It is customary to call superpowers certain abilities of a person to perform certain actions that exceed the average. As a rule, when they talk about superpowers, they mean a penchant for extrasensory perception.
At the same time, it should be noted that until science has determined the norms of abilities for an ordinary person, it makes no sense to set a “bar” for the so-called “over” people. In such a situation, it would be most correct to say that initially, people are not the same by definition.
Of course, people are always surprised and are somewhat apprehensive of those representatives of the human race who are too large or too small (giants and dwarfs, whose height can range from 56 centimeters to 2 meters 74 centimeters, or fat and thin with weight from 2.1 to 635 kilograms). The attitude of society to both the beautiful and the ugly, tailed, hairy, multi-fingered, boneless is ambiguous. Anything that deviates from generally accepted norms is of great interest.
So, for example, even before the First World War, the giant of Arab origin Hasan-Ali, whose height reached 232 centimeters, was very popular in Russian circuses. In Berlin, the attention of the public was attracted by the giant from France Dusoret with the same height. In 1909, two hundred dwarfs performed in the circus arena at once, whose height did not exceed half a meter, while the age of the artists ranged from 18 to 62 years.
In the Soviet Union in the 80s of the last century, midget circuses were very popular. But now we are not talking about physiological characteristics, because there are deviations from the norm that are much more significant and surprising. It's about the abilities of the human body.
As a result of numerous studies, it is reliably known that on average a person can live 60-80 years, have 1-3 children. In addition, it has been proven that a person cannot overcome their physical capabilities and run faster than a certain time, or jump above a certain bar. But in fact, all of this framework is constantly shifting in favor of improving results.
No, humans don't grow fins or wings at all. Moreover, a modern man is almost completely a copy of his ancestors, but in a man of our days, abilities are largely superior to previous indicators. For example, once everyone admired the speed of the Znamensky brothers' runners, now their performance is the norm for most athletes in running. It is possible that today's records in the not too distant future will be the norm for future athletes, and no one will be surprised by 9.86 seconds in 100 meters, or 8.95 meters in long jump.
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Undoubtedly, sports shoes and clothing, new training methods play an important role in setting all modern records. But much more important is the psychological aspect, the ability and desire to convince yourself that nothing is impossible.
The same can be said about science: modern schoolchildren could have become the pride of all academies of sciences in the past, but they themselves will certainly be pleasantly surprised in old age by the knowledge of their own grandchildren.
In order not to be unfounded, we will give a few examples to show how brilliant people differ from the mainstream. For any ordinary person, multiplying two 13-digit numbers is quite difficult: you cannot do this in your head, using a calculator too, since it is not designed for operations with such numbers, it takes a long time to multiply with a column. But the inhabitant of India Shakuntala Devi is able to do it in her mind in just 28 seconds. It was such a record that she set in 1980.
Shakuntala Devi died in 2013 at the age of 83
Some people show phenomenal memory skills. So, for example, a resident of China, Gu Yanlin, knows 15 thousand numbers of residents of the city of Harbin. US resident Barbara Moore performed 1,852 songs from memory for 19 days. In 1987, a resident of Japan, Hideaki Tomoyori, was able to name 40 thousand digits of pi.
All these people, if you do not pay attention to their brilliant superpowers, outwardly look quite ordinary. But sometimes it happens that the phenomenal development of some superpowers occurs at the expense of damage to everything else.
For example, there is a case of twin sisters who, having remarkable mathematical abilities, are otherwise practically helpless, and have been living in a psychiatric hospital for many years. There are also known cases when brilliant scientists, who made many discoveries, “embarrassed” in simple, ordinary things due to their absent-mindedness and forgetfulness.
All this is evidence that they are developing for the most part in one direction, that is, if intellectual abilities are well developed, then physical ones, as a rule, leave much to be desired. However, as usual, there are exceptions to the rules. In this case, Leonardo da Vinci, who is the standard of all-round harmonious development, can serve as a vivid example.
It is thanks to the harmonious development of mental and physical abilities that a person is saved even in the most desperate situations. For example, chemical, temperature, and radiation factors, which usually lead to inevitable death, may not work. So, it is known that nature has established certain temperature limits for humans. He can live normally at temperatures between 35 and 41 degrees Celsius.
At the same time, there are cases when people had a very low temperature, but people remained alive. Military pilot Yu. Kozlovsky in the winter of 1977 was forced to eject and for 3 days was in the tundra with fractures of both legs. He survived, even though the temperature of his internal organs dropped to 33.2 degrees.
In medicine, there are cases when patients had a temperature of 16 degrees and even several cases when patients had a minus temperature.
There are also cases where the body temperature rises dramatically, but people are still alive. So, for example, at an air temperature of 33 degrees, American Willie Jones' body temperature rose to 46.5 degrees, but the man survived.
There are also known cases of amazing friendship of a person with high temperatures and even with fire. For example, a person who regularly visits the sauna is able to withstand the temperature of dry steam up to 140 degrees, there are those that hold up to 170 degrees Celsius.
And the American Air Force conducted experiments in 1960, during which the survivability threshold was determined. During the experiment, naked men withstood temperatures up to 204 degrees, and well-dressed men - up to 260 degrees Celsius.
At the same time, the maximum temperature with which a person can come into contact reaches 841 degrees Celsius. In this case, we are talking about ritual dances on hot stones and coals, which are common in some countries of the world. Sometimes on such dancers, clothes and shoes were completely burnt, but a strange thing - the soles of the feet remained completely intact.
There is another area in which a person is sometimes able to show phenomenal abilities. So, from time to time in the press there is information that certain people survived after receiving large doses of radiation, after a lightning strike or after a fight with a shark.
It can also be mentioned that in some critical situations a person is able to survive after falling without a parachute from a height of several kilometers, run faster than an elk, take out a bookcase alone during a fire, in felt boots and a fur coat climb an absolutely smooth post while fleeing from wolves … This list can be continued for a very long time, but all these cases are united by one phenomenon - all people who have experienced such cases say that at such moments time seems to stop.
Porfiry Ivanov walked naked in the cold and didn't even catch a cold
Of course, we can assume that the phenomenon of the so-called "time-stretching" in the most critical situations is a purely subjective phenomenon, in other words, it is just human imagination. Nevertheless, many facts that have been collected by scientists over the years suggest that sometimes a person is really able to somehow change the usual speed of time, thereby gaining a few saving seconds.
This is confirmed not so much by the participants in such critical situations themselves, as by eyewitnesses who, not knowing about the danger, noticed time dilation. In addition, this is confirmed by the instruments (for example, the wristwatch is in a hurry), and even the recordings of the so-called "black boxes" (in the second of a catastrophe, the pilots have time to make several meaningful actions, which under normal conditions would take them several minutes).
Of course, the very idea that a person can influence the space-time structure is simply incredible. But on the other hand, do all the reports about superpowers that a person can display at critical moments sound more believable?..
Another amazing human ability is foresight of the future. Despite the fact that in most cases all fortune-telling, dreams, prophecies, predictions and predictions do not come true, it is impossible to deny the existence of such an ability in people. A striking example of the fact that proscopy (the ability to foresee the future) exists - Nostradamus, who lived in the 16th century, but was able to predict events that happened much later.
He accurately described the fate of Napoleon, Stalin, Hitler and many other famous people, and also predicted the appearance of steam engines, a railway, balloons, a thermometer, a telegraph, a telephone, light bulbs, rockets, airplanes and even an atomic bomb.
In addition to clairvoyance, researchers of paranormal phenomena say that there are other human superpowers that have been tested in practice, but have not yet found any explanation. This, for example, teleportation (instantaneous movement from one place to another), levitation (free flight in the air), healing (surgery without anesthesia, pain and tools), passing through walls, chronoporting (moving in time).
Perhaps, over time, people will be able to test all these abilities experimentally and explain theoretically. And now humanity has no choice but to observe and wonder at all these unusual, phenomenal abilities. And, besides, trying to answer the question - are all these superpowers an accidental deviation or is this the norm for all people? And why did Nature create a man with such an almost unlimited margin of safety and superpowers?