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You could graffiti up all of China with "Communism is bad" messages written in flaming Hanzi using stuff so reactive that when looking up the NFPA 704 fire diamond the search result is "data unavailable" if you wanted to with a mere thought using these powers.

Thanks for the elaboration on ancestry. You and I and everyone else alive are cousins so many times over that it's not funny anymore and we are all cousins in uncountable ways.

Btw, "no harm shall fall upon my little ones, not here and not in my great house"

I can't prove that we've survivred either but the Y chromosome and MtDNA we have came from just one man and one woman from so long ago that Adam and Eve weren't alive at the same time and may have been pre-human apes.

Hydrazine and Nitric Acid are hypergolic with each other and ignite on contact. They were used as reliable and somewhat safe rocket fuels for missiles way back when we didn't have anything better.

Life has repeatedly survived such things. One of my sisters is married to a traceable distant cousin who has a surname which predates the New Testament of the Bible and Ancient Basque is the best guess for where it might have came from.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

I'd go with solid White Fuming Nitric Acid (HNO3) with enough Hydrazine (N2H4) to set the whole thing on fire when then the acid starts to melt at temperatures way below freezing.

That's probably the safest option because: "Just because I can doesn't mean I should" and "Great power has great insanity as a mistress". I'd be inclined to clean up some of the nastier messes we've made of the biosphere along with ways to prevent them from happening again. I also would not...

Indeed.

Totally ok, but a bit lacking in creativity. :p

@Bear Ribs, You can't teleport yourself, but otherwise the first part of your plan has merits. You're also forgetting the restriction forbidding the direct alteration of multicellular life, so resurrecting or creating such things would be a "how about no" I forgot to clearly specify in the OP.*...

Yes. The power works like Exalted's Wyld-Shaping Technique in that regard with the restriction that the end result must be physically posible, so no willing into existence an ampule containing the world's extisential angst. :p

@Atarlost, I take it you don't particularly like China and aren't going to be subtle about it. Some subtle ways to accomplish the much same thing without tipping off the victims or unpleasant unintended consequences: - leave the reactors and fissile material alone but muck with the...

I had a "how could things go wrong as side effects of fixing things with these powers?" braindoodle. Here are some of examples: - sequester all nuclear reactor waste not presently in a reactor within the Earth's crust: most smoke detectors stop working. - lower atmospheric temperatures enough...

One of the problems with scenarios like this is that "ZOMG, I've got a power level of 'yes'" tends to outweigh our "don't let anyone know exactly how strong you are" instincts.

You're way more ambitious and less secure than I'd be. I'd be really conservative about how I'd use the granted power and probably wouldn't use it in reality warping ways unless I felt I needed to because a nice nap on a beach is a lot more pleasant than some of the shit I've survived.

Critical means the fission is self-sustaining and controllable. Prompt critical means that the fission is uncontrolled and will continue until it's run its course no matter what you do. It also means that a mushroom cloud larger than the one observed in Japan when Yamato's magazine exploded...

@Crazysaneman: Interesting, but manipulating probability the way you mentined just broke nuclear power. You want the reactor to be critical because you can't generate power if it's not. What you don't want is prompt critical because that's when things go boom in very destructive ways. You...

ROB has decided to gift you nearly unlimited power. You can do the following just by willing it to happen: - change the properties of almost any object within one light-second of where you currently are provided the end result obeys the laws of physics. - change probabilities so a random event...