> Monkeyman's point elsewhere is well-taken. From your point of view, you age normally. Who cares if other people perceive that you're going to die young? You still get, from your perspective, a normal lifespan. That's what important. So I think OneCoolCat's plan is a good one, but you'd want to slow it down even more than ten or twenty times, really (if it's only ten times slower, everyone else experiences a minute for every ten you do; this is too much).
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> I'm not sure how much you'd want to slow it down. If you do it by a thousand times, that means for each day you have, everyone else gets 86 minutes. For every hour you get, other people get 3.6 minutes. That's still a fair amount of time for them. Moving 10,000 times as fast as everyone else might work: everyone else gets just about 20 seconds for each hour you do, and about 8.5 minutes per day. Light though is travelling at just about 30,000 meters/second, which is still much faster than sound (340 m/s at sea level), so for seeing things nearby you'd be fine.

See my other comments elsewhere about relativity; you might be able to see everything fine regardless of how much you slowed down time.

> Even still, you'd get a bit out of sync with other people if you used your power for extended periods of time. Now, while I think it would be a fun power, what's the point? Almost everything you'd want to do with it would be illegal, immoral, or both (the same goes for invisibility). The only reason I really want more time is because I spend too much of my time doing stuff I don't want to do.

Now you're talking. That's my thing exactly.

> The answer? Be rich enough that I don't have to waste my time working (and I could hire a driver so I would be able to make better use of my time travelling). I could easily become rich with simple telekinesis and a bit of time at the craps table or roulette wheel (and I don't have any particular problem ripping off a casino), so I'd essentially have more time *and* telekinesis, meaning I could also stop eating using utensils. Which is, of course, my ultimate goal in life.

Except for the utensils thing, I'm with you. Except that I would still want to avoid breaking laws, so I wouldn't want to take the money from casinos (although if I were going to take it from someone, I would probably prefer casinos over pretty much anyone else).

While I can see other benefits to the time-slowing ability (also known as super-speed, if you want to think of it that way) like being able to take some time and walk across the country, or effectively be in two places at once (don't ask, the explanation is long), I think I would now go for an ability that could earn me a lot of honest money. My first thought? That instant teleportation thing. Set myself up a business where I have maybe an hour a day in which I transport people wherever they need to go instantly. Charge them something reasonable for the service (probably a LOT of money per person) and spend the other twenty-three hours a day enjoying my riches. Presumably retire eventually. Heck, I'd proabably rarely use the power for transporting myself -- like Howard, I like to see things while I travel. I'd probably use it to get to the grocery store, though. And no more line-ups at the bathroom at public places -- I'd just teleport home and use my own facilities. I have better soap and real towels, too.

> Stephen

Don "Having too much fun with this thread" Monkey