SciFi Question of the Day: If you could have either the superpower of flight, but you had to wear a cape, or the superpower of telekinesis, but you have to wear spandex (with nothing over it) which would you choose?
Facebook Answers:
Dave Mac What color of spandex?
AmyBeth Fredricksen Mauve.
Dave Mac NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
AmyBeth Fredricksen The cape is reversible… black on one side and white on the other. How about that?
Dave Mac That could work.
Emily Becker Priest only a cape? what goes with that outfit?
Dave Mac something MAUVE?
AmyBeth Fredricksen As long as you’re wearing the cape and it’s free to flap around and stuff, you can fly. You can’t stuff the cape into your backpack, it won’t work. And the spandex, if that is your choice, gives you telekinesis but it doesn’t work if you cover up the spandex.
Emily Becker Priest so you could wear a cape and street clothes?
Lori Munnoch Gaudet If I was 10 yrs younger, I would so go with the telekinesis and spandex. As it is, I’d have to settle for flight and the cape to hide behind.
Dave Mac CAN I still fly with an invisible cape?
Daniel Beard NO CAPES!
AmyBeth Fredricksen No invisibility.
Daniel Beard I have always wondered. if your telekinesis is fine enough, can you actually use it as mind control? Or do we just get Scanners?
Geri Bressler See, no way I’m wearing spandex…but I’m afraid of heights…eep?
Dave Mac Noted… no jumping off tall buildings with an invisible cape.
Gwendolyn Wilkins The spandex, hands down!!
Dave Mac No putting your hand down my spandex!! Well OK, but form a line….
Dave Mac OK… I’m going with the spandex.
Jim Hollis hmmmm, i would like flying but with the telekinesis i could bend peoples wills so i will take some royal blue spandex plz
AmyBeth Fredricksen WAIT! Why are so many people equating telekinesis with mind control? Am I missing something here?
Dave Mac It’s Spock’s fault something about the Kelvins
Brian Covault Yeah, I thought telekinesis was the power to move objects with one’s mind. I’d rather be able to fly. So, I’ll take flying.
AmyBeth Fredricksen Well, I’ve learned something about my facebook friends today. They want to be invisible, control people’s mind, and be randomly groped.
Jim Hollis because i would develop it into a mind control. but if you can read peoples minds you can still manipulate them into doing things you wish, or make a living in vegas as a mind reader lol
Jim Hollis wait if its random groping im out, give me flying lol
Gawain Ouronos I would happily (and easily) take the cape and flying! 🙂
Jim Hollis think of the money saved on airfare and you could fly people around for a small fee of course lol
AmyBeth Fredricksen But Jim … telekinesis lets you toss couch cushions around the room with your brain power… it doesn’t let you read people’s mind… that would be telepathy… sort of…
Jim Hollis hmmm kinda like green lantern?
Jim Hollis but he gets to fly too
Dave Mac or did Priceline commericals
AmyBeth Fredricksen Green Lantern has a frikkin’ huge list of superpowers.
Jim Hollis yes he does 😀
Dave Mac well for one, he’s green
Dave Mac Believe it not I’m walking on air. Never though I could feel so free. Flying along on a wing and a prayer, who could it be? believe it or not it’s just me……
Juno Suk With the power of telekinesis, I could move myself around with my mind. So essentially, I could both fly and telekinese – thus I’ll take the telekinesis any day. As for the spandex, I’ll just move peoples’ eyeballs inwards as I telekinetically fly pass them, so there you go – invisibility too. Or I could telekinetically undress people instead. Then my spandex is the least of their worries. And I get to enjoy the show!
AmyBeth Fredricksen …alrighty then…
Melissa Conway Flight and cape…how cool would Halloween be then?!
Google Plus Answers:
Keith J Davies can I use telekinesis to fly?
Ryan Drewrey ^^ Very important question Ryan Drewrey Also – is the power in the cape itself? Or would any cape do?Ditto the spandex
Ryan Drewrey THESE ARE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS!!
Thomas Sanjurjo I’d take telekinesis anyday, and you can keep the spandex, if I had to do it nekkid, so be it.
Mark Means Probably telekinesis….I’m afraid of heights! 🙂 Ryan Drewrey Flight.
Christopher Blanchard Flight. I would love to both skip traffic and save on gas at the same time. 🙂 Keith J Davies ‘not very well’ != ‘not at all’, next question is how powerful is the telekinesis and what is its range?
Matthew Robinson This is easy for me. I’d wear a cape to get the power to wear a cape! I mean, who doesn’t want to wear a cape? Even if you just said, ‘Here, you can fly now,’ The first thing I’d do is find a cape.
Jaysen Edgin +Matthew Robinson, you have to be careful with capes. They get caught in plane engines and all that jaz. Matthew Robinson I’ve thought of that. It could be used to choke you, too. I’d just need a safety catch where it attaches to my neck, something that would break away before it could pull me or choke me.
fan tai You are all looking at this wrong.
AmyBeth Inverness Oh my…+Ryan Drewrey you must have the article of clothing for the power to work. I’m not sure whether it would work for a thief…
+Keith J Davies the flight ability has potential. You’ll have to learn and practice in order to get good at it.
Keith J Davies of course it would take practice. You can find me down by the lake.
Jenn Thorson I’d go with flight. The cape can be done with panache. No one wants to see me in spandex.This guy rocks both the cape AND the spandex!
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