[QUOTE=Epimetheus]
I think it would be cool if I could open a portal between two places. Temporarily or permanently would be just as good. I would take bids to open portals between places for money. It would be fun too to construct a house with rooms in different parts of the world.
[/QUOTE]
Hey just think what a popular courier you’d make? What a great shipping business. Want to lunch in Paris? Brazil? Go to a real Outback Steakhouse. Need a few bucks? portal to the vault. Portal to the Dallas cheerleaders shower “Whoops, excuse me ladies.” Could have plenty of fun and money potential.
Imagine what a great wrestler or cage fighter you could be with wolverines healing power.
Magneto’s power would be good. There’s lots of ways you could make money and plenty of ways to have fun. Someone cut you off on the highway? Bad for them. President goes to give a speech and suddenly his belt falls off and his pants fall down. Now that would be funny. Bill ORielly says cut his mike but instead his mike hits him wham…right in the mouth.
I think I’d choose the power to communicate directly with technology, just like… um… that one guy who had the mutant power to communicate directly with technology. Okay, so it’s kind of a nebulous and unmemorable power, but I think it has great potential for both fun and profit. Edit your own bank account at will! Put your annoying co-worker on the FBI most-wanted list! Write your own election results courtesy of paperless voting machines! Amass the world’s largest and most comprehensive porn collection! Be the first kid on your block to collect the full set of international ballistic launch codes! Use your CGI powers to give yourself a flattering drivers’ license picture, or create a watchable Star Wars prequel trilogy! Amass an even larger and more comprehensive porn collection! Know instantly why SDMB pages have actually been loading more slowly since you upgraded to broadband the other day! The possibilities are virtually endless.
[/QUOTE]
It would bring new meaning to getting a virus at least.
I personally would like to be able to manipulate gravity in ways that defy physics…see that little spec of dust above me? Well now I’m attracted (I’m sure attracted isn’t the technically correct word) to it at a force of 2g but its not attracted to me. I could use it to fly and well, I’d make a pretty good crane as well I guess. So fun AND profit.
[QUOTE=smiling bandit]
Construction. If I could construct buildings in days or hours, I’d be filthy, filthy rich. And I’d have a wonderful effect on the economy. And while a “super-power,” I’d be doing something inherently useful even if Doctor Demento isn’t robbing Fort Knox today. As an added bonus, it’s pretty boring to watch me work after the first few times, so I figure most people would get used to me pretty quickly, sparing me awkward social issues with people adoring me publicly. Sure, you can idolize a superhero fighting crime and evil, but who’s going to start a fan club for some guy who basically stands in the mud and manufactures mini-malls?
[/QUOTE]
BUT - if you did catch a super criminal you could immediately build an escape proof prison… you’re actually a value-added super hero. Hail Constructo-Man!
Invisibility (Hello, ladies! ), controlable superstrength (I’ve read Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex and have no desire to be limited to obtaining sexual gratification by masterbating on the Moon), and well-nigh invulneralibility (so I can punt obstinate equipment halfway across the planet and not have to worry about breaking a toe).
I think there would be innumerable benefits to being Hammerspace Man- able to reach into my pockets or backpack and pull out absolutely any object at all, ranging from a toothpick to a Boeing 747…
Like Tuckerfan I choose invisibility. Why? I’m nosy and I want to know everything. I would promptly apply for a job as gossip columnist at the National Enquirer.
Oh my, think of all the fun spying on celebrities in their health spas, talking to their shrinks, or even in rehab. My columns would be the talk of the town, nay, the world. People would ask “How could she possibly know these things?” I would be celebrated and reviled at the same time, laughing all the way to the proverbial bank. I would have no shame.
I guess that helping my fellow man thing is not working out for me.
I’m already halfway to machine empathy / cyberpathy; getting the full power would be too much like my day job, which does kill the “fun” part of “fun & profit.”
My super power will be access to pockets of extradimensional space – each about the size of, well, a large pocket. I would be able to do magic tricks without the use of long sleeves to hide gimmicks, and (more importantly) I’d be able to bring my own food and drinks into a baseball stadium!
[QUOTE=gytalf2000]
I suppose the ultimate power for me would be the power to make people (any one person, or any number of people) do what you want. Power of influence/mental persuasion! I could have Bill Gates or some other mega-welthy person give me lots of money! That would be neat!
[/QUOTE]
I would be the Undeveloper. My power would be to take land and return it to its pristeen, natural state before Spade One was applied to it. I could transform Superfund industrial waste sites into tranquil woodland meadows with a wave of my hand. I could transform strip-mine sites into wooded mountainsides as well.
I figure there’d be lots of work for me. And if no one was willing to hire me, I can think of a lot of cities that need cleaning up, that might pay me well to not transform their downtown skyscraper area into a park one sunny morning.
Well, honey if you’re a blue stater then come on over. The hell with the wife, you can use your evil super powers on the republicans and make them all move to Canada.
Screw invisibility. I want non-corporealness, like Kitty Pryde. No lock, no door, no vault can prevent me from just strolling in and taking what I want.
If I were to go legitimate, there’s lots of applications. Need to reinforce that structure? No need to rebuild, I’ll just phase some rebar directly into the concrete. Need to find oil or mineral deposits? I’ll stroll around underground until I find some. For that matter, I can just walk around on the ocean bottom and scoop up treasure where I find it. Oak Island, here I come!
[QUOTE=Nava]
The power to make people behave reasonably.
That might create a hole in the fabric of the universe, though.
[/QUOTE]
That would be one thing I would do with my power to influence people – make people reasonable, honest, much less prone to violence, etc. I would also raise IQ levels. What would the world be like then? Perhaps not quite nirvana, but certainly a better place!
), controlable superstrength (I’ve read Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex and have no desire to be limited to obtaining sexual gratification by masterbating on the Moon), and well-nigh invulneralibility (so I can punt obstinate equipment halfway across the planet and not have to worry about breaking a toe).