What kind of superpower would you want? Say you could have any superpower you could think of. You could fly or walk through walls or read minds.

Or you could be super-strong, like Superman, and push cars around and open up any stuck peanut-butter jar. Or heal quickly, like Wolverine, and get into fights without fear of permanent damage. Or control minds, like Professor-X, and make people stop fighting each other over useless wars.

You could stop time. That way, you could get extra work or sleep done. Or drive your car through frozen traffic and not miss that early morning meeting. That would be kind of fun; the highway would be a gigantic stationary obstacle course. And if you have a hangover but need to wake up for work the next day, you could give yourself a few more hours.

You could look into the future. Then you'd see the outcome of your test or whom you'd marry or where you'd live. Or even the scores of the Super Bowl. Then you could bet on the winning teams and get rich like Biff in Back To The Future. You could even invent the next killer app and be considered a genius.

You could turn invisible. And be a super-spy, sneaking into foreign government offices and stealing secrets. You'd be cooler than James Bond! Think of all the conversations you could hear. You could sneak over to an Al Queda base and find Osama bin Laden, then kick his ass while making ghostly sounds. Man, I'd love to see his face when he is kicked in the kidneys by "air."

Me, I'd want the ability to automatically know everything on a particular subject that another person knows, just by touching them.

Then I'd shake hands with Warren Buffet learn how he built his financial empire. Or I'd shake hands with George Tenet and learn the secrets of the CIA (Are there really aliens at Area 55? Who really shot JFK?). Or I'd shake hands with Stephen Hawking and learn everything he knows about physics and the universe.

I could go into work and shake hands with another engineer, then be able to speak the same engineering language he does. My resume could be impressively upped that way too.

I could go to China and shake hands with a native, then be able to speak fluent Chinese. I wouldn't have to bother with tedious classes.

I could go to Gary Danko or French Laundry and shake hands with their chefs, then be able to make just-as-fantastic culinary masterpieces.

Man, that sure would be a cool superpower to have.

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What kind of superpower would you want?