What power do you want to have?

[BETA]

What if we are in an alternate universe where humans have power-like abilities, what power do you want to have?

 

[iamxaxas]

Ever seen the movie "Jumper"? You can pretty much teleport to any place you have seen (photos included). I'd like that.

 

[Kyrbi0]

The ability to morph, basically: complete control over my body, transformationally speaking.

 

[BETA]

Ever seen the movie "Jumper"? You can pretty much teleport to any place you have seen (photos included). I'd like that.

Finally you won't be late for work, or school.

The ability to morph, basically: complete control over my body, transformationally speaking.

You can finally grow boobs and touch it with your own hands.



The ability I want is to mimic another one's talent and powers.

 

[FUJI]

Invincibility and Immortality.

 

[fladdermasken]

Bronze hands. If I touch you, I can make you shit your pants.

 

[BETA]

Invincibility and Immortality.

And if the universe ends, what will you do?(since you're immortal and all)

Bronze hands. If I touch you, I can make you shit your pants.

Funny... Useless power but still funny

 

[FUJI]

I will just watch how the universe end and grabs some popcorn while Im floating in space. *clap clap*

Edit: Actually I love to witness how the universe will come to it's end.

 

[BETA]

And then get bored from time to time. Endlessly floating in space without purpose, and getting lost to time itself. Well, time is only an illusion anyway.

 

[Kyrbi0]

You can finally grow boobs and touch it with your own hands.

No need, man. If you haven't heard, I'm a happily married father of two. : ) (*cough* @Premin)

 

[BETA]

No need, man. If you haven't heard, I'm a happily married father of two. : ) (*cough* @Premin)

That I didn't know of. O_O

 

[Shadow Fury]

There's so much to opt for!
I thought about reading the mind because it would allow me to know who really are my friends and who are just traitors, while also winning all risk/luck games and avoiding being deceived in any way. Heh, what a good, easy life!

 

[hiphop4eva]

What about generating and controlling black holes? You would be extremely powerful.

 

[Shar Dundred]

The power to remove stupidity, stupid people and everything related.
That would be soooooo gooooood.

 

[Abovegame]

I always wanted to have the ability to freeze everything and everyone in the world , while i walk unaffected.

 

[BETA]

What about generating and controlling black holes? You would be extremely powerful.

Seems extremely pointless. Well, you do you.

 

[hiphop4eva]

Seems extremely pointless. Well, you do you.

But, but...

 

[Kyrbi0]

I think what he's trying to say is that, while it sounds cool (and as an avid fan of black holes since a young age, I'm in the same boat as you : ), realistically it wouldn't do all that much to help you and in fact might be quite a detriment.

Leaving aside all the "government/people hunting you down because you are too dangerous" (alternatively all the "scientists hunting you down so you can make black holes for them to study"), just imagine you in your daily life. What are you going to use a black hole for that would benefit you? Do you have a lot of enemies? Even if you do, will you enjoy consigning them to a goopy quantum state, an unknowable "demise" question mark?

Even assuming you can control everything about them (how big they are, where they go, etc), it's a big mystery as to how they work & what they really are. I suppose a tiny enough black hole could act as a trash compactor; the perfect trash can, eating everything, all in the size of a coin. But.... That's about it.

Again, not trying to crush your dreams. This is a "wish fulfillment" thread after all. Just trying to explain where he's coming from. : )

 

[Shadow Fury]

If a black hole can absorb light travelling at about 300,000 metres per second, prepare to travel to a new dimension as soon as you create your first black hole for how small it can be! However, assuming that a black hole would be too weak when tiny, it wouldn't even be a black hole! As far as I know, it's black because it doesn't allow light to escape its gravitational pull.

So in the end, this superpower is either useless or too self-destructive than you can conceive.

 

[pyf]

I think what he's trying to say is that, while it sounds cool (and as an avid fan of black holes since a young age, I'm in the same boat as you : ), realistically it wouldn't do all that much to help you and in fact might be quite a detriment.
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Is that you DSG?

I bet he is talking about that kind of black hole:

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[hiphop4eva]

If a black hole can absorb light travelling at about 300,000 metres per second, prepare to travel to a new dimension as soon as you create your first black hole for how small it can be! However, assuming that a black hole would be too weak when tiny, it wouldn't even be a black hole! As far as I know, it's black because it doesn't allow light to escape its gravitational pull.

So in the end, this superpower is either useless or too self-destructive than you can conceive.

I mean, I'm pretty sure I would be immune to my own superpowers. But if you guys are saying so...
Then what about gravity manipulation? At least you won't get sucked to the nth dimension.

E: And no pyf, I was talking about Enigma (Dota 2) style black holes.

 

[Shadow Fury]

I mean, I'm pretty sure I would be immune to my own superpowers. But if you guys are saying so...
Then what about gravity manipulation? At least you won't get sucked to the nth dimension.

If you have superstrength, you are not immune to superstrength! Same logic.
Gravity manipulation is also very useless. I can only imagine someone using it to play tricks on people by making them float like they are on the moon or get stuck to the ground from excessive gravity. Also, don't mess with Physics that much

 

[hiphop4eva]

If you have superstrength, you are not immune to superstrength! Same logic.
Gravity manipulation is also very useless. I can only imagine someone using it to play tricks on people by making them float like they are on the moon or get stuck to the ground from excessive gravity. Also, don't mess with Physics that much

How is gravity manipulation useless? You would be able to move the moon if you wanted to. (I don't know why you would do that though)

 

[FUJI]

Yeah small blackholes are useful for throwing our garbages stuff so the environment will not be polluted but of course don't touch it or else it might distort you once your finger is in 'spaghetti' state. Still dunno where all of that garbages stuff will be placed in our universe because it is impossible that a blackhole can destroy atoms ( invulnerable ) of an object.

 

[BETA]

it's a big mystery as to how they work & what they really are. I suppose a tiny enough black hole could act as a trash compactor; the perfect trash can, eating everything, all in the size of a coin. But.... That's about it.

Well frankly that's a great concept(and since I'm that guy who applies real world physics), but overall highly dangerous, forbidden in fact. You see, a black hole the size of the coin would cause a large explosion, so large and powerful it would destroy the Earth clean from outer space.

Gravity manipulation is also very useless.

This. Actually it's useful in many ways, especially when lifting heavy objects and using it's natural force to generate electricity.

 

[AGD]

Well frankly that's a great concept(and since I'm that guy who applies real world physics), but overall highly dangerous, forbidden in fact. You see, a black hole the size of the coin would cause a large explosion, so large and powerful it would destroy the Earth clean from outer space.

I don't think black holes explode from what I've known.

On topic:
Omnipotence is all

 

[BETA]

I don't think black holes explode from what I've known.

Oh yes they do. This is because the black hole the size of a coin would have the the same mass as the Earth, causing the Earth to "resist" from the black hole.

Black hole explosion

First of all, not all of the Earth would simply be "sucked" into the black hole. When the matter near the black hole begins to "fall" into the black hole it will be compressed to very high density which will cause it to be heated to very high temperatures. These high temperatures will cause gamma rays, x-rays and other radiation to heat up the other matter falling in to the black hole. The net effect will be that there will be a strong outward pressure on the outer layers of the Earth that will first slow down their fall and will eventually ionize and push the outer layers away from the black hole. So some inner portion of the core will fall into the black hole but the outer layers, including the crust and all of us would be vaporized to a high temperature plasma and be blown into space.

This would be a gigantic explosion - a significant fraction of the rest mass of the Earth matter that actually fell into the black hole will be converted into energy. According toWikipedia, for astrophysical black holes "up to 40% of the rest mass of the accreted material can be emitted in radiation". This radiation will be absorbed by the outer layers of the Earth and will vaporize them. Examples of this kind of dramatic matter to energy conversion are quasars. Quasars are the most luminous objects in the universe and they are powered by matter falling onto a supermassive black hole. So there will be plenty of energy available to blow off the other layers of the Earth - and they will escape! For example, when the black hole is first placed at the center of the Earth, the first thing we would all notice is that gravity increased by (only) a factor of two on the surface of the Earth (assuming the black hole had the same mass as the Earth). However, the escape velocity of an object only increases as the square root of the mass, so the current 11 km/s escape velocity on the surface of the Earth will only increase to about 16.8 km/s. A very significant fraction of the mass of the Earth will become a vaporized hot plasma and will be going faster than that when it passes the radius of what used to be the surface of the Earth.

I just read(past tense) it on some site about a black hole the size of the coin.

 

[Edge45]

To go back or forward in time and discover, change and be in history. Plus, I would like to see Ralle as a young guy

 

[BETA]

To go back or forward in time and discover, change and be in history. Plus, I would like to see Ralle as a young guy

Even though it's a great power to have, I wouldn't poke my nose in history or alter it in anyway if I were you.

 

[Edge45]

I choose to change so, if I have the power. Having the ability means changing the roots of the present or the future, a great power, but also the responsibility.
My purpose of such power is knowledge and truth, what really happened in the past, and once you have gotten the hang of it, change it. I do have an evil side of me, and I would like to change timelines just for pleasure and fun.

Oh well, such is absurd

 

[Chaosy]

Vague.
But probably some sort of combat power would be.. desirable.

 

[pyf]

How is gravity manipulation useless? You would be able to move the moon if you wanted to. (I don't know why you would do that though)

To seduce women

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But with great power comes great responsibility

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[iamxaxas]

I choose to change so, if I have the power. Having the ability means changing the roots of the present or the future, a great power, but also the responsibility.
My purpose of such power is knowledge and truth, what really happened in the past, and once you have gotten the hang of it, change it. I do have an evil side of me, and I would like to change timelines just for pleasure and fun.

Oh well, such is absurd

But what about the time paradoxes (is this how you spell it?)? If you change something in the past, then, in the future, when you are supposed to go back in time to change it, it hasn't happened, so there's nothing to change, therefore, you never go back (which means you can't be in the past because you never went back) and never stop it from happening, so it eventually happens again.

 

[Chaosy]

On second thought - I'd wish for whatever power to remove feminism from the earth. First world feminists anyway.

 

[Edge45]

But what about the time paradoxes (is this how you spell it?)? If you change something in the past, then, in the future, when you are supposed to go back in time to change it, it hasn't happened, so there's nothing to change, therefore, you never go back (which means you can't be in the past because you never went back) and never stop it from happening, so it eventually happens again.

A rather complex one.
There are two possibilities for time travels based on what I have thought of (and watched from movies), and from what you said, where paradoxes exist. And another possibly for a time paradoxes exist.

A Timeline with Paradoxes - If time were like this, then I'd be simply repeating what Nozdormu have done becoming the Infinite aspect Murozond in WoW. Fate already knows and predicts what you will do in changing time, it will happen, like blocking a river, but it will continue to flow.
- Another possibility when there is a paradox, is when you see yourself in time. Such could fuse yourself with the other you, or destroy time and space and reality will cease to exist.

A Timeline without Paradoxes - This is actually what I would want, although without paradox, I could see myself and reality may cease to exist or maybe nothing will happen. Time can change freely by your hands.

Heh, this is as far as my opinions can go

 

[Shadow Fury]

How is gravity manipulation useless? You would be able to move the moon if you wanted to. (I don't know why you would do that though)

You would cause many countries to be flooded! To my knowledge, water waves are affected by the gravitational pull of the moon.

Time control would also be cool. I could go back and fix all my mistakes or even prevent them. It also has some of the benefits of mind reading like winning all risk/luck games
However, I wouldn't still like to mess with time. Imagine you meet your grandfather in the past and talk to him for some time. You might have just impeded him from meeting your grandmother so technically you wouldn't be born so you... would vanish? Too complicated...
It would be safer to travel to the future because there are no risks you alter the present or the past. Seeing how the world would look like in 2050 would be extremely interesting

 

[Deleted member 219079]

manipulate time

 

[iamxaxas]

A Timeline without Paradoxes - This is actually what I would want, although without paradox, I could see myself and reality may cease to exist or maybe nothing will happen. Time can change freely by your hands.

Heh, this is as far as my opinions can go

There is that option I believe you're referring to alternate timelines. Thing is: if you mess too much with the past, in the end you'd get infinite timelines. How would you know which one is the real one? eventually you'd just loose yourself (or maybe not, who knows?). Despite this, I wouldn't mind doing some time travelling for observation purposes only =D

 

[Edge45]

Indeed, just depends, there is a possibility you could still exist, even though you stop your fathers from meeting with your mothers.
Oh yeah, another would be Infinite wishes all for yourself (So selfish)

 

[pyf]

Time travelers should theoretically never go back to the exact instant they began their time travel, because of eventual infinite time loops.
Time loop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Another thing to eventually consider with time traveling:

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One-Minute Time Machine

 

[hiphop4eva]

Guys, I know that moving the moon would cause floods. It was just an example of what you could do. You can live a life without moving the sun if you want.

 

[Roland]

My power would be.... something that a person can be easily follows your orders and Supports your Campaign for Radicalism. Or maybe, I could have a power to regain my Amputated Left leg.

 

[BETA]

easily follows your orders

Woah, you can tell a girl to... nevermind.

 

[Edge45]

That's mind control maybe

 

[hiphop4eva]

Woah, you can tell a girl to... nevermind.

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

 

[Sclammerz]

Yep, mind control.

 

[BETA]

Mind Control! Best power ever

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

 

[Edge45]

No its not, time travel is. Because you can repeat it again ^^

 

[Shadow Fury]

No its not, time travel is. Because you can repeat it again ^^

Sorry to burst your bubble, but mind control wins. If I can control your mind, dear time traveller, you shall do my bidding XD So basically I have both mind control and time travel available. Basically I can exploit all superpowers with it.

 

[Edge45]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but mind control wins. If I can control your mind, dear time traveller, you shall do my bidding XD So basically I have both mind control and time travel available. Basically I can exploit all superpowers with it.

The question will be, how can you mind control me, if I am one with billions of people , whom you only use one mind to control what you see.
I on the otherhand, is already on the past, and already stopped you from being born before you even realized. (Time travel rules!)