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Only 1 per day? I think that would make the hand one of the safer things on Earth
Presumably the odds of getting squished by the hand is 1 in 8 billion-ish, if it’s properly random. The odds of winning the Powerball lottery is apparently 1 in 292 million, so it’s probably not something to really worry about lol.
I wonder if it picks a truly random person, or if it sort of stays in one geographical area and sort of makes its way across continents slowly, like over the span of weeks? If its the former, it would be distinctly unsettling to see it hovering over your city like a thundercloud. If its the latter, it would be quite the spectacle to see it breaking the sound barrier as it hurtles around the world.
It wouldn’t need to break the sound barrier. Killing someone once a day should mean one death every 24 hours (assuming the hand uses its own hand time zone).
The Earth’s circumfrence is about 40,000 km, meaning the hand would need to travel at most 20,000 km in 24 hours which requires a speed of 833 km/h, whereas the speed of sound is 1235 km/h.
You are right, thank you! Unless the Hand wants to get there early so it can spend 12 hours hovering ominously over the person its going to kill.
I suppose if it’s the former it would be even safer, as you could somewhat plan to stay out of it’s way. Or like, if it’s over Europe and you’re in Africa, you know you’re 100% safe for the next little while.
For the latter, maybe it exists in a dimension above our own. By which I mean… imagine if you were a 2D circle on a piece of paper, with a 3D hand pressing it’s finger on the piece of paper. When the hand lifts it’s finger off the paper, it effectively vanishes from your field of reference, then when it presses down somewhere else on the paper it looks like it magically came from nowhere.
What if the target person is indoors or underground? Does it just smash through?
It would be added to the list of things not covered by your insurance, that’s for sure!
One per day? Lawn mowers are about 5 times more lethal than that.
The hand works in mysterious ways.
Right, but how many billionaires die by lawnmower? It’s about the message.
(sorry, that was if we go with this ideabof crushing the wealthiest person every day. OP’s proposal is, yeah, not very interesting haha)
Black & White flashbacks
B&W old schmucks represent!
Everyone is saying it is the least probable cause of death out of all probable causes…Knowing people though, it would easily the most feared and talked about cause of death. There would be an entire lucrative industry of products to “protect” yourself even though they would all be useless scams. People would ignore learning actually valuable information and learn as much about the hand as possible.
Why at random? I’d prefer it crush the wealthiest person on the planet. No way to stop it, doesn’t care if you try to conceal your wealth, it’s omnipotent. Hoarding wealth would be something feared instead of coveted.
There was a duck tails episode like this.
I’m sure there would be many books and religions trying to put reason to The Hand and why it killed the people it did.
Creating nonexistent patterns in an attempt to understand it. There was a cluster of hand killings near a small town in Kyrgyzstan and there’s no way that could just be random chance.
Start doing it from most wealthiest and work it’s way down. So we get to see those rich douchebags frantically trying to spend their wealth away, competing with each other. And probably for good of humanity.
What if instead of a hand it was a giant dick and it jizzed gallons of cum onto the victim until they suffocated?
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
Also, the next victim’s name is displayed on the palm. So, everyone knows you’re it, no one will help you, or let you come inside to hide, because then the building would get crushed.
A significant portion of the population would deny The Hands existance despite overwhelming evidence and blame all hand related crushings on the Jews or brown people.
We would evolve to be very good at dodging. Also, underground cities would be a thing.
How long until someone makes analog horror based on this?
This is religion.
Anyone else remember an eighties or nineties cartoon like batman or something that had an episode with a flying hand like this? IIRC it looked like a mouse cursor… I can’t remember anything else about it.
Holy shit yes and Batman had to tear it open and rip out wires to… take control of how it flew? Was it in a Minotaur maze maybe and they cheated by flying on the hand instead of going through the maze properly?
Edit: found it maybe
“I linked it to my palm top computer”
There’s even a scene where they show how he pulled out two leads and presumably connected over I2C or UART. A lot of detail for a kids cartoon
found it maybe
No, that’s definitely it. Amazing result, thanks!
“In the Arab world, you always eat with your right hand.”
Not to shit on Bats, even Bats of the “Times” as he strikes me as a dude willing to learn and change his views.
That shit just slapped me in the face a little. It slightly shallow racism right? Crazy to think the things we heard and watched when we were kids.
it’s based on islamic values… https://islamqa.info/en/answers/82120/the-reason-why-the-right-hand-is-preferred-over-the-left
maybe culturally simplistic, but I dunno if I’d go as far as racism. it certainly paints with a wide brush…
Thank you for the link. Will check it out.
Bigby’s Smushing Hand?
