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    Portal

    Game » consists of 8 releases. Released Oct 10, 2007

    A first-person puzzle game developed by Valve and graduates of DigiPen, Portal forces a human test subject to run a gauntlet of grueling spatial experiments administered by a malfunctioning, psychotic artificial intelligence named GLaDOS.

    What would happen if you put one portal inside of the other?

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    #1  Edited By AlwaysAngry

    I was thinking about this for so long, and I can't seem to grasp what would happen, it's like dividing by zero. 
     
    What would happen!? My brain hurts!

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    #2  Edited By Willy105

    What do you mean one inside the other?
     
    You can't have a hole inside a hole.

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    #3  Edited By allprox

    Sparks fly off it in the colour of your chosen portal if I remember correctly.

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    #4  Edited By AlwaysAngry
    @Willy105: Whoa...my brain hurts.
     
     
     
    @Allprox: It's not a remembering thing...it can't happen in the game.
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    #5  Edited By AlwaysAngry

    Maybe the late night Giant Bomber's have the answer.

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    #6  Edited By LiquidPrince

    The second hole cancels out the first.

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    #7  Edited By BirthWild

    have you tried dividing by zero recently?

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    #8  Edited By VoshiNova

    You would have 2 portals!
     
    Du-Du-Dahhhhhh

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    #9  Edited By raviolisumo

    Either they would cancel out or you would exit the same point as you were entering.

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    #10  Edited By rjayb89

    You create the Meat Dimension.

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    #11  Edited By AlwaysAngry
    @rjayb89 said:
    " You create the Meat Dimension. "
    Lots and lots o' free steak?
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    #12  Edited By RichardLOlson

    It would kinda be like a equinox or time skip and everyone would turn into walking apple pies.
     
     Wait.....(looks around).....that must have been a dream.  Carry on people.

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    #13  Edited By William

    You can't.  You cannot put a portal on top of a portal. End of story.  Have you even played the game?

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    #14  Edited By sjschmidt93
    @Willy105 said:
    " What do you mean one inside the other?  You can't have a hole inside a hole. "
    I know some chicks who would beg to differ.
     
    No... not really... I wish.. sort of...
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    #15  Edited By Kyreo

    This. 
    This. 
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    #16  Edited By conker
    @AlwaysAngry:
    Secret Cow level, actually.
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    #17  Edited By hatking

    It's how you get to play Half Life 2: Episode 3.
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    #18  Edited By Sh4ft3d
    @Kyreo said:
    "
    This. 
    This. 
    "
    Yes.
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    #19  Edited By Andorski

    I heard you get cake.

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    @Andorski said:
    " I heard you get cake. "
    the cake is a lie
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    #21  Edited By TheHT

    Everything inverses.

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    #22  Edited By PirateNeal

    No Caption Provided
    This should help illustrate your problem
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    #23  Edited By HitmanAgent47

    Usually it just doesn't do anything, you can't create a hole within another hold, in the game it just dissapears until you find another surface to fire the portal.

     
    Just play the game and find out for yourself.

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    #24  Edited By shirogane

    You'd just, hit the edge of the other portal, and it's be like a weird,parts of the portal work, other don't, cause it's like a wall. or something. 
     
    But it's impossible anyway, portals can't be created on moving objects.
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    I've been wondering this last night. It might be like the infinite reflections of a mirror thing. I think the portal on the inside would come out of of itself, making two portals of one color leading to one of the other color, which would turn all of existence into the blue error screen.

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    Well, nothing happened in Portal. It worked in Darksiders though.

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    You divided by zero.

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