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Servais@jlai.lu to [Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

What's a superpower most people think is awesome but actually wouldn't be and what's your reasoning?

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What's a superpower most people think is awesome but actually wouldn't be and what's your reasoning?

Servais@jlai.lu to [Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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    Invisibility. If light is passing completely through you, it’s not being received by your retinas, and you’re completely blind.

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      According to the early 2000s documentary series The Invisible Man, if you gain invisibility through the use of a Quicksilver gland, the Quicksilver shifts the light so some of it will penetrate to your retinas.

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        Then you wouldn’t be completely invisible, at the best, there’d be two floating shadow spots where the light is being absorbed by your retinas.

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          Quicksilver in the show works like a Star Trek cloaking field. It doesn’t make the person invisible, it passed the light around them.

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            Then, since light cannot reach you, you are effectively blind.

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