You could twist the pole, and move the pole on the x and y axis but you couldn't rotate it at an angle. Also, after re-thinking about it, the other "half" wouldn't rotate to the other direction.

E1025 wrote:
You could twist the pole, and move the pole on the x and y axis but you couldn't rotate it at an angle. Also, after re-thinking about it, the other "half" wouldn't rotate to the other direction.

twisting the pole wouldn't do jack. but if you placed the bottom portal at a slightly off angle you would start to spin; like. you ever try to do the terminal velocity setup... and have the bottom (or top for that matter) slightly askew? man you start spinning . the more askew the faster you start spinning

bump, great thread, cant let this die

if you're gonna bump a thread, at least have something valuable to say, like why doesn't somebody try to program this situation so we can see how it plays out.

Well, the problem with that would be that only prop_physics can cross portals, not prop_dynamics. Then again, it would be a nice idea... maybe you'd have to parent the pole (prop_physics) to itself.

Ricotez wrote:
maybe you'd have to parent the pole (prop_physics) to itself.

... and make the game crash ^^

Here's another one. What would happen if you connected a 0 in a modified version of portal to a 0 in real life?

you would end up inside your computer case

E1025 wrote:
Here's another one. What would happen if you connected a 0 in a modified version of portal to a 0 in real life?

Tron.

Next!

Another idea in respect to the 2 blue portals leading to 1 red portal. What would happen if two people went into the blue portals at the same time?

Probably this:

Ricotez wrote:
Probably this:

HITCHHIKERS FTMFW!

Splash ?

NykO18 wrote:
Splash ?

Best Movie Ever ?

So long, and thanks for the fish.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy FTW!

All nice and everything, but we're getting off-topic here. Back to portal speculation!

If you were to stand inside the portal, with your feet on the bottom of the portal itself, surely the wall you are standing on is infinitesimally small and if the gravity is down on both sides surely the downward force would just cut you in half like a highly efective piece of cheese wire?
Essentially rendering portal-tunneling useless because as soon as you attempted it you'd be come two rather seperate halves of mush

youme wrote:
If you were to stand inside the portal, with your feet on the bottom of the portal itself, surely the wall you are standing on is infinitesimally small and if the gravity is down on both sides surely the downward force would just cut you in half like a highly efective piece of cheese wire?
Essentially rendering portal-tunneling useless because as soon as you attempted it you'd be come two rather seperate halves of mush

interesting point. when they first came out with linoleum its strength was calculated to be several hundred pounds per square inch (can't remember the actual strength) and it was considered strong. but they noticed that there were small divots appearing in them, and people were like "WTF?".... short answer, High-Heels.... cuz when you put ALOT of weight on a SMALL surface... damage happens.... try putting 220lbs (me) on an infinitesimally small surface... CHEESED! but.. maybe... her heel springs help? i know. it really wouldn't matter WHAT you put there. anyweight or matterial at that small of a surface area would be sliced. but i just want to try to make up a bullshit excuse to make portal make sense.

well I did kinda already mention this point when we were discussing tunneling, but I think I decided that standing in a portal would be fine then because you could kinda curl your feet around what would be a thin edge, but not thin enough to cheesewire you.

Perhaps the portal edge has somekind of nuclear repulsion that repells everything regardless of its charge. This might explain the strange fire like effect seen at the edges