Servais@jlai.lu to [Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoWhat's a superpower most people think is awesome but actually wouldn't be and what's your reasoning?message-squaremessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up137arrow-down10
arrow-up137arrow-down1message-squareWhat'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a superpower most people think is awesome but actually wouldn't be and what's your reasoning?Servais@jlai.lu to [Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square54fedilink
minus-squareLopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down1·8 months agoInvisibility. If light is passing completely through you, it’s not being received by your retinas, and you’re completely blind.
minus-square👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·8 months agoAccording 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.
minus-squareLopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·8 months agoThen 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.
minus-square👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·8 months agoQuicksilver in the show works like a Star Trek cloaking field. It doesn’t make the person invisible, it passed the light around them.
minus-squareEndmaker@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·8 months agoThen, since light cannot reach you, you are effectively blind.
minus-squareIlluminostro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoThe evil version of The Invisible Woman from the comic Planetary has to wear special goggles see while invisible.
Invisibility. If light is passing completely through you, it’s not being received by your retinas, and you’re completely blind.
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.
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.
Quicksilver in the show works like a Star Trek cloaking field. It doesn’t make the person invisible, it passed the light around them.
Then, since light cannot reach you, you are effectively blind.
The evil version of The Invisible Woman from the comic Planetary has to wear special goggles see while invisible.