There should be an Effulgence thread

[Alicorn]

A house is pushing it. You could do a little house with a square, I think. I think a square could not directly vanish anything much bigger than it can create, but it can make you a bomb or some antimatter that will do the trick.

[DanielH]

One house worth of antimatter, or even better one house without electrons, or practically any amount of black hole in atmo (can squares do black holes), could certainly depopulate and perhaps destroy the planet. So, with creativity squares could destroy a whole planet or at least a continent, or more directly create or destroy a small house.

Now that we’ve found that squares could easily kill everybody with a bit of creativity, my brain is applying creativity to causing havoc with triangles. So far my best thought is well-placed arson, or possibly setting off a pre-existing bomb if you can get close to one but don’t know how to activate it. I’m sure this could cause a huge amount of destruction with enough research, but it’s a lot harder.

[Bluelantern]

Now I am wondering if wishcoins are made of matter and what happens if anti-matter touchs one.

[DanielH]

Given that they weren't damaged by the nuke in Atlantis, I doubt they can be destroyed that easily.

ETA: Is Downside collecting used wishcoins? In what way do you avoid the obvious loophole if so?

[Kappa]

Downside does not collect used wishcoins. They're not made of matter; they're made of being wishcoins. The admin could, if she chose, make objects that looked and behaved very much like wishcoins, but they wouldn't have exactly the same set of properties because they wouldn't run on the same magic, and you would have a hell of a time convincing her to bother.

[DanielH]

I was just looking through part of Sarion’s recovery, and I saw this exchange:

"Man, I might be, like, slightly helpful if we were all trying to talk to witches, but yeah," snorts Amariah, "no question policy is probably the most stunningly unBellish cultural feature one could invent if one were going out of one's way to do it."

"I'm sure one could come up with some kind of particularly insidiously perverse anti-epistemology if one were really keen on it."

This occurred on April 21st, 2013. Fifteen days later, we got the first Aether thread.

This reminded me to check something else I’d been wondering about: On the evening of January 18th 2013, you wrote about a Bell potentially taking up terrorism, and on the 20th you wrote about Stella thinking it might actually be possible. Less than six hours later, we got the first Shell Bell thread.

So: are these two just coincidences, and if not, which way do the causal arrows point? Were any other “offhand comments” inspired by planned future Bells, or Bells inspired by past offhand comments?

[Alicorn]

I don't remember a connection between the perverse anti-epistemology remark and doing MU, but Shell Bell was a direct inspiration, yeah. Nothing else comes immediately to mind in the category.

[Kappa]

I'm pretty sure there was a connection between the anti-epistemology remark and MU, but I don't remember which way the causal arrow points.

[thebutcher]

I noticed the timing on the terrorism one too. On Monday. I've been rereading some of my favourite stuff and am now finished and thus sad. I miss Incandescence...

[Bluelantern]

I noticed the timing on the terrorism one too. On Monday. I've been rereading some of my favourite stuff and am now finished and thus sad. I miss Incandescence...

*pats in the back* I know, I know.

I remember someone making the MU and anti-epistemology connection, and like all of my memories, is vague, but I think it was pointed out that the anti-epistemology commented generated the MU universe.