I would have to say the ability to bend/break laws of physics and gravity does it for me. What d'you mean matter cannot pass through matter, or an object in motion will stay in motion? I say the NAY, Newton!
If you had a special ability, what would it be?
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Well the entire point of science is to explain the world around us through observation and expirementation. It isn't actually supposed to 'prove' anything. (well kinda is, but its some kind of philosphical/logic difference..)Trivun said:
The only way I can explain it is, no theory is 100% correct, so you can't really 'prove anything'. Instead its to try and get it as close as possible through the scientific method.
The issue is obviously, human error, and not being able to observe everything directly. Hell half of physics is observing the un-observable through indirect methods!
WE know black holes exist, they are observable. But you almost have to question the fact that matter/energy is 'lost' in a black hole since they emit massive amounts of radation... Though not nearly as much as a star...
Invisibility is ever perverts dream. Haha. Go invisibility...
Immortality would suck for several reasons that I can't be bothered to waste your lovely time with...
So I'd choose... Having no hands.
Yeahhh. Look who's the big shot now.
Immortality would suck for several reasons that I can't be bothered to waste your lovely time with...
So I'd choose... Having no hands.
Yeahhh. Look who's the big shot now.
We all seem to be forgetting, that we can't time travel, and that all existing theories are just that, theories, with no proof whatsoever backing them.SinisterDeath said:
There are several theories on time travel.Ago Iterum said:
1. You can only 'observe' or 'see' into the past, but not interact. (This one is 100% true.)
2. Time travel devices to send information in the past, can only send information back, as long as the device exists. So escentially I would have to invent it, then send myself information from the future back.
Your asking your self now, how can #1 be true? How can I prove it?
Its simple.
Anyone right now, can see into the past. ITs fairly simple, and we have been doing it for about as long as humanity has existed, and more then likely before.
Its fairly simple process.
Wait till around 21:00 hours, go outside, and tilt your head up to the sky.
See that shiny thing? thats a star. Its several houndred light years away.
You know what that means? Your seeing several houndred years into the past.
ZOMG Time Travel!
pwned?
I would love to have Wolverines healing ability? hell, I?d love the adamantium skeleton too? ok, f- it, I?d just love to be wolverine.
I wouldn?t mind Magnetos powers either? just not as Wolverine. That could cause problems.
I wouldn?t mind Magnetos powers either? just not as Wolverine. That could cause problems.
Apparently I already have the power to spark debates about physics and the very nature of time travel.
Haha, Jk.
Anyways, even if I can't change anything in the past, can I still have my power to go backwards, pause, and go forwards (faster)? I still want the power to control aging. That way I would be able to (at the very least) screw with people's heads and/or live forever. So yeah. I want my damn time powers, this is fantasy!
Also, Im assuming some mystical genie or benevolent (if a bit apathetic) deity is giving me my powers, so why can't I change things in the past? Maybe the universe IS self correcting, but then maybe I AM the correction. Maybe WWII was never meant to happen, so when I gained my powers, my PURPOSE was to go back to prevent it. You see, the fact that it happened was part of the setup of my destiny. Because it happened, I was driven to prevent it, and in doing so I unwittingly spur some other event, fulfilling an unseen goal of the benevolent deity and steering the universe back on track. Sorta like a quicksave on the universe. At some point, an event happens, and then I gain my powers and I travel back to that event (the equivalent of quickload). Once I change the timeline it just stays that way until I go back (quickload) again or something. If you can do it in a video game (I do it often in games like Fallout 3 or Oblivion to keep a save where my character is good, while still indulging my inner evil on occasion without mucking everything up permanently), why not do it with time powers?
Although, this whole thing got me thinking, I'd like to change my earlier stated powers. Not just control over time and aging and such, as specified earlier, I would also like a pocket dimension. A 'what if' universe where I can mess with my time powers without screwing up the timeline or worrying about the karma of pausing time to peek into girl's shirts.
This way, in the self-correcting real universe I can go back to re-experience my past or view it as an outsider, pause time (alone or with a friend/significant other), or view the future (once again, as an outsider). I wouldn't be able to change anything in the real world while rewinding or fast forwarding, but I could affect the present (ie pause, then move, then unpause to dodge bullets).
In the pocket dimension, I could do whatever I want and reset it back to the current real timeline at any time, should I ever feel like I screwed up too badly...
If this real world/pocket dimension dynamic agrees with everyone's understanding of space/time physics I would love to get back to playing video games so I can distract myself from the fact that I have none of these powers in real life...
Haha, Jk.
Anyways, even if I can't change anything in the past, can I still have my power to go backwards, pause, and go forwards (faster)? I still want the power to control aging. That way I would be able to (at the very least) screw with people's heads and/or live forever. So yeah. I want my damn time powers, this is fantasy!
Also, Im assuming some mystical genie or benevolent (if a bit apathetic) deity is giving me my powers, so why can't I change things in the past? Maybe the universe IS self correcting, but then maybe I AM the correction. Maybe WWII was never meant to happen, so when I gained my powers, my PURPOSE was to go back to prevent it. You see, the fact that it happened was part of the setup of my destiny. Because it happened, I was driven to prevent it, and in doing so I unwittingly spur some other event, fulfilling an unseen goal of the benevolent deity and steering the universe back on track. Sorta like a quicksave on the universe. At some point, an event happens, and then I gain my powers and I travel back to that event (the equivalent of quickload). Once I change the timeline it just stays that way until I go back (quickload) again or something. If you can do it in a video game (I do it often in games like Fallout 3 or Oblivion to keep a save where my character is good, while still indulging my inner evil on occasion without mucking everything up permanently), why not do it with time powers?
Although, this whole thing got me thinking, I'd like to change my earlier stated powers. Not just control over time and aging and such, as specified earlier, I would also like a pocket dimension. A 'what if' universe where I can mess with my time powers without screwing up the timeline or worrying about the karma of pausing time to peek into girl's shirts.
This way, in the self-correcting real universe I can go back to re-experience my past or view it as an outsider, pause time (alone or with a friend/significant other), or view the future (once again, as an outsider). I wouldn't be able to change anything in the real world while rewinding or fast forwarding, but I could affect the present (ie pause, then move, then unpause to dodge bullets).
In the pocket dimension, I could do whatever I want and reset it back to the current real timeline at any time, should I ever feel like I screwed up too badly...
If this real world/pocket dimension dynamic agrees with everyone's understanding of space/time physics I would love to get back to playing video games so I can distract myself from the fact that I have none of these powers in real life...
I'd pick to be a master at both Parkour and Krav Maga. Let's see any of you mortals stop me then!
EDIT: For something more along the lines of the philosophy of this thread, I wouldn't mind one of those Green Lantern ring jiggies, too. Obliterating houses with green fire? Do want.
Oh shit! I'd better wish for a tank, too.mastertang said:
EDIT: For something more along the lines of the philosophy of this thread, I wouldn't mind one of those Green Lantern ring jiggies, too. Obliterating houses with green fire? Do want.
Flight and Indestructibility, With those two you can wipe an entire country off the face of the planet.(see: Supreme Power)
Failing that I'd want to have chronotrooper esque powers, shift myself through time and space then erase things from time.
Or an AT field that I could manipulate to my will.
Failing that I'd want to have chronotrooper esque powers, shift myself through time and space then erase things from time.
Or an AT field that I could manipulate to my will.
Are you just stupid? Or do you have a condition.SinisterDeath said:There are several theories on time travel.Ago Iterum said:
1. You can only 'observe' or 'see' into the past, but not interact. (This one is 100% true.)
2. Time travel devices to send information in the past, can only send information back, as long as the device exists. So escentially I would have to invent it, then send myself information from the future back.
Your asking your self now, how can #1 be true? How can I prove it?
Its simple.
Anyone right now, can see into the past. ITs fairly simple, and we have been doing it for about as long as humanity has existed, and more then likely before.
Its fairly simple process.
Wait till around 21:00 hours, go outside, and tilt your head up to the sky.
See that shiny thing? thats a star. Its several houndred light years away.
You know what that means? Your seeing several houndred years into the past.
ZOMG Time Travel!
pwned?
We're talking about people travelling through time. Looking up at the stars is seeing delayed light, if you were at that star, you won't've travelled time at all. What you will see will be unnoticably different to what we see on earth, but that's due to the light.
Think about it before making retarded comments like that.
And as for your time machine theory, if it was that simple, it would've been done already. But it's not, and you can't, don't be stupid.
and you get the most powerful eyebrows in the whole world.Trivun said:I would go for an ability like Peter Petrelli (Heroes) or Rogue (X-Men). I.e. I would love to absorb other people's abilities, so they would keep theirs but I would have the same power. Failing that, Sylar (again, Heroes). Same effect, plus the added sadism...
Would you also absorb their negative traits though, like leaving the toilet seat up? and not calling round to see their grans enough?