Use for a hypothetical portal machine.

Polynoid

Polynoid

Faceless creature in green pullover
Let's start with a "imagine" word, because it's gonna be a bit of a sci-fi topic (i hope).

Imagine a machine that allows you to open a portal of round, oval or rectangle shape and reasonable size, anywhere in the radius of, let's say a apogee orbit of the Moon. It can be adjusted to leave either only radiomagnetic waves or matter through.

Currently, the device can open the portals in given radius, but the control software lacks a concept of positioning in space, that lets the portal stay in place. The image in portal wobbles and wobbling intensifies with increasing distance. You have to find the solution to this problem.

The edges of the portal in matter mode can permeate everything, rendering it dangerous to touch directly. That is also a problem that needs to be solved.

The possible goal using this device is to usher the humanity into interstellar era peacefully and without resorting to illegal actions like opening a portal under Fort Knox.
Killing in self-defense (direct threat) and without revealing the technology is allowed.
It is unadvisabe to reveal the technology to public because this will jeopardize the cause due to mass paranoia.

The device stands on you table. What moral, physical, social problems may occur and how may you solve them? How could you use this device and what could you create with it?
 
Polynoid said:
The possible goal using this device is to usher the humanity into interstellar era peacefully and without resorting to illegal actions like opening a portal under Fort Knox.
Killing in self-defense (direct threat) and without revealing the technology is allowed.
It is unadvisabe to reveal the technology to public because this will jeopardize the cause due to mass paranoia.
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This bit killed it for me, since illegal activities are the only things you could do with this technology without revealing it to the public.

I think I'd just become the world's finest smuggler.
 
Polynoid said:
The possible goal using this device is to usher the humanity into interstellar era peacefully and without resorting to illegal actions like opening a portal under Fort Knox.
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Such a device, if it conserves momentum, will violate the conservation of energy and can thus create free energy. Every issue on Earth solved.
 
Hassknecht said:
Such a device, if it conserves momentum, will violate the conservation of energy and can thus create free energy. Every issue on Earth solved.
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Except the one where (insert government here) has you killed/imprisoned and the device confiscated to be examined by Top...Men.
 
We need to put that technology in a hand held device, some foot wear that prevents fall damage and a murderous A.I with a dry sense of humour to build tons of puzzle rooms and we´re set to go.
 
@Illuminati Confirmed!
Yes, actually the criminal aspect of this technology is tempting. Remember the Jumper movie?
You don't even need to teleport inside the vault, just open a portal underneath it and pray that the floor at the destination is solid enough to catch the booty.
Making people go dead would be easy in most creative way possible.
Beginning with simple slicing in half or teleporting the target in most unfriendly place - or shooting it through the portal with a unmarked gun you acquired right from the conveyor.
You could poison them by injection substances through the portal in their veins, pinch their heart muscle to stop or cause stroke by opening microportals inside them - Deathnote says hello.
Didn't i mentioned industrial espionage? You would be delighted. Just browse the most recent secret inventions right over the shoulder through a miniportal. No secret on Earth will be safe from you, unless you're not interested into or have no time to browse it.

And i have to admit: smuggling would be the most unsuspicious criminal activity.

The only problem is: people always ask questions about sudden disappearances of their funds, mysterious deaths or leaked secrets. In this case you'd should be braced for increased security measures or even traps, if they figure out what you're using. Your activities may also make accountants suspicious. You don't have monetary problems anymore? You don't use transportation? Your mobile phone was located all over the globe and even in space?

Security measures, what would you do, guys?

@Spacemunkey:
Many recreational uses would be sure fun.)
How about most luxurious air conditioning system in the world? Sea air? Siberia? Gentle Tahiti breeze? Just don't open it on the moon...actually...
You can cut deep underneath the moon regolite a hall, fill it with air, cut a bassin in it and fill it with lukewarm water straight from the Pacific. Don't forget the lights. And palms, while you're at it.
http://what-if.xkcd.com/124/
Think big, guys! :D Just meet proper arragements to counter the interest of Men in Black, that nasty kind of.
This makes me wonder, if, how and why you will cooperate with government.

@Hassknecht:
The object subjected to gravity and portals would actually conserve momentum, especially in vacuum, when it can, theoretically, accelerate ad infinitum, because it will not reach the terminal speed due to lack of air resistance.
That would be probably very handy in spaceflight, to sling stuff with sublight speed in space - and then use the portals to make distances really relative. Braking would be probably more difficult.

As for obtaining electrical energy, there might be even a better and direct way to obtain enormous amounts of energy on Earth. I know it, it has to do with magnetism... Will you figure out, what do i mean? ;)

@mrchaos:
Wanna volunteer as a candidate? ;)
 
Polynoid said:
This makes me wonder, if, how and why you will cooperate with government.
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I wouldn't keep the tech if I couldn't pull hope diamond level heists with it. I don't think there would be any cooperation with the government, at best you are secluded and constantly under guard for "your protection," at worst you have an accident and they get it that way. Ironman 2 is a good example of this, if Stark was just an average dude imagine how they would have got the suit, they simply would have taken it. I'd probably need to draw tons of attention to the tech, like going on Shark Tank and selling the idea to Mark Cuban and retiring to a 100 acre ranch in Montana.
 
@Spacemunkey:
I think i'd completely isolate myself, assume a secret identity and remain low profile. If the technology were to become public, i think this would be a sure way to get the Earth in a nuclear war.
Also, Stark wasn't a billionaire for a naught. He was a inventor AND business shark, also, he had many government contracts running - so he was a man that was needed and couldn't be disposed of.
I'd hate to be the disposable man. You also could to have and use this technology discreetly, if known how. I'm interested in the development of this aspect.

As for diamonds... I recall "The Core" movie. You would be able to reach not only into space, but in the deepest inner of the Earth. Assuming there are some druses full of diamonds in the asthenosphere, i would be probably confronted only with the problem of selling big, fat, pure and rare diamonds.
That and maybe finding these druses in the mantle - a dark chamber deep below with a big enough image opening, detector camera (and a spectroscope) as well as the software combing the mantle with the portal would probably be a good solution.
That and maybe building decompression chambers all the way up the asthenosphere - would be probably bad to be met with a molten rock on gigapascals.
I would need mediators and allies, maybe business partners and contractors for turning my production to profit.
Free vacuum in space is a good place for zone melting - producing recrystalized silicone, tantalum, titanium and other rare metals used in hightech and electronics industry.
Using the portals, i could let the devices to be grown layer for layer in a solid brick of titanium, excluding the possibility of industrial espionage.
A tablet or laptop, for example.

One advantage of portals might be the possibility to build a factory in any possible place and build a entrance to it in any other place as well. I could grant entrance for contractors to help me build the factory, pay them, let them go and the moment they bring a team of blackops to my porch, they will find a brick wall behind the frame.
 
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I'm self aware enough to know that while I would eventually use this for the betterment of mankind I am not above teleporting into a buddies bedroom at night with a hockey mask and chainsaw and sending him to therapy for the rest of his life. That's why for me this would be better sold to someone else, after I've had some fun with it.
 
@Spacemunkey:
Or filming Lady Gaga having consensual intercourse in missionary position for sole purpose of procreation, i get it. :D
I am sure our causes are just.

Also, since we're not limited to this, but the topic seems to be kinda boring otherwise, let's use the portals for cooling beer.

In space.
 
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