I like this one.
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I can dig, son. Dig it like a spade.
Might want to throw in some stuff about the currently-employed 493s' group projects, perhaps devote a lab to them. Also might want to elaborate on what's happened to the 493s that have been found wandering around. I'd recommend a seperate page for all that jazz though, so it might not be worth the bother.
I like this, though. It's neat. Also the cat in the picture sort of looks like Gargamel, without the snaggly teeth.
oh dang. this is awesome and a problem that needs to be figured out pretty fast. at MINIMUM we're talking every one of them dying within 80 years, max, so at most theyre doubling every 80 years here. says estimated 12 uncontained, 9 in containment, but let's make it 20 for easier calculation…..2400 years from now there's going to be at least 21 billion of these guys running around, at minimum, if a way to stop it isnt found or it doesnt stop on its own.
by(or, likely, long before) that point i'm certain they'll start dying at faster and faster rates, until it reaches the point where theyre dying being being pushed into the ocean and drowning due to lack of land space….then after a while, simply by being crushed by the weight of new copies being created on top of them, probably within minutes of being made. it all comes down to where the matter to create the new copies is coming from. if its extra-dimensional there's not necessarily a limit….eventually theyre gonna reach critical mass and form a black hole…a black hole that nearly doubles its mass every 3 hours. this could consume the universe. "safe" my eye.
every one of these guys needs to be sent to a different dimension as soon as possible, or given some form of eternal life to prevent their doubling.
anyway enough of that. upvoted.
I was wondering how long it would be until someone commented on that aspect of this guy. :D
i'm only just recently working my way through the entire list, before i just read random entries, so it was my first time seeing it. i eat this kind of thing up. it's not an IMMEDIATE problem, but in the longterm it's gonna screw up the entire universe if it isnt stopped
I agree that this would actually be better suited as a Keter, albeit a slow one. Other self-replicating SCPs (SCP-505, SCP-871) are rightly classified as Keter; the only reason I can see that this one isn't is because it's slower and thus appears "less of a serious threat".
Giving bearhugs to the unsuspecting since 1872.
Although the replications of SCP-493 pose a significant long-term risk, I see this one as one of the tricks of bureaucracy. The Foundation is essentially locking up the unhelpful replicates and hiring the useful ones as staff. There is no way command would allow that if 493 were reclassified as keter.
I would worry more about keeping him away from DrBright's pretty necklace.
Yes, this is why we DON'T MIX SCPs!
"If a subject maintains contact for thirty (30) days, their brain functions become a duplicate of the late Dr. Bright's. If 963-1 is removed after this time period, the subject retains an independent copy of the consciousness of Jack Bright."
An endlessly replicating Bright. The horror.
It's actually very heartwarming and there's nudity too, so there's that.
Okay, those two words have to be the creepiest new thing I've read here in quite some time.
Well, it's not like Dr. Bright is always an orangutan.
Unless that's part of the appeal.
This is pretty good. Not sure if I like the vaguely humorous addenda, but they're not bothersome enough to get in the way of an upvote.
Looks like a job for 1543-j! The only possibly downside is that if it doesn't work as intended, their constant duplication could blot out the sun (or maybe just collapse it into a black hole)
Can't we cross-test this with an SCP that extends life, possibly indefinitely?
They're still waiting for the results.
if your reading this your gay
This one represents an awesome disguised threat; those things WILL become a horrifying problem sometime in the not-too-far-off future unless some kind of solution for them is reached. Throw them anywhere that is completely inhospitable to human life (deep sea, lava, space, hostile keter containment breach…) and these things are going to replicate in an uncontrollable fashion that may well make a black hole and will almost certainly wipe out all life on the planet.
This is horrifying. Upvoted.
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