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I’d just skip to the part where I fuck off into space forever.
I mean i’d at least materialize food for starving people first, and probably snap the most hideous diseases and parasites out of existence, then fucking off into space.
IIRC it took him three years to come to grips with even using those powers. So, probably that.
I’d go straight to Google and look up “Dr. Manhattan”.
Honestly, I’d recommend that anyway. He is a character from a comic book written by Alan Moore. It’s a reasonably quick read and is one of my favorite examples of comic books as a literary form. It’s very thoughtful for a superhero story and features one of my favorite fictional villains of all time.
I’d probably want to use his powers of clairvoyance and superhuman intelligence to decide on what to do next.
But with my average human intelligence, I’d materialize money so I can retire. Wait…Dr. Manhattan is immortal…yeah I’m really going to want to use the brain power thing to come up with something better.
I read a book as a kid where someone got a stone they could ask questions to and always get the right answer.
The trick was to
ask the stone what you SHOULD do to instead of how to do a particular thing. Otherwise, you’d end up with genie-style like consequences.
So yea I’d probably figure out the best way to get humanity to the point where things are pretty good. Possibly deal with corruption, set up a better governance/financial structure, etc. But they key is to figure out what to do after I get the powers, not before
Honestly Dr.manhattan was kinda dumb. “Oh I need to stop humanity from nuking itself” meanwhile I demonstrate easy ability to travel to other planets. Meaning I coooooooould of made humanity interplanetary, which would greatly reduce the likelihood of any humanity killing apocalypse.
So I’d get human colonies on the Moon, Mars and maybe Venus. Then focus on unfucking the Earths biosphere. Then focus on eliminating world hunger and bringing a higher standard of living to all mankind.
Then I’d fuck off to space and let humanity kind figure it out knowing they proooooobably won’t kill themselves anymore.
Do you really wanna make a species close to self annihilation multiplanetary though? It’s probably pretty easy to nudge a few asteroids the wrong way given the right drive technology…so not sure space colonies would change the likelihood of doom.
I mean it wouldn’t eliminate the likelihood it would just decrease it. And do I want an endangered species to become multiplanetary? Yeah kinda. We saw one of the best expansions and developments of culture and morals when there were still places to explore. Places for new cultures to form. If we can have that again given the current cultural climate, who knows what could happen.
You should ask the indigenous people of the places we explored about our culture and morals. Are you sure you’re not confusing Star Trek with reality?
Honestly? Probably go back to sleep.
realize I’m just a puppet who can see the strings
Gangbang the Baroness (my wife).
First thing, I’d probably solve practical fusion power and distribute that info worldwide… make it as available as the knowledge for building a fission reactor is today. Then, I’d set out away from humanity, into space. I’d start by visiting the nearest several dozen solar systems to begin the terraforming process on a handful of planets. Once started, I’d signal back to Earth that I’d done this and that the planets would be ready for settlement in about two hundred years. I would then go on to build an Expanse type “ring space” pocket dimension with wormholes connecting all these star systems, but put the “Sol gate” to this network in orbit of Saturn. Hopefully this would limit humanity’s settlement rush to some unmanned probes for the first dozen or so years, possibly only seeing manned missions in about a century, but not make it impossible that humans could spread amongst the stars using the gates. Once most of the systems wirh gates are settled, I’d return to gift the knowledge of gate building along with several dozen more star systems all with ready terraformed planets.
And thus began the Gate Wars… ;)
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Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
Aww damn, you probably could as Dr Manhattan though.
I would be scared of giving everyone cancer. Probably create a suit of some sort to contain my energy so I am safe to be around. Then I’d create mad cool settlements and stuff on other planets for humans to maintain.
He didn’t actually give anyone cancer, Veidt just made it look like that to get him to leave earth so he could do bad boy shit.
Learn a second language, see Paris, convince billionaires that for enough money I can take them to mars.
Perform blood soaked reenactment of Event Horizon/Titan submersible.
Make a human centipede of Crowder, Shapiro and Walsh. Give back women their rights and hand them power.
Go to mars and watch shit play out.
Maybe ask Christina Ricci is she’d like lunch or something.
Destroy Mercury. I don’t like the look of what it’s planning.
You know, #justgirlythings
I would be very careful with how I used them, and I would be extremely mindful of my desire to help people, because my lifelong sense of personal responsibility came from a mortal’s level of power.
This is coming from someone who actually has superpowers incidentally. I’ve learned that it is very easy to misuse them, with good intentions, in a way that goes directly to shit.
Use your powers sparingly. And don’t fall into the trap of thinking you’re the only one. There are millions of us.
The very first thing I do is use my cosmic intellect and power to explore the limits of my knowledge and abilities, determine whether it is permanent or not, and then if I determine that it is not permanent…use my current abilities to make it permanent.
Fix the climate change issues we are currently having.
Thats a polite way of saying delete all humans
That’s one option but there are other things to do too.
