If you could have any superpower... -

abe is now! · #61 05-18-2008, 07:20 AM

I'd stop Global Warming, deforestation and polluting water.

Vanilla ✜ · #62 05-18-2008, 08:00 AM

Me too i HATE pollushion. (sorry about the miss spelling)

Mac Sirloin · #63 05-18-2008, 11:51 AM

How do you spell that wrong? It's RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU IN ABE IS NOW!'s POST.

Kimon · #64 05-18-2008, 02:06 PM

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I'd stop Global Warming, deforestation and polluting water.

This is a superpower thread, not a Miss America pagaent. Humph Galumph Harumph!

I'd have the power to beat other people's children and not get in trouble. NO I JOKE! I'd have the power to... maybe fly, however lame that is. Like a bird.

No, wait... I wish I had the power to converse with inanimate objects. I would love to talk to trees, or rocks or rivers or subway cars or billboards or speakers or boots or cameras or trash bins... that would be most excellent. Each one would have such a unique perspective on things. I bet trash cans wouldn't be nearly as lame as everyone would assume. Shit. Yeah. I want to talk to stuff. Hmmm.

That's my cue, I'ma go take a walk.

Zerox · #65 05-18-2008, 10:21 PM

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This is a superpower thread, not a Miss America pagaent. Humph Galumph Harumph!

The power to absorb Carbon Dioxide from the air and convert it into pure Carbon and Oxygen.

1. Carbon = Diamond.

2. Sell diamonds for much moneys!

3. ???

4. Profit!!!

Moosh da Outlaw · #66 05-19-2008, 04:51 PM

If I could have a superpower, it would be to turn invisible. I would sneak into people's houses at night, act like a ghost, and scare the crap out of everybody. Or i'd just loot em'.
I'm an entrepreneur that way.

Bullet Magnet · #67 05-20-2008, 03:01 AM

Technically, if you are invisible you should also be blind, or else your retinas would cast a shadow. Your cornea and lenses would not focus any light either.

***Nate*** · #68 05-20-2008, 03:16 AM

It's magic BM. Logic not come in to it.

abe is now! · #69 05-20-2008, 03:30 AM

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Technically, if you are invisible you should also be blind, or else your retinas would cast a shadow. Your cornea and lenses would not focus any light either.

So, with another super power, he'd take special glasses so he could see.

Wings of Fire · #70 05-20-2008, 03:32 AM

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So, with another super power, he'd take special glasses so he could see.

Invisible glasses?

Bullet Magnet · #71 05-20-2008, 03:53 AM

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It's magic BM. Logic not come in to it.

¿Qué? No comprende.

abe is now! · #72 05-20-2008, 04:02 AM

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Invisible glasses?

Yes, invisible glassess for invisible eyes and especially for this "kind" of eyes:

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your retinas would cast a shadow. Your cornea and lenses would not focus any light either.

... we're talking about super powers, aren't we?

Bullet Magnet · #73 05-20-2008, 05:17 AM

It's funny, I can accept that there would be some way to gain and use these powers in this hypothetical scenario, and that (in the invisibility case) light is either bending around a person or passing through unhindered, but I can't accept the inherent contradictions within those powers.

If light is passing through or around you, it's energy is not being transferred into the proteins of the light-sensitive cells in the retina and stimulating an active potential in the optical nerves. In other words, you are not seeing anything. If you are seeing anything, then this must be taking place, meaning that the energy that would otherwise be illuminating an object is being absorbed by the retina, thus casting a shadow.

Moosh da Outlaw · #74 05-20-2008, 10:57 AM

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If light is passing through or around you, it's energy is not being transferred into the proteins of the light-sensitive cells in the retina and stimulating an active potential in the optical nerves. In other words, you are not seeing anything. If you are seeing anything, then this must be taking place, meaning that the energy that would otherwise be illuminating an object is being absorbed by the retina, thus casting a shadow.

Anything is possible if you just believe.
*shot'd*

abe is now! · #75 05-20-2008, 11:34 AM

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Anything is possible if you just believe.
*shot'd*

I think BM's ultra technical explanation is the best thing I have ever read... but we're talking about SUPER POWERS...

Bullet Magnet · #76 05-20-2008, 12:38 PM

Superpowers are fine, so long s they make some coherent sense. Spider-man gets through his own body mass in webbing several times each trip across the city, but I can accept that with comic-book physics. Sighted invisibility, though, is just weird.

OANST · #77 05-20-2008, 03:16 PM

I kept trying to think of something to type in here until I finally decided that if it's this fucking hard it isn't worth it. This forum needs some better threads.

***Nate*** · #78 05-20-2008, 07:40 PM

This forum needs some better members than you.

Strike Witch · #79 05-21-2008, 01:03 AM

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DRILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLS

OANST · #80 05-21-2008, 02:45 PM

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This forum needs some better members than you.

Wow. Thanks, buddy.

Munch's Master · #81 05-24-2008, 08:37 AM

What superpower? Easy, the power to grant any wishes. Then I can just make wishes to myself and do whatever the hell I want, whether that's save the environment or just make myself a rich eternally youthful adonis with a harem.

Bullet Magnet · #82 05-24-2008, 10:51 AM

So... Omnipotence?

What if you wish for your wish to go ungranted?

AlienMagi · #83 05-24-2008, 10:54 AM

Hmm I'd love to control the time...

Munch's Master · #84 05-25-2008, 03:22 AM

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So... Omnipotence?

What if you wish for your wish to go ungranted?

But, why would I do that? That'd like just get rid of all my super powers.

I suppose I could also wish for you to stop being a smart-alec when discussing the different superpowers.

Bullet Magnet · #85 05-25-2008, 03:34 AM

No! The source of my power!

arkaznor · #86 05-25-2008, 03:43 AM

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Hmm I'd love to control the time...

But time is relative, you can't control something that doesn't truly exist. Time is just the change of everything. You can't reverse time, just not possible; you could change the atoms back to the way they were, but you can't actually reverse time.

Though you could just be saying that you want to be able to control every atom in the universe in particular ways, but just didn't want to say that...

... Yeah I'll go with that.

Personally, I would want to be able to transfer me mass into strings of energy, and back (if you think about, there are a lot of possibilities in this). Not sure how I would control the energy, but as for keeping my mind when it's energy; the mind is just a bunch of electrical signals.

Bullet Magnet · #87 05-25-2008, 03:51 AM

Okay, let's not start this whole "time does not exist thing." Please. Also it does.

Munch's Master · #88 05-25-2008, 05:36 AM

Yeah, if time didn't exist, wouldn't that like mean, every single second we stop existing and start existing again? Or something.
Or never exist and only think we do? Time has to exist. Measuring time doesn't really exist, that IS relative, but the passage of time has to exist.

Wings of Fire · #89 05-25-2008, 05:40 AM

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Yeah, if time didn't exist, wouldn't that like mean, every single second we stop existing and start existing again? Or something.
Or never exist and only think we do? Time has to exist. Measuring time doesn't really exist, that IS relative, but the passage of time has to exist.

Are you a Pratchett fan?

If not go and read Thief of Time and Night Watch now!

AlienMagi · #90 05-25-2008, 05:44 AM

Whatever, we shouldn't talk off topic.
If I couldn't have time control then I'd like to have a bag with 10000000000000$ in cash.