Plans to Take Over the World!

[Willinium]

Hello my future subjects, as of recently I have begun devising a plan to unite the planet under me, for sake of commentary I shall disclose my full plans now.

First off I will need to be in a position of power, in my case U.S President, but to do that I will need to build a powerbase among the population. In order to begin this I shall finish getting my Law degree. After College I shall join the Military and remain in for a decade. After my service is done, I shall become first a mayor, of Richmond Hill, GA,, and later a senator after another lets say 6 years I should have amassed enough resources to push through my Presidensy and win the election. Now comes the hard part, I will have to convince the states to let the Federal Goverment have the majority power( a few well placed bribes in congress should grease the wheels).

As soon as this is done the U.S., led by myslef shall begin supplanting the goverments around us , by sabatoge and coercian, bringing more power and states into the union. After South America is mine, I shall have a voting majority in the UN.

Sadly this is how far my plans have gotten at the moment. What are your plans, and feel free to critizize my plans.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Brain, is that you?

Seriously though, if you're a mouse I really want to see how this goes.

 

[Willinium]

Brain, is that you?

Seriously though, if you're a mouse I really want to see how this goes.

Well if I was Brain, not saying I am, I would first need to build a animatron to trick the simple masses to accept my authority. Addendum to my plans: After taking control of South and Central America, this will give me not only a majority power in the UN but also give me immense power over the Catholic Church. I need to think on this.

 

[Nightvalien]

So I am recruiting for the resistance, who wants in?

 

[Heronblade]

Populace of the USA is a wee bit too paranoid to hand significant power over to the federal government, regardless of bribes. Even if you managed to convince the 'crats to do it, you'd have a revolt on your hands right away, and the military would probably be siding with the uprising. Try adapting your plan for China, similar power base, far fewer cultural stigmas to overcome.

OT: Most of my ideas along this line involve the creation of some new bit of exploitable tech.

My favorite tends to be some variation of nanite technology. The potential in those little suckers is incredible. Just as a few examples of what one might be able to do with the stuff:

-private armies using fullerene based armor and weaponry (made right, the stuff can make titanium alloy look like extraordinarily heavy wet tissue paper)
-leeching incredible material wealth out of regions where conventional mining wouldn't be effective
-setting up as the only group capable of curing a variety of medical issues, from cancer to AIDs
-untracable assassinations.
-sabotage actions on a massive scale (Mr president? that carrier group we sent to deal with the nutter and his horde of little robots? They all reported multiple hull breaches and sank... simultaneously)

 

[Willinium]

Populace of the USA is a wee bit too paranoid to hand further power over to the federal government, regardless of bribes. Even if you managed to convince the 'crats to do it, you'd have a revolt on your hands right away, and the military would probably be siding with the uprising. Try adapting your plan for China, similar power base, far fewer cultural stigmas to overcome.

OT: Most of my ideas along this line involve the creation of some new bit of exploitable tech.

My favorite tends to be some variation of nanite technology. The potential in those little suckers is incredible. Just as a few examples of what one might be able to do with the stuff:

-private armies using fullerene based armor and weaponry (made right, the stuff can make titanium alloy look like extraordinarily heavy wet tissue paper)
-leeching incredible material wealth out of regions where conventional mining wouldn't be effective
-setting up as the only group capable of curing a variety of medical issues, from cancer to AIDs
-untracable assassinations.
-sabotage actions on a massive scale (Mr president? that carrier group we sent to deal with the nutter and his horde of little robots? They all reported multiple hull breaches and sank... simultaneously)

I'm sure that with enouth propaganda I can pull off my plans in the US. All I would need to do is secretly(underline) take control of the major news networks, ala Deus Ex HR. I cant take over China because, well, I can't speak Cantonese. Nanites at the moment appear to be to unreliable for massive scale operations as you are suggesting. But feel free to speak with me I'm sure that I can make you an . . . . offer.

 

[TWRule]

When I was a kid - a friend and I had a plan to join NASA as engineers, introducing fusion-based power plant systems which could supply vast amounts of energy on small portions of water, and also anti-matter based propulsion systems. Given power to lead the projects after the success of these proposals, we would secretly channel resources into our own projects, which would be, as you might have guessed, among other things, sci-fi-esque space cruisers with sufficient firepower (gamma radiation, neutron, and anti-matter weaponry) to wipe out the rest of the human race. We would then induce a worm-hole by destroying and colliding the resulting black holes of two stars, flying in with hopes of ending up in a remote section of space, whereby we'd begin laying the foundation of our interstellar empire. Of course, this would be a very long process, so there were plans also to transfer our consciousnesses to weaponized robotic armored frames...

Yep, we were troubled kids, and didn't mind mixing science with sci-fi, but hey, we were ambitious.

P.S. If you like, you can take this otherwise irrelevant post as a critique of your plan, that it's not creative or ambitious enough haha.

 

[Willinium]

When I was a kid - a friend and I had a plan to join NASA as engineers, introducing fusion-based power plant systems which could supply vast amounts of energy on small portions of water, and also anti-matter based propulsion systems. Given power to lead the projects after the success of these proposals, we would secretly channeling resources into our own projects, which would be, as you might have guessed, among other things, sci-fi-esque space cruisers with sufficient firepower (gamma radiation, neutron, and anti-matter weaponry) to wipe out the rest of the human race. We would then induce a worm-hole by destroying and colliding the resulting black holes of two stars, flying in with hopes of ending up in a remote section of space, whereby we'd begin laying the foundation of our interstellar empire. Of course, this would be a very long process, so there were plans also to transfer our consciousnesses to weaponized robotic armored frames...

Yep, we were troubled kids, and didn't mind mixing science with sci-fi, but hey, we were ambitious.

P.S. If you like, you can take this otherwise irrelevant post as a critique of your plan, that it's not creative or ambitious enough haha.

I'd figured that I would save the Robo-Cops till after my Empire has been solidified. Would'nt two black holes colliding just swallow eachother into a singularity?

 

[TWRule]

I'd figured that I would save the Robo-Cops till after my Empire has been solidified. Would'nt two black holes colliding just swallow eachother into a singularity?

Don't ask me - that part was my friend's idea, and I don't know where he heard/came up with it. Needless to say, a lot of our plans were more 'inspired' by existing science and sci-fi rather than strongly grounded in the former...

 

[Heronblade]

When I was a kid - a friend and I had a plan to join NASA as engineers, introducing fusion-based power plant systems which could supply vast amounts of energy on small portions of water, and also anti-matter based propulsion systems. Given power to lead the projects after the success of these proposals, we would secretly channeling resources into our own projects, which would be, as you might have guessed, among other things, sci-fi-esque space cruisers with sufficient firepower (gamma radiation, neutron, and anti-matter weaponry) to wipe out the rest of the human race. We would then induce a worm-hole by destroying and colliding the resulting black holes of two stars, flying in with hopes of ending up in a remote section of space, whereby we'd begin laying the foundation of our interstellar empire. Of course, this would be a very long process, so there were plans also to transfer our consciousnesses to weaponized robotic armored frames...

Yep, we were troubled kids, and didn't mind mixing science with sci-fi, but hey, we were ambitious.

P.S. If you like, you can take this otherwise irrelevant post as a critique of your plan, that it's not creative or ambitious enough haha.

I'd figured that I would save the Robo-Cops till after my Empire has been solidified. Would'nt two black holes colliding just swallow eachother into a singularity?

The idea isn't that far fetched, but just randomly smashing black holes probably won't cut it. A wormhole is a tear in the four dimensional "fabric" of the universe, the physical attraction we call gravity is caused by this same fabric flexing around objects with mass. the more dense the mass, the greater the flex. A singularity represents the only known naturally occurring force that might be strong enough to actually rip a hole under the right conditions.

Of course, even if you managed to pull it off, and the hole actually does go somewhere, getting anything other than pure energy to pass through it is an entirely different problem. We are talking about flying a ship into a gravitational field whose strength is effectively infinite from our POV.

Then there's all the weird effects on the local flow of time such an event would almost certainly have. If one could pass through, exactly what will happen is anyones guess, but one of the more likely possibilities is that you arrive millions or billions of years after you entered. You might even get to witness to latter stages of the heat death of the universe.

 

[Terminate421]

I'd take over the world by simply making a controller that controls every crow and raven on the planet. I win.

 

[Zakarath]

When we were growing up, my friend and I had the plan of infiltrating the two main political parties, and then running against each other for the presidency.

 

[Evil Smurf]

Us cats have already taken over, why bother trying to top us?

 

[MCerberus]

Required reading: http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html

 

[Willinium]

When we were growing up, my friend and I had the plan of infiltrating the two main political parties, and then running against each other for the presidency.

That's actually not all that bad of an idea. The only problem that I see is that when the other guy loses he will, in a peak of rage, reveal the plan ang get you evicted vrom office.

When I was a kid - a friend and I had a plan to join NASA as engineers, introducing fusion-based power plant systems which could supply vast amounts of energy on small portions of water, and also anti-matter based propulsion systems. Given power to lead the projects after the success of these proposals, we would secretly channeling resources into our own projects, which would be, as you might have guessed, among other things, sci-fi-esque space cruisers with sufficient firepower (gamma radiation, neutron, and anti-matter weaponry) to wipe out the rest of the human race. We would then induce a worm-hole by destroying and colliding the resulting black holes of two stars, flying in with hopes of ending up in a remote section of space, whereby we'd begin laying the foundation of our interstellar empire. Of course, this would be a very long process, so there were plans also to transfer our consciousnesses to weaponized robotic armored frames...

Yep, we were troubled kids, and didn't mind mixing science with sci-fi, but hey, we were ambitious.

P.S. If you like, you can take this otherwise irrelevant post as a critique of your plan, that it's not creative or ambitious enough haha.

I'd figured that I would save the Robo-Cops till after my Empire has been solidified. Would'nt two black holes colliding just swallow eachother into a singularity?

The idea isn't that far fetched, but just randomly smashing black holes probably won't cut it. A wormhole is a tear in the four dimensional "fabric" of the universe, the physical attraction we call gravity is caused by this same fabric flexing around objects with mass. the more dense the mass, the greater the flex. A singularity represents the only known naturally occurring force that might be strong enough to actually rip a hole under the right conditions.

Of course, even if you managed to pull it off, and the hole actually does go somewhere, getting anything other than pure energy to pass through it is an entirely different problem. We are talking about flying a ship into a gravitational field whose strength is effectively infinite from our POV.

Then there's all the weird effects on the local flow of time such an event would almost certainly have. If one could pass through, exactly what will happen is anyones guess, but one of the more likely possibilities is that you arrive millions or billions of years after you entered. You might even get to witness to latter stages of the heat death of the universe.

I wonder if we could recrete this on a much smaller scale in the labs. I can see the various potentual here. Very cool info though thank you, Director of Metaphysical Sciences.

 

[ItouKaiji]

I think ruling the world would be a giant pain in the ass. Everyone would always want something from me. I'd much rather be a figurehead and let someone else do all the heavy lifting that way I get all the benefits but some other schmuck is doing the work.

 

[PsychicTaco115]

Too boring, not enough killing of the proletariats

What you REALLY need is a giant ray of doom; any type of elemental ray will do

Or you can just beat everyone to death with tin cans, what ever floats your boat

Trust me, I've been trying to do the same thing; apparently, people don't even give the time of day to the UN anymore >.>

 

[Colour Scientist]

Us cats have already taken over, why bother trying to top us?

This cannot be allowed to stand!


VIVA LA RESIS... [sub]Oh, what a cute little kitty ^.^[/sub]


What was I saying?

 

[Thaluikhain]

First off I will need to be in a position of power, in my case U.S President, but to do that I will need to build a powerbase among the population. In order to begin this I shall finish getting my Law degree. After College I shall join the Military and remain in for a decade. After my service is done, I shall become first a mayor, of Richmond Hill, GA,, and later a senator after another lets say 6 years I should have amassed enough resources to push through my Presidensy and win the election. Now comes the hard part, I will have to convince the states to let the Federal Goverment have the majority power( a few well placed bribes in congress should grease the wheels).

Pft...easier said than done. What you want to do is get enough power to ensure that nothing can be done without you, even if you don't have enough power to do anything yourself. Then you can demand whatever you want, and threaten to let the country fall apart due to inaction if you don't get what you want.

That's much more likely.

 

[Evil Smurf]

Us cats have already taken over, why bother trying to top us?

This cannot be allowed to stand!


VIVA LA RESIS... [sub]Oh, what a cute little kitty ^.^[/sub]


What was I saying?

"As you can see kittens, training humans is easier then Dave's mum after a night on the 'nip."