Tasks / The Speed Of Time
Accelerate or decelerate an aging process.
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Level 1
In the zone of: Chrononautic Exxon
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Rate of time flow is found by dividing the amount of time that has passed by the amount of time perceived to have passed, and is measured in seconds per second (s/s or 1).
Or is it the other way around..?
Now when you say "decelerate an aging process" do you mean that carbon dating should reveal something being younger than it should be? Or can I just stick some stuff in a freezer and say it stayed fresher for longer?
You know what'd be cool? Making a Twinkie rot in twenty-four hours.
And Mother Nature would be like "SLOOOOWWWW DOWN"
And you'd kick her in the face with your ENERGY LEGS!
I was in Kenya once.
Walking on a tightrope, while holding a baby that I had to get to the other side.
Can YOU play all twelve major scales? I DIDN'T THINK SO.
Does it need to be a living item?
If something inanimate has a lifespan, and you increase or decrease it is it ok?
At every chance I get I explain that Bananas undergo explosive radioactive decay, and in fact come up as a 5 under a Geiger counter. Bananas release ethylene gas, and, if placed in a brown paper bag with other produce, will cause them to decay more quickly. So in a small way I enable about 3 people to do this daily. As will come to a disappointment to fellow hypocrites, telling someone to do something is not the same as doing it.
If only I still worked in a lab. Liquid nitrogen is always cool.
Praxis
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