Are superheros really that impossible?

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as in comics, yes, yes they are.

Ya because supervillains run the world and make them disappear before they can do anything.

You remember that one time 8 nuclear bombs went off in Los Angeles? 
 
No? 
 
Your welcome.

@Dernman said:

Ya because supervillains run the world and make them disappear before they can do anything.

Damn right. I see someone here finally read Wanted =P

You remember that one time 8 nuclear bombs went off in Los Angeles?  No?  Your welcome.

@Dernman said:

@ReVamp: Read it not long after the movie came out. Hazy on the details but sure remember the heroes got the short end.

That's putting it bluntly.

What do you mean by that?You mean they do impossible things?Are they impossible to exist?If so,Then may I direct you to Phoenix Jones.

It depends. There's good evidence for some degree of telepathy and ESP but not in the professor X scale. For Batman, Iron Man and other non powered heroes to exist in "real" life, they need a lot of money and super advanced technology. But it isn't impossible.

Mutants? There are cases of people with photographic memory, stick metals to their body, PK etc. But not at the level you see in comics.

Aliens like Superman and Power Girl? I believe there are ETs but whether they are that powerful, no idea.

Good superheroes that aren't in it for the fame and parade around spraying pepper spray, no they don't exist I'm afraid. But they will very soon It's coming just you wait.

They will be run by a corporation that will demand money for their services

You will find your answer at the bottom of a vat of radioactive waste.

@stingray77 said:

It depends. There's good evidence for some degree of telepathy and ESP but not in the professor X scale. For Batman, Iron Man and other non powered heroes to exist in "real" life, they need a lot of money and super advanced technology. But it isn't impossible.

Mutants? There are cases of people with photographic memory, stick metals to their body, PK etc. But not at the level you see in comics.

Aliens like Superman and Power Girl? I believe there are ETs but whether they are that powerful, no idea.

There are three reported types of alien species from abductee reports and other sightings.The reptilians are reptile humanoids who can shape-shift.The second are the greys,There believed to be able to communicate through telepathy.The third one, the Nordics are much like humans but more sophisticated and physically built.So does that mean that Martian Manhunter and Professor xavier are plausible?

Let's go roll around in radioactive waste and see what happens.

Yes it is possible. It may seem ridiculous to some. But all new ideas are rejected at first. People were once killed for believing the Earth was round.

I know a friend of my friend few years back that got shot by a .22 caliber revolver for wearing a cape and trying to stop a robbery...lucky for him it was just a .22..

" Yes it is possible. It may seem ridiculous to some. But all new ideas are rejected at first. People were once killed for believing the Earth was round."___ Even more have died believing they could jump off of buildings and fly. Yes superheros are impossible.

@Enosisik: It starts like this,People say something is impossible and then decades later it's achieved.Have x-rays ever been proven to be a hoax yet?

Were X-rays ever claimed to be a hoax?

There's a difference between "we have no known way of achieving something" and "It can't happen because it would break the universe if it did" Most superheroic stuff falls in the latter.

There never will be a superhero. If there is such an advance technology that allow humans to be vigilante, the government would get first dip. Even if there were a way for people to become a superhero, these superheroes would be out of the job the moment they begin to wear the cape. Realistically, there would be no supervillain trying to take over the world. They have no way of knowing where or when crimes on a small scale like murder or robbery happen until it was too late. Seriously, real-life superheroes would be bored to death.

I believe Captain America style Super Humans could happen through military experiments or Iron Man style suits can be made.They would most likely just be used in war and not vigilantes running around NYC.

I just found out that there's this type of syndrome Called "High Voltage Syndrome".People who have this syndrome are usually referred to as Electric people or "Sliders".Some people who had this syndrome could shock other people by being in their vicinity or by simply touching them.There was this one girl where electric sparks came out of her fingertips,and everytime she touched someone they would be knocked UnConscience.There was even this baby who had it and small electric blasts flew out from his fingers.

http://theparanormal411.blogspot.com/2010/12/high-voltage-syndrome-caroline-clare.html

Anything is possible, but the problem is that things don't work the same way as they do in the comics... we've seen diseases that make people look like wolfmen and even trees... but that's about it... they don't have any conventional "superpowers" to speak of.

We have people who are intelligent... designing the car, and cell phones and ipads and those toilets that shoot water for some reason... most of which were actually on Star Trek first, but hey...

We can even take certain traits, found in the dna of some animals and then put it into another... yeah, that's right, we found a way to create a genetic mutant hybrid creature and what did we do with that knowledge... we created a rabbit that glows in the dark:

We've seen what happens when people are exposed to radiation... pretty much everything from nausea and headaches, to light burns, to rapid cell deterioration or mutation, cancer and death.

So is it impossible, no... but it's really unlikely that we'll ever become something that would equate to anything on the same level as anyone we see in the comics

with the advance of genetics and technology no it's not. But as soon as everyone can be super, no one is.

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yes superheroes are just like supervillains. They're characters from a mans imagination.

Some people have shown to have super powers: Monks can increase their body heat, a boy claimed to have the same powers as DareDevil, A man is able to have a high tolerance for pain, a Japanese man has super human reflexes. May not be that interesting but there out.

Also, there is a little boy with super strength, A girl with X-Ray vision, and a magnetic man.

@menaceforever said:

Also, there is a little boy with super strength, A girl with X-Ray vision, and a magnetic man.

The other two I can buy, but X-ray vision? Que?

@Hunter114: But what kind of genetic enhancements would a person need to be an effective crime fighter?I was thinking Biological immortality,Superhuman stamina,superhuman durability, and Enhanced Strength.You?

There are small genetic anomalies that lead to superhuman attributes, like that kid with the ability to see in the dark (think it was in China, but I don't remember). There are also people who train and eat right, making themselves human weapons. But the fact is, these people are still human.

The only way superhumans will occur is, possibly, with the use of technology to create super soldiers. I see that being a lot more likely than genetic modification.

Essentially, Iron Man is much more likely than Captain America, Sentry, etc.

Why isn't Batman realistic? Well in a sense he is. However, you can be the best martial artist in the world. but you can still easily be gunned down. So someone using Batman tech (the gliding cape, grapple gun, smoke pellets, etc.) would have good applications in spec-ops stealth, not direct confrontations. And in reality, spec ops units have similar technology as it is.

I think superheroes like Iron Man or Blue Beetle are possible.

I think that maybe by capturing the gene that leads to increased strenght, night vision, pain tolerance and enhanced reflexes and then engineering it to ONE person, would make that person very close to the comic book super heroes. If several humans can have a distinctive genetical feature why not mix those traits into one person? but yeah, if that or anything of sorts is done to enhance a human it will be first for the use of super soldiers. Obviously

@Wolfrazer:Where were you a month ago... then I wouldn't have rolled around in that radioactive waste!

You never know..........is the my answer, I mean if you went back a century or two if you said "Hmm I wonder if humans can go to space or walk on the moon? " people would laugh at you and call you insane and say " Thats Impossible !!" and .....well I think you guys know what happens next so ...........you never know :)

@CrimsonCake:

That's not really what I meant with the glow in the dark rabbit thing... the problem is that we're not that advanced when it comes to mapping the human genome, but we have been able to locate and isolate the chromosome that makes jellyfish glow in the dark and then implant that into a rabbit, but that's about it.

The "ideal" manipulation would be to isolate certain genes in animals that give them the abilities that we would need to become superheroes, an axolotl, for example has the ability to regenerate cells at a massive rate, meaning it can regrow lost limbs, organs and unlike most animals, it can regrow parts of it's brain and take other parts from other axolotls... so it's pretty much the Deadpool of the animal kingdom:

But there are also general human traits that could theoretically be altered, such as stopping the production of lactic acid, which causes soreness in the muscles, giving better endurance, or making bones, skin and muscles thicker and more dense, allowing them to become stronger, giving more durability, possibly even allowing us to run faster and become stronger

What this does not account for is the side affects that could come with this... even in the comics, with Curt Connors... he tried to alter his genetics to allow him to heal his amputated arm... what happens... he turns into a giant lizard... the truth is that we don't know what will happen if and when we attempt this... but for now we're not even near close to finding out.

technically no but there are those whack jobs that dress up in tights and act like they're superheros http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-life_superhero#United_Kingdom

I'm a super hero

@CrimsonCake said:

@stingray77 said:

It depends. There's good evidence for some degree of telepathy and ESP but not in the professor X scale. For Batman, Iron Man and other non powered heroes to exist in "real" life, they need a lot of money and super advanced technology. But it isn't impossible.

Mutants? There are cases of people with photographic memory, stick metals to their body, PK etc. But not at the level you see in comics.

Aliens like Superman and Power Girl? I believe there are ETs but whether they are that powerful, no idea.

There are three reported types of alien species from abductee reports and other sightings.The reptilians are reptile humanoids who can shape-shift.The second are the greys,There believed to be able to communicate through telepathy.The third one, the Nordics are much like humans but more sophisticated and physically built.So does that mean that Martian Manhunter and Professor xavier are plausible?

*Snickersnickerlaughsnickercoughlaugh*

You can't be serious.

Non-super heroes are absolutely possible. People in masks doing good work for people, is possible. Superman, Thor, Martian Manhunter, Wolverine and Professor X are not possible.

@minigunman123 said:

@CrimsonCake said:

@stingray77 said:

It depends. There's good evidence for some degree of telepathy and ESP but not in the professor X scale. For Batman, Iron Man and other non powered heroes to exist in "real" life, they need a lot of money and super advanced technology. But it isn't impossible.

Mutants? There are cases of people with photographic memory, stick metals to their body, PK etc. But not at the level you see in comics.

Aliens like Superman and Power Girl? I believe there are ETs but whether they are that powerful, no idea.

There are three reported types of alien species from abductee reports and other sightings.The reptilians are reptile humanoids who can shape-shift.The second are the greys,There believed to be able to communicate through telepathy.The third one, the Nordics are much like humans but more sophisticated and physically built.So does that mean that Martian Manhunter and Professor xavier are plausible?

*Snickersnickerlaughsnickercoughlaugh*

You can't be serious.

Non-super heroes are absolutely possible. People in masks doing good work for people, is possible. Superman, Thor, Martian Manhunter, Wolverine and Professor X are not possible.

Those are the type of aliens people have reported.Even so,the universe is really huge.There could be millions of alien civilizations out there that have these type of abilities.So superman is actually possible and realistic because he's an Extraterrestrial.You can't prove it nor disprove it.

@CrimsonCake: Except that it's not physically possible. No, seriously, you can't have a single entity the size of a normal human move a planet. Or see through people with x-ray vision, without killing them in the process. They can't produce heats hotter than the sun, they can't change their entire shape and molecular being, they can't read minds and see the future. Reading minds might be slightly, sort of, kinda possible, with technology, but you can't just think about it and see what someone else is thinking. People are all different, and we're talking aliens as well. How would they know how to interpret our brain waves and electrical impulses, and our very mind and personality, if they aren't even the same race, even if they could somehow gain access to it just by thought? People of THIS race can't even interpret facial expressions between other people, lol.

Also, I can't "scientifically" disprove aliens, but with logic we can assume that there's pretty much nothing out there besides some bacteria and rocks. We've been searching for a while, we can see a huge amount of sample planets and galaxies, and we can't find or see or detect any sign of intelligent alien life, and none have tried to make contact with us other than crazy people reporting aliens because they don't want to find the truth.

It's been 6 billion years since the creation of the universe supposedly, and we appear to be the only planet within any kind of range that has intelligent life or a hospitable planet on it. We've had intelligent life for a long time; dinosaurs, fish, ancient insects or plant life. We haven't even found plant life out there. There's nothing out there. It's a waste of money and time to build all this space crap. Why do you think NASA is basically dead? They shoot out a probe once in a while, within our solar system, and find out nothing worth any large significance, and they've stopped manned spacecraft altogether except to the international space station.

Yes, there is life that doesn't rely on oxygen to live. There are certain kinds of worms and such that don't need oxygen in any meaningful (or even any at all) amount. That said, if we're going to find aliens worth spending $1,000,000,000,000 to find some time in the next 20 years, and it's a space worm no more interesting than an earth worm? I think we're going to be really, really disappointed.

An entire biome on a planet, that doesn't require plant life (the most easily identifiable life forms, from space) to live, is not going to happen. Plants and fungi are the basis of life because a large percentage of them do not grow off of other living beings, they start out on their own and feed on things like water (in our case) and sunlight. Other living beings, including other plants, feed on dead or living matter, not just inanimate matter. Therefore we're looking primarily for plants, and similar environments to Earth, to find planets with a living biome and possibly intelligent aliens. We've found none. We've found nothing even similar and we've been at it for a while and spent way too much money on it.

I'd like aliens to exist, if they were friendly. It would add soooo much to science, exploration, and in general, everything in the universe would change if we could find them. But they just don't exist. I'm being so emphatic and thorough with this because I know there aren't any out there and I'm trying to get you to believe me, because it is true, and I just want you to be aware of it; there ARE NO ALIENS. There are hallucinations by some people, false reports, unexplained natural phenomena, various man-made objects that are mistaken for other things, etc. etc., but there aren't aliens.

Hell, if we find humanoid aliens capable of intelligent thought, compassion, and everything we're capable of physically/metaphysically? It'd change religion, including mine, and it would definitely make me think about all sorts of new things. But I just highly doubt, with all of my being, so much so that I say it's the unequivocal truth, that there are no intelligent aliens out there. There are at best, bacteria. Even if you don't agree with me, I will never agree to aliens lol.

@minigunman123: That's the thing,people of THIS race can't interpret each other's facial expressions.I'm not saying they could have powers that can defy the laws of physics,however they may be able to have powers similar to those of comic book superheroes. You're saying that it's unlikely that there could be life out there because we have only found Rocks and bacteria but there are Billions upon billions of galaxies and each one contains billions of stars.Now with those statistics it's impossible for us to be the only ones in the universe.That's like going to a beach,Filling up a plastic water bottle with water from the ocean,observing it and concluding that there are no whales in the ocean.You can't logically conclude that intelligent life does not exist elsewhere in the universe because we haven't seen or contacted them...As far as we know o.O

@Duke_Nasty said:

I believe Captain America style Super Humans could happen through military experiments or Iron Man style suits can be made.They would most likely just be used in war and not vigilantes running around NYC.

Like this?

Someone like Superman is impossible but anyone can be a hero and also heroes like Batman and the Punisher could be possible but they would not be able to fight most of the villains we see in comics becasue of the powers they posses.

The closest we are going to get is someone like the Punisher.