Is there any possibilities of having superhuman abilities like in HEROES of NBC?

Question

is the "heroes" real? when can we achieve that phenomenon? are we capable of producing such humans?

Answer 1

Nope, but it does keep comic books and fiction hopping.

Answer 2

There are people sort of like that. Nothing that extreme because nothing on t.v is real but there are people with more subtle abilities. I think your really asking about the producing  genetic phenomenons i think as we genetically mutate yes something like this will come about and it won't be a good thing.

Answer 3

Only in fiction.

Answer 4

Certain abilities do exist.

Super strength, wouldn't that be those guys who can jerk-lift over 500 lbs. in Olympic Competition?

Super speed, yes, people break speed records all the time now. What used to be impossible 50 years ago is now commonplace. Years and years ago the 4-minute mile was unthinkable, now almost any world-class runner can do it.

ESP is possible. People are born with lizard skin, three eyes, three nipples, two faces, oh, a myriad of mutations all the time.

The problem is that those with such powers or mutations are more often than not ignored, denied, or completely out of context in real life. When the car falls on top of the little kid, the guy who can lift over 500 lbs. is on the other side of the planet at the time, and not around to be that hero at that moment. The guy who can catch a bullet in his teeth, he's never around when shots are fired. People with 2 faces, what can they do when most people find them grotesque rather than a hero with 2 sets of working eyes? The guy born with lizard skin, what do you really do, in reality, with lizard skin except take medications to combat it?

The truth is, humans are indeed changing and evolving, but the real "Heroes" are not people with extra-ordinary powers in a time of crisis, but ordinary people who step outside of their comfort zone to help another in a time of crisis or emergency. People who have suddenly super-human power due to high levels of adrenaline that enable them to lift heavy objects off a comrade when in regular, daily life, they couldn't even get a grip on it. People who suddenly make a phone call and save a life because they had a feeling they couldn't explain, or heard a voice when no one was around to speak. Parents who suddenly "just know" they need to leave the party and go home just before the kid falls off the roof.

Yes, people can have or evolve with super powers, but more often than not, super or heightened abilities are ignored, denied, or not around in context when you need them.

Answer 5

Populations evolve, not individuals. Something the producers forget to consider. Only germ line mutations are passed to the population. No " hopeful monsters " either.

Answer 6

I say the possibilities are limitless.  Animals have all kinds of abilities which someday could be duplicated into human ability.  Just who would want to be the first "freak"  or would it be ethical to even ask for volunteers.

Answer 7

There was a TV version of DC's "The Flash." that did explore some of the problems. The hero takes off and stops 20 miles later, shoes worn. cloths tattered and starving. While there are fast twitch muscles the physics involved plus the adaptation the human body would have to make would prevent such an ability.

Answer 8

When you consider the caloric intake it would actually take to perform most of the feats that the Heroes characters are capable of, that alone pretty much demonstrates that all these powers are more or less impossible. I don't think you could absorb the necessary food fast enough to generate enough energy to fly as fast as that guy does, much less actually get it into your belly.

A better argument is that a single super power would actually take many different mutations, all acting in concert, to produce the desired effect. How many alterations to the human body would be necessary to actually allow it to fly, for instance? The probability of such a change happening becomes incredibly small, essentially impossible. And then we consider the physical impossibility and all that.

So the short answer is no, sorry.

The long answer is no with almost complete certainty, sorry.