In early issues of the Elementals comic, the bad guys were shown doing horrible tortures to people in hopes that they might manifest super powers in the stress of the situation. The same thing has been used in fiction, to discover teleportation in The Stars My Destination.
I do not advocate this, the evil is evident. And, as Larry Niven has pointed out in his essay, The Theory and Practice of Teleportation, psychic teleportation either does not exist or it is notoriously unreliable. There have been too many people in deadly danger throughout history, and not enough of them have learned how to teleport away from it, under the stress of the moment, in time to save their lives. [That we have heard of.]
But—do you think it could work for other powers…? If there are people out there with undiscovered talents, mental or physical, what could bring them out?
More details coming, please wait for them!
2007-01-23
10:16:27
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