Everyone in an entire metropolitan area of a major global city suddenly becomes well and truly immortal.
They cease to age, they instantly recover from diseases and become immune to all diseases, and their bodies slowly regenerate from all wounds (much quicker when knitting up a fatal wound). They can still get knocked unconscious from pain.
There are no outward signs that everyone has suddenly been given this gift of immortality.
How many days does it take for people to conclude that something is definitely abnormal here, considering social media?
How long would it take if it was a lesser form of immortality, with the disease immunity, but withOUT the wound regeneration (and thus death by wounds is still possible)?
>>45935535
About a month. Individual people would be figuring it out on day 1, but it would take about a month before everyone got wind of it, and tried it themselves, or saw someone try it in person.
>>45935567
>Day 1 someone tries to kill himself by jumping off a building
>Morbid fuck recording him jump
>Recording him fall
>Recording him splat
>Recording him pick himself up off the pavement
>>45935596
/thread
In the internet age? Within hours.
>>45935535
Probably around a week to sort out exactly what the extent was, but within a few days you'd have enough confirmed events of hospital patients being suddenly cured and miraculous accident survivals that people would be questioning it.
>>45935596
>Recording him pick himself up off the pavement
>They can still get knocked unconscious from pain.
A man being thrown out of a skyscraper would beextremely painful.
>>45935567
It would only take one criminal to find out and go on a crime spree
Not long. Doctors doing emergency room work would likely notice it first when terminal cases refuse to die.
>>45935625
You didn't read the OP closely enough-- "Instantly recover from diseases." Doctors, nurses, and patients all around the city are going to spread the news real quick when they're up and about and have no symptoms at all.
>>45935596
I mean, miracles happen. First people would call fake, then people would assume it's that one in a million chance.
I mean, info now travels instantaneously, but people are also becoming more jaded towards crazy news stories.
I know it might not seem that way with what you see, but trust me, you compare people today to say fifty years ago and you'd be amazed at how much better the average person is at disbelieving crazy shit.
>>45935674
It'll still take them a while to realize what's going on. If all the patients are feeling better one morning, the doctors and nurses are still going to insist they rest just to be safe and run lab tests to make sure that they're actually cured.
If you were at a hospital full of sick people and they all suddenly claimed to be feeling a lot better, you'd probably assume that they had gone crazy or they were just having a good day before you jumped to the conclusion of 'they've all magically cured their diseases and become immortal'. Even if you do jump to that, you probably wouldn't assume that this extends to everyone in the city.
>>45935685
He'd also be KOed for like half a day.
>>45935535
In the city itself? A week at most to realize that immortals are now a thing. Someone is going to get in what should be a fatal car accident and regenerate an entire arm that was cut off during it. News will spread, and at first people will think it's a one-off, new messiah or something until more and more immortals are discovered.
For the world? Maybe a month or two for everyone to really process that a city (lets assume Los Angeles) somehow produced true immortals. There will be some people testing afterwards to see if they themselves became immortals, both in Los Angeles and the world, but it really won't take long. Information spreads like wildfire depending on how crazy it is, and nothing would be crazier than "Man decapitated in construction accident grows back his head!" The only delay will be news agencies (and social media) trying to figure out if its some weird hoax or not.
For the new immortals? Anywhere between an hour to maybe even a couple years. Imagine some amateur boxer goes to his match that night, gets his eye cut open enough for a referee stop to check it, and the cut heals before the ref can even get to that side of the ring to check him. And on the other hand, imagine the people with good luck who live uneventful lives. They leave Los Angeles on a plane after visiting their relatives, go back to their desk job in Slowtown, Idaho, and don't think very much on it when they stub their toe on something and it doesn't hurt for more than a minute. Something HAS to happen to those people because otherwise they'll live a decade or more thinking "Oh no, I'm not one of those crazy people who can't die" up until they notice everyone in their age range is graying and getting sick while they are still in their absolute prime.
The real question is what changes occur to society when we realize immortals exist, and more are being discovered every day.
>>45935940
>the cut heals before the ref can even get to that side of the ring to check him
>slowly regenerate from all wounds
>slowly
>>45935954
Alright, true, but the idea stands. Someone is probably going to get visibly hurt, and be noticeably better off than they should be in the time it takes for someone to check on them, within the day. Within the week it will most definitely happen; any hospital in any major city has to see a lot of action. Someone is going to come into the ER with a major injury and will be partially healed by the time they actually get to see a doctor.
A large city like, lets say NYC, it woukd take hours. A gang wants to ice some fool. Riddled with bullet holes but still kicking.
>>45936035
Then they assume that guy is wolverine and move on with their lives.
Why is everyone thinking that one person living through obvious death means all the people in the city jump to the conclusion that they're all is immortal?
That goes double for your example. Do you think that gang is just going to go happily proclaim to the world that a man survived their attempted murder?
>>45936035
They would assume him dead (KOed) and walk away.
>>45935654
You could just decapitate the criminal.
He's immortal not invulnerable or invincible.
Then you can dispose of said head.
Bury it in a deep hole.
Throw it off a cliff
Throw it into the ocean.
Life is suffering
Immortality = Eternal life = Eternal suffering
Keep going lads this is fun to read.
>>45935535
3 days. 1 day for a few hundred fatally injured or teminally ill people to be miraculously fine, 2 more days for news to spread and be generally excepted
>>45936068
there are millions of people living in a major metropolis, there can be over a hundred people dying every day, just from homocide, in NYC
>>45935535
>How many days does it take for people to conclude that something is definitely abnormal here, considering social media?
>Days
OP, do you know how many people DIE in given day?
We'd be aware of it by something like noon.
>>45936110
But if they can regenerate from all wounds would they regrow a new head or a body? If I cut someone in half which part would heal?
>>45935637
Nah, you do go unconscious but you don't remember anything.
>>45936188
>>45936180
The question is how many people are dying of things that should be readily apparent as fatal.
All those people who would have had heart attacks? They're fine. Same with any similar natural causes deaths.
Accidents? Unless they're really bad ones, it could easily be waved off as luck. Remember that these people will still be passing out from pain.
That also applies to homicides. People survive some crazy stuff, and they're still going to fall over from pain when they get 'killed'.
Only when somebody is there to witness somebody else die of extreme trauma is anything going to seem immediately out of place. Even then, without recording or other witnesses, it'll be tricky to get people to believe it, much less that this is happening to EVERYONE instead of just a select few people.
>>45935535
I don't know but I desperately want this to happen to my city.
I'm sad guys
>>45935637
Why the fuck is Cronk suddenly everywhere? Did he ascend to memehood?
How the fuck have I missed that?
>>45936197
Build a machine that "kills" them over and over. I think Deadpoold did something like this in deadpool kills the marvel universe for people like Wolverine
>>45936330
If is Patcha, not Kronk. Also, it happened on /v/ few weeks ago. Many good Patchas are around.
>>45936068
You're right, but only if you think about it one at a time, and specifically about when they 'die' and not when they recover. As you said, no single case is going to cause people to immediately announce the coming of the new gods. But imagine the amount of people who get in fatal car accidents in a single day for a large city. Hell, what if someone who is just about to flatline in a hospital with family members around them when suddenly they start to stabilize? The guy in a four year coma who starts showing signs of activity?
It'll be jumpstarted if some of the first cases have public 'deaths' and witnesses.
Like a guy who jumps off of a building, hits the ground, and stays there. The gathered crowd assumes he's dead, but he wakes up in a hospital some hours later. EMTs have to do mandatory pulse checks IIRC. They will immediately know the suicide attempt was botched, and 'save' his life, getting him to a hospital where he wakes up later.
Or imagine a dude who shoots himself in the head during a shoot out with the cops. He'll be regrowing chunks of his head by the time they even get the body bag out, and multiple cops will swear the dude shot himself and they'll have the splatter and video to prove it.
In all of these cases, they're going to make full recoveries and THAT'S when shit gets weird/people start wondering.
The act of seemingly dying will not draw any attention; the biggest delay is waiting for the people who should be dying/died of their injuries to make full recoveries. When they do, then it'll hit the news. Maybe one or two will be reported by the end of Day 0. Notable but not enough to be WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM TO BRING YOU BREAKING NEWS, especially if the media only hears of it at the end of a business day. Expect a section in the newspaper and a five to ten minute bit on the local news channels the next morning, if that. Then three days later they'll have at least over a hundred reports of people surviving crazy shit.
>>45936362
Oh, correct.
Kronk was the guy with that bad bitch Yzma.
>>45935535
It wasn't amazing, but Miracle Day from Torchwood covers this exact question (as well as the opposite, what happens if an immortal becomes mortal again).
tl;dr lethal injection while your immortal is horrifying
>>45936392
>Pull the lever, Kronk.
>Wrong leeeevvaaaaahhhhhhrrr!
Also, I rather worry about result of thing like that. People taken into custody at first, bo government to examine them. Later, when it become common knowledge, chaos and hell. People would go batshit because of religion fanatics, people murdering each other - after all, they will wake up later, this isn't death.
Army become useless, at least at time where people manage to get their own weapons... Part of people become humanity new hope, imagine immortal scientists. Medicine would be no longer needed. We could become Gods in time shorter then 1000 years.
>>45936468
I don't think new immortal race will be enough to conquer the world. I mean, it'll cause chaos, but unless they guys have Weapon X tier regeneration this is still something you can quarantine. Plus they fall unconscious when wounded badly enough, and they're generally going to be normalish people who are now immortal. The typical insanity that comes from immortality would still a couple centuries out for most of them.
General chaos and some religious insanity? Yes. New world order? Not by a mile.
>>45936468
>We could become Gods in time shorter then 1000 years.
That largely depends on if in addition to this immortality, we also got boundlesss 'memory space' as humans are wont to start overwriting data or getting messed up be junk data at a certain point (an issue revolving around Alzheimers) and there is no way you could treat everyone on earth with some sort of cure due to the sheer resources involved. Eventually you would have to herd driveling masses and pretty much lock them up as their minds degrade away, becoming mentally dead.
>>45936468
>Armies become useless
Woah chief keep your ego in check for a second
All it would take is a single person shooting you, then once they figured out you were an immortal they could just lock you up in a tiny windowless cell for fucking ever and it wouldn't matter.
It'd be just like going around checking bodies, only one ends with a quick death and the other ends with you buried alive in concrete. It doesn't say shit about you being super strong or invincible.
>>45936510
Depends where it would happens. If you mean large cities, this would be fucking hard. Few millions of people would be very hard to contain and probably before anyone found out about this, some of those people would travel elsewhere.
>>45936506
>humans are wont to start overwriting data or getting messed up be junk data at a certain point (an issue revolving around Alzheimers) and there is no way you could treat everyone on earth with some sort of cure due to the sheer resources involved. Eventually you would have to herd driveling masses and pretty much lock them up as their minds degrade away, becoming mentally dead.
That's so horrifying.
That and, you know, fucked up people locking you, torturing you or victims of human trafficking.
>>45936506
>>45936505
Well, prehaps I indeed get too deep. Still, I say that it would for sure change a lot about world. People rather wouldn't be fond of immortal people out there.
How to treat them? Are they still humans? Should they be locked down? World would have many problems to solve.
>>45935535
Holy fuck thats cute OP got anymore pics like that?
>>45936595
Well in general, as >>45936553 said, it would be hard to keep track a few million people. Hell, it'll be years before anyone pieces together when and where this all started. And even by the time they realize immortals are a thing, how many have scattered to the winds, totally unaware of their new status? How many will attempt to run and hide the moment they fear persecution? How many will attempt to do the same when there actually is persecution?
Even if there was a crackdown, unless there was a world wide, international effort to find them all, immortals are going to slip through the net. And even then, a few of the more clever ones are just going to go to places like the Amazons or Tibetan mountains. Places where it's hard for the regular person to live, much less search through.
Plus a few million is enough population for a stable if not growing population. Can the new immortals still breed? If so, are their children still immortal? Does it dilute with every generation, or does even a drop of immortal blood give you the full benefits?If it's the last case, the new world order thing is actually a possibility, either accidentally or through eugenics.
>>45935535
One day exactly, once everyone in the local hospital gets up and walks out the front door.
>>45936110
This nigga knows what's up.
>>45936197
If we assume that true immortality means everyone regenerates their way out of not only decapitation but total annihilation on a molecular level it would necessitate that every individual cell in your body houses the necessary biological information for rebuilding your body out of... thin air? Dust particles? Surviving from being dipped into antimatter would mean that your essence can survive as a sort of program in the quantum field, waiting for suitable hardware.
>>45935535
considering worldwide hundreds of people die a day, I give it a week.
Without wound regen wouldn't change much when every terminally ill person is suddenly making rapid recoveries
Not sure why people assume leathal occurences would be the first thing to be noticed.
Everbody with minor wounds and sicknesses get better at the same time, tells their friends. People figure out that it also works on new wounds - think accidentals cuts while shaving, that kind of order of magnitude. Some guys start pushing the limit to one up each other. A single confirmed not-death, then everybody goes nuts and makes jackass-stunt youtube channels.
Yes. Everyone.
Another question
How pissed off would the elderly be since they are now forever stuck at age 90, unable to do stuff
>>45939464
I'd assume the regeneration would kick in and reverse the damage caused by their body slowly falling apart and shutting down due to age. So they'd probably be estatic, what with being physically 20 again.
>>45935535
>How many days does it take for people to conclude that something is definitely abnormal here, considering social media?
Less than a week. Days possibly depending on the number of serious accidents that take place in that city. Morgue workers and those in hospitals would be the first to see it.
>How long would it take if it was a lesser form of immortality, with the disease immunity, but withOUT the wound regeneration (and thus death by wounds is still possible)?
Potentially much longer. Years certainly.
>>45939404
>Not sure why people assume leathal occurences would be the first thing to be noticed.
They would definitely stand out more. Some shit the human body is just not meant to survive, making it more dramatic.
But you're right, disease and other injuries would certainly be noticeable due to the quantity. I suppose the question then is how fast does everyone get better? A day for a fatal illness to disappear? Hours? Several days?
>>45936505
well if we're immortal then eventually we'll setlle down, besides, we have all the time in the world for it. then all that's left is to exploit immortality, just like any good human would
>>45939557
would make for a lot of weird one night stands in that first week
>>45935654
Tasers, pepper spray, anything else designed to incapacitate.
>>45939557
conservatives in that city would be a force to be reckoned with, now that gramps is felling strapping again.
>>45935535
Depending on the time of day and random chance it would take about 2-4 hours for everyone to learn it. If it happens at night some people might not find out till they wake up and then it's all over the news and everyone they meet will be talking about it.
How it goes:
1. All the area hospitals know instantly. I give them about 30 minutes before the initial shock wears off and they start finding out that even people who are not already hurt/sick regenerate too.
2. Social media will pick it up from there. Traditional media channels will be close behind. It should be everywhere online and the news within 1 hour of impact.
3. People who are not directly interacting with media or in contact with those who are are going to take a little longer to get the news. That's where the 1-3 extra hours comes in as few people do activities without any outside contact longer than that.
>How many days does it take for people to conclude that something is definitely abnormal here, considering social media?
Never
>>45940076
Damn it. Forgot pic
