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Nicknames	Score, Speedo
About
Powers	Defectogenesis - The ability to cause anything to malfunction by being in close proximity to it.
Alias	thenumbersdude (over @ lostpedia) McIvor (everywhere else)
Sex
Favorite Heroes quote	Hiro, you son of a ——— ~ Adam Best. Day. Ever. ~ Sam
Favorite episode	How To Stop An Exploding Man
Favorite character	Claude or Adam
Least favorite character	Sylar
Favorite power	Telekinesis
Favorite fruit	Fruit?

I have defetogenesis (or induced malfunction, or something. Tomato, Tomahto). Honestly. Guns misfire, electronics malfunction, tools break... heck, if anyone tries shooting a bottlecap at me by twisting the bottle to build up pressure, 98% of the time, it doesn't fire. Someday I'll probably crash a government computer network or airplane or something.
Yes, my nickname is Speedo. No, it is not a reference to a piece of swimwear which should not exist.

Time Travel

Time Travelling is creating an interesting conundrum of intellectual and philosophical interest (Whew!). When Hiro travels, does he stay in the same timeline, or does he go to a different one? Seeing as how he can interact with his past and future selves, I'm guessing that he stays in the same one. Although, if it was the same one, when he jumps five years into the future, he should not have encountered Future Hiro, because Future Hiro would not have existed for the five years between 'present' and 'future'. In other words, Future Hiro would not have been there to stab Sylar, because he jumped past that point in time with his travelling; ergo, he could not have known Sylar could regenerate,so he could not have told Peter to "Save the Cheerleader, Save the World". So it would seem that this is another inconsistancy with powers, just like the regenerative blood (see below).
When you think about it, Hiro can create a rift by going into the future, too. In Five Years Gone, he came within seconds of being killed by Mohinder. If he had died, that future would never have happened because he wouldn't have been there to stab Sylar, seeing as how he was dead. In turn, he would not have visited Peter Petrelli, and subsequently have destroyed two timelines instead of just one. Oh goodie.
I guess if he traveled to a different timeline, he couldn't create a rift because he couldn't remove his reason for going into the past, etc. It would still be there in another timeline.

Regeneration

There's no way in heck Claire's blood should have been able to resurrect Noah like it did. His heart had stopped beating, so it would not have been able to pump the blood. Also, an important point in the first season was that the power resided in the brain. If the blood can regenerate on its own, Peter and Claire should have survived having objects rammed thru the backs of their heads. Apparently, the power can push objects out of the skin while healing, so it should have been able to push the stick out of Claire's pretty little blonde head, and the glass out of Peter's awesome hairdo.
So if Sylar killed Claire and took her brain, her blood should theoretically regrow a brain in the corpse's empty head.

Phasing

Not much to say here. I think DL might have been able to turn invisible by letting photons phase thru him. Of course, this would also render him completely blind (I can't see you, you can't see me!). He also should have been able to make himself invisile to radar and sonar sensors by letting the signals phase thru him, or even phase thru the air to avoid leaving a Doppler effect (but this would probably make breathing really hard).

Telekinesis

If, and again I say, IF Sylar uses TK to slice open heads, which seems like a bit of a stretch to me, he should, in theory, also be able to use it to excite photons (induced radioactivity), or molecules (pyrokinesis), or control ion chains (lightning), or separate molecules enough to pass thru them (phasing), or any one of the billion other powers out there. I will say till my dying day (or the writers officially answer this, whichever comes first) that he doesn't use TK to cut heads open, but whatever...
So now that Peter cut open Nathan's head, it would seem that it was TK used. Whatever.

Group of Twelve

Kaito says 'now, there are nine'. Parkman lists almost all of them as dead. So did Kaito just not know about the other deaths, or is he referring to other people? Probably more towards the first. But then, why did the writers include that line?

Religious Stuff

There's lots of religious significance in this show, but something else I noticed is that on the list there were 36 names. 36. In Hebrew legends, that's the number of the Lamedvov, the righteous people in each generation who forestall God's judgement on the earth. Now it's been said that 'Gabriel Gray' could be a hint that Sylar is a harbringer of Armageddon (or something like that) but maybe the 36 'heroes' were given their powers by God to prevent it. It's a bit of a stretch, I know. But so far the two apocalyptic futures avoided by the combined efforts of the 'heroes' have involved nuclear devestation and plague - two punishments sent upon the world in Revelation. This sounds even more plausible in light of Nathan's line about being here to do God's bidding. He at least appears to have been sent by God to do something, unless 'God' is just Linderman, which would be really, really stupid.

Evolution

This is not entirely related to evolution as it appears in the show, but I have to say that in today's world, an uncommon paradox is corrupting the minds of all who seek knowledge. Scientists, whose very name means 'those who seek knowledge' are claiming that science disproves the existence of a God, and therefore anyone who believes in a God is a narrow-minded fool. However, their own 'theory' of Evolution, which is portrayed as perfectly logical and fully 'scientific', conflicts with more laws and facts than God ever could. For starters, the Second Law of Thermodynamics is fundamentally opposed to macroevolution. Secondly, the amounts of salt in the ocean and the strength of the Earth's magnetic field make it impossible for the world to be billions of years old, as well as the oldest human records and calendars going back only for a few thousand years. Are we supposed to believe that humans existed for billions of years making relatively few technological advancements, and yet now in the last century or so we invented cars, computers, and credit cards? On the subject of time, they also say that evolution in the present takes too long to observe, in the past it happened to fast to give 'in between' features such as half-feather/half-scales, and now they say it has slowed almost to a stop! How convenient!
Evolution even robs us of the basic foundations of society. Dr. Provine once said in a debate that the Theory of Evolution leaves no room for ethics, morals, or even any ultimate meaning to life. Maslow said that if every human obeyed their own instincts, society would be better off. Anyone with half a brain can see how this would lead to anarchy and chaos (which, I might add, would contradict the concept of evolution yet again; namely, the idea of order arising spontaneously from chaos). Logically, therefore, there would be no need for a government, nor any place for laws. If the Theory of Evolution were true.

Accelerated Probability

Anyone read Blink by Ted Dekker? I reckon Edward shoots lightning the same way Seth continually escapes. He finds the only possible future where he does the impossible, like shoot lightning out of his hands, and does whatever it takes to get there. Speculation, but it kinda makes sense.