# If you had super-powers for an hour...

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 17, 2003, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-super-powers-for-an-hour/202107 "2003-09-17T11:46:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-super-powers-for-an-hour/202107/21 "2003-09-18T11:26:55Z")

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Of course, once the super luck wore off, you’d get mugged and lose all the money. 😉

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**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-super-powers-for-an-hour/202107/22 "2003-09-18T14:30:06Z")

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**SanguineSpider** , you’d leave clues (fingerprints maybe) and after your hour ends you’re caught and sent off to prison.

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**Author:** ![Capcha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Capcha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capcha)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-super-powers-for-an-hour/202107/23 "2003-09-18T15:14:33Z")

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Well, First I’d have super speed (so an hour would pass a lot slower for me).  
Then down to the checklist:  
–Correct my vision & have a good built (but that would suit a woman), good strength (self-defense), good immune system, bones, etc, get rid of my @%&^\*$# allergies?  
Check.  
–As I’m invisibly flying with beautiful big wings, I’d telepathically be “downloading” information that all the _correct_ library books (on things like philosophy, Psychology, history, etc & throw in a couple of languages)  
Check.  
–Predict the next lotto numbers, and know which lotto is the 1000$every week for life winning ticket.  
Check

And for fun, having the ability to predict life aspects with a tarot deck, have a bit of healing powers.

Of course, it will all be embedded into my genes, so as the hour ends, all that I have gained won’t be lost.  
_Looks around_  
Sorry, I got carried away 😃

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**Author:** ![Capri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@Capri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capri)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-super-powers-for-an-hour/202107/24 "2003-09-18T16:12:21Z")

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I’m not sure what I’d do exactly, but at the end of it there would be a large group of people shaking their heads and saying: “If only she had used her hour for good instead of evil.”

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