Mutant Power!

You would lead a long and healthy life with regeneration. Being that people die from natural causes because their bodies breaks down and organs wear out, you might live for a very long time, and probably outlive everyone you know.

Your workouts would be a waste of time though, since when your lifting weights for instance, your actually tearing tissue and causing scar tissue to form, hence the bulking up. If you regenerated, that would all disappear as your doing it.

You'd be a 400 year-old 150 pound weakling with no friends. Where's the fun in that?

 

Actually, the bulking up isn't from the generation of scar tissue. If that was the case, you'd never get stronger from a workout. The increase in mass is from extra protein fibers being added to the muscle cells (and spawning new muscle tissue). While you are indeed tearing muscle tissue, the muscles are some of the few parts of the body that, when they heal, have a minor regenerative property that inhibits the forming of scar tissue. The extra mass (the musle fiber) is actually there to prevent you from hurting yourself the next time you lift a great weight. However, the greater weight you lift, the more mass you gain, because your body is constantly trying to repair and protect itself. So I'd actually be a 400 year old, 200 pound powerhouse with no friends.

 

Well, that answers the muscle-mass question rather nicely, but what about neurons and enamel?

 

If you had complete regeneration then you would continually forget your past. Neurones don't multiply (unlike pretty much ever other cell in the body). The circuits which neurones form govern your memories, personality, everything. If neurones did regenerate and multiply like 'normal' cells then these patterns would constantly change and you would lose who you are.
If I remember correctly, Wolverine has this problem. He doesn't know how old he is because he has forgotten his past.

My superpower would be hyper intelligence, tempered by superhuman wisdom. With that kind of intellect most other superpowers would be a mere thought away.

 

How you figure? Just because you think about being physically strong or a great public speaker, doesn't mean that you suddenly develop those skills. I can pick up a book on how to be a millionaire today, but unless I put action behind the information, it will never happen.

Having super-smarts would be a curse, cause you'd know everything, but nobody would listen when you tried to tell them stuff. I think Einstein had that problem.

 

I'm not sure that's 100% scientifically resolved.

As for powers, mine would be to make people laugh at will. I can do this with myself already because I'm the funniest person I know, but damn my eyes if some people just don't get it. Try to shoot me? Bamn yer laughing too hard to shoot straight. Make yerself invisible? Bamn yer laugh gives you away.

 

There was a guy in the old Justice League comics who could do that... Psycho-Pirate, I think his name was. Whatever emotion he showed on his face, you felt 500-fold.

 

I was thinking more along the lines of being able to design and build machines of ultimate power after 0.2 seconds thought.
Also if you are vastly more intelligent than your opponents you can convince them to destroy themselves with mere words.
Knowledge is the weapon. Intelligence is the skill to use that weapon.

If you had hyper intelligence you would know how to phrase your words to make everyone listen and obey.

This article seems to focus on the hippocampus with a passing mention to the olfactory bulb. These locations are exceptions to the rule. I know this very well as I wrote my dissertation on olfactory ensheathing cells in transplant mediated repair.
Also, plasticity and neurogenesis are 2 separate processes which the article seems to lump together in places.
You are correct that the issue is not 100% resolved but nothing ever is in science. However, it is generally accepted that the vast majority of neurones do not multiply and those that do are highly specialised.

 

Interesting theory Tongsy, but you're forgetting one thing.

*Shoots you in the leg*

 

Action is thought manifested, as Blinky so eloquently demonstrated.

I care to disagree though; here you're talking more about being able to manipulate your environment with your thoughts, which is akin to telepathy or telekinesis. To defeat your awe-inpiring power would require a fifth of Gin and ear plugs. And maybe an aluminium-foil hat, just for kicks.

Brain-power is good for making money and designing super-weapons for us war-mongers, but still wont get you laid.
Look at Einstein.

 

Hmm . i'd like to know everything in the whole world , that's a power that can't be beaten , or , could it?

 

Apparently he had a Medusa Mask to accompish the emotional control. That's some great recall you've got there to remember that name. Arrrgh!!!

What were you transplanting into to mediate the repair?

 

It's around about this moment that the hologram of my body fades away to reveal one very pissed off Chuck Norris.

Hyper intelligence = never being taken by surprise.

And what about the drugs I impregnated the ear plugs with several months in advance?

Of course all these ideas are just what I can come up with using my current intelligence. If I had hyper intelligence I'd be able to come up with plots so intricate that no amount of explanation could make them fit in your tiny human mind.

Transplanting centrally derived olfactory ensheathing cells into the precisely lesioned dorsal column of a rat. The results were extremely interesting as we showed that common peripheral fibroblasts can promote almost as much regeneration as olfactory ensheathing cells.
Do you have a particular interest in this field?

 

Interesting, but no.
*uses my telekinetic power to shatter you*

The thing now is that you can't try and kill another hologram, because I can detect you and you alone with telekinetic power, or just change reality so that you don't exist. Unfortunetly, there's no way stopping it, I'm afraid.

 

This is where the hyperactive paranoia kicks in as you plot out in precise detail 1000 different ways that I'll eliminate you. Meanwhile, Wolfie sneaks up on you and hits you in the head with a Can o' Spam, rendering you senseless.
...Thats when we start the Alien Autopsy...

 

Didn't the word "spam" origially came from Monthy Python?

 

Naw... Spam dates back to WWII.

 

Spam=Spreadable ham. Contractions. It's either spreadable or spiced. I'll go with spreadable, considering it is, indeed, spreadable. It's bery big in Hawaii.

Well, that's a tad open ended. This may be due to his body's amazing regenerative qualities, or from the experiments done on him to turn him into "Weapon X". He doesn't know. Noone really knows. He also had certain memories implanted, so he really can't trust much of what he remembers. This, however, adds credence to the whole "experiments damaged my long-term memory" thing.
It's shown that, on average, your entire body (except for the majority of your brain cells) will regenerate every seven years. Not all at the same time, but after seven years have passed, you can expect that your body is indeed different from what it was seven years ago. Aside from ageing, all of your tissues will be "new".
I'm very surprised that you participated in such an experiment, TONGS.
I recently read an article about this very same thing being done to rats, and how they were amazed at the level of regeneration and repair that these brain cells underwent. The article also branched off into how a healthy individual will grow new brain cells over their lifetime, but the original brain cells will remain, unless they are damaged or otherwise indisposed.
In a strange coincidence, I was recently in a near-fatal bicycling accident, in which I actually bruised the meninges on the right side of my brain. This also hindered my motor functions for a short while, but afterwards, I noticed that I was thinking more clearly than before I had been hurt, and I was able to do things (motor skill related) at a much higher speed. however, my long-term memory was damaged, most likely from the increase in pressure due to the swelling of my meninges. Sometimes, I end up blacking out in the middle of some sort of physical activity (or a conversation), and "wake up" to find that I completed whatever it was that I happened to be doing without a hitch.
For example, I don't remember having typed everything in my post.

 

I actually have a similar problem. I got clocked in the back of the head by a softball back in early high school. The doctors said I had a mild concussion but no detectable brain damage.

The fact remains that my long-term memory often seems to be on the fritz, especially with the names of people I haven't seen in a few years and also I have trouble remembering anything that happened in primary school.

On the upside, I find it a lot easier to visualise ideas for my writing, and I'm fairly certain I'm a lot sharper (mentally) than I used to be.