2d ago

What would you do with if you had the Midas touch?

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Starve to death, probably. Isn't that what happened to King Midas?
- They hadn't invented gloves back then?
- Use the thing that Phage the Untouchable had to use to eat.
  It had claws to peel her lips back, and an extender that would push very raw meat down her throat (it would start to rot the moment it touched her, so the fresher the better)
- I mean, there's the time period where your not starving to death but, ya, you probably ded.
  I mean I don't see how you couldn't do a feeding tube other than it's going to be not great pulling that sucker out.
  
  The liquid still touches.
  
  So does air, or the thing you're sitting on.
  I imagine depending on the rules, this would turn the whole world into a gigantic gold ball, which would then collapse into a black hole or something.
  
  Depending on the rules, exactly does this magic conserve mass? Uranium would get bigger, cotton candy would shrink to a flake? All of the air in the world weighs 5.5 quadrillion tons. A ton of gold is 16.5 cubic inches, or 270 cm³ - so a block about the length of your foot plus a bit per side 5.5 quadrillion of those - a 1,487 cubic km block.
  I'd choose to shape it into a giant pyramid, which would minimize how much it sinks into the crust, and look cool AF for the 130-odd seconds it takes everyone to asphyxiate because we're staring at a giant gold pyramid made from the matter that used to be the atmosphere.
  
  You made me check the average density of earth and, yeah, good is 4x denser than that. I'm not sure about the black hole thing, though. Would it be enough mass to collapse or would it just sit there?
  
  Ice-IX. From the book, not the real stuff discovered after the book.
- Can you catch grapes in your mouth? We need more details on the rules.

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