Oversimplified SCP - Ch. 33 - SCP-871

[Gizmotin]

With this you can have your cake and eat it too.

 

[narra]

Can you just pack them all up and send them to space? The horrors if that counts as a dispose method and the cake just reappears in the facility. If not, voila, instant black hole.

 

[Rigardo]

Gotta love them ceks

 

[Demomanowar]

Just vacuum-seal them and leave them alone.
Sure, you could argue that letting them decay counts as damage, but there's ample time for a cake's composition to be altered before the 24 hours are up, yet it says it replicates instantly in case of damage. So clearly regular decay isn't enough, and neither would be the process of sending them to space, where they'll replicate basically never.

 

[IJustMadeThisToComment]

The way to solve world hunger,cakes.

 

[Kampfarsch]

cakepocolypse

 

[PatatasDelPapa]

@Demomanowar

SCP-871's danger originates in the consequences of an instance not being eaten. Any instance of SCP-871 which is not consumed will cause a new cake to be created in its vicinity after 24 hours. While this is similar to its normal "replacement" behavior, the original instance will continue to exhibit the same properties, replicating if damaged and continuing to "replace" itself every 24 hours.

 

[Zael]

Everybody shouting about Africa, and here I am thinking that infinite fuel source found!
Especially nice when combined with space travel!
And those artificial cake overload blackholes can just be harvested for energy in the end as well.

...granted we're way off from such technological feats, and I might be (severely) underestimating the danger of a single derelict uninhabited (due to loss of crew for whatever reason) space vessel turning into a black hole in the vicinity of civilization...

They also didn't address what happens to it in an enclosed small space with no suitable flat surfaces, or when the volume of said space if filled to the brim already. Do they continue spawning in each other doubling density, or what?
(Granted these are very dangerous experiments.)

@Demomanowar the problem there is that while protecting it from damage prevents it's regeneration/re-appearance, you're not addressing the problem of doubling - the only known method is complete human consumption! (The partially eaten part confused me too at first. Untouched cakes double too.)

 

[monomanga]

Why 80 days? The number 2^80 is very big. Assuming 100g/cake, it is 1.2 x 10^23 kg ~ 2% earth mass. What is the real critical time?

 

[depzdai]

This must be a Doraemon's reference. That chapter was damn frightening.

 

[Rahadyan4869]

pack it up & send it to africa

 

[welcome2atlantis]

This one is dangerous. It could literally drown the whole world in cakes.

 

[Kevin7557]

We wish the cake was a lie.

 

[kidohara]

You can say that the problem of this SCP is ... not a mere piece of cake.

 

[LordTraiden]

This is grey goo cake edition.

 

[samazam]

At first I thought "why not just sent all the cakes in a rocket into outer space". Then I realized that if something were to happen to the rocket, the cakes will be destroyed (and multiply) at an exponentially alarming rate and create an infinitely growing universe-ending black hole.

 

[roetheboat]

@monomanga
I actually think they are severely UNDERESTIMATING the exponential growth capable from this SCP.

Not only will the cakes continue doubling, but any instance in which the cake is damaged causes a new one to spawn right away. So, what happens when the cakes pile up and fall over? We don’t even know if the weight of a cake spawning on top of another cake due to a lack of room for them to spawn on the ground will cause the cakes to respawn.

 

[goodknife]

link the similar doraemon chapter for reference (first chapter of volume 17): https://bookwalker.jp/deb731e147-fcca-43e5-a3c5-da4f082891b9/?sample=1

 

[BaGamman]

@LordTraiden
This is dog residues, cake edition.

 

[Doomroar]

@narra in a world in which space is made of 99% cake...