Super-Powers Matthew

Having a super-power stirs a lot of thoughts in my mind, and between invisibility and flight, it's even harder. If I had the power of invisibility or flight I would have to consider a few things.

Invisibility - quite simply; how easy is it to learn
- how long does it last - and can you activate it any time

Flight - how easy is it to learn - can you fly long distances - does the amount of effort you put on your wings (if you have any) affect your speed.

Disregarding the article we read I can't really see how the power of invisibility couldn't corrupt or serve a good purpose (other than to furtively sneak into a terroist organisation, but even then they would have infrared photography in operation). So I would definitely choose flight. There's something about flight that captures so many people - soaring on air currents,  swooping down the countryside and gliding weightlessly through clouds. Super-powers are becoming more and more popular in our books, and I think it simply comes down to the fact that it's so natural to look up to a superior body (god in some cases) and the same goes with superpowers. We've already tried drugs several times, and what the future seems to hold for us is some sort of eternal robotic life, and if that fails we turn to super-powers. If we evolved wings somehow then we wouldn't technically be humans, instead we'd be a furry killer machine. We would have to evolve small brains and wouldn't work very well socially as we were built to hunt as a pack. Here's an interesting point to think about - would we have a really tall fly-through for fast food (just kidding)

There are so many animals that have "superpowers" that us humans dream of but they just go unnoticed. If I could choose any animal it'd probably be a hummingbird for its extreme speed and agility. But there's one animal that I think dwarfs all others when it comes to a super-power, and it may seem a weird thing to choose but recent studies from the Football FIFA world cup 2010 assert that they may, in fact, be god himself. An Octopus. That's right, an octopus. Capable of spraying ink, amputating their arms, the most intelligent invertebrate in the world, able to blend in with its surroundings, squeeze through any space larger than a 50 cent coin, move in perfect rhythm with under water currents, and walk on land with two legs.