There’s a classic personality question related to this. Don’t try and over think it. Go with your first reaction. If you had to choose between the two, would you rather have the power of flight or the power of invisibility?
Ahh, but you’re assuming that it is true that the desired super power is associated with intorversion / extroversion. You can’t just say “it makes sense that introverts want to be invisible.” You have to perform an extensive double-blind test to see whether the two are correlated. And then you’re only certain of someone’s personality t the extent of the correlation (no psychological correlation is 100%.)
Secondly, I think you’re confusing “introvert” with “shy.” “Shy” means you are afraid of social interaction. “Introvert” means it’s just not a priority.
I’m tremendously introverted, but not at all shy. When forced to socialize, I’m perfectly comfortable and capable of it. But left to my own devices, I’ll just wander around and think deep thoughts about black holes and how to keep pink fuzzy bunnies from taking control of the world governments
Actually, I should say I’m a strongly antisocial borderline sociopath. Flying is an awesome way to get the hell away from other people, and go bother the few people I actually /like/.
Flight. As many heads it may turn, you can always just wear a brown paper bag if you’re so worried about attention. Besides, as a few have pointed out, flight has so, so many practical uses…
Invisibility. Imagine all the bank jobs you could pull while invisible. You rob the bank and oh my lord all the cameras see is a floating gun and some floating clothes. Can’t exactly identify that now can ya? Also you could work as a hitman really easily. I’d be in with the mob making so much money. I’d have a personal f**king jet. Who needs flight bah hum bug.
I don’t even know what i’d choose, (which makes sense since I tested equally for introvert and extrovert on all the tests i did in careers class…) flip a coin for it.
Flight, no doubt.
I notice that some of the “introverted” guys dream of robbing a bank or hitting people, BTW. Invisibility would make them extroverted, and they’d end up wanting the power of flight
Being able to fly would probably make me want to do it without being stared at, though. Uhmmm.
Oh, and I’m finally done reading all the archives. Yay!
Bravo Chris, Biff is awesome; often surprising, often inspiring, always able to make me smile (most of the time I’m actually laughing out loud). A shiny new bookmark for my webcomics folder.
I’ve thought about this before and Flight is somewhat practical, but invisibility is too much of a hassle.
First the power to fly, not be Superman. So flying at high speeds would shred your clothing or pull it off of you. Ever wonder why sky divers wear those special jump suits? Also flying at high altitudes, you would get pretty cold. If you took anything with you, your arms would get tired carrying it if it was a long distance, so you’d be limited to backpack of some sort. People would see you and this would cause a lot of problems for you. Not to mention you’d need to bring a GPS with you or shadow major highways (which would mean brining a map), just picking up and say flying from NY to LA wouldn’t be that easy, without a GPS you’d get lost, you’d be flying probably around 50mph maybe you could get away with 60mph (flying at super high speeds? your body wouldn’t be able to handle the force of the wind hitting you, you’d have to fly at a low speed, clothing, a helmet would get ripped off of your body at high speeds) so it would take you a very long time. Your neck would get tired of always looking up (assuming you are flying in a prone position, like super heroes do), and your shoulders would get tired of extending your arms, likewise your buttocks and lowerback would get sore always trying to keep your legs straight, you’d have to land frequently to rest. You’d probably end up having to fly in sort of a crawling or dog-paddling position, and that would look rather stupid.
Invisibility sounds cool, but if you commit a crime, you’d still leave fingerprints. But let’s say you wore gloves and took precautions, a lot of crimes are committed where there is no direct evidence, and these people still get caught most of the time. Weather you get away or not doesn’t have anything to do with special powers. Suddenly buying a boat or a house or trying to deposit $10k in your bank account would get you investigated by the IRS, if you couldn’t normally afford such a thing. But being able to sneak around, you’d constantly have to be moving out of people’s way, cars wouldn’t stop for you either. You would get cold because your clothing isn’t invisible so to take advantage of being invisible you’d have to be naked. Your bare feet would get sore from walking on pavement and you’d have to avoid surfaces that might injure your feet. You’d either have to hide clothing so you could turn visible and not draw attention to yourself, so you’d have to carefully plan out any trips you took.
Really both abilities have too many downsides, but flying is at least cool and it doesn’t require getting naked. There is a much cooler power that trumps the two, but it wasn’t an option which is a bummer. I guess I’d pick being able to fly and win some gold medals at the next Olympics for the high jump and pole vault.
Dude, I’d want telekinesis and telepathy, like Jean Grey. Because then not ONLY could I fly, I could control the minds of others so I wouldn’t even need to be invisible in the first place.
I’d choose flight over invisibility though. So what if you’re invisible? You’re still not intangible. Flying allows for speedy getaways.
…and there I go over thinking it. But seriously, first reaction would be to choose flight.
flight. Ive drempt of flying, it was pretty cool.
I also hate driving.
landing w/o being noticed might be troublesome though… but maybe not, people tend not to look up.
@ the argument that power currupts: what fun is power if you’re not going to have fun with it?
I was asked that very question once by a therapist. It was among a barrage of other questions which gave me the choice between two powers. This was something like 15 years ago now.
As with anything relating to psychology, it is 100% accurate*.
*Unless the person has some other equally good explanation as to why they would give an answer that does not hinge on the original assumption that the question was based around.**
** Unless the explanation is actually the person’s way of subverting the question and giving a misleading answer that is based on their attempt to rationalize away the real reason they feel that way.***
If I could turn invisible robbers, gangsters, and Nazis would have a hard time killing me. If I could fly, Dick Cheney would be the only one with a hard time shooting me. I’ll have to go with invisibility.
Invisibility sounds like you wanna hide from the world, aka introvert/shy/what-have-you, apparently. But it’s also a means to satisfy a morbid curiosity…sounds more like a fitting thing for peeping toms and the like…unless it takes away too much of the thrill for them, I dunno
And flight is the ultimate “I wanna run away” thing. That’s not an extrovert. That’s just an active introvert instead of a passive one.
It all depends on how you look at it, I guess…
Now, the only limit about flight, is in your speed and maneuverability (did I spell it right?)…and how careful you’re to keep your escape routes open.
If your power is something that operates on fundamental forces of the universe (such as limited psychokinesis, or some sort of interaction with gravity/electromagnetics/whatever), your maneuverability could easily become higher than that of anything man-made. You could outmaneuvers missiles, planes…anything they throw at you. Even if don’t beat them on the speed.
With invisibility…we’ve all talked about it already. Sound. Not intangible. Your clothes and items perhaps won’t turn invisible as well. Trails. Fingerprints, hair and such evidence. UV and infrared vision. Heat vision. Motion detectors….etc, etc.
@ immo
The difference between being corrupted, and having fun, is notoriously large. At least, that’s what I believe. I personally don’t like “having fun” and “doing evil/bad” being so closely associated. It’s a cultural confusion, more than a reality. I could have fun helping people, myself. And doing all other sorts of things that aren’t quite evil/bad.
So, to me, saying that not letting power corrupt you, is not having fun, is a misinterpretation.
On that…granted, invisibility is much more useful if you’re gonna work outside the law. Which is not necessarily doing evil/bad.
Again, I’d love to see an invisible guy/girl come out with a massive pile of undeniable evidence on those among the powers that be, that are always stealing, abusing and destroying their fellow people. So we can properly and rightfully put them all in jail.
@ Jude
We seem to converge on the same analysis, except you went further and made less assumptions. I just assumed the power of flight would bring in a load of related goodies, such as a severely heightened sense of orientation. Actually, it doesn’t take being super, to have that. People used to navigate long distances via planes and/or ships, often have an acute sense of location, despite constant reliance on maps and the like.
I also assumed your body would be adapted to the postures, and that you would be able to physically withstand the hardships of whatever flight speeds you can achieve…in the same way that most of us really cannot run faster than our bodies can handle. We can get exhausted, cramped or hurt, but that’s just a detail. It’s a big difference between “I pulled a muscle” and “my body couldn’t handle the speed so now I have bruises from the wind, my head is spinning, my bloodflow is a mess, and I ended up slamming against a tree ‘cos I got disoriented.”
In short, I sort of picked up the kind of flight power I’d want, with all prerequisite capabilities to make it safely and efficiently.
I’d probably also want something smoother than the actual physical impact of my body crossing the air at high speeds…sonic booms are quite destructive…anything man-sized will break fragile stuff (such as glass) and cause all manners of trouble when passing even relatively close to it, at speeds that could be supersonic or way worse.
I’d wanna go at like Mach 15…anyone knows how fast is the fastest device created? Missile, spacecraft, whatever?
Oh, and last but not last. Inertia. I’d like to forbid inertia from entering the picture. Slowing down from supersonic to an halt before making a hole/splatter in the asphalt is gonna be a b!tch, otherwise.
@ Chris: You surely anticipated that an open question to your readers would cause this apparent record in comments, no?
I got to read all your comics soon after I found your site through an ad @ PvP, about 4-5 months ago. But I only got to mind the comments later on. No wonder I missed that, since I’ve been reading them/participating for a much shorter while.
The connection between your strips, your comment, and the peoples’ replies, is achieved with smooth success in this layout.
@ Chris – another April Fool’s Day might do it.
@ Izual Shima – I think there was a week in Biff when there was a story about hime flying to outer space… ah, yes, #510-514
If tit’s fast flight, then flight. With flight, I can probably make myself invisible. And only being able to do invisibility might be a little repetitive.
I’m short. Flight is my choice, even if flight required effort. If it required more effort than walking somewhere, it would still be worth it just for getting things off of high shelves.
If you’re invisible, people will run into you. That’s why I’d never drive an invisible car.
Why do so many people associate flying with flight *from* something. In my dreams, flight is most always a means to excell for the sake of acceleration. And I rarely fly prone. It’s usually a long jump. The trick is in settling into the glide phase.
A few people have noted that clothing would be a dead giveaway to invisibility. Is there is an inherent paradox here? If getting naked would be required to achieve true invisibility, then this choice would surely appeal to an exhibitionist. Would [so called] science concede the possibility of a person who profiled as an introvert also self-proclaiming to be an exhibitionist?
@ MadDavid, 13:48: “fluffy pink bunnies?” Might I assume that you are not referring to the sort of hapless figureheads [stuffing for brains] like our CIC George “The Dubby” Junior, but rather the more sinister powers that never die?
I was in Nevada in the spring of ’92 where I saw a video of a very entertaining demonstration. A group had come to protest nuclear testing at the DOE building there. They brought about a dozen big marching bass drums (and bunny suits? I don’t remember if they wore bunny suits) with them and just walked around in circles, pounding the drums. They also had a banner that read: “They keep testing, and testing, and testing…”
@ Izui Shima, 19:40: I was going to say the fastest objects would be directed photons, (the lasers themselves don’t move) but then I remembered reading that they had actually demonstrated a workable device which instantaneously transported data across a very narrow gap. I don’t know if it was acual photons that were transported, or some sort of wave form. Or whatever. Regardless, don’t beam me up yet, Scotty. I’m not ready to return to my late sixties frame of mind.
Sorry. What was the question? Oh, yeah: Flight.
…but only if ‘none of the above’ is not an option.
Flight definitely! How cool would it be to be able to be all “Oh geez! Look at the time, I gotta go!” and b-line right to your destination without having to sit in traffic or pay for gas/oil/a vehicle to put gas or oil into. Plus I bet it would help you pick up a lot of chicks, especially if you wore a superman costume on a regular basis. Bonus points if you also wear a suit and glasses over the superman suit and tear off the suit whenever you had to fly anywhere, regardless of whether there’s anyone there to see it.
I’d choose invisibility if I knew why I was invisible and weather or not I could control it.
If I was invisible because my skin caused “rays” (any and all rays from the electomagnetic spectrum, not just the light rays from the visible spectrum) I may be “invisible” to both the naked eye, infared scanners, x-rays, ect…
I may also be partially immune to different kinds of radation. I could also walk though lasers without breaking them and possible take minimal damage from the ray/laser/phaser/emo guns of the future too.
That and I wouldn’t have to worry about somebody seeing me if I was taking a shower either.
It would probably still be fairly dificult to break the law when your invisible as you’d either need to be stark naked to take full advantage of it. Lulz…
Fliiiiiight
Something I’ve always wanted. I would chase the rain around the world and the sun would eternally be setting in my world. I’d sleep in the clouds and dance in the lightning, and I wouldn’t share it with anyone.
I did as you said and immediately got flight but then quicker than a blink it switched right to invisibility and back to flight.
My reasoning for this is that I was naturally an extrovert but became an introvert early in life. After all, I did have a really horrible time in school up until high school and was quite introverted.
Around late high school I began to unravel that and I’d say I’m now about 60/40 in favor of extrovert. Though in some situations I’m still really introverted.
i would say flight, cause invisibility has some nasty side effects. however, does flight assume you have the ability to land? (reference to a later comic). <_<
Flight. It was decided by my fellow sanctumites that I would fly. At supersonic speeds. Later of course I fleshed it out and was fused with a gaseous alien entity. Or I could run on the absence of light. Sometimes my thought processes frighten me.
Also, Almost through the backlog. Three days. Three days. Three days….
Invisibility to the max. I would be most interested in sneaking around and finding things out. However, I’d have to strip naked, and with my luck, I’d lose focus and become visible in the middle of a crowded room.
Invisibilty, if someone else had flight they’d most likely decide that ignorance is the only thing that exists and try to knock you down.
@ Chris
Ahh, but you’re assuming that it is true that the desired super power is associated with intorversion / extroversion. You can’t just say “it makes sense that introverts want to be invisible.” You have to perform an extensive double-blind test to see whether the two are correlated. And then you’re only certain of someone’s personality t the extent of the correlation (no psychological correlation is 100%.)
Secondly, I think you’re confusing “introvert” with “shy.” “Shy” means you are afraid of social interaction. “Introvert” means it’s just not a priority.
I’m tremendously introverted, but not at all shy. When forced to socialize, I’m perfectly comfortable and capable of it. But left to my own devices, I’ll just wander around and think deep thoughts about black holes and how to keep pink fuzzy bunnies from taking control of the world governments
Flight, I am already invisible…
Flight, unless I was some special operative, then I’d take the sneaky-sneak power of invisibilty. Flight is more practical.
I’m an introvert, but I’d go for flight.
Actually, I should say I’m a strongly antisocial borderline sociopath. Flying is an awesome way to get the hell away from other people, and go bother the few people I actually /like/.
Flight. As many heads it may turn, you can always just wear a brown paper bag if you’re so worried about attention. Besides, as a few have pointed out, flight has so, so many practical uses…
Invisibility. Imagine all the bank jobs you could pull while invisible. You rob the bank and oh my lord all the cameras see is a floating gun and some floating clothes. Can’t exactly identify that now can ya? Also you could work as a hitman really easily. I’d be in with the mob making so much money. I’d have a personal f**king jet. Who needs flight bah hum bug.
I don’t even know what i’d choose, (which makes sense since I tested equally for introvert and extrovert on all the tests i did in careers class…) flip a coin for it.
Also… mistake week is my guess.
Flight for me, thanks.
Invisibility? I just can’t see it…
Haha bad pun.
Flight, no doubt.
I notice that some of the “introverted” guys dream of robbing a bank or hitting people, BTW. Invisibility would make them extroverted, and they’d end up wanting the power of flight
Being able to fly would probably make me want to do it without being stared at, though. Uhmmm.
Oh, and I’m finally done reading all the archives. Yay!
Bravo Chris, Biff is awesome; often surprising, often inspiring, always able to make me smile (most of the time I’m actually laughing out loud). A shiny new bookmark for my webcomics folder.
Time to go and order those books
@MadDavid – I’m not assuming anything… I didn’t design the question, just thought it was interesting.
I’ve thought about this before and Flight is somewhat practical, but invisibility is too much of a hassle.
First the power to fly, not be Superman. So flying at high speeds would shred your clothing or pull it off of you. Ever wonder why sky divers wear those special jump suits? Also flying at high altitudes, you would get pretty cold. If you took anything with you, your arms would get tired carrying it if it was a long distance, so you’d be limited to backpack of some sort. People would see you and this would cause a lot of problems for you. Not to mention you’d need to bring a GPS with you or shadow major highways (which would mean brining a map), just picking up and say flying from NY to LA wouldn’t be that easy, without a GPS you’d get lost, you’d be flying probably around 50mph maybe you could get away with 60mph (flying at super high speeds? your body wouldn’t be able to handle the force of the wind hitting you, you’d have to fly at a low speed, clothing, a helmet would get ripped off of your body at high speeds) so it would take you a very long time. Your neck would get tired of always looking up (assuming you are flying in a prone position, like super heroes do), and your shoulders would get tired of extending your arms, likewise your buttocks and lowerback would get sore always trying to keep your legs straight, you’d have to land frequently to rest. You’d probably end up having to fly in sort of a crawling or dog-paddling position, and that would look rather stupid.
Invisibility sounds cool, but if you commit a crime, you’d still leave fingerprints. But let’s say you wore gloves and took precautions, a lot of crimes are committed where there is no direct evidence, and these people still get caught most of the time. Weather you get away or not doesn’t have anything to do with special powers. Suddenly buying a boat or a house or trying to deposit $10k in your bank account would get you investigated by the IRS, if you couldn’t normally afford such a thing. But being able to sneak around, you’d constantly have to be moving out of people’s way, cars wouldn’t stop for you either. You would get cold because your clothing isn’t invisible so to take advantage of being invisible you’d have to be naked. Your bare feet would get sore from walking on pavement and you’d have to avoid surfaces that might injure your feet. You’d either have to hide clothing so you could turn visible and not draw attention to yourself, so you’d have to carefully plan out any trips you took.
Really both abilities have too many downsides, but flying is at least cool and it doesn’t require getting naked. There is a much cooler power that trumps the two, but it wasn’t an option which is a bummer. I guess I’d pick being able to fly and win some gold medals at the next Olympics for the high jump and pole vault.
Dude, I’d want telekinesis and telepathy, like Jean Grey. Because then not ONLY could I fly, I could control the minds of others so I wouldn’t even need to be invisible in the first place.
I’d choose flight over invisibility though. So what if you’re invisible? You’re still not intangible. Flying allows for speedy getaways.
…and there I go over thinking it. But seriously, first reaction would be to choose flight.
invisability, how awesome would it be to just dissapear right in front of people
flight. Ive drempt of flying, it was pretty cool.
I also hate driving.
landing w/o being noticed might be troublesome though… but maybe not, people tend not to look up.
@ the argument that power currupts: what fun is power if you’re not going to have fun with it?
id like half of each, to be kinda transparent and being able to kinda hover or float around…
basically kinda being a ghost
^
|____first reaction
I was asked that very question once by a therapist. It was among a barrage of other questions which gave me the choice between two powers. This was something like 15 years ago now.
As with anything relating to psychology, it is 100% accurate*.
*Unless the person has some other equally good explanation as to why they would give an answer that does not hinge on the original assumption that the question was based around.**
** Unless the explanation is actually the person’s way of subverting the question and giving a misleading answer that is based on their attempt to rationalize away the real reason they feel that way.***
*** Unless pie.
If I could turn invisible robbers, gangsters, and Nazis would have a hard time killing me. If I could fly, Dick Cheney would be the only one with a hard time shooting me. I’ll have to go with invisibility.
Invisibility sounds like you wanna hide from the world, aka introvert/shy/what-have-you, apparently. But it’s also a means to satisfy a morbid curiosity…sounds more like a fitting thing for peeping toms and the like…unless it takes away too much of the thrill for them, I dunno
And flight is the ultimate “I wanna run away” thing. That’s not an extrovert. That’s just an active introvert instead of a passive one.
It all depends on how you look at it, I guess…
Now, the only limit about flight, is in your speed and maneuverability (did I spell it right?)…and how careful you’re to keep your escape routes open.
If your power is something that operates on fundamental forces of the universe (such as limited psychokinesis, or some sort of interaction with gravity/electromagnetics/whatever), your maneuverability could easily become higher than that of anything man-made. You could outmaneuvers missiles, planes…anything they throw at you. Even if don’t beat them on the speed.
With invisibility…we’ve all talked about it already. Sound. Not intangible. Your clothes and items perhaps won’t turn invisible as well. Trails. Fingerprints, hair and such evidence. UV and infrared vision. Heat vision. Motion detectors….etc, etc.
@ immo
The difference between being corrupted, and having fun, is notoriously large. At least, that’s what I believe. I personally don’t like “having fun” and “doing evil/bad” being so closely associated. It’s a cultural confusion, more than a reality. I could have fun helping people, myself. And doing all other sorts of things that aren’t quite evil/bad.
So, to me, saying that not letting power corrupt you, is not having fun, is a misinterpretation.
On that…granted, invisibility is much more useful if you’re gonna work outside the law. Which is not necessarily doing evil/bad.
Again, I’d love to see an invisible guy/girl come out with a massive pile of undeniable evidence on those among the powers that be, that are always stealing, abusing and destroying their fellow people. So we can properly and rightfully put them all in jail.
@ Jude
We seem to converge on the same analysis, except you went further and made less assumptions. I just assumed the power of flight would bring in a load of related goodies, such as a severely heightened sense of orientation. Actually, it doesn’t take being super, to have that. People used to navigate long distances via planes and/or ships, often have an acute sense of location, despite constant reliance on maps and the like.
I also assumed your body would be adapted to the postures, and that you would be able to physically withstand the hardships of whatever flight speeds you can achieve…in the same way that most of us really cannot run faster than our bodies can handle. We can get exhausted, cramped or hurt, but that’s just a detail. It’s a big difference between “I pulled a muscle” and “my body couldn’t handle the speed so now I have bruises from the wind, my head is spinning, my bloodflow is a mess, and I ended up slamming against a tree ‘cos I got disoriented.”
In short, I sort of picked up the kind of flight power I’d want, with all prerequisite capabilities to make it safely and efficiently.
I’d probably also want something smoother than the actual physical impact of my body crossing the air at high speeds…sonic booms are quite destructive…anything man-sized will break fragile stuff (such as glass) and cause all manners of trouble when passing even relatively close to it, at speeds that could be supersonic or way worse.
I’d wanna go at like Mach 15…anyone knows how fast is the fastest device created? Missile, spacecraft, whatever?
Oh, and last but not last. Inertia. I’d like to forbid inertia from entering the picture. Slowing down from supersonic to an halt before making a hole/splatter in the asphalt is gonna be a b!tch, otherwise.
@ Chris: You surely anticipated that an open question to your readers would cause this apparent record in comments, no?
@Izual Shima – It will be hard to break the number of comments on this comic:
http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2008/04/01/476-cramp/
Yikes… Emphasis on “apparent.” To me anyways.
I got to read all your comics soon after I found your site through an ad @ PvP, about 4-5 months ago. But I only got to mind the comments later on. No wonder I missed that, since I’ve been reading them/participating for a much shorter while.
The connection between your strips, your comment, and the peoples’ replies, is achieved with smooth success in this layout.
Btw, ever made material with an ongoing story?
@ Chris – another April Fool’s Day might do it.
@ Izual Shima – I think there was a week in Biff when there was a story about hime flying to outer space… ah, yes, #510-514
Definatly flight. Seriously, the invisible man is destined to be a peeping tom, nothing more, but the guy who can fly gets all the girls.
If tit’s fast flight, then flight. With flight, I can probably make myself invisible. And only being able to do invisibility might be a little repetitive.
I’m short. Flight is my choice, even if flight required effort. If it required more effort than walking somewhere, it would still be worth it just for getting things off of high shelves.
If you’re invisible, people will run into you. That’s why I’d never drive an invisible car.
Flight for sure. I’d even settle for the money to get a pilot license (which I do plan on getting when I can afford it).
i think that was the wrong question to ask since we all have theories of our own and are prone to argue as humans want to do sometimes
i would choose invisibility so i could just go on planes to get free flights
Hmm…what would happen if you used your flight abilty underwater?
Flight. Forever flight.
Flight. For one, I’d no longer be afraid of heights….cause if I fell, I could fly.
also, I can just see it now
“Hey, Fop, it’s your boss. I have a contract that you might be interested in. Can you get to [normally unreachable part of the city]?”
“Well, I don’t have a car, but I can FLY. “
Invisibility… Because then I could easily travel using other peoples’ vehicles…
Why do so many people associate flying with flight *from* something. In my dreams, flight is most always a means to excell for the sake of acceleration. And I rarely fly prone. It’s usually a long jump. The trick is in settling into the glide phase.
A few people have noted that clothing would be a dead giveaway to invisibility. Is there is an inherent paradox here? If getting naked would be required to achieve true invisibility, then this choice would surely appeal to an exhibitionist. Would [so called] science concede the possibility of a person who profiled as an introvert also self-proclaiming to be an exhibitionist?
@ MadDavid, 13:48: “fluffy pink bunnies?” Might I assume that you are not referring to the sort of hapless figureheads [stuffing for brains] like our CIC George “The Dubby” Junior, but rather the more sinister powers that never die?
I was in Nevada in the spring of ’92 where I saw a video of a very entertaining demonstration. A group had come to protest nuclear testing at the DOE building there. They brought about a dozen big marching bass drums (and bunny suits? I don’t remember if they wore bunny suits) with them and just walked around in circles, pounding the drums. They also had a banner that read: “They keep testing, and testing, and testing…”
@ Izui Shima, 19:40: I was going to say the fastest objects would be directed photons, (the lasers themselves don’t move) but then I remembered reading that they had actually demonstrated a workable device which instantaneously transported data across a very narrow gap. I don’t know if it was acual photons that were transported, or some sort of wave form. Or whatever. Regardless, don’t beam me up yet, Scotty. I’m not ready to return to my late sixties frame of mind.
Sorry. What was the question? Oh, yeah: Flight.
…but only if ‘none of the above’ is not an option.
Flight definitely! How cool would it be to be able to be all “Oh geez! Look at the time, I gotta go!” and b-line right to your destination without having to sit in traffic or pay for gas/oil/a vehicle to put gas or oil into. Plus I bet it would help you pick up a lot of chicks, especially if you wore a superman costume on a regular basis. Bonus points if you also wear a suit and glasses over the superman suit and tear off the suit whenever you had to fly anywhere, regardless of whether there’s anyone there to see it.
Invisibility without question, as long as I could control it.
I pick invisibility, I’m already good at flying…
I’d choose flight as it is more practical and I’d be able to go to England without too much hassle.
Wizard is right SEP field would do me nicely
I’d choose invisibility if I knew why I was invisible and weather or not I could control it.
If I was invisible because my skin caused “rays” (any and all rays from the electomagnetic spectrum, not just the light rays from the visible spectrum) I may be “invisible” to both the naked eye, infared scanners, x-rays, ect…
I may also be partially immune to different kinds of radation. I could also walk though lasers without breaking them and possible take minimal damage from the ray/laser/phaser/emo guns of the future too.
That and I wouldn’t have to worry about somebody seeing me if I was taking a shower either.
It would probably still be fairly dificult to break the law when your invisible as you’d either need to be stark naked to take full advantage of it. Lulz…
I’m introvert, but I still want to fly. I just wouldn’t let anyone see me.
Fliiiiiight
Something I’ve always wanted. I would chase the rain around the world and the sun would eternally be setting in my world. I’d sleep in the clouds and dance in the lightning, and I wouldn’t share it with anyone.
See, I’m a bit messed up mentally.
I did as you said and immediately got flight but then quicker than a blink it switched right to invisibility and back to flight.
My reasoning for this is that I was naturally an extrovert but became an introvert early in life. After all, I did have a really horrible time in school up until high school and was quite introverted.
Around late high school I began to unravel that and I’d say I’m now about 60/40 in favor of extrovert. Though in some situations I’m still really introverted.
Eh, or maybe I’m over analyzing it.
invisibility. then i could make invisible flying platforms like Invisible Woman.
the other uses?
all the guys here know what i’m talkin bout.
MAYHEM IN THE GIRLS LOCKER ROOM!!!! BRA FIGHT! BRA FIGHT! YEAHHHHHHHHHHH!
if you cant tell, im an extrovert.
invisibility. Not sure why, it just seems cooler
i would say flight, cause invisibility has some nasty side effects. however, does flight assume you have the ability to land? (reference to a later comic). <_<
Flight. It was decided by my fellow sanctumites that I would fly. At supersonic speeds. Later of course I fleshed it out and was fused with a gaseous alien entity. Or I could run on the absence of light. Sometimes my thought processes frighten me.
Also, Almost through the backlog. Three days. Three days. Three days….
Flight definitly
I want wings too though
Invisibility to the max. I would be most interested in sneaking around and finding things out. However, I’d have to strip naked, and with my luck, I’d lose focus and become visible in the middle of a crowded room.