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Flight or Invisibility?

shemp said:
Could I have the power to eat unlimited Krispy Kremes and LOSE weight?
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ALL things are possible through the LD (Logical Diet). Doing good deeds will make your gravitons reverse their charges causing you to lose that weight you gained.
 
shemp said:


Is that why Mother Theresa was so small? Maybe she should have whipped a few children now and then.
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That's also why she fell up through the ceiling and died.
 
c4ts said:


ALL things are possible through the LD (Logical Diet). Doing good deeds will make your gravitons reverse their charges causing you to lose that weight you gained.
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And you get the ability to fly as a bonus. Just don't leave your house, you may vanish in the sky.
 
Invisible...naturally. I have a dirty mind. The answer then becomes obvious. :D
 
Invisibility; then I could walk right past security and give Mr. Cheney a nookclear wedgie. Walk right up to Mr. Wolfowitz and shout "bang" in his ear. Maybe a Wet Willie for Mr. Ashcroft. Nyuk Nyuk.
 
Invisibility. It would only be a matter of weeks before everyone's IQ plummetted. I'm speaking statistically, of course, because I'd go on a crusade against stupid people. Ah, the joys of an overwhelming advantage subjectively controlled.
 
I would like some form of esp, some precognition. Like to be able to predict events in the near future and to know where certain people and objects are.

For a start, I'd become super-rich very quickly through stock market, betting etc.... but I'd also have no more nasty suprises and be able to do some good by helping people avoid nasty accidents.
 
Prospero said:
Invisibility. It would only be a matter of weeks before everyone's IQ plummetted. I'm speaking statistically, of course, because I'd go on a crusade against stupid people. Ah, the joys of an overwhelming advantage subjectively controlled.
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Wouldn't that cause the average IQ to increase?
 
ceo_esq said:
Wouldn't that cause the average IQ to increase?
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Well, I believe most of the IQ scales are (in theory at least) meant to be normalized so that the mean score is 100 points. If you remove a substantial portion of people with low IQ you'd increase the average intelligence, but the mean IQ would (after normalizing to the new situation) still be 100 points. So your score would go down, because the scale is readjusted to fit the new situation.

As for the power, I'd definetively go for invisibility. Not only is it harder to emulate using technology and more useful in ordinary circumstances ("Has anyone seen Leif? I've got an assignment for him."), but any sudden failure in the power is not likely to have the same detrimental effects. Plus, I live in Norway. Flying outside of an insulated and heated airplane sounds very, very cold.
 
IQ is not always a precise measurement of your intelligence. If your score goes down because the average IQ increased, that doesn't indicate you're getting dumber.
 
I could do more good if I could fly (and take stuff with me) than I could if I could become invisible.
 
Have any of you ever read Nicholson Baker's "The Fermata"? A very wonderful, thoughtful, and extremely sexy book.
The main character has the ability to stop time. THAT'S the superpower I want.
I would drop into "the Fold" as it's called, to sleep, and then restart time to get all my work done. All the things I would be able to do with that extra time. Wow.

My cousin and I would debate the invisibility vs. flying thing all the time. He suggested that mind control would be even better, since you could get people to think you were doing both of those things.
I don't think I'd like mind control. And if I were able to fly, I'd have to keep it secret. And invisibility seems too dangerous.
I think stopping time is something safe and benificial. I'll take that please, if we're passing out powers.
 
Ever see the old movie "The Girl, The Gold Watch, and Everything"? About a guy who inherits a gold watch that can stop time for about a minute. There was even a sequel "The Girl, The Gold Watch, and Dynamite"

I loved saturday mornings Creature Feature. Get weird movies like that along with all the great Godzilla flicks. :)
 
Flight? Bah.
Invisibility? Trivial.
Time travel? Small potatoes.

A controllable penis. Now that would be a great superpower.
 
Beleth said:
Flight? Bah.
Invisibility? Trivial.
Time travel? Small potatoes.

A controllable penis. Now that would be a great superpower.
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You're not able to conrol yours? There's help for that, you know. :D
 
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