If you had a machine that could "spawn" any item..

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12 Aug 2011, 2:59 am

...without costing any type of money or material in order to do so, what would you get from it?

I would probably get Dr. Pepper and Fanta for all the people in 3rd world countries that can't afford it. And some for myself, of course. :roll:

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12 Aug 2011, 3:05 am

gold and diamonds. big arse uncut diamonds.

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12 Aug 2011, 3:32 am

Some more of these machines that can spawn any item....

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12 Aug 2011, 4:08 am

Money and 19 year old Asian boys.

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12 Aug 2011, 10:20 am

An armed, hyper modern fortress or space station where I will put the machine so it doesn't get stolen from me, an small carriable teleport device to get to the fortress or space station and any item I would see fit to spawn.

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12 Aug 2011, 10:21 am

Food and medicine for the poor.

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12 Aug 2011, 10:35 am

Quality disposable underpants for the people who really need them of all ages and sizes, and I'd give them out for free.

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12 Aug 2011, 10:43 am

A big, ol' cheese sandwich.

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12 Aug 2011, 11:45 am

Jory wrote:

Money and 19 year old Asian boys.

I'll have what he's having.

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12 Aug 2011, 12:00 pm

The Enterprise. No bloody A, B, C, or D

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12 Aug 2011, 4:33 pm

"Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else." :wink:

I'd be very wary of making and distributing many copies of the machine (I'd make a few, for safety's sake) - who could you trust with one? - and equally wary of distributing goods to the needy - simply doling out food solves nothing, I'd want something that'd turn deserts into lush country, something like that. But managing the whole thing without screwing up horribly and/or being killed by some bunch of muppets who want the machine would be seriously tricky. None of the sovereign nations that're strong enough to hold their own would be trustworthy, and if you gave it to an organisation like Oxfam some government would take it by force... maybe the solution would be to create a bunch of limited replicators, ones that could only turn out one thing at a time, and give them to people. So make one that terraforms desert but can't be used to do anything more, and preferably make it so it wasn't obvious where it had come from, and then arrange for someone responsible to have that... phew.

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12 Aug 2011, 10:57 pm

I'd spawn myself and take over the world. Then we would all come on Wrongplanet and post at the same time.

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12 Aug 2011, 10:59 pm

Ancalagon wrote:

Some more of these machines that can spawn any item....

Say, about a billion or so - enough that their output couldn't be controlled by any real-world group. Welcome to a post-scarcity civilization!

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