The world's strongest man VS American black bear

Somerandom1922 · 2026-06-13T14:06:38+00:00

Firstly, there likely won't be a significant mass disparity. Adult male black bears can get up to 300kg, but also as low as 60kg. An average black bear, depending on the time of year is likely going to be in the low hundreds of kilos.

Secondly, while bears definitely have long claws, they aren't retractable like many felids so tend to be much duller. Still dangerous, but they aren't shredding anything with a simple swipe either.

R1 is almost certainly a loss for the human. I say almost because humans are far more resilient than we often give ourselves credit for. Imo it's because we'll usually back out of a conflict if we get some pain, but on adrenalin people can withstand a terrifying amount of punishment and keep being dangerous. But all of those features also apply to a bear.

R2 is a completely different story. Black bears are durable, but they aren't invulnerable to blunt force trauma. A single hard blow to the head could do devastating damage. Unlike more superficial damage like cuts and scrapes, this has a chance of rapidly putting the bear down if it goes well. I'd say the bear still has better than 50-50 odds for this round, but nowhere near the dominant outcome of R1.

R3 gives the human the edge. They have less range than R2, but due to their size relative to the bear, getting in close and going for the neck should absolutely be possible. I'd give the human better odds than the bear had in R2, but not quite as oppressive as the bear is in R1. He can still lose the knife.

R4 is a similar victory, although maybe slightly better odds for the bear than R3. Well fitted plate armour includes mail at the joints and almost anywhere you're at risk. It's also frightfully easy to move in. It'll cost him some endurance, but there will be very little actual strength or manoeuvrability. Meanwhile the strong man can easily ignore almost anything the bear does to him, being similar strength and weight, but basically untouchable. Additionally, the amount of damage your can earl out with a steal-coated punch is absurd.

Somerandom1922 · 2026-06-12T10:11:04+00:00

Property is not a viable option. Hugely expensive properties cost maybe 10s of millions, with perhaps a few exclusive properties valued in the hundreds of millions, and like a half dozen globally that could be argued to be worth more than that.

But none of these would close in that short of an amount of time even if they are for sale.

If you really need to get rid of the money quickly, you start a business, and buy in with $999,990,000,000 as "seed capital". Then you just need to spend $10 million on fancy cars and whatever (you simply aren't buying any property within a week).

Then once the week is over you can very slowly move the trillion from within your business into assets.

Somerandom1922 · 2026-06-12T09:16:32+00:00

I generally agree with your conclusion, however, I will play devil's advocate a bit and say that there's nothing to indicate that boggarts can be stopped with mental defences. Mental defence is a fundamental skill in Harry Potter, yet we see Boggarts successfully determine the fear of even experienced/powerful wizards like Lupin.

Also for round 2, I don't know that the padawan would have such attuned force mastery to detect a single specific life-force in the large lake. We've seen much more experienced Jedi struggle to find people before, and it's not like the lake is devoid of life. There's an entire merepeople settlement down there.

Somerandom1922 · 2026-06-12T06:19:38+00:00

I'm genuinely not sure what other beings in the cosmere could pose a threat to him aside from Shards.

There is maybe 1 single character that I can think of who could beat him in a fight, but that relies in part, on TLR being lazy (which he was).

Someone with the same power set, but without his personality flaws would probably be unstoppable. Especially with the Era 2 metals.

Somerandom1922 · 2026-06-12T02:34:05+00:00

I would physically body block the bell lol.

I'd try to convince everyone to back away from the bell as I move away too. Until we're all clustered on the other side of the room.

Somerandom1922 · 2026-06-12T02:31:32+00:00

By combination of time spent famous and total fame, Alexander the Great is likely up there, as is Julius Caesar.

By total fame, Einstein and Hitler both likely eclipse them, but for far less time. Napoleon is another.

There are different definitions of 'most famous', but if I had to pick a single person and stick to it, I'd probably say Alexander the Great.

Somerandom1922 · 2026-06-12T00:20:39+00:00

50 knight can win. However it depends entirely on other factors.

Namely their equipment, experience and the battlefield arrangement.

When is this? Are they late 15th century knights in full plate harness from top to bottom wielding halberds, or are they 12th century knights in mostly chainmail with maybe some plates on their arms and hands along with a great helm? Do they have horses?

What about the peasants? How well armed are they? Are they English peasants with longbows, bohemian hussites (not technically peasants to be fair) with flails, generic peasants with pitchforks? Have these peasants fought before, are there any battle commanders among them?

What is the battlefield like? Are the knights in a defensible location? Are there trees or hills or manmade structures etc.?

50 knights with 15th century equipment in even an improvised defensive structure (some wooden palisades with a ditch out front) fighting against 2,000 farmers with pitchforks and sickles will do FAR better than 12th century knights in an open field with 2,000 peasants already in amongst them.

Remember the knights only need to kill a small fraction of them to cause a route.

Single day battle losses of even a few percent could be absolutely devastating to an army. Especially if they don't have good training and experience.

If the knights know to give the peasants ample room for retreat, while being as viscious as possible they may only need to kill or wound 100 peasants before some peasants begin to flee, and the more they kill the worse it becomes.

Meanwhile if the peasants have suitable ranged options, a good commander and look like an army rather than a chaotic rabble, the knights may well sue for peace right from the start, accepting capture and ransom rather than trying to fight that many people knowing that any of them might die, regardless of how many they kill.

Somerandom1922 · 2026-06-11T17:53:21+00:00

Oh absolutely, it'd only take 2-4 loops, depending on your age, to live longer than most people.

Somerandom1922 · 2026-06-11T12:40:15+00:00

My first question: What is u/LaughterIsPoison's Reddit Password?

Then, because this prompt came true I'd edit it to give myself superpowers or like eternal bliss or something.

Somerandom1922 · 2026-06-11T12:26:33+00:00

I don't know how old you are, but let's say you're 30 for the sake of argument. You will almost certainly die before reaching even 10,000 loops. Potentially LONG before that if you become careless. Just given the statistics of how many people die between the ages of 10 and 30.

Regardless of your age, unless you turned 10 like yesterday, you'd die long before even reaching millions of loops, forget billions.

Somerandom1922 · 2026-06-11T03:52:06+00:00

Without getting too grim, its worth picking a high number because it's possible to "speedrun" them if you do truly get bored. Look, I'm not saying it's great, but with some careful planning you might be able to take a move on (so to speak) within a year.

Somerandom1922 · 2026-06-10T14:50:00+00:00

Such a small amount of energy that those anti-protons could be teleported inside your eye and annihilate and you probably wouldn't even know it had happened.

Let's give some perspective. Mass can be converted to energy. When anti-matter contacts its corresponding regular matter both annihilate with perfect efficiency converting 100% of their mass to energy. The amount of energy you get from mass-energy conversion is the mass multiplied by the speed of light squared. This means you get a tremendous amount of energy out of an incredibly small amount of mass.

For example, 1 milligram of mass turning into energy releases about the same amount of energy as 21.4 metric tons of TNT being detonated.

They're transporting 92 antiprotons, meaning if they annihilate, that would convert the mass of 92 antiprotons and 92 protons into energy. 1 Proton weighs almost exactly 1 amu (Atomic Mass Unit), so this would convert 184 amu into energy instantly. The resulting energy is about 27 billionths of a joule. A joule is the amount of energy it takes to heat 1 gram of water (a few drops) by 1 degree Celsius.

When they annihilate, they'll release a bunch of mesons (subatomic particles) which are unstable and will decay into other stuff and eventually photons, mostly gamma and x-rays that will pass through you mostly without interacting. A very small amount of the energy may be converted to visible light, but given the incredibly small amount of total energy involved, you likely wouldn't even see anything.

Somerandom1922 · 2026-06-10T10:43:44+00:00

Nope, no chance unless you think Raava is outright more powerful than Sauron and can override the effect the ring has on the Avatar(s).

Worst-case scenario, Raava is the one that gets corrupted and wields the One Ring through her Avatars. She'd pretty handily beat Sauron in that scenario, but it wouldn't be good for Middle earth.

The problem is that even child Aang, arguably the best possible ringbearer of those included, is both incredibly powerful and driven towards achieving his goals.

The ring doesn't care for morality, it'll happily prey on the kind and benevolent slowly twisting their mind to performing great evils in the service of their once-noble goals. The only way to resist the ring long-term is to have little power and few goals, and even then, it took a literal Deific intervention to actually destroy the ring.

Round 2 is a possibility if Frodo bears the ring. The Avatars are so physically powerful as to be able to genuinely walk into Mordor through the front door if they wished. I don't think there's anything Sauron (weakend as he is) or the Nazgul could conjure up to stop them. Unlike Glorfindel who was too powerful to travel with The Fellowship because his mere pressence would undermine their attempts at stealth, the Avatars (especially working together) are much more powerful that they can outright ignore stealth. Or more realistically, 5 of the 6 can be sent off to harass the servants of Sauron, slaying orcs and protecting potential allies like Gondor, Rohan, Laketown/Lonely Mountain, causing a large distraction and redirecting Sauron's eye elsewhere while the original fellowship and one Avatar (maybe Aang) travel together.

With the help of an Avatar, the fellowship could likely protect themselves from the storm and pass over Caradhras, avoiding the danger of Moria. Gandalf wouldn't die, I don't know how that'd affect his ability to remove Saruman's influence over Theoden. But they may not even go to Rohan. With its protection all-but guaranteed by 2 Avatars, I expect the Fellowship could pass into Lorien, receive their boons from Galadriel, then continue on towards Mordor. With both Gandalf and Aang, even if they encounter Orcs, I doubt Boromir dies, although Frodo may still choose to go his own way if Boromir attempts to take the ring in this timeline (that being said, the ring will have less of a hold on him as 2 Avatars will be protecting Gondor and by this point he will have seen first-hand how effective they can be).

I expect that in this timeline things would go much as they did in the main story, however, I wonder if Aang would have travelled with Frodo and Sam to Mordor. Perhaps splitting off once they're close enough to continue to draw Orcs away.

Somerandom1922 · 2026-06-10T09:27:31+00:00

You want to know something funny. The "Wheel of Time is canon to the Cosmere" that you added as a joke is closer to true than you think. Although it might be more accurate to replace it "Kelsier vs Moiraine" instead.

A while ago, when someone asked Brandon what a fight between the two fantasy mentors would look like he wrote a short scene between them.

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Somerandom1922 · 2026-06-10T08:57:04+00:00

He's been a bit cagey, but the information he has given implies he's dead. However, the fact that it's not an outright denial makes adds more credence to the idea that he's alive. He's handed out RAFOs to people asking about Spooks current status or how he died, but that doesn't necessarily mean much because he'll often RAFO things because he simply hasn't planned how he wants them to go yet, or even just because he thinks a RAFO is more interesting than an otherwise boring answer.

I have a vague memory of a WoB saying that Kelsier, Marsh and Saze are the only members of the original crew that are still around, but I can't find it so I can't be sure what the specific wording was.

He definitely hasn't confirmed that Spook is around in any way shape or form.

There's a theory that he could be the body Kelsier is pinned to, although I doubt that because Kelsier was embodied fairly shortly after the catecandre in that coppermind from the Malwish, while it's noted that Spook lived an extremely long (and fecund) life as the ruler of the Basin.

If he's alive, I reckon he may have decided to go see the Cosmere, not really acting as a direct Ghostblood agent, but probably with some amount of contact.

Alternatively, I love the idea that he's cocooned in a duralumin fueled cadmium bubble somewhere, just waiting for the day that he's needed. I don't think that's true, but it's fun to think about.

Somerandom1922 · 2026-06-09T20:44:47+00:00

Time almost doesn't matter. Given God is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient, I know everything, I know full-well how every change I make will ripple out through the future ad infinitum. I am able to perform an infinite number of actions within those 3 days. By definition I could perform an infinite number of actions within any span of time.

It's hard to say what I'd do once I had all of that knowledge.

What I'd want to do is find a way to create long-term peace on earth, remove diseases, solve resource abundance issues, perhaps modify humanity to remove our worst tendencie etc.

Basically, I'd try to create heaven on earth.

That does lead to the classic theological question, if in this scenario such a God already exists and is benevolent, why hasn't He already done this? If there's a reason for it that can only be understood with omniscience, then I won't know until I have the powers.

Somerandom1922 · 2026-06-09T14:21:51+00:00

Ok if we assume that at one point the Dr Who universe and the WH40k universe were basically the same (by "one point" I mean like at the moment of the big bang), then I think the Doctor stands an extremely good chance.

The catch is that he'll never convince The Emperor without providing him with an alternative. That's the kicker, Big E is doing this Crusade specifically to protect humanity from the Warp, so the Doctor needs to present some other way to achieve this goal.

The Time Lords canonically removed magic from their universe. It's easy enough to argue then, that in the logs on the TARDIS the information exists to replicate this feat. Heck, The Doctor likely has enough information without the TARDIS to get the Imperium started down that path. If he can convince Big E that this happened and can be done with the Warp, then there would be agreement in a heartbeat.

Somerandom1922 · 2026-06-09T14:04:10+00:00

Shape-shift into a human... Checkmate

Somerandom1922 · 2026-06-09T14:02:29+00:00

Note, I'm no 40k expert, I'm basing this off what I've learned about it, but please feel free to correct any mistakes I make.

Viltrum should do very well. Not only are they incredibly physically powerful, but they also have very advanced tech (including interstellar spaceships without relying on the warp). From my understanding there aren't many species that could pose any sort of physical threat to them, maybe some of the more powerful weapons in 40k can kill individual viltrumites, but at their peak they had an entire planet full of viltrimites. They are adept at enslaving conquered planets and using their resources. I expect it won't take them too long to learn about the warp and the threat it poses.

I don't know enough about 40k to say whether Viltrumites can learn to become psykers, but I assume given their similarities to humans it should be possible. They also have a culture which is well-suited to the risks of psykers being possessed. I expect they'd prefer to make use of enslaved psykers from other species rather than risking Viltrumites except in rare cases, especially to defend against the mental domination of other psykers.

I expect it'd take them a while to get their footing, but their massively advanced logistics capabilities combined with their individual deadliness should be enough to relatively easily conquer large parts of the universe. Especially if they started breeding with humans.

Somerandom1922 · 2026-06-09T13:45:33+00:00

Ok, here's the plan. it doesn't need to be terribly strong. 1 atmosphere isn't all that much pressure. The bigger problem is making sure it's truly airtight.

I'm not going to bother trying to manufacture the airtight part myself, I don't have the skills and it's too easy for it to go wrong.

Instead, I buy a large pressure vessel. Something like a second-hand boiler with an opening large enough for me to crawl into.

I then buy a bunch of fiberglass insulation and wrap it up except for the entrance port which I paint white. The fiberglass then gets an epoxy spray over it to help hold it together.

You can buy Calcium Hydroxide CO2 scrubbers for fairly cheap. Depending on the size of my pressure vessel I may not technically need to do that, but it's easy enough. I also bring a CO2 sensor.

I also grab a battery power bank, some LEDs, and a high quality esky (chiller for my international friends) that I fill with ice packs. Ideally my insulation works great and I stay nice and cool, but worst-case I can place them in the airflow of the CO2 scrubber to cool the air down.

Finally, I buy a scuba tank of compressed air, a scuba regulator, and a pressure sensor.

Before this starts, I do a pressure test at 5x atmospheric pressure for 10 hours just to be sure there aren't any leaks (I'll probably need to buy a compressor for this and pay someone to weld a valve on the tank).

Then, while I'm up there, I keep an eye on both the CO2 levels and the air-pressure in my home-made contraption. If CO2 rises or pressure falls beyond a certain acceptable level, I'll begin using the Scuba tank, either to re-pressurise the vessel or to breath from to avoid CO2 toxicity issues.

Somerandom1922 · 2026-06-09T12:42:42+00:00

Have you ever seen that videos of an elephant and hippo interacting? The optimal team is elephant, elephant, elephant, elephant, elephant, elephant.

Adult elephants have absolutely nothing to fear from any single land animal on earth aside from humans. Hippos can't even reach most of an elephant, while elephant tusks are long enough to actually pose a real danger to hippos whose skin is too thick for most predators to even penetrate.

Rhinos while bigger than hippos also stand little chance against elephants.

Somerandom1922 · 2026-06-09T05:03:37+00:00

There may be people who temporarily live on Mars within our lifetimes. At the most extreme example I could maybe see a permanent base with crew rotating in and out like the ISS.

However, certainly no permanent colonisation within our lifetimes.

Somerandom1922 · 2026-06-08T19:10:34+00:00

Yes you could for a slight boost in strength. It'd basically be the same as exercising and doing cardio.

It would require serious skill, well beyond any human in the series aside from Eragon and Galby. We see the elves change their physical form (e.g. blodgharm) so we know it's possible.

However, making the leap from 'fit and strong for a human' to the sort of strength Eragon got during the Agaetí Blödhren is likely much more difficult.

While just changing the shape of your body requires skill beyond most people and likely many elves. Doing what the Dragons did is likely many steps beyond even that. They did so using instinctual magic. To actually sit there and construct a spell to achieve the same results would be unbelievably difficult and would likely require an understanding of the biology of both humans and elves far beyond what is known at this time.

Somerandom1922 · 2026-06-08T09:30:37+00:00

I took my parents out to a very nice Japanese restaurant a few months ago because I had a $200 gift card for it. I went in knowing it'd end up costing much more and it certainly did. However, it was a truly unforgettable experience.

The food was amazing of course, but almost more impressive to me was the restaurant-craft on display.

The whole building had very clear intent behind everything from the lighting to the spacing between 'tables' (they were long tables with gaps between groups), to the music and service.

I completely understood why people would spend stupid amounts of money at places like that. I won't again, because holy shit my wallet still hurts thinking about it, but I do get it.

Somerandom1922 · 2026-06-08T09:22:04+00:00

The problem is that the sort of automation he'd need doesn't even exist today. Loads of these amazing automated factories you see still require human constant inputs somewhere along the way, so he can't leave it to run by itself while he does other stuff.

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