In , he attempted to climb Mount Everest wearing only the shorts, but failed. Not because he was too cold, however, rather because he injured his foot.
New Zealander Dave Mullins is capable of swimming underwater for not only record amount of time, but also record distance. In September , Mullins shattered his own record when he swam underwater for 4 minutes 2 seconds, swimming a total distance of meters with a single breath. Mullins, whose specialty is free diving, set a New Zealand record in April when he dove meters with no oxygen tank or specialized equipment.
He's only the fifth man in New Zealand to reach a depth of meters. Mullins trains his muscles to work while deprived of oxygen. This allows him to swim further and longer, but also leads to a build-up of lactic acid in his leg muscles.
After a record breaking swim, Mullins requires a few days of recovery, but he's still pretty super. Blinded by cancer as a toddler, Ben Underwood developed the ability to "see" using echolocation. By clicking his tongue, Underwood read the sound waves that bounce off of objects around him.
He not only could use these reading to navigate around the objects, but could also identify what he was "seeing. In fact, the only difference between him and his classmates during his freshman year, was that he took his notes in Braille.
Underwood taught himself to roller blade, skateboard, and participate in martial arts, all using echolocation. Sadly, the cancer that claimed his eyesight, took his life in January at the age of Perhaps his greatest super power was taking lemons and making some really rocking lemonade.
At 6 ft, lbs, Chris Morgan is a formidable teenager who was chosen as Britain's Strongest Schoolboy in He is able to lift a Ford Fiesta, weighing in at almost a ton.
Morgan consumes 5, calories a day and works out at least 5 times a week. Weighing only 5 lbs 5 oz at birth, he grew up watching the World's Strongest Man competition each Christmas and aspired to win it himself. Morgan helps out around the house by lifting furniture as his mother vacuums. He credits his amazing strength to his strict regimen of exercise.
Tim Cridland, better known as Zamora, has been a sideshow phenomenon for decades, able to perform such tortuous tasks as skewering his lower jaw with a sharp rod by sticking it in his mouth and out below his chin. He's also able to cut into his torso to retrieve recently swallowed items.
He insists that he's able to perform these tasks through a Zen-like approach that allows him to transcend pain. However, many in the medical community believe that Cridland was born with a genetic alteration that causes him to experience no pain. These powers are rare, but they can be exploited for their incredible abilities. In this episode of podcast , they start first saying superpowers are real. There are documented cases of human beings displaying amazing abilities such as an extremely detailed memory , seeing sound as color or even magnetism.
Usually there is some genetic explanation: The people with magnetism seem to have a higher friction on their skin , making it attractive not only to metal but also glass, plastic and wood. Liam Hoekstra, the world's strongest kid , could do a pullup by the time he was 8 months old. His body wasn't producing myostatin, a gene that inhibits muscular growth. Without it, there is no limit to muscle development, leading to real-life super strength. Other superpowers heighten certain senses to an extreme degree.
Synesthesia , common in many artists and musicians, is where experiencing one sense leads to experiencing another. For example you might always "see" a certain letter as a certain color. Many people with synesthesia also have chromesthesia , which enables them to see sound as color. Some superpowers can even be learned: Echolocation , for example, is the ability to sense where objects are in space by detecting how sound bounces off them.
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