Take advantage of the free energy and build a power plant around it.
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"You're given a money printing machine. What do you do?" "Uh, print some really cool art?"
Like, I can only shoot two portals ever? Single-use would imply only being able to shoot one portal, but that doesn't seem very useful.
Also wasn't portal travel hella toxic? To the point that it killed Cave Johnson? I sure as hell won't be using it to save time on my commute or anything.
I think I'd have to use it for violence, like sending a war criminal off a large building, but you couldn't even really have fun with it. Everyone fantasizes about launching a billionaire straight into space, but you'd need multiple portals to get them into a situation where they're building momentum first.
Also, if there's no material emancipation grids, are the portals just there forever? The portal gun doesn't have an off switch or a way to deactivate existing portals.
I didn't think it was portal travel that killed him, it was breathing in the moon dust
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Best use would be to get two steel plates or something, of apropriate dimensions for portals and shoot them there. Now I have two portals I can move as I please and where I please
In the game if a wall moved the portal would evaporate.
Except that one room.
Well then I fucked up I guess :D don't remember this detail
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Smartest answer by far.
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Reverse engineer it
I would think about buying a house out in the middle of nowhere and link up a closet with one in my house. Free extra square feet in my house.
Realistically, I'd link up my house with a family member's house that we need to fly to.
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I would contact NASA and tell them to launch a robot to mars that can shoot it. I'd shoot it at the ground, then put it on the robot, then have a portal to mars.
I'm wondering if the people suggesting it for planetary travel have played Portal 2. It uh...it doesn't end too well when they try.
Just put a door on it
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Open a portal to the moon at the bottom of the ocean
Save it. I don't have anything currently that I would want to use a portal gun on given that I can only use it once. I might use it to get myself out of a sticky situation, or wait to see if I ever move into a relatively permanent home and I could make a portal from my house to another location for convenience.
So it'll be just like the bag full of Maximum Heal potions when the credits roll, except I imagine you could pass it on to someone with a message not to wait for the perfect moment.
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Reverse-engineer it and build an unlimited-use portal gun, of course!
Assuming there is only one, sell my single use for ludicrous amounts of money to some Corp that has merchandise to move.
I would put one portal on a pneumatically actuated plate above a dais that holds an object, and the other portal on a plate placed at a 45 degree angle. I would then see if an object on the dais would fly or fall out of the 45 degree portal, if the other portal actuated and closed the distance between its starting point and the dais.
How would you fix evaporation I'm dumb at this stuff
Anti-evaperation field, or just let rain do it's thing
Take a portal to a black hole, keep the portal open for funsies.
Upon receiving it I would spend the first god knows how many hours trying to convince myself not to use it for sex things.
Beyond that, I think I'd definitely have to consider permanently renting a storage room in a country I want to visit often, and storing a portal in there.
Nobody went with sending trump and musk to mars?