"It's the notion that the capacities the X-Men display - precognition and telepathy and perhaps even psychokinesis (moving objects with your mind) - may be powers that haven't fully evolved in us yet, but show up as signs of our future human nature. Perhaps these are signs of where our species is going in the future."

They are. Trust me, try jumping off a building.

" They are. Trust me, try jumping off a building. "

Yes..G-Man they are.Perfomance enhancers bring them out of us :) 

Sorry to be a wet blanket, but I really, really doubt it

Yeah my metagene is waiting to be activated. Smh! lol

My impression of a super hero has always been one of a person doing something that helps the community. I don't think you need a super power to be one, you just have to go out there and help out, make a difference. Whether it's picking up trash that people neglected to throw away, or volunteering to help out the elderly or the needy, Even making someone smile that you don't know. These are the things that all of us have inside of us to make that "super hero" difference. We are all heroes, we just have to nourish that will to get things done.
 
For one hour a week, I go to areas of there Hudson river that are polluted and pick up the trash. I know it isn't much, but it helps.
 
 That's my super hero power, no one has asked me to do it, but I do because it is fulfilling. and no I can't fly.

The average person only uses Ten percent of their brains so there have to be a superhero locked away inside everybody 
However I think inside most people there is a superhero locked away in spirit. I suppose its just like Kick ass, most people in a way wants to be a superhero so its not impossible for there to be superheroes (just without powers) but that doesn't matter just as long as you have the moral values and symbolism that heroes represent. think about it 

" My impression of a super hero has always been one of a person doing something that helps the community. I don't think you need a super power to be one, you just have to go out there and help out, make a difference. Whether it's picking up trash that people neglected to throw away, or volunteering to help out the elderly or the needy, Even making someone smile that you don't know. These are the things that all of us have inside of us to make that "super hero" difference. We are all heroes, we just have to nourish that will to get things done.  For one hour a week, I go to areas of there Hudson river that are polluted and pick up the trash. I know it isn't much, but it helps.   That's my super hero power, no one has asked me to do it, but I do because it is fulfilling. and no I can't fly. "

I've heard of certain monks using meditation to levitate themselves and others. I've seen videos of people lifting cars and once even a helicopter like it was nothing. I've even met people( and on a few occasions myself) with a degree of precognition. I think superpowers are definetely attainable through extensive practices or duress

here are some cracked articles that is related to this
 

That would be so awesome!!!

I got a little Nightwing in me

"Professor of religious studies" = red flag

I saw it Sunday night too!

There was a great episode of "Modern Marvels" about people all over the world with truly amazing abilities: An blind painter who could render depth perception in his paintings - They actually tested him to see if he could do it( he actually rendered the Battistero of San Giovanni in Italy, it is an 8 sided building!). A woman who could "see" different sounds as different color. Another man who could perform amazing feats of calculations in his mind that would tax even a computer; a man who trained himself to memorize a deck of cards after seeing them 1 time and then repeated them back in 2min 12 sec.
 
There is more to the universe than can be imagined!

If I have Super-speed or Teleportation, I'm good.

Wouldn't that be great!

Evolution is still occurring and we do only use 10% of our brains. So who knows what potential is lock’d away… 

I've always had a lil' Hector Hammond voice in my head that separated the right from the wrong, so I'm sure it's possible

The same gene that allows a jelly fish to regenerate is in the human genome, it's just inactive.  If anyone ever activated it, you'd essentially have a healing factor.
 
Also the whole" we only use 10% of out brain" thing is a total myth.  We use almost out entire brain, we just don't use it all at the same time. 

" Sorry to be a wet blanket, but I really, really doubt it "

" I got a little Nightwing in me "

" @spiderguylll said:

" I got a little Nightwing in me "

That's what Starfire said. "

Yes its true because once we push our human bodies to the most unconditional limits while having faith thats our superpower inspired on the behalf from the superhuman special on 20/20

"Are Superpowers Locked Away Inside Us?"
Look how much energy is released from splitting an atom, a human body contains many. It's possible one day science figures out how to harness such energy in the human body, without destroying it.

Id love to have powers but simple ones. like able to communicate with machines cause machines F@!king hate me bout time i get the ability to tell them to stfu an do as their told

" I saw it Sunday night too! "

" @Mr.Hulk_Smashin'! said:

" I saw it Sunday night too! "

I thought I heard someone outside my window... "

" The same gene that allows a jelly fish to regenerate is in the human genome, it's just inactive.  If anyone ever activated it, you'd essentially have a healing factor.  Also the whole" we only use 10% of out brain" thing is a total myth.  We use almost out entire brain, we just don't use it all at the same time.  "

i'm not gonna lie....if i have psionic powers ima abuse it 4 my personal gain lol

In the TV show Heroes, and in the sci-fi novel series Wild Cards, and in some comics here and there, people's powers are based on how they see themselves.  I think it's a little bit like that, only it doesn't just show up - you have to believe it, you have to really understand it, and you have to work on it constantly.  I don't think too many people can do that.  I sometimes think we could do more if we weren't ingrained with what's possible and what's not.
 
Someone mentioned monks levitating.  I remember a Discovery show about martial arts, where they showed some monks who could sit out in the snow, have a wet towel draped around their shoulders, and by concentrating, cause their bodies to generate enough heat to raise steam from the towel, eventually drying it, rather than it freezing.  This was the same show where they talked about the real life "Iron Fist," who has hardened his hands to such a point that he spends five hours a day hitting a solid steel block, because anything softer than that shatters under his fists.  This may have been the same guy who could do the "death touch," which didn't actually require him to touch anybody.  That was much debated though, because they only had stories to go by, as they obviously couldn't demonstrate it.  There was also speculation that the death touch might work because the person it's being used against believes in it (sort of like some speculation on voodoo).