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[โ€“] Fabrik872 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I would make one portal in Tokyo or some busy city and other in another busy city and i will sell tickets to ride between the two. Or i will put them on some sheet of something that i can move so i can change destinations but in game if i move the surface under portal it will dissapear

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (8 children)

I would contact NASA and tell them to launch a robot to mars that can shoot it. I'd shoot it at the ground, then put it on the robot, then have a portal to mars.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I'm wondering if the people suggesting it for planetary travel have played Portal 2. It uh...it doesn't end too well when they try.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Save it. I don't have anything currently that I would want to use a portal gun on given that I can only use it once. I might use it to get myself out of a sticky situation, or wait to see if I ever move into a relatively permanent home and I could make a portal from my house to another location for convenience.

[โ€“] TheDoozer 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So it'll be just like the bag full of Maximum Heal potions when the credits roll, except I imagine you could pass it on to someone with a message not to wait for the perfect moment.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Maybe, but I don't particularly feel the need to use a portal gun. If I never end up using it I don't think I'd have particular regrets, but if I used it to save my ass during a high-stakes situation then I'd be quite glad.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

It would be a bad use of it, but probably pick a random road online and pick a random volcano. Whoever gets unlucky and doesn't notice the nightmare portal in the ground gets a free trip to the base of a volcano at no cost. Would obviously need the portal to be in a location where you cannot just easily return from, though. Gonna turn a random volcano and random street into quite the tourist attraction for no reason.

[โ€“] TootSweet 7 points 6 days ago

Reverse-engineer it and build an unlimited-use portal gun, of course!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Take a portal to a black hole, keep the portal open for funsies.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Horrible things to greedy people all around the world.

[โ€“] BrianTheeBiscuiteer 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So one portal in an active volcano and...

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Ya mums butt.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I would put one portal on a pneumatically actuated plate above a dais that holds an object, and the other portal on a plate placed at a 45 degree angle. I would then see if an object on the dais would fly or fall out of the 45 degree portal, if the other portal actuated and closed the distance between its starting point and the dais.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Portal to the edge of the universe?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Those portals travel slowly. Good idea. Lets wait till it arrives....

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Open a portal to the moon at the bottom of the ocean

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