Two Wishes

[Chimeco]

This might be a silly topic but I've always wanted two wishes. I've had them for probably 6-7+ years now, the same wishes. The first one is for a starship, the size of Los Angeles (maybe bigger). It'd have to be large enough to host a whole city inside (reminiscent of Rama yes--but not Rama). I'd be the captain of course. It'd have to have some means of travelling (F)aster (T)han (L)ight. It'd also require weapons beyond the scope of human imagination (just for defense) and also be able to host a slew of parasite ships, that would serve as scientific vessels, transport and fighters. Of course I'd be the Capitan of the starship
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The second wish would be for 20 androidish robots, capable of passing as human beings in any form or manner. They'd have to come packed with super intelligence, super-reflexes (I mean time dilating reflexes!), and be utterly loyal to myself. They'd have to be able to infiltrate human society on a credible level, and maintain social & sexual relationships with humans without revealing their true natures. 20 would be all I really need.

Basically, I'd send a handful of these androids out to make me some cash. Because doing things takes cash. Then I'd populate my starship with healthy, intelligent humans willing to travel to other solar systems to EXPLORE, because I suffer horrendously from wander lust. I'd allow them to set up their own form of government, and would really only intervene when necessary (I don't really lust for responsibility). I'd use my remaining androids as crew and bodyguards.

Oh, I'd also have performance enhancing implants and youth therapy treatments. My ships medical facility would of course be ample and advanced enough to care for these desires.

I know this is silly. But this is straight from the heart, as wacky as my two wishes sound. I really don't require knowledge or power, just freedom I think to go where I want to. I thought I'd share it with you folks, and then ask what you guys and girls want for your two wishes.

[Tsujigiri]

I'm a bit simple with this sorry

My first wish would simply to be to know 'Why' ...the BIG 'Why'

My second wish would be to have the ability to influence the reason for 'Why'

On a more frivolous note:

1: I'd like fps games to advance to the point where I can immerse myself in a VR envoronment completely for a couple of hours every week and spend time exploring '2'

2: All my favourite novels and rpg's were converted to a hyper realistic VR with intelligent heuristic programming so that the worlds evolved and were never stagnant.

Hmmm, I'm seeing a connection between my serious and frivolous answers....any gnostic mystics in the house?

[dwndrgn]

Tsuji - I really like your second wish, you would almost be able to live in your favorite stories but still be able to come home for a cold beer (or other beverage of choice) after. Kind of like the holo deck on Star Trek. Fun stuff.

Chimeco - it does seem as if you have the wanderlust! Your two wishes seem to be extremely complex - almost like five or six wishes instead of two. But, deep down you just wish you had the time, money and science available to be a space explorer on your own. I wish you luck with it!

My two wishes? Hmm. I've always wanted to have the magical abilities of a witch like Samantha Stevens. As for a second wish, I don't know, maybe the means to live like a queen on my own private island with nobody else around...sort of the rich hermit life where I could spend my days researching or playing or reading or whatever without daily responsibilities like a mortgage and whatnot.

Otherwise I'd just wish people were more thoughtful, respectful and kind to others and animals...

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

I wish I had a cat. Make that two cats.

[dwndrgn]

Goodness, you're easy!

[Leto]

No, he's masochist, wishing to be the slave of two cats. Although I can understand it, already bugging my man for months now to have a new feline home.

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Well, since world peace is clearly out of the question, I was shooting for something that would solve my more immediate problems of excessive solitude and a sudden alarming influx of tiny domestic parasites.

[Tsujigiri]

I have a cat, and she's a good mouser

[dwndrgn]

You'd have to get a grey one and name it Grey Mouser

[Tsujigiri]

Sry to disappoint, she's tortoishell and named Dixie....and she's asleep on my monitor at the moment

[Sibeling]

I've thought about before and I have several variants:

1) First wish: I want to have an unlimited number of wishes every day and they all could become true. Second wish: I want to be able to undo any wish I made.

2)First wish: I want half of the population on the Earth to be just like me (I don't mean their looks, I mean the souls). Second wish: I want all the other people become better than they are. This would make one half of all the people perfect and the other half will be improved.

[Leto]

tortie are great mouser, got something to do with the gender.

[Chimeco]

sibeling --that has to be the strangest two wishes I've ever heard. I've actually spent some minutes thinking about it just in case you might be serious... I admit I still don't get it. So I'm hoping you're being silly.

By the way, this is an exercise in limitation also, so wishing for infinite wishes is simply defying the boundries of this conversation. No thinking outside the box. For shame.

Put that imagination to use.

[Sibeling]

But I meant it as quite a serious wish - if some people were more like me the world would be a better place. I don't say I'm perfect, but:
- I don't drop litter on the street
- I am polite
- I would never think of breaking any law (no stealing, killing, cheating with taxes).

That sounds boring, I know, but people who are not like me in these three aspects are in top 10 of the things I hate, and if they started behavihg more reasonably, it would be good for the world as such.

[Tsujigiri]

No insult intended Sibeling, but it sounds remarkably insepid and boring and inspires in me an urge to drop litter on the street, be a complete arse and take quality time thinking up small but incredibly pointless crimes......just for the fun....just because if everyone was like you somebody would have to do it...

....and it may as well be me