Originally posted by Newjak
It makes for awesome dialog thought 😛
Your right there , for all it's annoying BS the bible has some very kickass one liners and quotations. Shit that REALLY inspires people.
Even in Japanese it's awesome !
Originally posted by grey foxExactly 😛
Your right there , for all it's annoying BS the bible has some very kickass one liners and quotations. Shit that REALLY inspires people.Even in Japanese it's awesome !
Originally posted by Symmetric ChaosHow about a lab experiment done by aliens on a human subject which accidentally mutates her genes and allows her access to the psionic parts of her brain?
Mutant
Alien
Magic
Psion
Lab Accident
Inherited Power
Unexplained
Of course, who these aliens are, what their plans were and what went wrong with their experiment is all unexplained. 😎
Originally posted by Mindship
How about a lab experiment done by aliens on a human subject which accidentally mutates her genes and allows her access to the psionic parts of her brain?Of course, who these aliens are, what their plans were and what went wrong with their experiment is all unexplained. 😎
I have to go write a book now.
Originally posted by Mindship
Energywise, some powers seem "cheaper" than others. For 100 kilowatts (eg, the power to move a car at 40mph), you can have the strength of 1000 men. Superspeed requires megawattage; and durability is the most expensive of your basic powerset: to withstand the explosive force of only 1 ton of TNT, you need 4.2 gigawatts.To withstand 1 megaton, you'd need 4200 terawatts (that's ten times the power of the Hiroshima bomb). 😖mart:
My guess would be, by the time we have the technology to generate this kind of power on a personal level, we'd probably be beyond suits. More like nanotech beings.
Nanotech is already being developed to try and do some of these things (army and MIT joint project for the 21st century suit). According to both places they want a "invisibility capable suit" that would show the light that would pass through the suit if they were not there. It would give them enhanced strength, the armor would ask as a cast if they needed it, and it could administer pain killers. Im sure I missed some stuff but eh.
Also for bulletproof suits or "durability" here is what some of them are planning: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/antenna/nano/safeandsound/134.asp
It reminds me of the smart molecules that d3o created (mostly for sport helmets), given military application. http://www.d3o.com/
In one of the youtube videos for it, the guy is playing with the material like putty, but when he hits it with a hammer it immediately goes stiff.
continuing on the conversation from the recently-closed thread, manufacturing a product like a spider's web [sticky yet with great tensile strength,] would be a task hard to achieve. i think peter's web shooters have a specially-designed spinneret that releases a glob followed by a string, making it thick enough at the front to not oxidize too quickly, and letting it still have the effect of splatting and sticking onto an object. the rest of the chord oxidizes quickly, depending on how quickly he fires it, and becomes a strong rope which can support weight.
making something like that with our puny human minds seems implausible, and i truly doubt it's being looked into. still though, maybe?
Originally posted by grey foxHey Grey Fox if you are still looking for a weakness for the time guy I got one for ya that is good 🙂
NahA paradox would infer direct time travel , he'd mostly use it to pause time or possibly rewind time (wherein the paradox idea [b]could
be used) as well as age things to dust ect. [/B]
I have some great websites on the science of Super powers ....
Flight:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1559579/Physicists-have-%27solved%27-mystery-of-levitation.html
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/08/physicists-use-.html
Teleportation:
http://www.livescience.com/technology/080214-jumper-movie.html
This is a cool one a bout meta physics presented in Planetary (i.e. the universe is basically made of information)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/science/14tier.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5090&en=22bfff4070a81187&ex=1344744000
This one is a bit wierd but fun ...
http://www.popsci.com/entertainment-gaming/gallery/2008-01/superhero-physics
This is a great site for wierd science:
http://www.scienceimpossible.com/
Science of Superman:
http://www.popsci.com/entertainment-gaming/gallery/2008-01/superhero-physics
Invisibility:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.08/pwr_invisible.html
Flight:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.08/pwr_invisible.html
Time Travel:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.08/pwr_timetravel.html
And a load of other Super powers (this probably the coolest page)
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.08/pwr_superpower.html
How do you like some of my meta physical ideas for the Green Lantern energy (related to the article above) and magic :
Green Lantern = Guardians a have figured out way of manipulating the realm of the meta physics. And as described by George Berkley, energy is nothing more than ideas. The ring allows the Lanterns to transform ideas into a plasma, which is then controlled by magnetic field. [See George Berkleys Idealism, Michu Kacku's science of the Impossible]
Magic = Energy/Information that originate from the Plato's land of the forms. They are the Forms version of chaos/or irrationality. The intrinsic properties of this energy allow it seep from the confinements of the Forms realm, into our own (like Gravity does, form higher dimensions). As the Cognito/Mind is aware of this realm, the human mind/soul (sort of Proven by Descartes Distinction argument) is aware of this chaotic energy/ideas and therefore (in some cases) able to manipulate it. 'Irrational energy', can manipulate what we consider the predictable rational world. As pointed out by Hume, the idea of cause and effect is only a human interpretation. There is no logical means of proving that an effect will follow a cause. 'Irrational energy' can prevent this course of action from occuring. Only minds, and artificially created artefacts can manipulate the irrational, because of our connection to the land of the forms (predicted by Plato), and are observation of the irrational in dreams. Although this 'irrational energy' has never been:bh: empirically observed (again, due to it intrinsic chaotic nature) its affects upon our universe have been sited. For example key D.C. scientist believe it is responsible for the observation problem experienced in quantum mechanics. (See Plato's land of the forms, Peter Susskind, string theory scientist, In search of Schroedinger's cat)
Or
magic is basically the opposite of inductional logic. There is no real reason for the Inductive world to be the way it is. In other words what if there is a possible realm where things don't make rational sense. If energy (movement) existed in this realm, then surely its chaotic nature would allow it to crossover to our rational reality. Whose to say what irrational energy would do in a rational reality.
Captain Marvels Body is made up of the Dna of Gods (who originate from Plato's idealistic land of the forms), and is able to metabolise this 'irrational energy'.
Doctor Fate; Not only is master of 'irrational energy' AKA magic, he has a pocket 2D universe, (made completely out of words) contained within his amulet. He uses this universes huge energies in accordance with his 'irrational energy' skills. (Michu Kacku's hypers space ....)
Originally posted by Galan007
Tech powered by ZPE [similiar to Mahr Vehl's suit], seems feasible to me.
Yeah, I think it will be .
I mean i don't think it will happen any time soon, but i do think its possible. A lot of scientists say other wise, but they where skeptical about 'splitting' the atom as well. I mean some guys have found a means of using it, although not as a conventional energy source.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1559579/Physicists-have-%27solved%27-mystery-of-levitation.html
I remember a documentary by Arthur. C.Clarke in which he made refernce to various engineers who where producing machines that where basically braking the laws of physics. The generalk premise was that they where probably tapping into the vacuum, but no one knew how. If it was endorsed by Arthur.C its hardly going to be total bullcrap.
IMO I think the Cosmic energy that most marvel characters tap into should be retconned into the Zero Point field. I also think it should be the Kryptonain energy source, catalysed by the solar raditaion but its not a very popular idea.
Originally posted by pycrazyWell in theory that one would probably be pretty easy to do.
what do u guys think about being able to turn into one animal or more like shapeshifting? or changing ur appearence
As in if you can change your genetic structure then you can shift your body from animal to person and such if your body understand how to do that.
Of course there is no currently feasible way to do something like that but in theory shapeshifting is probably one of those powers that we know exactly how we could do it.
Originally posted by Cartesian DoubtNice. 👆
Yeah, I think it will be .
I mean i don't think it will happen any time soon, but i do think its possible. A lot of scientists say other wise, but they where skeptical about 'splitting' the atom as well. I mean some guys have found a means of using it, although not as a conventional energy source.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1559579/Physicists-have-%27solved%27-mystery-of-levitation.html
I remember a documentary by Arthur. C.Clarke in which he made refernce to various engineers who where producing machines that where basically braking the laws of physics. The generalk premise was that they where probably tapping into the vacuum, but no one knew how. If it was endorsed by Arthur.C its hardly going to be total bullcrap.
IMO I think the Cosmic energy that most marvel characters tap into should be retconned into the Zero Point field. I also think it should be the Kryptonain energy source, catalysed by the solar raditaion but its not a very popular idea.
I've also heard rumors of real world scientists trying to harness anti-matter. Seriously.