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...when you have side effects like this (http://www.cracked.com/article_17185_7-awesome-super-powers-ruined-by-science.html).

I'll stick to normality, thanks. :p

Just have a handy wizard negate all those negative side effects. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AWizardDidIt)

Just have a handy wizard negate all those negative side effects. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AWizardDidIt)

Lol, it might not be as easy it sounds. :tongue:

There are ways to get around all those problems (from an author's point of view I mean). But the 'senses' one was a strange inclusion - many animals have much better senses than humans and get on just fine.

Not so fast: You know how when you were younger (by human terms, a child), an hour seemed like forever to you? As people grow, their brain starts to perceive time differently. An hour feels like less time. Now extend that logic to a year, or a decade, or a century. This means that eventually, you will be completely unable to form relationships with human beings because their lives and deaths will flash past you like a tape on fast-forward.
This coming from the highly scientific source of "shit some guy just made up right now."
He might remember time seeming to last forever, I remember entire afternoons of my childhood vanishing with the snap of a finger while I played in my neighbor's pool. I also remember my 2 hour long class this morning lasting for a fucking eternity and a half.

There are ways to get around all those problems (from an author's point of view I mean). But the 'senses' one was a strange inclusion - many animals have much better senses than humans and get on just fine.But they don't have to wait in dentists' offices.

http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/dan/powers/telepathy2.jpg

Tacos!

I wonder whose thoughts those are. ;)

http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/dan/powers/telepathy2.jpg

Tacos!

I wonder whose thoughts those are. ;)

It's a mystery, all right. :p

I liked the Dr. Manhattan bit, cause that was exactly what happened to him in the Comic, lol...

I liked the Dr. Manhattan bit, cause that was exactly what happened to him in the Comic, lol...

Ouch.

Ouch.

He came up with a solution however, he just took to creating Life on other worlds, lol...;)

I would still take immortality.

Even when this does happen in a few billion of years time "Either way, a few trillion years later, the universe starts to really show its entropy. Every where is the same. No stars, no planets, no black holes, just an empty, cold mass of subatomic particles that can never come together again. And you, floating along in the void. Forever." I will at least have time to read my books.

I would still take immortality.

Even when this does happen in a few billion of years time "Either way, a few trillion years later, the universe starts to really show its entropy. Every where is the same. No stars, no planets, no black holes, just an empty, cold mass of subatomic particles that can never come together again. And you, floating along in the void. Forever." I will at least have time to read my books.

It's not fair! Wait, my eyes aren't that bad... (http://www.videosift.com/video/Futurama-The-Scary-Door-The-Last-Man)

Man, this guy is a negative nancy.

I think people with telepathy would learn to tune out peoples thoughts. We all learn to tune out extraneous noise.