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10 January 2007

Invisibility or flight?
post by: Frisbee Girl at: 12:15 | 53 comments
Damn you, Seanyboy! I tried to leave a clever 'empty' comment box to signify both invisibility and flight but was thwarted!
posted by essexjan 10 January | 12:22
I choose flight, because invisibility has such a sneaky quality to it.
posted by mischief 10 January | 12:24
Flight, because it would just be so much fun. There's this one area of the Salmon River I just can't get to, but I could just glide right over there...

Plus, everything I can think to do with invisibility is, well, naughty in some way.

Friiiiis! I whuffle you!
posted by Specklet 10 January | 12:24
Great minds... heheh
posted by mischief 10 January | 12:25
posted by box 10 January | 12:28
Flight. It would help me get to work faster and without back pain. Invincibility, not so much.
posted by youngergirl44 10 January | 12:29
HA! I mean invisibility...
posted by youngergirl44 10 January | 12:29
Neither, I would choose teleportation like what Night Crawler can do.
posted by LunaticFringe 10 January | 12:29
I choose invisibility, because invisibility has such a sneaky quality to it.
posted by danostuporstar 10 January | 12:30
Dangit danostuporstar, that's what I was gonna say! And I actually mean it!
posted by rainbaby 10 January | 12:31
(That's a comment with nothing but a space in it, Jan. I suspect that the same trick could be performed with HTML.)

And I'd prefer invisibility, for the reasons that mischief and Specklet mention.

On preview: whoa.
posted by box 10 January | 12:32
At this point in my life, I'd go with flight.
posted by drezdn 10 January | 12:33
Hahaha, youngergirl, I'd give you invincibility simply based on the Freudian typo.
posted by Frisbee Girl 10 January | 12:34
You are all so naughty!

Naughty, naughty, naughty!

Naughty!

heh
posted by mischief 10 January | 12:34
There's way too much synchronicity going on in this thread.

Or do I mean invincibility?
posted by Specklet 10 January | 12:36
Speckletina, we could fly all of the place, just think how much fun it would be!!
posted by Frisbee Girl 10 January | 12:37
I know! We'd need some good goggles and maybe capes!
posted by Specklet 10 January | 12:42
I choose both. Be invisible and fly wherever I want (fly fast too). And do naughty-sneaky stuff.
posted by carmina 10 January | 12:44
I call on the powers of darkness to - GIVE ME BOTH!! (fly by night.)
posted by taz 10 January | 12:44
damn, you, carmina! I SMITE YE!
posted by taz 10 January | 12:45
And for the record, I love that mischief is pointing out naughtiness! We just need Pot and Kettle to make an appearance to complete the irony.
posted by Frisbee Girl 10 January | 12:45
he!he! taz!
posted by carmina 10 January | 12:47
 
posted by willpie 10 January | 12:51
Man, I am too slow.
posted by willpie 10 January | 12:52
Invisibility, because I'm a pervert.
posted by chrismear 10 January | 12:52
Who better than I should know, my dearest of all, Frisbee Girl? ;-P
posted by mischief 10 January | 12:52
flight for sure.
posted by gaspode 10 January | 12:53
Are these to be permanent qualities? If not, I'd still go with LF on the teleportation. [heh, dano]
posted by chewatadistance 10 January | 12:55
Damn you box!
posted by essexjan 10 January | 13:02
Invisibility. Or if not that, then I would like to have an extra eye on the end of my index finger.
posted by essexjan 10 January | 13:03
I would like the power of Grayskull, please.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 10 January | 13:11
That's certainly a unique one, jan.
posted by danostuporstar 10 January | 13:15
invisibility. ladies dressing rooms, that sort of thing.
posted by jonmc 10 January | 13:16
Invisibility because with that you can get powered flight.
posted by Mitheral 10 January | 13:28
Flight because if you were swimming in the ocean and a rip current took you far out from shore and you were invisible then no one could find you and eventually a shark would eat you. Also what if you were out drinking and passed out on the sidewalk then people might kick you or step on your head? (I hate that). Instead you could just float above the streets until you woke up.

posted by bigblueroom 10 January | 13:32
Invincibility! And I mean it!
posted by Daniel Charms 10 January | 13:34
bigblueroom makes good sense.

*passes out, floats*
posted by taz 10 January | 13:40
Flight - with flight one could fly high enough to be invisible. Maybe even invincible, as long as your name isn't Icarus.
posted by deborah 10 January | 13:40
Flight, every time. Invisibility, meh. You'd get shoved a lot on the street and it would probably inevitably wear off on the day you decided that, since you were invisible, it really didn't matter if you were wearing lime green pants with pink plums on them and 4 layers of plaid flannel.
posted by mygothlaundry 10 January | 13:40
Invisibility is very appealing to me at first, but I suspect it would leave behind a trail of guilt of "knowing too much". So flight it is.

Hodgman seems to agree.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane 10 January | 13:44
Well, you're invisible, not your clothes, so it'd follow that an invisible person would be naked all the time, which would either be a drawback or a bonus, depending on climate and inclination.
posted by jonmc 10 January | 13:46
Maybe your second class invisibility doesn't effect your equipment. My top shelf super power has no problem making my clothes and equipment invisible.
posted by Mitheral 10 January | 13:54
You could do far more public good with invisibility than flight, so invisibility it is.
posted by eamondaly 10 January | 14:05
You could do far more public good with invisibility than flight, so invisibility it is.

Would you be a secret agent?
posted by bigblueroom 10 January | 14:15
"an invisible person would be naked all the time"

I am picturing an invisible man wearing a condom...
posted by mischief 10 January | 14:31
You could do far more public good with invisibility than flight

That is an excellent point.
posted by Miko 10 January | 14:37
Invisibility, for FIGHTING CRIME! Also, I'd make up a CRIME-FIGHTING theme song, and sing it constantly while invisible.
posted by Greg Nog 10 January | 14:39
Invisibility, for FIGHTING CRIME! Also, I'd make up a CRIME-FIGHTING theme song, and sing it constantly while invisible.

I'm gonna be snickering all day about that one. As I fly through the air with the greatest of ease.
posted by elizard 10 January | 14:52
Flight, I guess, if it's a dualistic choice, because there are so many physics problems with invisibility I'd never trust it as superpower in a tight spot.

But if we could wish for a better superpower than either of these, I'd take super-empathy. The ability to truly, deeply understand other people instantly, and have that understanding as instantly and deeply perceived by those so understood, would be hugely useful.

I'd promise to use it first to advance the cause of whirled peas.
posted by paulsc 10 January | 14:54
Invisibility, because if you can fly and you're not invisible you're going to run into trouble real fast.
posted by loquacious 10 January | 15:17
Also: because I'm a pervert. Oh yes. You folks have no idea.
posted by loquacious 10 January | 15:18
I think I'd need both.
If I had just flight, well... I wear a lot of skirts.
posted by kellydamnit 10 January | 21:07
Still flight, because of the extras I'd want. Invisibility'd be ok, but then you'd have to make your clothes invisible too, or anything you wear. Or touch. (Think - it's freezing cold and you're wandering around naked. Ugh. Or you'd have to leave stashes of clothes places. Problematic.) And you're not immaterial, so it could make for some tricky situations.
posted by Zack_Replica 12 January | 02:42
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