Superman Through the Ages! Forum

I have in mind the silver-age Lex Luthor, a super-genius super-scientist.  He was basically "more intelligent than an army of Einsteins".  With his intellect he could do just about anything he wants to do.  Imagine that you have that super-intellect.  What would you do with it?  Keep in mind that in this scenario there are no super-heroes, & no super-villains.  Unless you create some.  Here are some of the things i would do:


         1.)  Eliminate most (if not all) diseases.


         2.)  Build the biggest fortune in history.  Make Bill Gates look dirt poor in comparison.


         3.)  Scan Venus & Mars for life of any kind.  If satisfied there is none there, terraform them.


         4.)  Invent working ftl/warp drive.  As well as working time machines, & vehicles for exploring the multiverse.  


         5.)  Using resources in the asteroid belt ( as well as near-earth objects) create space habitats.  Outfit them with ftl/warp drive so they could be used to help colonize planets throughout the universe.


          And of course there are other things i would do if i had that super-intellect.

With that level of super-intelligence building a multi-trillion dollar fortune should be super-easy.  Sell a few minor patents for financing.  Use that money to acquire/create the proper equipment for salvaging sunken treasure & shipwrecks.  It's been estimated that there is more than enough lost/sunken treasure to pay off the national debt, several times.  Then with the proceeds from that build a financial/business empire.  In the process acquire whoever you sold those initial patents to.  That way you have control of all your creations.  Most of them at least.  



        Imagine the special zoos/habitats such a super-genius could create.  Habitats representing various points from earth's past.

Invent a weather control machine that could turn away or negate Hurricanes. And than give the plans away to the world for free. Than I would supply the world with the parts and mechanisms and rare materials necessary to build them at a profitable price!

Weather control would be a good thing to do.  Imagine if we had control of the weather.  Tornadoes, hurricanes global warming/cooling would be things of the past.  Also i would find ways preventing earthquakes & volcanic eruptions.  Those ways would involve somehow relieving the internal pressures that cause earthquakes & volcanic eruptions.  



       Using time travel to learn more about our true history.  At the very least i would map out my own family tree over the past several millenia, or more.  Create a real Jurrasic (sp?) Park.  As well as parks representing every other period in the evolution of life on earth.  Not with cloning, but by gathering species & habitats through time travel.  Would be interesting to learn how usefull the Apatasaurur/Brontosaurus is for food.  Brontoburgers, anyone? :wink: :lol:

Certainly weather control and/or the ability to manipulate other natural disasters would be among Luthor's most secret assets.  Imagine the wealth and public good will that could be generated when Luthor is the first at a disaster zone with food and relief supplies, while his construction subsidiaries land lucrative rebuilding contracts.  (Why go through a bidding process when they're already on scene?)  And not to mention the side revenue generated by Lex's rescue equipment manufacturers, emergency housing contractors, medical providers, casket builders...  (CASKET BUILDERS?)  :shock:

Lex doesn't have to buy up Mojave Desert property and stage "The Big One", but a few remote-controlled hurricanes and tornados every year can result in a guaranteed revenue stream.  And wasn't it so unfortunate for Lex's business competitors that their headquarters JUST SO HAPPENED to be totalled in an earthquake, demolished by a funnel cloud, or BURIED IN LAVA?   :wink:

Some might wonder how Lex can ALWAYS be there when disaster strikes, while others accuse him of "profitting off human misery".  But PR agencies can easily make Lex into a hero for the masses, trumpeting his generous relief donations and speedy assistance compared to local, state and federal bureaucracies.  The fact that Lex's relief and rebuilding campaigns are carefully planned IN ADVANCE is naturally NEVER revealed, nor that Luthor actually CAUSES the disasters in the first place!   :twisted:

Diabolical!

and compared to federal agencies, fast

he wouldn't have to do much to seem fast compared to 2 days later!

How about the goodwill Lex would get by preventing all natural disasters? :wink:   And the public gratitude.  He would have all humanity feeling indebted to him.  Imagine he does that & cures at least the 10-30 worst diseases.  Heck he even cures "old age".

everything but male balding  :cry:

He could probably cure it if he really wanted to.

:s:

In the imaginary story about Superman Red & Superman Blue, Lex finds a way to eliminate all disease from the earth.  He pours his creation down the sink in his prison cell.  I believe his creation was a form of self-replicating nanite.  Baldness was one of the many many things it cured.



       Back to my original topic.  Imagine that you had the super-intellect of the pre-crisis Earth-1 silver-age Lex Luthor, "more intelligent than an army of Einsteins".  You can create/invent just about anything that you can imagine.  Otherwise, you are still the same person you are now.  What would you in this real world do?

In the real world what would I do?

I'd make a brainwave direction detector and tune it in on Osama Bin L.
Than I'd suit up in my super green and purple flying armor. I would track him down and tie him up so he dangled from the flagpole of the United nations flagpole in NYC than I would make sure he stood trial for his crimes.

I'd make a giant underwater vegetable and fruit farm  in the Atlantic tended and picked by cyborg dolphins and feed all the hungry of the world.

I'd build a bubble city on the Moon in the sea of Tranquility near where the apollo 11 landed and make a complete self sustaining city, than I'd build spaceships to allow anybody who wanted to to go to the moon to colonize it for free.

I'd send a drone rocket into orbit of earth to spray a mist of chemical compounds which would render harmless all cocaine and heroin and poppy products and plants  (every plant in the world) and thus start to win the war on drugs

Actually there is enough food to feed everyone on earth.  It's politics & economics that cause mass starvation.  Dictators like Mugabe who sabotage their own countries food production.  In order to stay in power.  Zimbabwe (sp?) used to be a food exporter.  Now they seem to be losing the ability to feed themselves.  And there is Sudan that has used food as a weapon.   Remember Gerard K. O'Niell?  One of his ideas was to build artificial space habitats.  Using the resources of the moon, & asteroid belt.  Those habitats would be immense hollow cylinders.  Spin them to get the desired gravity.  It occurs to me that they would make the perfect super-mega-farms.  No pesticides, herbacides, or other poisons would be needed.  The space-farms would be completely automated.  



       here are my latest thoughts on what i would do if i were a super-genius:


         1.)  Build the biggest personal fortune this earth has ever seen.  As well as the biggest corporate empire.


         2.)  Provide humanity with nigh-infinite sources of energy, that are also almost free.  

       
         3.)  Find ways to prevent all natural disasters from happening.  Find cures for most (if not all) disease & disability.  That would include curing old age.


         4.)  Devise a way to quickly terraform other planets.  Once it's determined they don't already have life of some kind.


         5.)  Invent a ftl/warp drive capable of billions of lightyears in less than one earth year.  


         6.)  Create space habitats.  If possible outfit some with ftl/warp drive.  Send them to other star systems.  Each habitat would orbit the planet it's there to colonize.


         7.)  Create working time machines & interdimensional travel vehicles.



        If there were a real-life Lex Luthor who did all that, how would everyone react to that?  How would you react?

sounds good to me.  Lex woul d probabllly be named man of the year.

Did you hear about the time Supermans archenemy went on vacation in Las Vegas?    
He stayed at " the Lex Luxor hotel".

Then he bought some rare WW2 german guns at a gun show. What kind?
Why a "Lex Luger" of course.

Later he designed a super fast vehicle for the Metropolis Winter Olympics, which he called what?  The Lex Luger. ( you know the Luge sled )

 Then he went home , but forgot his keys to the castle, so of course Lex had to climb in through the Lex Louvre glass door.

Finally he built a time machine and went back to old Germany and nailed the 95 theses to a church door. Way to go Lex Luther.

Okay, I'm groaning here.   :D
That last one would nake a pretty good comic book story.