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*You can teleport into and out of it at will

*It has a couple of plug sockets and can connect to internet from the region you teleported in from

*You can take objects and people with you

*As already stated, it is (3m)^3 (3m*3m*3m). The walls are plain plaster with a light in the middle of the ceiling. The pocket dimension is topologically toroidal, so if there weren't walls and a ceiling/floor (which you can actually destroy) you would loop if you went more than 3m in any direction. Gravity, then, is artificial and can be altered to anywhere from 0 to 2g from a dial on the wall.

Edit: additional specifications

*You can only teleport out to where you teleported in from.

*Time proceeds at the same rate inside the pocket dimension

*There is an eject button for those inside to get out if something happens to you

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[–] Cyv_@kbin.social 43 points 8 months ago

Magical room with free power and Internet... I'm making it into a server room!

[–] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 34 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Paint the inside beige and rent it out for $2000/month

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 31 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Don't forget to paint over the electrical outlets, the thermostat and door hinges for that true landlord special aesthetic.

[–] Midnitte 3 points 8 months ago

Honestly undervalued.

Has internet, and can teleport into and out of at will? Could charge at least $3000/mo

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 28 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Man, the places I could hike without having to carry a pack! Wouldn't need to plan for resupply or anything. Would have communication access from anywhere in the world.

You could use it as a kickass home gym where you can dial up or down gravity depending on what you're doing.

Smuggling would be a whole lot easier if you went that route. Transporting all sorts of things really; you only need to get yourself to the new location.

Could do some very amazing magic tricks since you can disappear (and swap props or outfits or whatever).

With gravity turned down you could presumably build up some momentum and launch yourself places. Not sure how you'd stick the landing unless you can control which way is "up" as you teleport to the room.

Edit: Just realised this idea is kinda similar to an ability from HunterxHunter

[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Knov's nen ability was such a cool idea. Using it as a killing floor for Netero to pick off the chimera one by one was brutal.

I'm surprised they didn't plan to use it to trap Meruem somehow. Netero could have slapped Meruem into one of the portals.

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

break top

break bottom

insert shit ton of rocks

set gravity to 2g for faster gravitational acceleration

I have acquired rocks that can keep falling and build up velocity forever.

live life as usual; when I'm old enough to near death, aim for anywhere within the planet with said rocks.

Assuming I fill the 3x3x3 box half to half with sandstone and air; its weight will be 33kg.

If I live for 70 years more, assuming the gravitational acceleration is 19.72 m/s^2; I can generate stones that can go up to 156.8 billion km/s (or 145 times the speed of light)

Using the kinetic energy formula; I'm pretty sure unleashing this anywhere will be enough to destroy a huge chunk of the existing universe and in the end I'll be the person to go out of the world with the biggest bang.

Well, specifics about the big bang is not known; but I'll be its closest contender if it is correct.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 15 points 8 months ago (3 children)

They wouldn't go faster than terminal velocity if you keep air in the chamber, and even if you remove it, they won't go faster than c. They'll still go pretty fast, though.

[–] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I don't think the drag force due to air would work the same in a system with such a high concentration of rocks. It's not like one object falling through undisturbed fluid, which then has to get out of the way, in this case the air would gradually start to move along with the rocks.

This might be better modelled as turbulent flow of a mixed solid/air suspension. But there's no 'edges' to the flow due to the looped dimension, so the viscous forces are pretty uniform... There would still be a terminal velocity, but much much higher than a rock falling through an atmosphere

Also I imagine the rocks would quickly grind themselves to very fine dust, once they pick up a bit of kinetic energy, so then it would behave more like a fluid with uniform density... Could it even end up as laminar flow?

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Keeping the air was a mistake but I don't see why it wouldn't be able to go faster than c.

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[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 15 points 8 months ago

How about just living in it.

[–] Saigonauticon@voltage.vn 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Some ideas:

  1. A fast way to dig holes, if 'soil' or 'stone' is an object.
  2. Annoy physics teachers -- move in and out to drive a piston. Perpetual motion!
  3. Moving day is easy.
  4. Server farm.
  5. Safe house.
  6. Is momentum conserved? Not sure how general relativity would work. Win a Nobel Prize.
  7. Building stuff in space just got a lot easier and safer. 27 cubic meters of free payload!
[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ooooh! A little home datacenter in the edge of a room. Sounds fun :o

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[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 12 points 8 months ago

As others have mentioned - I'd use it as a hotel room and travel the world. I wonder if becoming a courier could fund the travel costs.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I would get a metal rod of four meters, and teleport into the pocket universe to see what happened.

[–] sus@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

it's set down diagonally so it fits

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

And even if OP had said 10, the obvious thing is for it just not to work. Either teleportation fails or the rod is left behind.

[–] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well, feel like I could quite easily become a very famous stage magician a la "The Prestige" which would help make me rich while letting me keep the pocket dimension thing hidden in plain sight so to speak.

But my mind, as always, races to the limits more so than the possibilities. What would happen if I bring in more stuff than would fit? Say I bring in a decimeter cubed of concrete over and over until I no longer fit inside the cube if I'm allowed the concrete with me in? What if teleport in while driving? Does the car come with even though it doesn't fit? And if I return to the spot I entered does that mean I'll plopp out on the highway while my car is wrecked a ways down the road or inside my mangled car? What if the space i entered from is occupied or otherwise lethal?

What if I teleport in while under water? The void i leave in such an instantaneous fashion would behave quite interestingly if I did it at great depth.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can't bring in more stuff than would fit, as it just wouldn't fit. If you did, it would become a black hole. If the space you were going to pop out at would be occupied/lethal, you instead pop out at the nearest nonlethal space. And yeah, voids underwater would be cool.

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[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

If I bring luggage or a person in with me, can I leave them there for a few hours? Would they have a way to get out if something happens to me? (Travel just got easier in my mind)

Edit: also, did you mean 3m x 3m x 3m, or 3m^3, which is 1m x 1m x 3m?

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago

3m3m3m

And time works the same in the pocket dimension, and sure there is an eject button for them to get out if something happens to you

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[–] noride@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can I only teleport back to where I teleported in from, or can I teleport out of the cube to anywhere I want?

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, I should have specified. The former.

[–] noride@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

After spending a few minutes mulling it over, I've realized the only right move is for me to sell the cube to someone more clever than myself.

That’s arguably clever in itself. You recognise your weakness and adapt to turn a profit.

[–] SuiXi3D@kbin.social 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Water? I want a personal bathroom.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No, sorry. I mean, you can bring in a tank of water if you want, or even make the whole pakve underwater, but there's no plumbing.

[–] kernelle@0d.gs 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Mini portals for electricity and internet but not water and sewage? Cheapskate!

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[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

This is a terrifying power, I gotta say. Like a dude could carry an entire armory around and deploy it Looney-toons-style wherever he wanted.

I would probably just put a bunch of shelves in it and use it as a personal EDC gear storage space. 3m^3 is more than enough space to store pretty much anything you might need in a jiffy.

There's also apart of me that thinks putting a bed in there would mean not having to bring a date back to your place or to a hotel - but being real I'd probably never use it if I set it up like that.

[–] KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

The thought of having literally every tool conceivable immediately available without having to move is fantastic.

I'm in love with the concept of laying under my car, while also being able to get any particular tool in my hand, without ever having to get up, or having a little pile of sockets, wrenches, and bolts next to me that I have to navigate by feel.

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[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

edit: oh, pocket dimension... i just thought it said "pocket"...

whatever, i'm leaving it :P

[–] Lath@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago

*There is an eject button for those inside to get out if something happens to you

Well there goes one idea...

*Time proceeds at the same rate inside the pocket dimension

There go a couple more...

I'd go camping. Travel around the world. Become a cleptomaniac. The usual stuff...

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Free electricity? Mining crypto with a lot of stolen hardware.

Smuggling would be easy for reasons already mentioned.

Murder would be easy. Teleport someone in, teleport out all the air.

Escaping from robberies and hairy situations, likewise creating hairy situations.

Sleeping in 0g sounds comfy, training at 2g sounds awesome.

Living rent free on every city ever. Paired with a car means I can be everywhere.

Huge portable storage box.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago

That's perfect for drug smuggling

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Okay, first things first, this talk of making it my living space? Nix that. That works well enough for a single person eating microwave dinners, but I like cooking and having people over. But travel? Yeah, that would be awesome. I'm thinking:

  • Bunk beds
  • Desk with a computer
  • Very efficient use of shelving
  • Fridge, hot plate

My only concern then becomes a toilet and shower. I guess you could move water in, but the water pressure is going to be crap.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Actually, you could drill a hole in the floor and have water continuously accelerate to get incredible water pressure.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

I suppose then you have the opposite problem. Death by infinite water pressure.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It becomes my house. Now all I have to worry about is food, water and a few incidentals. To shower, I could probably exploit the geometry for endless water pressure instead of using a pump, then I'd just need a little heater and a filter of some kind.

The first thing I do, of course, is dick with the gravity dial. See how low I can get it before I lose my lunch, see how high I can turn it and still do everything I need. Maybe I stick something heavy to the side of the dial so it turns itself and so on.

Maybe to raise the rest of what I need, I'll start a moving company.

The weird geometry could also have some engineering uses that are pretty unique. For example, you could make a magnetic bottle for plasma that doesn't leak as it wouldn't need ends, or a laser in a frequency of light that's hard to reflect.

[–] belated_frog_pants 4 points 8 months ago

Take my GF and sleep a lot in there

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Paint the walls green screen green, set up a pretty powerful PC setup (desk and chair included), set up a futon, make sure I have plenty of mood lighting, and start what I want to be a hobby of mine by recording videos while using a 3D model of my fursona without having to worry about people disturbing me.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 3 points 8 months ago

I hope it doest just has fancy cables with electric magic, but also basic human needs

  • water
  • light
  • air
  • WC
[–] amio@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are there any restraints with any kind of outside object your pocket dimension is anchored to? It sounds like this would be super exploitable to pull off some cleverness just as an "invisibility cloak" (although presumably you couldn't see your surroundings from the inside, or it'd really be OP), let alone if you're not tied to a physical object. If you wanted to, you could probably rob banks and overthrow countries with that shit.

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[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 3 points 8 months ago

Human trafficking yo!

[–] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 3 points 8 months ago

I would steal so many things

[–] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Okay, after reading the comments I have determined that this is a magic pocket dimension, not a sci-fi pocket dimension. That's important. Sci-fi pocket dimension gas too many restrictions, but OP has been kind enough to gift us a magic pocket dimension. If I pop in on a flight, I don't fall to my death when I leave.

So, I set it up as a space for living in tight quarters. Like an RV, I guess. I make sure it has some exercise equipment, and I give it to my mom to use. She's disabled, and can't move a lot under normal conditions, and for reasons I won't go into, also can't do aqua therapy anymore. Low g exercise could help her, and we could slowly increase the gravity. Eventually, she could be healthy enough for surgeries that could get her to a better standard of life.

Book cheap flights, cruises, et cetera. Teleport into the room, and back out at the end. Travel the world. If possible, teleport my mom in whenever somewhere is not wheelchair accessible, and then back out once we've passed that point.

Make money to support the travel lifestyle by being a magician, or smuggler. Whenever possible use the pocket dimension to help people escape bad situations. Teleport in someone while in my car, drive to safety, teleport out. They're coming out relative to the vehicle, not the vehicle's position. Excellent for helping refugees, domestic violence victims, et cetera.

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[–] solitaire@infosec.pub 2 points 8 months ago

Can an object be on both sides of the portal at once? Like if I ran a cable from the inside to the outside. I'm trying to work out how to handle water and sewage, because like everyone else I've concluded this is obviously a living space.

[–] init@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You say this pocket dimension connects to the internet, a la Matrix? I'd create a game with an in-game currency that looks the same as ours, and give it the same physical properties in-game as the real currency is for the region I'm in. I then would define that I am a billionaire with a bank account to match. I teleport in, withdraw my money in cash one suitcase at a time from the ATM that has an infinite cash supply, and then teleport out.

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[–] Inductor@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can I take one end of a cable with me?

What's the max power I can get from the sockets?

Where does the eject button dump people and can it be set to dump things other than people as well?

Does time continue inside the pocket dimension if no one is inside?

What's the internal temperature/humidity? Is it regulated?

Can I choose what I take with me, or is it just everything im wearing/carrying?


Questions aside, I would fill it with all sorts of stuff that I might need at some point, but leave enough space for a bed and a desk.

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 2 points 8 months ago

You can take half a cable , just cut it .

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