What Superpower would you like?
 

This is an interesting experiment, see what people choose:

You are driving home from work/school/whatever one day and a radioactive meteorite whacks into the hood of your car. You are knocked unconscious, have some dream about great power being transferred to you, and awaken a week later in the hospital.

You recover and go home, and soon discover you have an interesting, amazing, wonderful SUPERPOWER!

What power do you want? And why? Only 2 choices though:

1. The ability to fly innately.
2. The ability to become invisible at will.

Invisibility: Matches my personality better. I prefer to sit aside quietly and not draw much attention to myself. Sometimes I just want to be able to observe the world go by without being caught up by anything.

invisible....the possibilities are endless

Another vote for invisibility! Definately!

On another note, shouldn't this be in Nonsense or General Discussion or something?

It's got to be mind control - It would be interesting to find out if Bush has a mind to control !

Also me, Gillian Anderson & Nicole Kidman - a bath full of ice cream and a wetsuit need I say more !!!

Where where? Was that a secret option!?
No wait, you just didn't bother to read the post. :rolleyes:

Flying would own invisibilty, no more traffic, no more walking everywhere, no more airport security!

Invisibilty definitely! Think of all the things you could do!

I think it fits under philosophy.

Especially since the follow up question is - what would you use your super power for?

This question is from an episode of "this american life" on NPR, about the important mythology of comics & superheroes to americans. I think it fits under pop-philosophy if nothing else.

Invisibility.

Cool power,
classic psychology question.

I would choose invisibility. It would be cool to freak other people out and just imagine all the things you could get away with.

The ability to freeze time and only I can still move around...

I would choose the ability to read people's minds.

Complete invisibility!! Even infrared and all that other stuff, otherwise it's just not worth it.

Imagine getting up and going to the fridge to grab a glass of milk and wham! suddenly you get smacked across your ass, and all you can hear is "AAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!". You'd think you're going crazy.

Flying is good for getting away but with invisibility you don't have to.

Telepathy would be sweet.

Invisibility. I'm a natural observer of life as it is. This would make that even easier!

Geeky post alert! Warning, make room for the geek!

I choose invisiblity. Although I would rather have the powers of the invisible woman, who has alwaays been on the top of my all time 'if I could have any super power list.

Flying would be next to useless unless you had enhanced toughness or invincibility also. If you aren't flying at 5mph and close to the ground (walking, anyone?) eventualy you're going to run into a bug or hailstone at speed, and it ain't gonna be cool. Biker leathers you say? What a pain in the ass that would be.

Only if you are doing it right... ;)


BTW... invisibility here as well. As stated above the possibilities are endless...

invisability would probably be made illegal, flying woudn't

Im surprised the number of people who choose flying. It's usually much lower!

What doesnt surprise me is nobody has yet given "to fight crime" as an answer for what they'd do with it. Nobody ever does - yet it's the basis of most of the superhero comic books out there.

telepathy\telekinesis

both flying and invisibility can be acheived... so i'm not really breaking the rules :p

Invisibility would be "neat" for a while, but flying is definatly a more useful utility power unless you are doing something militarily (or if you're a pervert who doesnt get anyway so you use it to spy on naked chicks). What else could you do with invisibility that isnt decietful?

Invisibility. I could be a very rich voyuer.

*shrug* Why worry about the obvious uses of invisibility? It is plain what any misanthrope could use it for. Flight is a much less "useful" power, and thus not the one most selfish folk would choose.

Me? I chose "flight". I don't claim to be an altruist, but I love to fly. If I had the money, I would definitely pursue a pilot's license. Invisibility is just not that big a deal. It is easy enough to be unnoticed if you so choose. Dress mundanely, common grade suit works, have a clipboard in hand, and a serious look. 90% of the time, people will neither mess with you or ask questions. Too easy. Flight though...

I'd choose flight. It would impress the babes, and it would be a great way to avoid traffic. As long as I dont get sucked into a jet engine, it'd be far cooler for me...

Depending on the mechanics of flight, whether it would be some sort of levitation or whether i'd have wings or something like that, I would pick it. :P

I want to have web. I could sort of fly and I'd love to walk down they guys hall in the dorms ripping their towels off after they get out of the shower :D

Flying, I have friends all over so that would be great!

with invisiblity:
1. look at naked chicks
2. get cool stuff
EDIT: 3. play tricks on ppl
what else do you need?! and u can be invisible and have sex with someone, thats just funny!

I'll have to go with flying. There's great potential to do great good (or evil, if you prefer) if you can fly. I am assuming that this flying will be fast enough and reliable enough to be used for travel, evasion, and some badass aerial martial arts :D

For all you invisible people - what if you get hit by a truck or something, while oggling at teh b00bies? That doesn't sound like much fun to me :D

Flight. I could do insane martial arts with hovering moves, flight speed enhanced kicks, I'd be a regular super hero! I could do shows (or rob...lots of robbing) to make special suits so I can go mach 47 around the world with no problem.
I'd like to be able to withstand any G-Force.

Invisibilty. All the sounds I'd make would give it away. At least with flgiht I could pretend I'm an angelic deity or something come down to spread my seed and get loads of chics!

i think it also depends on what kind of invisible is it like, When you go invisible your clothes stay visible so you have to walk around naked exposed to the elements, or is it whatever you are holding is invisible, if that is the case wouldn't the ground turn invisible too, because you are walking on it? I think invisibility, while extremely useful/fun, is too complicated. I would choose flight, and make sure you work out alot so that you don't get the Fat wave going :D

Invisible, I like the concept of silent running...

Why would being invisible automatically give you silent running?

I want to fly.

Invisibility has the burden that you have to watch out for morons who don't see you standing there because you're invisible.

Flying means I don't have to watch out for idiots on their cellphones, I don't have to worry about speed limits and cops with larceny in their hearts and quotae to fill, and I don't have to keep track of who has the lowest fuel prices. It seems to me to be a far more desirable than invisibility.

I choose... the ancient Mongolian Empire!

...Oh, that kind of superpower. Umm, invisibility. No, flight. How about being translucent and able to jump very high, could I have that?

i choose invisibility... i could always turn invisible and go steal a jet pack or sneak on a plane for free...

Definitely fly...airline prices are just WAY too high...:-)

exactly

Flying, man!
Invisibility has more uses, but flying would be so much more fun! I can just see myself floating around on my little cloud, reading a book and keeping myself cool by floating in circles. And it's a great way to escape trouble. Get into a fight? Just float off! Who is going to follow you?

With invisibility, you can watch girls in the showers. But with flying, you can probably impress them enough to actually get them into your bed, and be able to participate.