Super Power Wish List
Everyone wants super powers of some description. Maybe in our more rational moments we realise that they might well not be a terribly good idea... I mean, let's face it, if people could shoot heat rays out of the their eyes when then the January Sales would become a bloodbath, but I suspect we've all now and then had a yearning to rip up the laws of physics and do our own thing. So, discounting omnipotence, omniscience, and omnieverything else before we start as cheating to get several powers in one, what abilities would Wikizens yearn for, and why?
I'll start the ball rolling myself:
- Teleportation. Both of self and objects in contact. Imagine never having to worry about luggage again. -- WJR
- Improved memory skills. See Human Memory --TL
- I'd like to be able to stop or slow down time in some not-very-Hard SF way, ie so that i can get to work at my usual time, spend my usual amount of time mucking about, programming, surfing the web, drinking coffee and reading strange and irrelevant research papers, and then be able to do an honest day's work and still leave more or less on time. An extra 8 hours per day should do it. This would also come in very handy when the boss/postdoc/collaborator says "are you ready to show me that result?", so i'd have time to remember what they were talking about, curse loudly for having forgotten it a week ago and then do the experiment in time for the meeting we'd agreed on. The problem with this power is that what would really happen is i'd get to work, pause time, start surfing the web and then never stop ... -- TA
- William Gibson's Neuro Mancer-style jacking into the net. It'd save time checking emails :) --TL But then what would students everywhere do to avoid getting on with their essays? -- WJR
- Shape-changing. Bit of a cheat, since adopting any sort of bird shape implicitly implies flight, but fun, none the less. -- WJR
- The ability to change my morph my hands into biomechanical lobster claws, apparently. This according to my subconscious (see Disturbing Dreams). All the better to cut megalomaniac ex-game show hosts to pieces, apparently. -- WJR
- Laser blast eyes. See College Roomies From Hell. -- WJR