If You had a Portal Gun...

[internutt]

Travel, recreation, vengeance, and moneymaking? Yep, all of the above sounds like fun.

I second this statement.

 

[Vivaldi]

Guys, you are forgetting the classic example of portal fun!
Infinate slide!


Anyways... I would probably use the momentum launch sequence by placing one on my roof then jumping off and placing one under me. I would fly out the top one and before I landed I would place another portal right undeer me again so I would fly out of the first portal on the roof of my house.
I am not to sure how I would stop exactly but it would be fun for a while. =)
Also, the nifty trick in which you place both portals right next to eqachother and fall in one and pop out the other then fall in that portal and pop out of the first one again.
Good Times.
In fact I think I just might stop playing games with the amount of fun I will be having with that little device.
by the way Terminalchaos, your perpetual motion idea is really interesting and I would like to see that happen.

 

[yourkie1921]

Three words:
Skydiving
Without
Parachute

You think you can jump off a plane,travel 100 mph while going down, and land on a portal the size of your body?

 

[plastic_window]

Three words:
Skydiving
Without
Parachute

You think you can jump off a plane,travel 100 mph while going down, and land on a portal the size of your body?

You could just shoot the floor like 3 seconds before you crash into it. Where the other side would come out, I have no idea. If I did that, I'd be wearing one of those flying suits and have the second portal door on the side of a mountain.

 

[GeeDave]

I definitely think I'd steal... a lot, but if the power to do so came so easily, I'd really think about who I was stealing from, I would not just clean out a random bank and I'd certainly never stash hundreds of thousands of money-notes in my house.

The main problem that I would need to overcome is that of irregular finances, If I were to start up my own business as a cover for all the money I'd be taking... everything would still need to be recorded, If I stole £100k from a random place I would need to explain just how I got that money from the oh so very legitimate business, cause people will come a'knockin. And I couldn't just put it into my accounts bit by bit as that would take far too long.

Whilst I worked out a way to remain untraceable however... I'd probably use it for travel, just find a plane bound to Miami... slap my portal on it somewhere, y'know... sneaky like. Sit around till it landed... badda-bing badda-boom... step through and enjoy the sun.

 

[rhproperties]

Hm, portal gun = 1 million and 1 new sexual positions

 

[LordOmnit]

This has been done at The Escapist before under (I believe) the title of "Now you're thinking with portals" or similar, so don't say you're pioneering.

I have two things from the last thread:
1) infinite energy by dropping high-powered magnets through a solenoid continuously
2) first remove the air in a chamber, then drop any old object and watch as it gradually reaches the speed of light

 

[PlasticPorter]

Nobody has mentioned theft yet? Because I would steal, steal, STEAL. Go in, get the loot, teleport out before the cops arrive.

With my eventually aquired fortune, I would get myself a house in another country, like half way around the world, and then link my two homes with a portal through the basement.

But in the end Samuel L Jackson would track you down
and foil your schemes

 

[Easykill]

This has been done a few times.

 

[Eminate]

Pfft, I'd use it to go find my companion cube, of course.

 

[yourkie1921]

ohhh, awesome.

And, maybe I'd use the portal gun for a fee for transportation purposes. You know what people would pay for instantaneous travel to Florida? Or even better, to hawaii.

Hm, portal gun = 1 million and 1 new sexual positions

You know,I was thinking that very same thing.

The main problem that I would need to overcome is that of irregular finances, If I were to start up my own business as a cover for all the money I'd be taking... everything would still need to be recorded, If I stole £100k from a random place I would need to explain just how I got that money from the oh so very legitimate business, cause people will come a'knockin. And I couldn't just put it into my accounts bit by bit as that would take far too long.

Why? Who would know you had all that money? How'd they ever guess it was you? Also, I would try to steal from China and North Korea, I hate those countries so much and the odds are they would never guess that a 13 year old boy from America stole all their gold or whatever they made their money off of.

 

[Mr. Squirrel]

I'd place the portals underneath someone's bed and when the lie down they will fall, fall, fall for eternity

 

[Anarchemitis]

Having more sway in the government via Military intrest.

 

[Spierek]

Hmm, imagine, opening a portal in women's bathroom *evil*.

No, just kidding. I would create a portal to my school, because losing an hour every day just for traveling is not my idea of nicely spent free time.

 

[LordOmnit]

...just because a thread has come out before doesn't mean you aren't pioneering.

Yes, actually, it does, but I won't get into that (I'll say this much- the first post had different wording for the EXACT same prompt).

I am sure the first quantum physicist that contemplated true teleportation realized it was a perpetual energy generator.

Too bad that holding open the portal would (in reality) probably cost more energy than could be produced with it.

Out of curiosity - did the last thread discuss the implications to the planet if a portal was put into the vacuum of space or sent into a star?

This could only be done with the original Half-Life portals since they were free-floating. Portal's portals require a fixed surface to be attached to. And even in the case of the former, what constitutes what gets pulled through would have to be taken into account.

 

[KittywifaMohawk]

I would be everywhere!!!

 

[Danny Ocean]

is that a crab on the Iron Ninja's picture?

Don't even go there.

I'd like to say I'd do something that would help humanity, which I probably would after I'd helped myself.
Lemme see...besides the obvious steeling, perving, and reaching I could do, I'd probably shoot one into the sky, and one into the ground under someone and see where they end up.

Never know, they might get lucky and pop-up on a plane.

 

[UberCharlie]

One portal at the top of the highest hill around, and one portal at the bottom of the hill. I'm on a sled, and it's winter. Woo-hoo!

 

[TommyGun465]

i would put one in my ex-portuguese teacher(yeah, im portuguese) bedroom (discretly) and another in a pigs ass.