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Re: If you had a secret power, what would it be?
Posted By: Grishny, on host 4.17.70.126
Date: Tuesday, July 27, 2004, at 05:40:28
In Reply To: Re: If you had a secret power, what would it be? posted by OneCoolCat on Monday, July 26, 2004, at 22:29:45:

> > > I'm a time-stop kinda guy myself, but only if I can move other objects around while time is stopped.
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> > If time is stopped outside of you, how can you see? Presumably no light is moving, so what would be reaching your eyes? I suppose that as you moved, the light that was frozen immediately near you would hit your eyes, but you'd see it and then it'd go black, as nothing would come to take its place.
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> > Invisibility has a similar problem.
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> > Stephen
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> You could give it a workaround by not stopping time, but just slowing it down a whole lot. You still see, because light is fast and the slowdown doesn't affect it, but everything else goes very very very slowly and is essentially frozen.

But that's not much of a super power... unless it's coupled with an extra-long lifespan. Think about it. If you move through time ten or twenty times faster than everybody else, then that means you age and die ten or twenty times faster than everybody else, at least when you're using your ability. Someone who could do that would probably think twice about using it for even dire emergencies, much less trivial things.

Gri"wants to be able to BAMF!"shny

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