You're indestructible. What do YOU want to do?

[Ranchoth]

It's the question that's plagued mankind throughout the centuries...if you became indestructible, what would you do?

The setup is pretty simple...you, the reader, have become permenantly indestructible. Invincible, even. Nothing can harm you physically, and you're impervious to disease or poison, etc. You DON'T have superhuman strength, however. (That'd just be silly.)

Now, after a thorough study of the works of great thinkers (http://www.mst3kinfo.com/ward_e/bit409.html) and sages, (http://www.seanbaby.com/stupcom/superquiz.htm) I've decided that I'd...

•Eat lava, just because I could.
•Go down to a street corner every day, and immolate myself for money. Like a street performer.
•March right into the Department of Justice and take the Warren Commission files. (Well, maybe not that last one...unless I got bored.)
•Go skydiving without a chute, just to see how big a crater I leave on the ground.
•If I didn't need to breathe anymore, I'd visit the Titanic wreckage...without a submarine. Or a boat.

So...anyone else care to join in?

[Otto]

Out of curiosity, could one move unaided at the bottom of the ocean? Invulnerability to the pressure aside, wouldn't there be a hell of a lot of resistance?

Not ever worrying about condoms again would be nice. And imagine the money to be made on bar bets! Or you could be the world champion in boxing a la Homer Simpson (stand there until your opponent punches himself out then knock him over).

[Roland Orzabal]

The problem is, a lot of the stuff you'd want to do would end up getting you arrested. Once you're in jail, you can be as invincible as you want, and you're still not getting through the walls. The only conceivable way out would be to kill a whooole lotta guards and make a break for it, and I'd wager they'd have you subdued and immobilized before you managed to get away.

Yes, I'm overanalyzing. Because it's fun! :D

--Ian

[Derleth]

"I can eat glass. It does not hurt me. (http://www.geocities.com/nodotus/hbglass.html)"
Two words: Fighting crime.
Well, maybe a few more words: Streets of NYC, with all the guns I can steal, or probably barehanded just for a challenge.
Driving really fast, preferably while reading or posting to the SDMB.
Pay-Per-View. "I'll do anything, just $199.95 an hour!"
Professional boxing: A winner is you! ;)
Globe-trotting crimefighter/general do-gooder. (Heh. General Do-Gooder. Gotta get those tights made now.)
Polar bear wrestling.

[One And Only Wanderers]

I think NASA would be beating a path to your door - especially if you don't need oxygen. Re-entry would be a breeze too - should be down your alley - you'd make one HELL of a crater, or a humongous splash.

[Snooooopy]

I guess, for the purposes of this exercise, that invulnerability comes with the ability to not feel physical pain?

[Johnny Bravo]

Two chicks at the same time.

[RandomLetters]

I would first learn a bit of Arabic. Then, I would go terrorist hunting. Then, when they shot me, I would claim Allah had sent me to send them to hell. (This is to mess with their heads.) Hopefully, I could catch one of the higher ups, and get the reward money.

[Steve Wright]

Thwart the plans of the evil Mysterons from Mars, of course.

[cichlidiot]

Pedal one of those giant, 3-wheeler looking things over Niagara Falls.

Jump to the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

Swim with sharks (just me and my chum). heh

Pet a lionfish. Hold a Gaboon viper. Befriend a polar bear.

I also like the exploring ocean bottom idea, would be cool to see one of those black smokers up close.

To add to the eating lava, I'd like to ride out an eruption as close to the crater as possible.

Ride in a tornado.

Use a power station as a jungle gym.

[dwc1970]

First, I'd start out as a stunt man, doing all the things you see people do in movies. I'm sure I could be used for performing stunts that have never been done before because of the danger. Think of all the new possibilities this would open up for the movie industry. On my own time I'd like to try skydiving (including into the Grand Canyon). I've always wondered what it's like to be Wile E. Coyote (he seems to be indestructible in spite of all his failures). I also think it would be cool to explore the ocean floor, the Arctic Circle, climb Mt. Everest and all the other higher mountains around the world. I'd take a trip over Niagara Falls (without a barrel). Once I was bored with what the earth has to offer I'd explore outer space. In space I'd like to explore the moon and then each of the planets and their moons (and the rings of Saturn). I'd help science to further understand the theory of relativity by allowing them to shoot me through space at superfast speeds so that I could record my findings and report back to the scientists firsthand what I experienced and observed.

[Dragwyr]

I guess, for the purposes of this exercise, that invulnerability comes with the ability to not feel physical pain?
[Great Debate]
Unfortunately the OP doesn't say anything about immunity to pain. On a realted note, although I don't see where the OP equates indestructibility with immortality, it is hard to ignore the fact that somone who is indestructible would have a greater tendancy to live longer. Though I suppose an IP (Indestructible person) could eventually die of old age[/Great Debate]

On to the OP:
What would I do? If I knew I was indestructible, I would not have been so non-confrontational as a kid. Knowing that the bullies in school would not have been able to do anything to me, I would have stuck up for myself more.

I would also try Skydiving, seriously consider joining the military (well... maybe not. If the military knew I was indestructible, they would probably send me in to do their ultra-secret dirty work).

You know, I'm not sure what else I'd do. I'm not sure I'd do anything else different.

[Ethilrist]

Give up shaving.

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

Give up shaving.

You'd have no choice in that.

No haircuts, either.

Now I'd begin a profitable career in boxing.

[Brainiac4]

I figured this one out years ago. I'd go play tag. With rocket launchers. In an oil refinery. :D

Of course, that assumes I have at least one friend who shares my invulnerability.

[counsel wolf]

I guess, for the purposes of this exercise, that invulnerability comes with the ability to not feel physical pain?

Somebody's been reading The Tick

Making the assumption above, I'd like to visit the sun with an option of the metallic hydrogen surface of Jupiter if the sun is too crowded that time of year :) . Getting there may take a while unless I get launched into space by a rocket of some kind, so sign me up for that too.

[muldoonthief]

Run with scissors.

Sit millimeters away from the TV.

Stick my arm out the bus window.

Jump down the stairs.

Cross my eyes for hours at a time.

Go out in the rain without boots, a raincoat, or an umbrella.

Go out in the cold without a hat, coat or mittens.

Stick things in my ear.

[Epimetheus]

Being indistructible does not make one invulnerable. You could easily be captured and totured in ways that do not require physical damage or pain. Psychological torture can oftentimes be much worse than physical. Think Sensory Deprevation Tanks. ;)

[pravnik]

muldoonthief: you forgot taking candy from strangers and petting strange dogs.

Anyway, am I the only one who would start a cult?

"Lo, see you that I embrace the engulfing flame, and am not consumed; though I may drink of foul poisons and am bitten by the viper, I yet do not succumb; though smitten by stone and steel, I remain unharmed. Therefore give unto me your cash, and let me sex up your women."

[shijinn]

obtain a sword, preferably longer than you are tall, and go around telling people, "me be Og. for there can be only one."

[35340]

Go to outer space.

If there wasn't a lot of pain involved, be a crash test dummy (hook up electrodes to measure what my muscles do when)

[davidm]

A lot of you seem to be ignoring a problem that Otto hinted at in his mention of water pressure. As the OP says, you do not have superhuman strength. If you went to a great enough depth in the ocean you'd be stuck there, pinned to the bottom by the pressure. Unable to move and unable to die! The same thing goes for the Sun (or Jupiter). If you went too close, you'd be sucked in and be unable to leave and unable to die. And we haven't determined yet if you can feel pain! This invulnerability stuff may be a mixed blessing. Instead of being able to be careless, you may find that you have to especially careful to avoid being stuck in some unpleasant situation for a very long time.

[TheOnlySaneOne]

Well, that's simple. Peddle myself out as a bodyguard to the fabulously wealthy, until I myself become fabulously wealthy.

After that, its all about the relaxing in my mansion, doing insanely dangerous tasks.

[The Asbestos Mango]

Pedal one of those giant, 3-wheeler looking things over Niagara Falls.


Swim with sharks (just me and my chum). heh



To be more specific, swim with the hammerheads in the Gulf of Mexico during mating season.

Surf a tsunami.

Give a non-declawed Maine Coon a bath.

[Boyo Jim]

For miney, I'd do some jobs that would normally need be done by insanely expensive robotoc systems -- like swapping out spent fuel rods in nuclear plants, patching holes in toxic holding tanks, etc.

Another question kinda like the pain one -- Might I myself become highly radioactive and deadly to anyone nearby? Then I'd have to rethink, as I don't want to kill off all my friends.

I think the stuntman idea is the best, and you get to have a cool permanent film record of your best stuff. A variation of this would be to be a REAL Super Dave Osborn, an apparent clown who gets in over his head doing dangerous stunts.

For recreation -- lava swimming, diving and juggling. Also, I think it might be cool to see a hydrogen bomb go off right under my ass -- see how far I can fly!

Also. could I starve to death if I got stuck somewhere? Or figure out a way to otherwise kill myself if I got tired of it all? Would I be a true immortal? Would I weaken with age?

[Dag Otto]

Day one: Prepare fugu for me and all my friends.

Day two : Prepare fugu for me.

[Tikki]

Pay a visit to Fred Phelps et al and make them see the error of their way. Then I'd go after child abusers and other baddies.

[Rufus Xavier]

Annoying nitpicks from the brain that scares me (step AWAY from the brain....)

Would your sperm be indestructible, as well? If so, would the inevitable progeny that resulted be indestructible as well, or only half? which half?

would your bodily waste be indestructible (yichhh)?

Maybe you couldn't feel pain, but could you feel cold? Heat? would your skin get pruny if you spent too much time in the water? would your skin texture be soft as usual, or hard? What about friction; could you feel friction? Would you ever get tired? Could drugs or alcohol affect you?

If I could ignore all these questions, I would say I would probably spend a great deal of my time swimming in the oceans all over the world, but especially tropical ones.

[monica]

Anyway, am I the only one who would start a cult?
Nope. That's the first thing I thought of too. All bow down before Monica!

[emekthian]

Light self on fire, run around my school.

Crash a plane into the ground in such a way that it creates a gigantic fireball, and then walk away from the flaming wreckage.

Jump in front of cars speeding down the highway at 100 mph.

Throw myself on a live grenade, charge people to see it.

[Evil Captor]

If I were indestructible, I'd presumably not need air water or food because lack of those could destroy you. What I think I'd do is get myself a list of the world's worst dictators and scumbags and start with the top of the list -- which would probably be Mugabe or Kim Jong Il. I'd go to visit them, grab them, and start pounding the shit out of them. I wouldn't kill them, just hurt them badly and make them very sorry they're alive and in my grasp. I wouldn't stop until they'd gone on television, confessed all their sins, and left the country (i.e., I'd still be pounding on them as they did these things .. you can't trust these bastards). Being indestructible, no one would be able to stop me from beating up the bastids. Then I'd go to the next one on my list. I'd also be more or less immortal which is a good thing, because there's a lot of ass-whoopin' needed out there.

Couple dozen guys like me, and the world would be a much nicer place.

[El Elvis Rojo]

I've thought about this since I was a little kid, and I'd be the best friggin' stuntman ever (even better than dwc1970 :) ). Being tossed around and smashed threw concrete pillars sounds like lots of fun, but I'm not quite sure how reckless I'd want to be...no jumping off the Empire States Building or anything like that for me. Well, unless I was being paid.

If it did mean ability to survive without oxygen and the like, than checking out and exploring the other planets in our solarsystem does seem like a really cool and fun idea. But I figured I'd be too lonely, so I'd probably stick to home.

[Epimetheus]

If I were indestructible, I'd presumably not need air water or food because lack of those could destroy you. What I think I'd do is get myself a list of the world's worst dictators and scumbags and start with the top of the list -- which would probably be Mugabe or Kim Jong Il. I'd go to visit them, grab them, and start pounding the shit out of them. I wouldn't kill them, just hurt them badly and make them very sorry they're alive and in my grasp. I wouldn't stop until they'd gone on television, confessed all their sins, and left the country (i.e., I'd still be pounding on them as they did these things .. you can't trust these bastards). Being indestructible, no one would be able to stop me from beating up the bastids. Then I'd go to the next one on my list. I'd also be more or less immortal which is a good thing, because there's a lot of ass-whoopin' needed out there.

Couple dozen guys like me, and the world would be a much nicer place.

Untill they realize that their bullets aren't hurting you and start dropping bombs on you. Bombs may not kill you, but they MIGHT knock you unconsious. Even if they do not, they can easily throw a net on you or have several guys that are much stronger than you grab you and tie you up. Like I said before, being indestuctable doesn't make you invulnerable. At the very least they could send some people to capture your family and use them to cause you psychological harm. Torture or rape of your family in front of your eyes while you are chained to a wall with water dripping on your forehead and loud "noise" blasting through speakers at all hours of the day may change plans.

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Go up to members of an LA street gang and say, "Aren't you Richard Simmons' friend, Richard Simmons?"

[Evil Captor]

Untill they realize that their bullets aren't hurting you and start dropping bombs on you. Bombs may not kill you, but they MIGHT knock you unconsious. Even if they do not, they can easily throw a net on you or have several guys that are much stronger than you grab you and tie you up. Like I said before, being indestuctable doesn't make you invulnerable. At the very least they could send some people to capture your family and use them to cause you psychological harm. Torture or rape of your family in front of your eyes while you are chained to a wall with water dripping on your forehead and loud "noise" blasting through speakers at all hours of the day may change plans.

hey, man, indestructible means indestructible. You wanna quibble, you're not playing the game.

[Otto]

Untill they realize that their bullets aren't hurting you and start dropping bombs on you. Bombs may not kill you, but they MIGHT knock you unconsious. Even if they do not, they can easily throw a net on you or have several guys that are much stronger than you grab you and tie you up. Like I said before, being indestuctable doesn't make you invulnerable. At the very least they could send some people to capture your family and use them to cause you psychological harm. Torture or rape of your family in front of your eyes while you are chained to a wall with water dripping on your forehead and loud "noise" blasting through speakers at all hours of the day may change plans. Well, if he's beating the crap out of their Beloved Leader it's doubtful they'd be doing a lot of shooting or bombing, but "drop a net on him" was the first thing that came to mind.

Although were I so enmeshed I would simply cut through the net using the edge of my indestructible finger nails. Jungle red.

[Boyo Jim]

I hadn't thought of indestructible finger (and toe) nails. Couls we ourselves clip them? I would guess not.

So after a number of years we might me almost helplessly immobilized by gargantuan, untrimmable fingernails. (www.angelfire.com/mn2/ melissasnails/)

I don't even want to thinkabout nose hair.

[Otto]

Just bite your nails with your indestructible teeth. Same for your nose hair, once it gets long enough.

[Ranchoth]

Interesting replies, all. Thanks! Lotta great ideas, here.

I just wonder if I should start a second thread, dealing with how to abuse pure Superman-style powers. (Invulnerability, PLUS super-strength, flight, and...I dunno. There are a couple of more, I think. Something with his eyes, if I remember right.) Any takers?

[Otto]

I will only play in your new thread if you go with pre-Crisis Superman, because he just isn't Superman without his super-ventriloquism.

[muldoonthief]

A lot of you seem to be ignoring a problem that Otto hinted at in his mention of water pressure. As the OP says, you do not have superhuman strength. If you went to a great enough depth in the ocean you'd be stuck there, pinned to the bottom by the pressure. Unable to move and unable to die! The same thing goes for the Sun (or Jupiter). If you went too close, you'd be sucked in and be unable to leave and unable to die. And we haven't determined yet if you can feel pain! This invulnerability stuff may be a mixed blessing. Instead of being able to be careless, you may find that you have to especially careful to avoid being stuck in some unpleasant situation for a very long time.

I'm not sure why you think the water pressure at great depth would trap you down there -water is incompressible so the density of the water remains the same regardless of depth, so it's not like it becomes thick as peanut butter or something like that. Sure, your air filled lungs would be squeezed to the size of peanuts, but hey, you're indestructible, so you may as well fill up your airspaces with water on the way down. The DSRVs used by oceanographers and the navy don't have huge propellers to tool around at depth - they can move around quite easily regardless of the pressure.

[Derleth]

Something with his eyes, if I remember right.X-Ray vision. How could you forget the ability to see through women's clothing?

;)

Super Derleth is an idea. I assume I have the power to fly, now just to leap really high. (Because originally (way the hell back when), Supes only could leap high. Flight came when jumping became dull, or something.) And that I can do all of the other Superman stuff, of course. (Including time-reversal and other powers that makes no sense. ;))

Well, first I'd make another list:

No ducking guns. Of any kind. It's demeaning.
That implies crime fighting, but I'd limit myself to violent crimes. Crimes against property are usually not worth a true superhero's time. (See below for one of my particular targets.)
Vacations on Io and inside Europa. Heck, I'd get metallic hydrogen and fly into the Giant Red Spot. Possibly all the way to Alpha Centauri or Betelgeuse. After all, if I can reverse time by making the Earth spin backwards, what's Relativity to me? (Don't worry: I'd sterilize my skin by swinging by the sun. My super-vision should see microbes anyway.)
Walking up to Bush with an anti-Bush sign. I am a free-speech zone.
Walking up to North Korea's latest Kim with a collection of little tools. Repeat with every other evil gangster in the world.
Repeat the above with all child abusers I can find.
By this time, international attention will be focused on me rather sharply. I should be able to garner massive ratings by personally hauling people in pressurized capsules into space. How many people would pay to see an American Idol winner go into orbit, and how many people would pay to have him stay there? ;)
Three words: Mosh with wolverines.
Semi-truck slamdance.
Industrial music with ore crushers and drill presses and other obscenely large and dangerous pieces of moving metal.
Eating pyroclastic flows. You know, the red-hot rock around volcanos that flows like semi-liquid glass. I've always had an inexplicable urge to eat that stuff.

[SCSimmons]

This invulnerability stuff may be a mixed blessing. Instead of being able to be careless, you may find that you have to especially careful to avoid being stuck in some unpleasant situation for a very long time.

Yah. Mess with the mob, find yourself entombed in concrete under a new sports stadium. Sucks to be you.

[Cafe Society]
This is something that popped into my head after seeing Pirates of the Carribean. The pirates had 'executed' Bootstrap Bill by tying him to an anchor and dropping him over the side. But of course, Bill (like the rest of the pirates) was immortal, so he was presumably still down there, tied to his anchor. Might have been quite a relief to him when his son finally broke the curse ... But then I realized that the ropes had probably long since rotted away. Bill probably couldn't swim-most people couldn't back then. But he would have started the long, long walk along the sea bottom towards dry land. Finally, after years of trudging up and down undersea mountains, finding his way around steep trenches and coral reefs, he finally sees the sun peeking through above him, and feels the sand of a beach ahead. Only a couple more minutes, and he'll once again feel the breeze on his face! When suddenly-the curse is broken, and he drowns ... Sucks to be him, too.
[/Cafe Society]

[muldoonthief]

Yah. Mess with the mob, find yourself entombed in concrete under a new sports stadium. Sucks to be you.

[Cafe Society]
This is something that popped into my head after seeing Pirates of the Carribean. The pirates had 'executed' Bootstrap Bill by tying him to an anchor and dropping him over the side. But of course, Bill (like the rest of the pirates) was immortal, so he was presumably still down there, tied to his anchor. Might have been quite a relief to him when his son finally broke the curse ... But then I realized that the ropes had probably long since rotted away. Bill probably couldn't swim-most people couldn't back then. But he would have started the long, long walk along the sea bottom towards dry land. Finally, after years of trudging up and down undersea mountains, finding his way around steep trenches and coral reefs, he finally sees the sun peeking through above him, and feels the sand of a beach ahead. Only a couple more minutes, and he'll once again feel the breeze on his face! When suddenly-the curse is broken, and he drowns ... Sucks to be him, too.
[/Cafe Society]

There was something similar in an episode of Highlander. Two young Frenchmen killed a particularly nasty Nazi officer in WWII by chaining him to something heavy and tossing him in a river. The problem was, he was immortal. So for 50+ years he would drown, revive a few hours later, drown, etc until the chains rusted away in the mid 90's. By now the Frenchmen who killed him were fairly old men, and were pretty freaked out when the immortal Nazi tracked them down and killed them.

[htns]

I'd probably become a stuntman. Movie producers would love me, as I wouldn't need safety equipment, and I'd get paid quite a bit.

[CalH]

Nope. That's the first thing I thought of too. All bow down before Monica!

If your last name is Bellucci we got a deal.

[SPOOFE]

I'd jump in front of trains and trucks and measure how far the impact throws me.

[emekthian]

Bill probably couldn't swim-most people couldn't back then. But he would have started the long, long walk along the sea bottom towards dry land.

Doesn't matter if you can swim or not. Humans naturally float. So as soon as enough ropes rotted away, the pirate would've floated up towards the surface.

[Boyo Jim]

I doubt the indestructible you would be human anymore. I certainly wouldn't count on the floating thing.

[Thaumaturge]

Humans don't float very well with water-filled lungs though, as Bill's are likely to be.

Pain is caused by injury to tissue sending out chemical signals that trigger pain nerves. If nothing injured you, why would you experience pain?

Old age is caused by accumulated damage from many sources. Without being able to be damaged, you wouldn't die from that either.



I'd take a walk around the world, and like one other poster I'd stop by Afghanistan and pick up a few tens of millions of dollars worth of wanted terrorists. I'd then use the money to build myself a spaceship and tour the solar system. Since I'd be invulnerable, I could skimp on things like life-support and a hull and save alot of money. I would sell the rights to the movie and info I collected along the way, and set sail for interstellar space when I can afford to upgrade my ship enough to make the journey reasonably fast.

[Epimetheus]

Geesh, people don't like to give up their dreams do they? How are you going to capture terrorists? Are you skilled warriors? So you cannot die. You cannot feel pain. Big deal. Your family can die, your pets can feel pain. You can be captured, manipulated, framed. You can be coerced, tied up, tortured in ways that don't require you to take physical damage. You can be captured. You have no super strength. Your nails that are indestructible aren't going to be supersharp, and you will not have super-leverage to cut through steel mesh nets. You can be knocked silly by rocket propelled grenades, you can be run over by a tank and pushed into the ground, where you will be tied up and taken to terrorist HQ. Merely being immortal isn't going to help you do anything except survive. And depending on what they do to you, that may not the be preference.

Being indestructible isn't going to make you a super warrior capable of tracking down terrorists and destroying them. Unless you want to give up your life to the goverment, to be trained and used and abused by them. Doesn't sound like much of a life.

[SSgtBaloo]

It's the question that's plagued mankind throughout the centuries...if you became indestructible, what would you do?

The setup is pretty simple...you, the reader, have become permenantly indestructible. Invincible, even. Nothing can harm you physically, and you're impervious to disease or poison, etc. You DON'T have superhuman strength, however. (That'd just be silly.)
Everyone here thinks too big.

Me? I'd finally change those two sparkplugs at the back of my van's engine, now that the sharp bits and cramped spaces won't hurt my hands and foearms.

Then I'd raffle off tickets for the priveledge of driving it into me as fast as you possibly can (but only if it raises enough money to buy a replacement). ;)

--SSgtBaloo

[Epimetheus]

All the evil things in my posts in this thread are curtesy of all the GMs that have graced my many role playing games across many years. Invunerability is one of the most common abilities sought after those that try to ruin games. A good GM could take even the smallest Achilles heel and turn it into superman's kryptonite.

[Thaumaturge]

Eh......I have a gun and a sword, plus a few daggers duct-taped to my clothing so that they stick out here and there, if I'm stealthy, and only have to face a few dozen people at a time, it would be easy. I can just use the dead terrorists guns for more ammo. Dead people can't capture you. You can't be knocked silly by anything becuase something would have to harm you do disrupt your brain to do that. By the time they think of steel nets, if at all, it would be too late, and you can just burn off a regular net, since you don't have to worry about fire. People hiding in caves on the other side of the planet aren't going ot have much success going after my family..and blackmail doesn't work if they can't get the message to me anyway. Epimetheus- didn't you just recently chastize a poster for not having any immagination? Shame on you. :D

[Thaumaturge]

All the evil things in my posts in this thread are curtesy of all the GMs that have graced my many role playing games across many years. Invunerability is one of the most common abilities sought after those that try to ruin games. A good GM could take even the smallest Achilles heel and turn it into superman's kryptonite.

No DM should ever allow true invulnerability in their campaign as we are talking about in this thread though.

[Epimetheus]

Yes, nice of you to switch from the title GM to DM. Ever play Amber DRPG? Invulnerability is pretty damn easy to get. Dungeons and Dragons isn't the only game in the world.

As for imagination? Uh, I am showing my imagination. I am showing you that invulnerability is not the great ability you think it is. How is that not showing imagination? I am coming up with specific examples out of thin air? I hardly think a non-creative person could do such a thing.

For example: Knocked silly. Well, yes, you wouldn't get knocked unconsious. But so what, you would be thrown back several hundred feet, dirt would be flying through the air, chaos, for a time, would confuse your brain. There is more than one kind of damage a brain can recieve, and input overload isn't something being indestructible is going to protect against. Even with IV, a dozen people would probably take you down. You MIGHT win a few fights, destroy a few cells. Somebody will escape and this legendary invulnerable person will cause a few lips to flap. Ever hear of traps? Ever hear of strategy? Ever hear of using a persons strength against them? Every heard of being too confident? Yes, I am sure a person that rose to the top of a terroist organization knows similar things, and is probably a much better planner.

So lets see, your assumptions. YOu will find the terrorist groups, no problem. Terrorsts live in caves and have no connections to some suberbanite town in the USA and cannot hire somebody to put one little bullet in a few nobodies. Terrorists all congregate in one area, and walking in with a few knifes and or guns, you will be able to kill/capture them all. You will have a flamethrower in case they throw a hemp net on you. They have only once chance to capture you, and you will surprise them. They cannot blackmail you, make you look to be a danger to the USA, and therefore putting them against you, because they will not see you coming. Uh-Huh.

I can imagine quite a few things to do with the power of invulnerability. None of them has me wasting my time chasing down shadows in a desert country trying to hopelessly catch terrorists. You would get lost, you would be attacked mercilessly, and eventually you would be captured. There is no way one man, invulnerable or not, could track down and do more good than the worlds best intelligence agency and military combined. The problems associated with capturing the leaders of the terrorists have nothing to do with our vulnerabilities, and being invulnerable isn't going to matter much.

Now, the other uses- sure. Space travel is great. Just don't get stuck in a star's gravitational field. Or a black hole.

Capturing terrorists, however, if a bit far fetched.

[Standup Karmic]

I'd pout. I'd rather be either an immovable object or an unstoppable force.

[Harborwolf]

If I were indestructable...hello NHL! :D

[Evil Captor]

Geesh, people don't like to give up their dreams do they? How are you going to capture terrorists? Are you skilled warriors? So you cannot die. You cannot feel pain. Big deal. Your family can die, your pets can feel pain. You can be captured, manipulated, framed. You can be coerced, tied up, tortured in ways that don't require you to take physical damage. You can be captured. You have no super strength. Your nails that are indestructible aren't going to be supersharp, and you will not have super-leverage to cut through steel mesh nets. You can be knocked silly by rocket propelled grenades, you can be run over by a tank and pushed into the ground, where you will be tied up and taken to terrorist HQ. Merely being immortal isn't going to help you do anything except survive. And depending on what they do to you, that may not the be preference.

Being indestructible isn't going to make you a super warrior capable of tracking down terrorists and destroying them. Unless you want to give up your life to the goverment, to be trained and used and abused by them. Doesn't sound like much of a life.

Now this is what I call not being able to enjoy a good fantasy. Being indestructible is really about being able to act without consequence to oneself. Go with it.

[Boyo Jim]

Now this is what I call not being able to enjoy a good fantasy. Being indestructible is really about being able to act without consequence to oneself. Go with it.

Unfortunately the OP has placed limits on the fantasy that we must live with. Indestructible is not the same thing as invulnerable.

[mbh]

Climb Mount Everest. Starting at the Challenger Deep.

Skydiving. From the Space Shuttle. (I mean literally skydiving!)

B**ch-slap a kodiak bear.

[Stoid]

Hanglide and parachute and parasail. All the flying stuff.

[miamouse]

I'd look at an eclipse of the sun with my naked eyeballs! I always wondered if what would happen if I peeked.

[Dag Otto]

What, no one would start smoking?

[Stoid]

What, no one would start smoking?


Nah. Now that I'm 4.5 years beyond it, I feel nothing but horror at how I used to smell and feel. I'm stunned by how offensive it is to be near a smoker. Infinitely grateful that I'm not one anymore, and not only don't stink, but also don't have my life dictated by my need to take in my drug.

[Dag Otto]

I was actually thinking about the person who said they would go to Afghanistan and look for terrorists. Why bother with terrorists when there are all those poppies around?

[kidchameleon]

I'd be one hell of a suicide bomber. :D