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Some superpowers sound cool, but really suck, take flight for example, In truth, flying isn’t as glamorous as it seems. To avoid birds, bugs, and other low-altitude pests (buildings, antennas, etc), you would need to fly a few thousand feet in the air. And for every thousand feet you go up, the temperature drops 1.65 degrees Celsius (3.0 degrees Fahrenheit). At 30,000 feet, you’re looking at an outside temperature of -23.8 degrees Celsius (-31 degrees Fahrenheit). You can bundle up to beat the cold, but make sure you have enough room for your oxygen mask; at 30,000 feet, the air is so thin that you’d pass out in seconds from oxygen deprivation. Now that you’re safely flying with your parkas and oxygen tank, remember not to break the speed of sound. In doing so, the friction of the molecules in the atmosphere hitting your body will create incredibly high temperatures, incinerating you despite the frigid temperatures. All in all, it’s a much safer bet to leave flying to the birds.

Or you could just fly with a mask to cover your face?

Oh, and uh...pocket monsters thread.  WE're all waiting on you.

You don't need to go nearly that high to avoid the bugs, and anything larger than that you should be able to dodge easily enough. Just go the height of the average apartment building and you should be fine lol.

I see you also read Cracked

Just going to post that myself - nice when people actually cite their sources ain't it?  ;)

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Batman has a weird superpower of jumping from 800 metre tall buildings, landing without a scatch and pummeling badies to death. Oh yeah. Joker too.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Batman secretly has the ability to survive anything and reduce the powers of everyone around him.

His cloak slows his fall.

Or something magic like that.

You know, flying would be rather fun, even if you flew an inch above the ground. :P

Never had a big thing for flying...

I'd prefer something like teleportation, telekinesis, invisibility or some made up power.

Time travel is the best. Though I'd also settle for freezing time. Imagine how easy it would be to cheat in tests (or kick the ever living crap out of or rob someone)

Time Travel and Teleportation are the two most overrated powers - as either one would instantly kill you the moment you used them.

 

My opinion of a badass power: Taking matter, atoms, etc. from around me and changing their arrangement and type, I.E. Mailbox into a small dog. Only problem: You have to know everything you're doing or how to do it, or else boom.

Who says you'll have to travel space? Why can't we just use magic? Seriously, stop ruining super powers.

Uhm... perhaps you missed the actual point of this thread haha!  XD

It's still fun to break threads though.

Magic: the end.

Live Forever is a good power to have, eternal lust type thing. I live forever, but sadly skin tends to deteriorate after a couple hundred years.

But.

The heat death of the universe will kill you!

I say immortality where you stay the same age forever. At first you be like this is great, but after the first couple hundred years you start to looking for ways to kill yourself or take over the world.

I haven't done either of those things yet... But then again, I can stay dead for entire minutes whenever I want.

I would get bored after the first "lives" I lived and get curious if I am actually immortal.

Dang, I'd hate being a useless baby for all my life :P

So let's try and get a logical super power...

Flying is a no unless you fly low (rhymes :D), teleportation and time travel don't work, immortality will get boring (maybe), super speed will kill you, so what else is there?

Well, invisibility could work... All it's doing is your cells are reflecting all light... But then you may not be able to be found if you also reflect other waves e.g radio and infrared. I'm no scientist, someone thoroughly explain invisibility for me.

Atomic manipulation could work, but if you fuck up you may create a chemical reaction resulting in your death... 

Telekinesis is a power i'd say is impossible to overrate. The ability to move things with your mind, no matter how limitted, is still amazing.

Until the overstimulation of your brain gives you an annerrism or however you spell it or something and you bleed to death from your nose.

Laser Vision: It's uselessness depends on the type. If it's always active then you have the worst power ever...   If only activated when you want it too I guess you could try being a supervillian of sorts or one very useful piece of human-laser equipment.

X-Ray vision: If your a specialist doctor then you'll do fine. Otherwise you'll just be known as the guy who gives cancer to everybody he looks at.

Immortality(As in not aging or dying): Just... no. It would suck horribly.