emmanuelle cunt wrote:Jesus, Adam, think about the pranks! I don't care if showing my naked as for half an hour for a full hoir during prime time on TV is immoral or not, I'd totally do this.

If it was 'invisible vs not invisible', I'd agree. But no amount of pranking would be better than being able to fly.

'I'm bored...might as well go flying...'

'I don't want an office job...might as well charge people to see the incredible flying man and make my fortune...'

Also, and importantly to many of you:

'Hello pretty lady at bar, can I buy you a drink? By the way, check out my flying!!'

vs

'Hello pretty lady at bar, can I buy you a drink? By the way, I can turn myself invisible and hide in the shower...'

Adam, what makes you think that you're not going to get taken down by the authorities at first sight?

GAME OVER.

You'll be interned quicker than you can say 'please don't put that probe there'. In the hands of the millitary machine your powers are only going to be used for evil.

Howzabout only flying at night?

Also, how fast can you fly?

simmo wrote:Howzabout only flying at night?

Also, how fast can you fly?

I think ability to breath would be a serious limitation, it's hard to breath at high speeds.. although not looking when one is flying wouldn't be that much of a deal, unless half of the population would start doing ti to. And the other half would be invisible.

simmo wrote:Howzabout only flying at night?

See, invisibility doesn't impose that kind of restriction on you.

simmo wrote:Also, how fast can you fly?

I'd probably say as fast as you can walk/run normally. Any faster and we're in the realms of fantasy really.

simmo wrote:Howzabout only flying at night?

Also, how fast can you fly?

Also, how fast can one take-off?

Needing a lengthy run-up for take-off isn't a deal-breaker, but it would negate escape possibilities.

Would intercontinental flight be possible? If so, it brings up the question of incontinental flight...having flown at high altitude and high speed for some time, would not one arrive trailing an icy tail of wee?

Also, can I hover?

Rimbaud III wrote:
See, invisibility doesn't impose that kind of restriction on you.

That's my point though - at night, one can do almost everything that one can do whilst invisible, yet I don't see many of you loitering in Natalie Portman's sock-drawer nocturnally...

The power of flight should involve all the same effort required to walk and run.

Hovering would be like treading water.

No run up is required, as you would effectively be 'swimming' away from your standing point.

It would take you the same time to cross the atlantic flying as it would do walking.

it's all silly if you think about it. flying at night, with no radar and no night vision, that would be silly. you'd crash into a power line or a tree or something. flying during the day, you *would* be apprehended in short order, at least in a country like the US.

invisibility has too many unanswerable questions as to how it works. your clothes are visible? what about your hair? what about your shadow? what about your pee? is it invisible when it's inside your body, but then becomes visible as soon as it leaves? if you pee on your leg, does a viewer see pee floating in space? if you eat a cookie, does it become invisible when it enters your mouth, or your throat, or never?

too many unanswerable questions. I think flight is much more likely to be possible.

but flight wouldn't be any good because you'd be captured pretty quickly.

Alberto the Frog wrote:

Rimbaud III wrote:
See, invisibility doesn't impose that kind of restriction on you.

That's my point though - at night, one can do almost everything that one can do whilst invisible, yet I don't see many of you loitering in Natalie Portman's sock-drawer nocturnally...

But I could if I wanted.

You don't have that same luxury with the power of flight during the day. Not unless you went flying around a disused warehouse or The Bramah Museum of Tea and Coffee in Southwark or something.