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## [WIP][MK] Munchkin this power: self size-manipulation
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* Author: u/None *
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* URL:
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* Score: 4
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* Created: 2015-06-20T10:33:12
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### Post:
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[deleted]
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### Comments:
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> **u/Geminii27** [+7] (5 hours later)
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> If you could increase/decrease your mass, that could be munchkinned. Instant potential energy increase. Not to mention you could lift things to the top of skyscrapers all day for the energy input of a normal-sized meal.
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> If there was no lower limit, you could probably walk through most materials/barriers by shrinking to the point where any microscopic flaws were gaping chasms. Atomically pure crystal could be a problem, though, as by the time you got small enough to squeeze between the molecular lattice, it'd take you lifetimes to walk from one side of the crystal to another.
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> Would anything in your stomach also increase/decrease in size? (Consider shrinking to 1 inch tall after you'd eaten a big meal.) If you then barfed it up, would it stay that changed size now that it was external to your body? Could you, for instance, change one glass of water into a lake? Or shrink a microprocessor to a tenth of its former size? How about shrinking a mountain-sized automated factory to something you could hold in your hand?
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> Could you smuggle things by growing to 100 feet tall, swallowing the item, shrinking to near-microscopic size, and hiding away on a transport?
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> Could you shrink a thousand tons of nuclear waste into a thimblefull? Would it still put out as much radiation as the original mass?
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> **u/AmeteurOpinions** [+3] *Finally, everyone was working together.* (5 hours later)
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> I like how we have an unoffical list of target applications for munchikinry -- the first question posed to any magic is always **Can I build nanobots / AI / spacecraft / free energy?**
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>> **u/Chronophilia** [+2] *sci-fi ≠ futurology* (12 hours later)
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>> Also intelligence enhancement, time travel, and outcome pumps.
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> **u/None** [+3] (3 days later)
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> >They couldn't cause just their arm to be three times as big.
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> Be honest - was "arm" the first body part that came to mind for this example?
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> **u/nicholaslaux** [+3] (an hour later)
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> Seems like a fairly cheap/simple way to get cheap self assembling nanotechnology, since you can shrink to the size of atoms and put them together/take them apart by hand, like Legos
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> **u/ArgentStonecutter** [+2] *Emergency Mustelid Hologram* (29 minutes later)
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> I am immediately reminded of the "what if Neil deGrass Tyson wrote superhero comics" parody.
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> Which I can't find, dammit.
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>> **u/faflec** [+6] (an hour later)
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>> http://joyreactor.com/post/1698193
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> **u/Norseman2** [+2] (2 hours later)
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> Putting satellites into geosynchronous orbit would become a lot easier, provided that your size increases but your mass remains constant. Still, it might not be easy, since it sounds like you'd like to restrain power output to, let's say, the amount of power generated by one ordinary working human. Still, for satellites less than 100 lb., it would be pretty handy.
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> **u/codahighland** [+2] (6 hours later)
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> I feel like there's a contradiction in the description. Can you, or can you not, modify the size of just one part of your body? The first paragraph says no, but the fourth paragraph implies yes.
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> **u/GaBeRockKing** [+0] *Horizon Breach: http://archiveofourown.org/works/6785857* (2 days later)
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> [Relevant SMBC](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/Vjma9umcdyhk_BLzwHOuYy3XrGqrFWdBWH1sWgOLvB0PPHH0Q5FhF_DhiYwB3oBPRhflnxYLbpdxghArXm0f0QRhZgGK_g=w420-h350-nc)
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>> **u/None** [+1] (a month later)
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>> [deleted]
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>>> **u/GaBeRockKing** [+1] *Horizon Breach: http://archiveofourown.org/works/6785857* (a month later)
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>>> it's a one month old thread, how is it my fault if the link broke since I posted it?
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>>>> **u/what_deleted_said** [+1] (a month later)
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>>>> Because that's how you decided to interpret my comment.
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>> **u/what_deleted_said** [+1] (a month later)
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>> ....That's a neat link.
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