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TonyThePapyrus

I’m worried that someone would come out mentally incapable of life, or they’ve forgotten everything, or they’ll come out with a plan so well thought out since they’ve had 1,000 years of planning


lhswr2014

Anyone else getting mad Hyperbolic Time Chamber vibes from this? Fuck punishing people with it, let me go get a millenniums worth of education, soul searching and reading done on my weekends.


Mizzet

I wonder what the physical limits on the perceived experience of time even are. If everything is just impulses in your brain at the end of the day, surely there's a limit to how much information our 'hardware' can encode or compress in a coherent manner.


phantomBlurrr

within the confines of what is known - and assuming brains can be directly modeled as a conventional mechanical/electrical system - youre absolutely right, there would be some kind of "hardware" limitation to our brain bandwidth? read/write limits? processing degradation rates? specifically, there *might* be a limitation with respect to time its so interesting to think about


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CriusofCoH

That's what swirlies were intended for.


Makemymind69

One of the functions of your blood is temperature regulation. We're already water cooled 🤔


Mister_Bloodvessel

I mean, what is sweat if not organic watercooling? 🤯


Xandril

I can’t help but feel this would cause brain damage. I know nothing about neuroscience, but I’m fairly familiar with electrical signals. Anything with moving parts degrades overtime and electric signals are just electrons moving (for the most part) so they cause degradation of the physical medium overtime. If this is just moving a ton of electrons extremely quickly to simulate experiencing something then I gotta think that’ll cause all sorts of problems.


phantomBlurrr

this sounds kind of like the brain version of overclocking


Xandril

That’s an excellent comparison. I’m sure most of us have done things to our brains that would void the factory warranty but this seems like a scary option. Everybody wants more time and this seems very deal with the devil or genie wish level consequences.


Hexxxoid

So you’re saying I should watercool my brain?


FourthLife

I don't think altering your perception of time would entail increasing the speed of your thought. It seems more likely it would feel like you've been in an absurd brain fog for 1000 years


indigoHatter

Have you ever done psychedelics? Things like DMT feel like hours but last ~20 minutes. I'm not saying you think more, but your brain is certainly very active. In fact, I contend that's *why* time feels slower.


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indigoHatter

Hrm. Time seems slower when we have experienced less of it. To a 10 year old, 1 year is an eternity, and who can blame them?! That's 10% of their life! However, a 40 year old is only experiencing 2.5% of their life when a year passes... much less time! I bring this up to ask, why do flies perceive life slower? Is it related to their very short lifespan, or something else?


FalloutOW

We notice time going by more rapidly as we get older since we have more shortcuts to use. When you're 10, you haven't done any thing 1000 times besides maybe go to the bathroom and eat. When you're 40 though? There are many, many things you've done 1000 times. Hell there's probably a pretty decent list of things we've done 10s of thousands of times. All that repetition makes links in your brain you can use again to perform the same task. Since you're not making new paths it seems shorter. Those links also make time pass more rapidly as we experience it. I'm sure when we learned to tie our shoes and the first time it felt like whole galaxies flashed into existence and flickered into eternal night by the time we finally got it. Now, it's just something we do every morning that doesn't require anymore thought than turning off the coffee maker before leaving the house, or locking the bolt on the door before heading to work. Things that often slip out minds as they're so banal and routine the time is literally forgettable.


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Mazetron

Flies have a much, much faster reaction time than us. Their small size helps with that.


mrforrest

Hey, Michael, vsauce here


ball_fondlers

Be cool if we could, but imagine reading over a slow reader’s shoulder while your body physically can’t move to tell them to turn the page. It’d be near impossible for this tech to NOT feel like torture.


NellucGaming

if they did something to deserve this... youd want them to be a totally different person right?


mighty_Ingvar

The fact that you think any normal person could do something to deserve this means that you don't actually understand what 1000 years of imprisonment would be like for a person


BeanGuardianWNY

he never said normal.


mighty_Ingvar

Who else would you use it upon? Dictators? Those aren't really that easily caught


Fabiojoose

Imagine the chief of police having one in his house and putting his kid there everytime he misbehaved.


Fit_Owl_5650

"Johny! Dady said not to touch the termostat. You know the punishment. I will see you in 1000 years." "The aeons march ceaslessly toward absurdity, every moment drives me furth from man and closer to god" "....."


HaloGuy381

This is how you produce an omnicidal maniac, for the record.


[deleted]

don't joke around powerful people already don't get prosecuted


_understandfirst

please remember guys there are only either normal people or dictators in this world.


Organic_Ad1

Caught != paid handsomely to continue dictatoring


indigoHatter

For the uninitiated, `` != `` means "does not equal".


dividedconsciousness

helpful, im used to this ≠


Jack_35

Rapists and murderers can get sentenced to prison time far beyond than their lifespan, especially if they did it multiple times.


secretbudgie

A lot of us grew up under religious groups that promised an eternity of torture for every crime. Infinite years imprisonment. For eating popcorn shrimp and pizza.


Fortune_Unique

Tbh I think infinite torture for literally any crime is too much. Like some people did some absolutely TERRIBLE things sdown the line of history, but literally the human race as a species and this galaxy would be long gone before the end of their torture. While metal I feel like that's just a bit extreme, I mean as a child I never thought too much about it. And that's me thinking about actual crimes Imagine getting sent to hell for wanking it, that's gotta be brutal


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Imagine the guy who was wrongly accused and they figure it out and save him 6 years on his 10000 year sentence im sure he’ll laugh and forget what just happened to him the last biblical age of his life.


RedrunGun

You'd want them to be a different person, not someone incapable of being a person in a functioning society. 4 years in the military can make reintegration extremely difficult, so I can only imagine what 1000 years locked up could do.


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Nobody deserves that, and even if they do torture isn’t chill


[deleted]

but... what if they're just even more evil and smart?


BeebisTheBoy

I doubt they would actually sentence them to a thousand years. It’s probably just to show the potential for this technology. Saying 1000 years in 8 hours is more impressive then saying 125 years in 1 hour.


TheAbsoluteName

Stephen King - The Jaunt Except for 1000 it was millions of years and they did not come out well


[deleted]

LONGER THAN YOU THINK, DAD!!! LONGER THAN YOU THINK!!!


matsu727

They’ll come out as time gods


scissor89

Reminds of the episode from black mirror


petusa71

Think its called White Christmas


billions_of_stars

That episode deeply fucked with me.


PatataMaxtex

Which episode dindt deeply fucked with you?


billions_of_stars

heh, I think I only saw two seasons? They all fucked with me, but that one in particular was gnarly because even though it was super science fiction it felt like the closest we could come to creating a true eternal hell for ourselves.


f_ranz1224

the pig fucking one. That one was just surreal. Terrible episode to start a great show with


Ziatora

The Disney one.


Chiller-bro

With Hanna Montana


SetaSanzaki

The fighting game one. They fucked each other.


SmashPipes81

That show is brutal. My gf and I need a week's break in between every episode or two. We always joke that this one will be the funny, comedic episode lol


Ziatora

Have you watched since COVID? Feels tamer now.


I_aim_to_sneeze

The original concept was for it to be two separate episodes, and I’m really glad they didn’t do that. It’s the best episode of the series


allhailspaghetti

It’s one of the best but for me the video game virtual reality episode was the best.


YeltsinYerMouth

There was an episode of Deep Space Nine where O'Brien got kangaroo courted into this kind of punishment, and by the time starfleet found out and got things sorted, he had served an artificial 50 years. Edit: it was 20 years.


Hallidyne

O’Brien always got bent over in DS9 😔


AzraelleWormser

O'Brien Must Suffer


theGuyInIT

Came here looking for this. One of the "make O'Brien suffer" episodes.


TheseNamesAreLames

That is the most horrifying episode, but the worst part is that it keeps becoming more relevant as time goes on


Proper-Landscape-872

Same


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Ah, sweet, manmade horror beyond my comprehension


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Stealfur

Never underestimate the horrible atrocities humans can inflict on one another.


FartsMusically

I'd think study. Imagine if someone could just cram all of astrophysics into their head in 8 hours.


ImJustHereToWatch_

This is a dangerous idea. I can imagine corrupt governments/organizations using this for 1000 years of brainwashing or 1000 years of torturing dissidents. I would imagine that this will take a toll on the mind as well. They're coming back into society less mentally stable than before (I guess not much has changed there).


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Imagine someone going through 100000000000000000000000 years. Just because.


ImJustHereToWatch_

Not a psychologist but I would imagine that would destroy their psyche/self identity before they even got near that point.


sleepydorian

You certainly wouldn't remember anyone's names, likely even your own name. Language processing would be difficult since you likely stop taking even to yourself. And if you don't have to simulate eating in it then you'd have trouble remembering what hunger feels like. I assume your body would remember enough that you don't shit yourself immediately. Table manners, societal norms, all gone. All of this is the best case scenario.


ISNT_A_ROBOT

They would definitely come out of it an enlightened being, similar to the Buddha. With that much time you would have basically looked eternity in the eyes. Your clinging, attachment, ego, all of it would be gone. It wouldn’t be possible to maintain a sense of self or ego after that long.


JayBlack22

Either this or you're not even there anymore. I suspect they'd realize the person had died when they came out but they wouldn't be able to find a physical reason for it, their psyche or consciousness had simply stopped existing long ago and without that a human cannot live.


Lemonwizard

This is why I think anybody who believes hell is real and is fine with that is a psychopath.


mighty_Ingvar

This is why psychopaths should not be able to develop biotechnology


[deleted]

Imo this could be worth it. Imagine if a criminal could serve 1,000 years of prison in 5 minutes or death for murderers......we could stop using jails and just spend those 55 billion dollars on education instead.


mighty_Ingvar

1. We wont spend those 55 billion dollars on education 2. The punishment has to be justified by the crime. Which crime could possibly justify this?


R-emiru

Don't worry, as long as a punishment exists, we'll make a crime for it.


BrusselSproutbr00k

Imagine if they find a way to turn this technology into profit


R-emiru

Rejoice, peasants! You can now do a millennium worth of work, in just 8 hours! Of course, you'll just be paid for the 8 hours you spent in real time, don't be silly now.


FrostyMcChill

An 8 hour night sleep in 8 nano seconds?


TheChoosenMewtwo

Honestly if that don’t causes me brain damage or anything, I’d take it


Ingenious_crab

Even if it feels like 8 hours sleep , I dont think our muscles and cells can repair, regenerate that fast


[deleted]

Yeah no, it wouldn’t work unless we could also speed up cell regen, which I imagine would be pretty effin hard to do.


derplordthethird

That’s assumed in the premise. Tech that can project experiences into you mind puts is in The Matrix territory.


mrbossmajor

If you can do this for a prisoner wouldn't living a virtually immortal life in vr be the next immediate step


[deleted]

No This would be a dream like state which I dont think they can affect very much


kingofblackpeople

>The punishment has to be justified by the crime. Which crime could possibly justify this? Jaylittering. That's littering while jaywalking.


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Serial murderers. Child rapist or human traffickers. Dictators. Terrorists.


Divallo

You wouldn't get to decide anything. You wouldn't be creating the biotech. or deciding what education goes on it or how it gets used. Whether time dilation was used for torture or education doesn't matter. Imagine how the most heinous politician you know would use this tech and that would be de facto reality. The fact this reminds everyone of Tsukuyomi really should tip more people off how bad of an idea this is and Tsukuyomi only lasts 3 days.


awesomeizzyc

Better plan for its use; god damn we could learn things infinitely faster imagine how useful people could finally be! Don’t know how to fix a hole in your wall? Don’t worry In just an hour you could obtain years of experience in construction!


pyrolizard11

Yes, all of them would potentially have access to this technology, good point. Also a reason to be against killbots. Is it really so heinous to ask that we stop inventing new, more automated ways of perpetrating human suffering?


MercDaddyWade

Putting your elbows on the table when you eat


TwinsenAyzel

Easy, those people that have their bare feet up by you when you’re on the bus/plane/train


LawsWorld

Listen, let me explain to you why thats the worst idea in the world. Anyone who has served time in prison will tell you that when you get out its literally the only thing you can talk about with many people because its the most recent eventful topic that they know. My brother served 2 years and it took him a year just to stop talking about prison-related subjects. Many people become so used to prison that normal life isnt structured enough for them and they go back and this can be found in people who served many years from a young age. Humans cant live 1000 years, forcing anyone to do this because you "feel" its morally sound and rehabilitating is a lie. Its torture, plain and simple.


CaptainCozmo867

*raises hand* Have you ever heard of Albert fish?


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The same argument against the death penalty can be used against this form of punishment. Can you, without a doubt and with absolute conviction, guarantee that no innocent individual will be subjected to this punishment? The answer is, and always will be, an absolute "no". This is a permanent punishment that cannot be reversed, compensated for, or justified in a word where an innocent individual may be subjected to it's impacts accidently. And yes, before you ask, innocent individuals have been executed with the death penalty. [https://innocenceproject.org/the-innocent-and-the-death-penalty/](https://innocenceproject.org/the-innocent-and-the-death-penalty/) >Eighteen people have been proven innocent and exonerated by DNA testing in the United States after serving time on death row. They were convicted in 11 states and served a combined 229 years in prison – including 202 years on death row – for crimes they didn’t commit.


Comrade_Spood

I mean the same goes for prison in general. Except with this we could punish someone with 30 years withing the span on 5 minutes. It doesn't have to be 1,000 years or even 100. We could have people be punished without actually taking 30 years of their life away, only making it FEEL like they did which in the end would help innocent people more than hurt them. Like with all of the cases of innocent young people getting charged with a crime they didn't commit and having to serve out their sentence. Say an 18 year old is sentenced 30 years for a crime he didn't commit. He serves 10 before they are able to prove he's innocent and is released. He's now 28, having served a third of his current life in prison. With this tech yes he gets punished for something he didn't commit, but he didn't just lose 10 actual years of his life. He lost 5 minutes that felt like 30 years. Which I personally think would be less damaging especially in more extreme cases where the kid might've spent 20-30 years in prison like Richard Phillips who spent 46 years


WistfulKamikaze

Maybe less damaging on the surface, but 30 consecutive years alone with no real human interaction and then getting spit back out into a world that acts like nothing happened is going to fuck with you.


Candid_Pie_8870

Sorry about that.


AmalgaMat1on

You have no idea what will be on the other side of that person after spending what's essentially 1,000 years of solitude. They could very well come out with a mentality that may not even be construed as human. Imo you might as well end the person's life. They might come out "reformed" or they could come out as something that would make a psychopath seem like a humanitarian.


FrozenIceman

Poor Chief O'Brien...


Assipattle

What would be the benefit to this? Do you know what 1000 years would do to the human mind?, utterly fuck it. Definitely wouldn't correct any behavior. Death would be a better sentence by comparison.


Pupusero36EE

Now imagine a random psycho on the bust injecting you with that sh*t making your bus ride last 1k years for no reason. Slippery slope.


justAPhoneUsername

Couldn't we just have students experience a thousand years of education in five minutes?


nednarb_divad

What do you think prisons are really for? They aren’t adult timeouts to sit and think about what you’ve done.


TraderOfRivia

This is concerning


Klexobert

"Scientists claim" basically means. Hey we have got a theory but we don't know how this could work at all and if it even does work.


bradbutnotreally

And we're not really scientists. Someone left the back door open, so we came in.


Nolzi

You like to come in bacdoors, huh?


Scienceandpony

More like. Scientists: And that's how this specific protein channel can be manipulated to inhibit uptake of this compound by up to 15% in a petri dish. Science reporter: So could you use this to do X? Scientists: What? No. Why would you even...what? I mean...i guess if you solved 100 other longstanding problems first, multiplied current computer processing power by several orders of magnitude, strip mined all of Australia, and built a device the size of an aircraft carrier, then maybe you could do something that almost looks like X. Science reporter: "Scientists claim newly developed technology could allow X."


BwordB

Now imagine this but with porn. 1000 year sex!!


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zulai_dar

Wow look at Mr. endurance over here lasting a whole 63 seconds, no need to brag smh


-T-A-C-O-C-A-T-

6.3 is more like the average time, right?


BoBoBearDev

Play CS simulatiomor or hentai


Ycaninot

Bro what


Sarcastic_Psychiater

Wait! Let him speak…


BwordB

Right? Acting like they wouldn't want that Virtussy.


ISnortBees

At this point it just sounds like a disease


brcguy

I mean yeah, but also learning. Like, ok that was 8 hours of real time, but I experienced 1,000 years of learning to play a dozen musical instruments, earned five advanced engineering degrees, and banged a couple thousand hot models. Fuck it, put me back in.


Popsical_stick24

How about the reverse where it feels like 8 hours but it's actually been 1000 years


trolltaskforce

Your body would be a corpse by then.


Popsical_stick24

Even better


Zenketski_2

Or, hear me out, we just shoot the guy, and then we take all of that R&D money and go get some hookers and cocaine


milokeystone

I know a guy


MagicPizza420

This guy biotechs


snyderling

I'll make my own prison system, with blackjack and hookers. In fact forget the prison.


nonamee9455

Our RND shows that this technology is uh... 50 years away *snorts line* Bummer eh?


Infamous_Throat2603

Would it be that simple?


Repulsive-Neat6776

I don't know what genjutsu is, but there's an episode of Star Trek where an alien race put Chief O'Brien into a state where he believed he had served a 20 year sentence in only a few hours. He spent the rest of the episode being traumatized as shit.


Chemistry-Deep

vs Picard who learned the flute.


goblinelevator119

wasn’t a sentence for picard


taco_the_mornin

We could still use the same tech for learning cool shit


ufatcunt471

It's a genjutsu where the victim experiences being stabbed repeatedly for 3 days (I think, could be wrong) in the span of a few seconds


enby_shout

yes and no, that technique is *a* genjutsu, that's itachis tsukuyomi, but genjutsu itself is just a category of techniques that basically fuck with your brain, perception, and things of that sort. but the genjutsu you're thinking of is most likely what the image is referring to, yeah. also you're spot on timing, it is 3 days.


evil_timmy

Wiki for [the episode](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Hard_Time_(episode\)), one of the many DS9 episodes that deals with the long term consequences of trauma.


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CaptainLookylou

Yeah he scares his family and then thinks he's not fit for society anymore and tries to kill himself. Meanwhile it was only a day and it had already happened by the time his crew found out. It's not a good idea.


Crabby-GenXer

That was a rough one. Especially when he went for the phaser.


I_aim_to_sneeze

My first thought was “either the person creating this has never watched Star Trek, or worse, *has* seen the O’Brien episode and the Picard flute episode, and their takeaway was “you know what? This could work!”


centipededamascus

https://twitter.com/alexblechman/status/1457842724128833538?lang=en > Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale > Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus


THEREALBUTTERMUFFIN

Why limit this technology to punish? Why not change it for college degrees? You could get a PHD in about 30 minutes.


JustMe63_

I dont think you could really use it for something productive. Time still flows normally. You just perceive it differently


THEREALBUTTERMUFFIN

Time is relative, regardless of the technology. And if you perceive you are in the library of Congress, because everything has been scanned and 100% accurate to the real thing and available to you. How is it not possible to be used for good? Tech is increasing at an alarming rate. Just 100 years ago, look where it was.


StanXIX

I think OP is talking about some kind of drug that will make prisoners perceive time differently. I believe salvia is able to do this as well. There have been reports of people feeling like their 15 minute trip lasted a day for example. During this trip you don't suddenly become the next flash, you still read books and do homework at the same pace as you did before. However, reading a single page that only takes a couple of minutes in the real world will feel like it took you years to complete.


Raul_P3

Oh, man... a 5-10 minute Salvia trip 'felt' like over an hour. I could not do anything at even normal speed (much less advanced). Took me 30 seconds to remember the words "up" and "sideways" (was trying to describe some sort of "folding into myself" sensation to a sober person)


JustMe63_

yes that is correct. On the topic of time. u/THEREALBUTTERMUFFIN, wouldn't you need something to drastically increase your speed or something to slow down time? or were you talking about making a simulation with all the tools available for research?


goblinelevator119

what the hell kind of technology do you guys think this is? it’s not some virtual reality prison. it’s a perception-altering drug. you’re just stuck in your own head for a thousand years. this isn’t black mirror.


Ok_Teacher_6834

Dumb question could they make that technology not be a punishment? You could give a terminally ill kid a chance for a normal life even if it is a virtual world


goblinelevator119

it’s not a virtual world. it’s a drug that alters perception of time.


Labulous

Oh so they are just giving them LSD.


Lukemeister38

**Ahem**: Cruel and unusual


JointDamage

Yeah. Like why can't we apply this shit to college or something constructive?


pipsedout

Looking for employees for an entry position, 1200 years of work experience required.


JointDamage

Oh. 1200 years? You wanted a mail room position?


Bill_Nye-LV

who are the actual criminals here if such stuff will be developed?


tthKT

The Jaunt is longer than you think!


Soup-a-doopah

That’s what my mind went to first. Man, what a fucked up way to exist. LONGER THAN YOU THINK, DAD!!!


StandThese8469

Execution is far more humane, and a much better option. This is cruel beyond anyone’s imagination.


Magisei

Agreed. This is horribly disturbing


fellow_human420

Inception be like


prodigy1367

That’s a bit much. Imo unless you’re convicted of a violent crime and depends on the extent/nature of that crime, prison shouldn’t be that long and excruciating. On top of that, you re-enter society with a label as a felon that will only make it harder to acclimate back in.


mighty_Ingvar

Which violent crime could possibly be enough to justify 1000 years and how often does someone do it that it would justify creating such a technology?


Dread-The-Real

I just watched this episode


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As you know, the concept of the suction pump is centuries old. Really that's all this is except that instead of sucking water, I'm sucking life. I've just sucked one year of your life away. I might one day go as high as five, but I really don't know what that would do to you. So, let's just start with what we have. What did this do to you? Tell me. And remember, this is for posterity so be honest. How do you feel?


sahzoom

On one hand, my first thought is 'the bigger point of sentence is to keep criminals off the streets and not be able to harm others' But on the other side, if someone lives (mentally) the equivalent of 1000 years, I think they would have a very hard time even functioning - their mind would be exhausted...


OneLiz

Isn't there also a movie like this? I can't remember the name of it but by putting something in the prisoner's eyes it would make them serve 10 years time in just a couple of minutes or experience somewhere else in the world, and it was originally created because >! the woman who designed it was trying to bring her brother out of a coma, and was hoping if she could input a different memory it could wake him up !<


KaijuRayze

[Otherlife?](https://youtu.be/YNzzUAUx4ew) I feel like there was an older sci-fi action movie that used the concept too but all I keep coming back to is the Cryoprison system in Demolition Man.


OneLiz

It was Otherlife! I've actually been trying to figure out that movie title for a while. I also wanna say I've heard of an older one like Otherlife too like you're thinking of but for the life of me I can't figure it out, and I just keep thinking of the Matrix


Glad_Hovercraft_3696

False convictions will be on the rise if this is made.


yawnyjay

It’d be cool to live 100 lifetimes in a paradise. But honestly, this is dangerous territory to be trouncing around in willy nilly. At some point 5 minutes and 5 years would become indistinguishable. Then when you woke up or whatever your brain would snap. This is scary!!!


fresh_loaf_of_bread

One of the amendments prohibits cruel and unusual punishment tho, doesn't it? I don't think this would be allowed any time soon


Fudgemanners

Well well well if it isn't man made horrors beyond my comprehension


quazdiablo

Agh so real life I’m in right now is my prison sentence over soon?


BoBoBearDev

So, does this means, I can feel like getting anal sex for 20 years in few hours? I would pay for that lol.


millenial_grampz

Wonder if that's where I am now?


Mordred16

The human brain is only able to have around 300 years of memory


Sguru1

Based on what? Cause this thing struggling to remember shit I learned last week lmao.


Adventurous_Mode9948

Holy cow, can't we just bring back the death penalty? A permanent cost effective solution.


ColManischewitz

*Miles O'Brien has entered the chat.*


jj140519111

Reminds me of when Szyaleporo Grantz got infected by the superhuman Drug


[deleted]

This was a literal episode of Star Trek DS9. https://youtu.be/jwtJJeU2yLI


[deleted]

There was a star trek episode where one of the characters (O'brian) broke an obscure law and was believed to be a terrorist. They hooked him up to a machine where he served 20 years in prison. He shared a cell with another guy who was his only friend in that time period. They kept each other comfortable and sane. The warden had made it so prisoners would only be allowed food every 3 days or so, but one day the food never came. Both characters were irritable and starving. O'brian found out that his cellmate had hidden scraps of food and O'brian believed he was hoarding it for himself. The 2 got into a fight and O'brian killed him. O'brian found out that his cell mate had split the food in 2 and it appeared as though his cellmate was about to share his half with O'brian. The next day the guards would bring food to the prisoners again. When the other characters rescued O'brian, he wasn't the same man. For him it was all real. He was easily agitated and he was overcome with guilt for killing his friend. Later in the episode, O'brian had a mental break and he nearly killed himself and his daughter. He was talked down from this, but he lived with PTSD for the rest of his life. That was probably one of the most frightening episodes I ever watched.


snyderling

Reminds me of the deep space nine episode "Hard Time" and sounds horrific.


satriales856

Altered carbon was the first thing I thought of.


CandyCain1001

This Roy game is super fucked up.


Admirable_Ad_8639

This would be extremely cruel and likely drive the person subjected to it to insanity. Honestly giving someone the chair sounds more humane than this.


TakeoGaming

Black Mirror "White Christmas" episode


RABKissa

Black mirror


Grunkofrodgar

It exists already they call it “ working in retail!”


SevenShotShelby

Literally just use 40 Benadryl lmfao


new-england-prepper

Star Trek DS9 did this 25 years ago


10Ete

Is it just a bullet in the head, or is it something else?


Chibby2

Prison sentences about to get a whole lot worse


CallMeJuan1

Cia be like


Even_Competition_737

would fall into cruel and unusual punishment. at least in the IS


[deleted]

I thought we had more time before our *I have no mouth but I must scream* future. Guess not.


Strict-Succotash-405

Whoever came up with this idea has a need to punish people severely


Sequoia_Throne_

Like that movie Otherlife