Which would you pick, flight or invisibility?

Here's a question for your blog. Which would you pick, flight or invisibility?

Ryan Dow

Ryan Dow

WHITNEY

Permanently? Because I wouldn't choose permanent invisibility (I mean, have you seen Hollow Man?) If I could choose where and when to use it, I would definitely choose invisibility over flight. You could totally hide from the people who want to capture you and cut up your brain for research. And also punch them in the face.

LAUREN

Invisibility.

If there was a bank robbery in progress, I could sneak in, disarm the bandits, and they wouldn't know what hit 'em. I would use my power for kicking ass and fighting crime. I definitely wouldn't use it for shoplifting, eavesdropping, or anything else ridiculous. (There could be exceptions.) I feel that would just trivialize it. I would become the thing I was fighting against.

So, invisibility it is!

ASHLEY

When I first glanced at this question, I thought, oh, invisibility, without a doubt. Though I would normally choose flight, it would lose to invisibility. Now I'm not sure why. What good is it, except for sneaking around places and spying? While those things are all well and good, there aren't a whole lot of places I want to go that would require invisibility to get there. I don't need to spy on anyone; I really don't care what people are saying about me.

I would be seriously afraid that something would go wrong and I'd be stuck as invisible forever. That would not sit well with me at all. I was once in this video a friend made in a high school, a superhero story, and one of the characters I played was Invisible Girl, and I wore the brightest, most mismatched clothing, and was constantly jumping around in front of people's faces and shouting, but nobody saw me. Nobody heard me. It was quite sad, really. (I also got to be the villain. That was entertaining.)

Even if nothing went wrong, it doesn't seem like it would be a whole hell of a lot of fun. But who doesn't want to be able to fly? That would rock. There's a useful power that is enjoyable, too.

Hm...having the power of flight would put a whole different spin on skydiving (which I haven't done...yet).

NESSA

Flight would feel freeing, invisibility would just get me into trouble.

MARY

Everyone knows that person that can fly. You cannot hide that power. People will see you in the sky. You could fly higher but then you encounter issues with radar. The main problem of flight is getting flight path clearance.

Make me invisible. I enjoy secret superpowers. I would use my powers for evil unlike Lauren. I would be a billionaire within hours of my gift of the power of invisibility. If I wanted to fly, I could fly for free in the empty first class seats of any airplane. Hell, I could hop onto P.Diddy's private jet with him if I felt like it. If I wanted to go wherever P. Diddy was going.

I am with Whitney on the permanent invisible factor. Poor Kevin Bacon couldn't sleep. His eyelids were invisible. I do not want to be like H.G. Well's Invisible Man. I would want to be able to wear it like Harry Potter's Cloak of Invisibility. Or else I want to the power to bend light to become invisible at my will without any of the insanity that often seems to accompany that power.

Mary where the hell have you been and why haven't you been posting?

I do not want to sit blogging in my non air conditioned apartment in the summertime. I like to be outside in the summer. If you can't wait a Minnesota summer for me....screw you. I have been a busy girl, working with my friend Terry for new video podcast. It is called Microscopic Life. It is a bit like Dave Attell's Insomniac meets npr's This American Life. Check it out!

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