best put it in layman's terms for the proper article, just so everybody's clear on what it does.
But what exactly would happen if a person were subjected to this? I doubt having all your atoms go bananas would be very good for your health.[/QUOTE]
I was worried it would be too hard to understand. Perhaps I will tone it down. And yeah, if you come in contact with a supercharged atom all molecules in your body will form into one, essentially killing you.
I forgot to mention; supercharged molecules with remaining bonds would be incredibly hard to capture[I] and[/I] contain, as it would bond with not only the molecules in the air, but also any material that is used in the containment cell/cage. The only way to reliably contain a supercharged molecule that doesn't have closed bonds would be in a vacuum without gravity.
[QUOTE=Combiner8761;35885593]The only way to reliably contain a supercharged molecule that doesn't have closed bonds would be in a vacuum without gravity.[/QUOTE]
Well if it isn't possible to contain these molecules, and they make more of the same molecules when brought into contact with other molecules, and you can make this phenomenon with a regular - albeit difficult to obtain and very powerful - inductor, then short of confiscating all inductors or limiting electricty severely there's not a whole lot that you can do to contain it. Some crackpot scientist would inevitably get their hands on a large enough inductor and flow enough electricty through it to cause the phenomenon, and unless the Foundation suddenly swallows up the entire continent the phenomenon began on with a portal to deep space, the world gets eaten up and everybody dies horribly.
Basically, it's a bit overpowered. Unless the inductor itself would need to continually have electricty going through it to keep the signal going, in which case it would probably cut off its own power source and die out. Something like that to limit it a bit. I mean, people may rail on 682 for being really OP (and it is), but at least it could feasibly be stopped. See what I mean?
[QUOTE=Cone;35885944]Well if it isn't possible to contain these molecules, and they make more of the same molecules when brought into contact with other molecules, and you can make this phenomenon with a regular - albeit difficult to obtain and very powerful - inductor, then short of confiscating all inductors or limiting electricty severely there's not a whole lot that you can do to contain it. Some crackpot scientist would inevitably get their hands on a large enough inductor and flow enough electricty through it to cause the phenomenon, and unless the Foundation suddenly swallows up the entire continent the phenomenon began on with a portal to deep space, the world gets eaten up and everybody dies horribly.
Basically, it's a bit overpowered. Unless the inductor itself would need to continually have electricty going through it to keep the signal going, in which case it would probably cut off its own power source and die out. Something like that to limit it a bit. I mean, people may rail on 682 for being really OP (and it is), but at least it could feasibly be stopped. See what I mean?[/QUOTE]
That's also something I was worried about - but the thing is that it would not be in the Foundation's interest to contain [I]open[/I]-bonds molecules. Many - if not all supercharged molecules have been shut off with hydrogen. The fact also that it is much slower at bonding other atoms to itself makes this balance it out.
And keep in mind that where talking about amounts of power that would require serious investments from superpowers - this is not something a single man can do, and I think that the Foundation keeps in contact with all the worlds superpowers in order to more effectively counteract and keep SPCs secret.
You are right, it is incredibly overpowered, and I'm tempted to say that all molecules left from the inital experiment are now closed-bonds, and the real focus is at preventing more of them.
[QUOTE=Combiner8761;35886047]That's also something I was worried about - but the thing is that it would not be in the Foundation's interest to contain [I]open[/I]-bonds molecules. Many - if not all supercharged molecules have been shut off with hydrogen. The fact also that it is much slower at bonding other atoms to itself makes this balance it out.
And keep in mind that where talking about amounts of power that would require serious investments from superpowers - this is not something a single man can do, and I think that the Foundation keeps in contact with all the worlds superpowers in order to more effectively counteract and keep SPCs secret.
You are right, it is incredibly overpowered, and I'm tempted to say that all molecules left from the inital experiment are now closed-bonds, and the real focus is at preventing more of them.[/QUOTE]
Yeah these things do make it less overpowered, but still. You should probably play it safe and tone it down a bit, so it's less the vanguard of the solar system's destruction and more a bizarre scientific yet physically impossible quirk that could [I]potentially[/I] destroy the solar system. You want to make it worth researching and keeping around, but if there's too much risk of it blowing up the world they're just not going to do anything with it.
[QUOTE=Cone;35886170]Yeah these things do make it less overpowered, but still. You should probably play it safe and tone it down a bit, so it's less the vanguard of the solar system's destruction and more a bizarre scientific yet physically impossible quirk that could [I]potentially[/I] destroy the solar system. You want to make it worth researching and keeping around, but if there's too much risk of it blowing up the world they're just not going to do anything with it.[/QUOTE]
You know, even in the scenario that the world does turn into a single molecule, this can't really destroy the solar system, since in space it would just stay idle until something gets too close to it. Otherwise it would just orbit around the sun like any other planet.
But I'm missing the point here. I'll try to come up with something that doesn't make it as world-threatening as it is right now.
My original idea was actually a kind of SCP that would make atoms bond to more molecules than would be possible with our laws of physics. It was supposed to be exactly that which you're talking about; a way to create new, impossibly molecules that has the potential to cause major damage.
But when I researched more and more about what approach I would take in the science-y stuff the chemical quirk took a backseat to the world-destroying danger. I admit that I have strayed far from the original intent.
You've convinced me, I will take a stance to downplay the "world-destroying" thing and focus more on the potential of new molecules.
I had an idea for a joke scp to be based on the "Birds and the Bees" talk. It would be set out to be an international mind effecting scp that causes all men and their sons to have fond, even humorous memories of "that talk" just after or years ahead of the phenomenon, the catch is that the "talk" is just them sitting there just talking in garbled nonsense and gibberish, while a woman would hear it as a talk about sex. But via frivolous decoding the team at site 19 figures out that the actual talk once unjumbled and decoded has the effect of spotaniously imploding the heads of all nearby individuals in a 10 meter radius once anyone reads or sees the data collected from the experiment.
[IMG]http://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-294/scp_294_by_staticfactory-d4xwn6e.jpg[/IMG]
Neat, 294 finally got a picture.
Neat, now you can request a cup of _-_--_746457
Hey what if
what if you ordered a cup of butts
what would happen
[QUOTE=esalaka;35891294]Hey what if
what if you ordered a cup of butts
what would happen[/QUOTE]
Except in dire situations it has to be something that normally exists in liquid form. And the "dire situations" bit only applies if whatever you're asking for can potentially resolve said situation.
How does a cup of memetic orgasm work then
[QUOTE=esalaka;35891422]How does a cup of memetic orgasm work then[/QUOTE]
well it's memetic so it isn't going to make a whole lot of sense to begin with. maybe it evaporated and that was how it spread?
you can't spell orgasm without gas after all
"Oh yes, could I please get one cup of rape. I need this for reasons.'
guys
what if
you listening guys
what if we made an scp
that was a pizza
still listening
but the pizza
get this
is a pizza with every imaginable topping and no matter how much you eat it it always comes back
grade A SCP
[QUOTE=Flicky;35892144]guys
what if
you listening guys
what if we made an scp
that was a pizza
still listening
but the pizza
get this
is a pizza with every imaginable topping and no matter how much you eat it it always comes back
grade A SCP[/QUOTE]
already exists, cba to find it
[editline]9th May 2012[/editline]
hey found it
[url]http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-458[/url]
[editline]9th May 2012[/editline]
well, close enough at least
[QUOTE=fskman;35892281]already exists, cba to find it
[editline]9th May 2012[/editline]
hey found it
[url]http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-458[/url]
[editline]9th May 2012[/editline]
well, close enough at least[/QUOTE]
oh whaaaaaaaat
One Pan-Galactic Gargle-Blaster, please.
A cup of a liquid almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea
Man wasn't there a vending machine in the Babelfish puzzle in the game?
Like if that was that machine you could have just ordered a cup of universal translation.
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