## [RST] Ground Effect

* Author: u/PeridexisErrant  *put aside fear for courage, and death for life**
* URL: http://qntm.org/ground
* Score: 10

* Created: 2015-08-19T11:27:44

### Post:

[Link to content](http://qntm.org/ground)

### Comments:

> **u/PeridexisErrant** [+5]  *put aside fear for courage, and death for life* (a minute later)
> 
> I just love the last few lines:
> 
> >*I created this list in five minutes. Until I came into this meeting I didn't even know what Project Ground Effect was.*
> 
> >*A human being?* Draw up an international treaty outlawing that tosh. God help us, there isn't a worse idea in the world. We just created a brand new superpower and you're talking about bestowing it on a *human being?*

> **u/ArgentStonecutter** [+1]  *Emergency Mustelid Hologram* (an hour later)
> 
> Is this referring to some movie I haven't heard of?
> 
> Larry Niven did this one of the "Gil the Arm" detective stories, _ARM_. Covers about half the tropes listed here.
> 
> [spoiler](#s " A guy commits murder by turning the field on and shining a flashlight out of it.")
> 
> Actually, I recommend all the "Gil the Arm" stories. Pretty much all of them are about munckining superscience.

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