So, what ranges should we cover? I suggest we start at about 1 km, then double at each next experiment. But what range should be the limit? Space? Across the earth?
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I argue they would begin with placement at the opposite side of the globe.
I think once you get to the idea of Space it's at that point that I think the good folks at scp-wiki should really start to think of how the SCP foundation obtains its budget. Not to say that SCP being able to reach into outer space is unreasonable, but that it would make for an interesting side project, say a half fanfiction work of the politics surrounding SCP Foundation's presence in the world. It would also provide good flavor for any tests and comments in actual SCP entries regarding things that would cost a lot of money, such as launching something into space.
Or one could ask for a cup of Jupiter's atmosphere.
The post you are responding to is literally 8 years old, made by a user who has not been active in literally 8 years
This is the best SCP ever. Just don't ask it for a cup of "Sun."
On the contrary… the results would be interesting.
I demand a cup of "Romulan Ale". Romulan Ale is a fictional beverage from Star Trek.
Alternately, Klingon Blood Wine or Cardassian Kanar.
I believe the results would be inconsistent between trekkies and non-trekkies
And somewhere in Las Vegas, a bartender at the Star Trek Experience is really confused.
I have not read this yet so if this has been done forgive my stupidity but why not force a d-class to order a cup of sun
Because that would obliterate the site where it was being done.
(account deleted)Actually, aren't the cups pretty much capable of containing anything?
"It is also interesting to note that many caustic liquids that would have eaten through a normal paper cup seemed to have no effect on the cups dispensed by the machine."
Okay, it would obliterate the site, with the exception of a) 294 itself and b) the specific paper cup dispensed for containing 'a cup of sun'. As the page once specified (and should again), any given paper cup dispensed by 294 will be capable of properly holding the paper-destroying substance with which it was dispensed… but not any other paper-destroying substance. If you ask for a cup of iron, you will get a cup of liquid iron, and that paper cup will be indestructible to liquid iron. If you ask for a cup of concentrated sulfuric acid, you will get a cup of concentrated sulfuric acid, and that paper cup will be indestructible to concentrated sulfuric acid. But the liquid iron cup will dissolve in concentrated sulfuric acid, and the concentrated sulfuric acid cup will be incinerated in liquid iron.
And a scoop of sun matter, suddenly freed from the intense gravitational field of the sun, will rapidly and brutally expand, spilling out of the cup. Rapid expansion causes cooling, of course, but nowhere near enough cooling.
Actually, this would not produce a result. Similar to how the SCP cannot produce solids, I would assume it could also not produce gases.
I agree, but you know, couldn't hurt to try
it would hurt quite a lot to try, actually.
-amended-
Concerning Addendum [SCP-294j]: At what range was deemed "safe" for the request of a cup of "anti-water"? What safety measures were put in place to conceal the reaction and/or prevent collateral damage if the request were sucessful? Assuming this was intended and taken by the machine to indicate the antimatter form of fluid dihydrogen monoxide, the resulting matter-antimatter reaction would be comparable to the detonation of a modern tactical neuclear weapon.
Concerning Addendum [SCP-294l]: Carbon monoxide does, in fact, form a liquid at sufficiently low temperatures, indeed at a much higher temperature than nitrogen.
Addendum [SCP-294j]: Thank you. Between thinking that there's a "safe range" from a cup of anti-water anywhere on-Site and the bizarre non-sequitur about antimatter coming from other universes or dimensions, it seems like this "researcher" got his degree by sending in 12 proofs of purchase. Had his experiment gone a different way, the entire Site would've been obliterated. If I were a younger and more impulsive Baird, I'd change the article to read that that guy was assigned to indefinite Keter duty.
Possible non-Bizarro-Universe interpretations of the outcome of the experiment:
SCP-294 is not completely indestructible, and will not knowingly cause its own destruction
SCP-294 will not dispense anything which won't remain in liquid form long enough for it to fill a cup
Its error message was literally true, and its range doesn't extend to anywhere with enough antimatter (an antimatter galaxy, for example)
Yeah, this part is really strange. If we assume that the cups contain 200 ml, the result of putting these 200 ml of anti-water together with 200 ml of normal water would be an explosion of 4.2962 * 2 = 8.5924 megatons. The "Little Boy" bomb dropped on Hiroshima had a blast yield of around 15 kilotons. Also, anti-particles should be easy to get as they form all the time all around us as virtual particles. No need for parallel universes.
Indeed, that particular request was incredibly reckless of said fictional researcher. Perhaps the Vending Machine was lying about it's ability to extract the virtual particles from the vacuum energy? After all, it presumably wouldn't want to risk its own existence.
Another thing to consider is that virtual particles are called virtual for a reason. Though it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that the Vending Machine could extract anti-matter from the vacuum energy, considering its other feats, we may wish to place limits on the quantum mechanical abilities of the Vending Machine. After all, to extract that much anti-water, the Machine needs to devote as much energy as the anti-water would release.
The Romulan Ale and stuff brings up a good point. What would happen if a purely fictional substance, like, say, "Albus Dumbledore's blood", was entered into the machine?
You'd get the blood of some dumbass who changed his name to Albus Dumbledore; "out of range" if not applicable.
"Romulan Ale" would get something of a mixture that the creator of the term imagined, or a mixture which has previously been deemed as such at some nerdy party.
Could i get a pan-galactic gargleblaster?
There's a small restaurant in Vancouver Canada where there might be a rather disappointed customer who has found their VERY EXPENSIVE drink to have vanished.
Also, you will have one hell of a hangover.
Trust me.
I've had one.
In the Serpent's Embrace, we stand together, and shall not fear the howling abyss.
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I've been led to wonder… how well can 294 read through misspellings and aberrant capitalizations? Would the agent in the first addendum still have been affected as he was if he'd typed "joe" instead of "Joe"?
What were to happen, if we asked for an abstract thing, such as "a cup of intelligence" or "liquid courage" ? ? Would it synthesize a drink known somewhere in the universe as "intelligence" (simple alcohol is often referred to as "liquid courage" - NOTE: SCP-294 appears to have developed a sense of humor) would be entertaining addition), or would it dispense powerful nootropics / neurotransmitter cocktails ?
Just an idea.
… *punches in "Strength and Beauty"*
Why not ask for a liquid called "Something that will make 682 not homicidal"?
Or better yet ask for a liquid to cure 231 or something along those lines.
And for laughs who wants to order a "Cup of Godzilla"? (I'd laugh if it produced a cup of mini-682s).
"Cure for SCP-231" on its own is asking for a repeat of what happened with SCP-231-4.
And making mini-682s would be an utter nightmare
"Cure for SCP-008" might be worse.
[BEGIN LOG]
Okay, let's put in a "Cure of 008, xD"
Umm…shit, what is that humming noise…
Oh myyy….
*drinks the cup and dies*
[END LOG]
Addendum 294: Dr. Harold went into a cardiac arrest after drinking what seems to be a cup of "SCP-008", Subject was sent into the hospital.
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