Invisibility
So, for some reason, I have been locked into an argument about what the greatest, most versatile and advantageous superpower would be–to have, of course–if you could have any (but only one) superpower.
Of course, ‘having all the super powers’ is not a valid superpower to have.
My business partner says teleportation. I say stopping time. They both have their follies. Teleportation brings up all sorts of questions about, basically, “OK, so you teleported. Now what.” Stopping Time, on the other hand, requires all sorts of explanation about “Well, you could unfreeze people you touch. And electricity would still have to work. And you would have to age at a regular rate.”
They are both, of course, dorky as hell.
I bring it up, because whenever this argument spills over into involving someone else, they almost invariably say that they’d want invisibility, which I think is totally lame. Sure, being a T-1000 would be rad. Sure, having a tech-camo suit, a la Sons of the Patriots would be radical. But Super? I don’t think so.
Regardless, Gizmodo posted a bunch of totally awesome photos of a dude who found out what it would take to be truly invisible. I wonder what he thinks.
- Hateball
November 5th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
time travel for sure! go back and get that sports almanac and become biff tannen!!!
November 5th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Damn! Cool “invisible” man pics! It took me awhile to see him in the bulldozer pic. Now where is the pic of him in the Dallas Cowboy’s Cheerleader’s shower?
November 5th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
I’d go with stopping time. And I’d steal a ton of shit.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Teleportation would only be the greatest super power to have if you were one of questionable morals, as it would make stealing things a breeze. You could live a very comfortable life with the level of left you could pull of with teleportation……though I suppose that relies on your ability to teleport things other than yourself.
Invisibility would be much the same, but also only if you could make other things invisible.
I spent a few years working in a comic shop, and being dragged into this sort of argument AT LEAST once a week was unavoidable.
November 6th, 2009 at 12:09 am
This is something I’ve ruminated on a lot in my life, and I too have arrived at stopping time as the best possible. I guess that decision was probably swayed in the past by floods of teenage hormones, since the inevitable “what would I do?” always used to involve some sort of frozen-time-rape or titty peepin’. Now I would probably just steal shit.
I always ended up including the “unfreezing at a touch” caveat, too. You know what they say about great minds…
November 6th, 2009 at 12:11 am
I wish I had noticed that the dude two posts up said the same thing about stealing shit. He even called the shit “shit.” Shit.
November 6th, 2009 at 12:48 am
The only super power I want is the ability to make people shit their pants.
November 6th, 2009 at 2:19 am
i love never ending conversations on theoretical anomalies. i once had a conversation with a friend about time travel until seven o clock in the morning….. best super power?….. sounds like another discussion on the front porch until sunrise.
November 6th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
We also can’t seem to agree about what the most awesome pairing of disparate universe characters would be in a Street Fighter v. Capcom-style scenario. Tekken v. Konami? Marvel v. DC? Street Fighter v. Tekken? The combinations are endless.
I still say Stopping Time, but I’m such a physics buff that I’m all too aware that if you stop time, you stop light, and if you stop light, you stop everything. Fail.
Anybody into Teleportating should read ‘The Jaunt’ by Stephen King. I think it’s in Nightmares and Dreamscapes. It will fix you.
November 6th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Saw these photos a while back, they’re incredible.
But on the topic of super powers – I’ve always thought I’d take control over time. That includes stopping time, but also speeding it up, slowing it down. Basically I want to be the movie Click, but without any kind of Adam Sandler involvement.
November 6th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Skip Adam Sandler and go directly to the Milo Manara super hot-great graphic novels of olde. They make a strong case for a remote control that only works on horny women. Or only works to make women horny. Something like that. I guess I should re-read them…