Well the girlfriend still gets a wish.
this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2024
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Her wish is to go back in the well.
Well, well, well.. Guess he got his answer to The Bee Gees Question
50-250 feet, depending on the water table.
True love is actually a great wish. Money runs out, the earth doesn't have the resources to power an x-wing, super dude can't do anything super or else society will now expect him to be Superman, which is a huge responsibility anyone reasonable would want. But TRUE LOVE, the fucking stuff from Disney movies? I'd take that in a heartbeat, then proceed to do a lewd photoshoot with my partner on the defunct x-wing.
Super dude can use his super powers to steal the X-Wing and then fly off to another planet and find true love there. True love that can do some freaky alien sex.
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As someone who once had true love... True love is the wish 100% of the time.
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Am I the only one concerned there's a wishing fountain that anyone can use? Even Republicans.
jk..
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super dude can't do anything super or else society will now expect him to be Superman
Reminds me of a scene in My Adventures With Superman where Clark literally cannot go to sleep because he can't stop hearing people needing help (thanks to his super-hearing). He stays awake the whole night helping people.
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I love this comic, seen it first I think a decade ago.
Of course it’s already funny on the surface, but it also makes you stop and think about what you would choose.
Is it really true love, if a wish compelled it?
Millennium Falcon. Just saying.
Actually, I think I’d rather a Ton Falk, complete with a collection of fighters/bombers to go with it.
Yep, that's the thing. The girl was walking around and got commandeered into loving this guy. So much for the illusion of free will.
I would also have asked for a starship: reverse engineer that and you've single handedly saved the human race from the climate disaster.
But what if it simply found his true love on this world and teleported her to him?
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Imma wish for a book describing how to build that spaceship in terms we can comprehend to spite your wish and beat you to the punch.
Or, you know, I could wish for a solution to climate change but you know, space techno dystopia sounds pretty metal
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What would you need all those military vehicles for, though? Who exactly are you fighting?
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Maybe it just brought them together giving them both true love.
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Millenium Falcon? That old bucket of bolts that needs constant maintenance even while flying? Hard pass. Now, a shiny new Corellian YT2000, on the other hand...
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The hydrologist in me always asks: why dig a well at the top of the hill? Surely that is more effort than digging it at the bottom of the hill where the water table is closer to the surface.
But I guess wells like this predate modern hydrology. And outhouses and such could be polluting the water as it flows down gradient. So the water at the top of the hill was likely cleaner and safer to drink...
I'd wish for clean drinking water in every well. ;)
Conjecture: if you assume people also live on the hill, it would be easier to carry pails back down than to carry them up from the bottom of the hill.
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A true man of the people! With the right connections, you'd do quite well in 14th century Europe!
Aren't ancient wells often based on where springs were? Springs are often at the top of hills, aren't they?
This is a misapprehension. Springs are on hillsides, not hilltops. Basically, imagine there are two surfaces: the ground, and the water table. In some places, usually on hillsides, the water table will intersect the surface. Where that happens, a spring will exist.
But that water has to be under pressure for this to happen -- this is known as the hydrological gradient. Water flows down hill on the surface, and down gradient under ground. In order for there to be pressure on the water, enough to force it out a hillside, the water table somewhere in the hill needs to be physically higher in altitude than the spring.
In other words, it rains on top of the hill, and the rain soaks into the ground. That water wants to flow downhill, so it flows out of the ground on the sides of the hills. But this means a spring will never flow from the top of a hill.
It is a divine rain reservoir.
Wishes flow best in vuggy volcanic strata, so well location is based on luck hitting a vug or interconnected seam. Any wishes in sandstone were used up millennia ago for plants to eat or, apparently in one case, death by meteor.
Now the idea of a millenial falcon popped into my head.
I guess it's a very fast bird that's approaching middle age but the bird equivalent of boomers are convinced it's still an unruly adolescent? 🤷
Does it use up some kind of exotic fuel to run, though?
How long until you are stranded somewhere in outer space with absolutely no-one that could even possibly help you?
How long until you are stranded somewhere in outer space with absolutely no-one that could even possibly help you?
12 parsecs
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I'll take a comfy magical isekai, please. Maybe to the setting of Knight's & Magic so I can pilot a cool magic robot.
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Just have your GF make a wish for a pair of x-wings. Or that you both have super powers. Or whatever. She would be a new customer and this able to make 1 wish.
Edit: Wait... Did she just poof into existence or was she already in line? I've seen this comic so many times and only now am I noticing the girl is in the first panel.
She was poofed into existence one hour in the past, and started walking toward the well. At first it was just a zombie shuffle, mindless and jagged. But slowly and surely, she remembered her made-up past, forgot that she had materialized from thin air.
Wait, does this mean the well knows what you will wish for before you wish for it? We're getting into some weird areas here...
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I’m definitely wishing for Superman powers. Easiest decision of my life.
I'd definitely go with the ability to know anything past, present, or future.
I'm not sure if that will joyfully co-exist with happiness.
Yeah, enjoy every movie, TV show, joke, and surprise being ruined forever. Better to have wisdom than knowledge.
Also, wisdom will probably make you realize you should have just wished to be lucky.
It would, because you'd be able to choose what information you knew. I'd go straight to solving cold fusion.
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Kefitzat Haderech. Done.
A bit of a weird wish, but I'd definitely wish that whenever I want I could be looking at a living person (either through TV or a photo), see their age, and be able to adjust it at will. I would finally be able to turn the US legislators into the babies they are.
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