Originally posted by Blair Wind
I'm sure all of us have. Hell I always bump the real super powers thread when I remember about it.
If the science of the world today could enhance things physically it would be our senses, our strength, and maybe our speed.
Tiger Woods has bionic eyes (senses I am sure can be enhanced in various ways. Training can be done to enhance them, and I am sure science can cut out the middle man *training*.)
I have seen a science channel episode about what superpowers we could give or use, and the ONLY one that was even relatively close was the Hulk. Not that someone became green or anything, but they created a type of "steroid" (for lack of a better word) that made you massively jacked yet there are no known side effects.
Speed, I dont know how it could be manipulated, but I am sure it could be
I mean a human was once tested (in Fight Science, which I recommend any MA fan to watch), and he punched 4 times faster than a snake strike.
I mean MA can make you >>>regular humans, but how many of us actually do MA? Who here can claim that a kick (more like a knee to the chest) can pack the same force as a 35 mph car? One Muay thai fighter can. Science could help create "super beings" like these without the training, and I'm sure the army would try it.
MY personal favorite would be someone trying to create a realistic Ironman suit. The hardest thing would be getting a realistic battery for the thing, but current technology would allow someone to dress in weapons. If you could mobilize it without clumsiness the rest would be easy. Computers, cameras, and weapons can do most of the work from there. Also, last I heard MIT was creating a suit that would bend light to approach invisibility, create an immediate cast to a broken bone, and store up kinetic energy so that you could leap really high. Many things like this could be attacked to this type of project. If someone had the money I am sure SOMETHING like this could be pulled off
Now if you could integrate the two (think Spartans from Halo) I think that would be the closest thing we can achieve today. Not perfectly, or inexpensive as of right now, but its the closest thing I can think of.
Things like flight, bullet proof skin, spider sense's, and heat vision are not realist, but I am sure we have all dreamt of it.
I however would love to be an enhanced human in one of those suits. It would be kick ass.
Blair the future is now my friend , the future is now.
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Anyway , yes I've occasionally thought about getting super-powers and in every mental scenario I always end up abusing them in some way or another. Telekinetic flinging stuff out of my way , crushing people who piss me off to death etc etc.