You could turn invisibility on and off as you like and there would be no time limit. Your clothes would turn invisible too, and you could decide whether the items you are holding would be visible or not.

There would be no limits on how many times or where you could teleport. The items you hold while teleporting would be teleported too. You would also have the ability to know if the place would be safe to teleport to, so you wouldn’t teleport and get impaled by an icicle or teleport inside a wall and get your insides filled with concrete or something.

Personally, I don’t know which one would I pick. Invisibility would be awesome for pranks and stuff, but teleportation probably would be more useful for everyday life.

  • Björn Tantau
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    Teleportation every time. It’s just too useful. Invisibility is really only useful for mischief and security. And both can also be done with teleportation.

    • @[email protected]
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      188 months ago

      Invisibility, while cool, just seems like it’d only be cool for a little bit. Like, oh wow, I can sneak into the girl’s room without anyone seeing, woooh. Or I could maybe attempt to rob something and carry whatever I can hold. Meanwhile, Teleportation would mean being able to go literally anywhere on Earth instantaneously. Would almost never need a car or plane ever again in my life. You could take a vacation to a new country every weekend. You would have a get out of jail free card for life. You could talk to anybody you wanted to (assuming their security didn’t tackle and/or kill you if they were important enough).

  • @[email protected]
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    398 months ago

    I’m struggling to think of any situation in which invisibility would benefit me personally. Teleportation would save me over an hour a day of driving to/from work alone, plus hours at work itself, fuel & vehicle maintenance costs just about disappear, world travel becomes something possible to do any time of any day on a whim, you could do anything.

    • @[email protected]
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      48 months ago

      world travel becomes something possible to do any time of any day on a whim, you could do anything.

      I feel like Greek food for lunch, suddenly appears at a cafe in Athens.

      Maybe some chocolate for dessert, pops into Switzerland for a moment , then back home in time for my kid’s soccer game.

  • @[email protected]
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    398 months ago

    Teleportation. There’s the obvious advantges like no commute. The biggest, however, is that I would just feel so much safer (as a woman). Dodgy situation? Just teleport away.

  • @[email protected]
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    I seem to be alone in that I see teleportation as a great way to travel all the time without ever having to set foot on a plane again. The time and money saved would allow me to visit with distant friends on the regular.

    • @[email protected]
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      And move to a cheap spacious house in the middle of nowhere, ideally somewhere absolutely beautiful. You could work anywhere you want and never need to actually live there. You could also become the first person on every planet and moon. I’d probably try to get nasa to pay me a billion dollars to be on call to teleport anything they want to anywhere in the solar system.

  • southsamurai
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    Yeah, teleportation solves way more real life problems than invisibility does.

    Invisibility in the real world, for a civilian, is really only good for pranks and crime. Which isn’t exactly a bad thing, but teleportation can do all of that and more.

    • Tedesche
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      28 months ago

      You could use your invisibility to become the most effective citizen journalist in the world though. Get footage of Exxon execs scheming with politicians to fuck the planet or get world leaders on tape dismissing the Geneva conventions, that sort of thing.

      • @[email protected]
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        18 months ago

        You could do that just as well with teleportation, possibly even better depending on what security measures you need to bypass. Teleport in, plant a bug, dig through their computer for anything incriminating, teleport out.

        Of course, obtaining evidence in this way makes it illegal to use in court, but that doesn’t really matter because the people you’re after will never be taken down in court anyway.

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          18 months ago

          Of course, obtaining evidence in this way makes it illegal to use in court

          That’s why I said citizen journalist. Exposing corrupt people in the news is a major step towards criminal court, and even if there is no case, public opinion can be swayed and that’s a death sentence in many ways.

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          38 months ago

          Good question whether or not invisibility extends to the infrared and ultraviolet spectra. That’d be pretty clutch.

  • @[email protected]
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    218 months ago

    Teleportation by a long shot, though I would be afraid it would make me fat and unhealthy (never walking just teleporting everywhere).

    If you are saying I can hold another person and teleport us both? Abso-damn-lutely teleportation, can you imagine the savings on travel?

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      Thinking too small.

      Contract out to nasa or highest bidder and transport goods and people to ISS. Transport goods and people to mars. Get spacesuits and transport asteroids to the highest bidder. Become richest person on earth.

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        Plot twist: The conspiracies are true and NASA drugs you and abducts to you experiment on you and learns to milk that sweet teleportatium out your ears while tied up in an underground warehouse somewhere in Area 51.

    • Otter
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      It could help in a lot of other crises too

      During a natural disaster, you could jump back and forth carrying aid in, and the wounded people out. In any time sensitive crisis, you could get people out of harms way. This bit is more complicated, but you could potentially help out during floods and fires, depending on how far the ‘teleport other stuff with you’ extends to.

      A reasonable limit might be ‘Only what you could physically carry yourself’, in which case you’d need to be a lot more strategic. In that case, you could work on personal strength and be a one-human-rescue-team. When there isn’t a disaster, you could probably shuttle light weight but important stuff for a fee, then use that money to fund your own charity to do good


      As for this prompt, you could probably just teleport away when someone might see you, or teleport to spots that people can’t see. So you could do most things that invisibility would allow

    • @[email protected]
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      I don’t think that’s necessarily true. It could use energy proportional to the energy that could be gained by moving an object somewhere.

      • @[email protected]
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        28 months ago

        There would be no limits on how many times or where you could teleport. The items you hold while teleporting would be teleported too.

        Sure, if you choose to change the parameters from what OP said, it might change the outcome.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      How could teleportation solve the energy crisis? I’m too lazy to think myself so pls elaborate.

      • @[email protected]
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        In addition to what the other commenter said: from the description of OP, the teleportation is basically “magic”, ergo free potential energy (by moving objects from one place to another).

        Create a large magnet in a generator that’s very tall, free transport the magnet up to the top, let it fall slowly creating electricity. It’s basically how hydro works: the sun “transports” water, in the form of clouds, to a higher point, gravity pulls it down, we use that to make energy.

          • @[email protected]
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            28 months ago

            Build a flywheel with a bunch of places to stand positioned around the wheel, teleport to the higher platforms as the wheel turns.

          • @[email protected]
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            There would be no limits on how many times or where you could teleport. The items you hold while teleporting would be teleported too.

            Sure, if you choose to change the parameters from what OP said, it might change the outcome.

            That said, the other guy already answered you. It would become less efficient if you only had your body weight, but it still a solve of unlimited (though small volume) energy.

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        Scratch costs with transportation. No need for any means of transportation.

        Also a lot more free time. No commuting, no early leave to get somewhere on time. Just blink and you’re there.

  • Stern
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    Most of the things you want to do with invisibility you can do with teleportation, but likely better. The only exception being hiding in the lockerroom of your preferred gender but bruh, c’mon this isn’t a 80’s movie. Also maybe faking a haunting since the invisibility lets you make stuff “float”.

    Wanna be rich or just have loot? Teleport somewhere you know has it. Grab and go.

    Wanna kill somebody? Teleport to their bedroom while they sleep and shoot them. Or for the less messy alternative, teleport in, grab them, teleport a hundred feet above Point Nemo, drop 'em, and dip.

    Wanna live a life unbothered by anyone? Teleport to the middle of nowhere and slowly bring in supplies. Pop out and back in whenever you feel like it.

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    208 months ago

    Teleportation is the queen of all powers. Invisibility can be basically mimicked with quick teleportation work if needed.

    Although my legs would probably atrophy from lack of use, lol. Why walk to the kitchen when I could blink there and get a sandwich and blink back in no time at all?

    • LanternEverywhere
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      Time control is the pinnacle of superpowers. Most aspects of every other super power can be achieved or closely appreciated with full time control.

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        Interesting view point. I would have to consider whether time still passes for the user of the power? If you freeze time for everyone else, do you still age? And if so, I would still take teleportation over that as travel would be instant vs “appearing” instant to outside perspectives.

      • Dandroid
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        Absolutely. You could never fail at anything, or you could try it again. You would have full control of probability, which is fucking insane.

    • @[email protected]
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      Why visit the kitchen at all? Just teleport that sammich straight into the tum-tum.

      Also, what’s the king of all powers?

  • @[email protected]
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    Teleportation would be so much useful. I spend 80% of my time alone. People already can’t see me.

  • @[email protected]
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    Not even a question for me, absolutely teleportation.

    I wouldn’t need to own a car, never need to pay for plane tickets or any sort of transportation.

    I can go anywhere at any time. Live anywhere and then just blink where I want/need to be.

    Invisibility doesn’t provide nearly the same practical applications. The only useful thing I can think of for invisibility would be to hide inside a bank vault and steal money, but that could technically be achieved via teleportation too.

  • Lemminary
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    Does the teleportation come with a bampf noise or do I have to carry my own bluetooth speaker and a button? This is make or break for me.

    • @[email protected]
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      I want the H2G2 Krikkit robot teleportation noises: the sound of 100,000 people saying “WHOP!” when you appear, and 100,000 people saying “FOOP!” when you disappear.

      • Lemminary
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        Yes! Although someone requested an Elderman sound and now I want the sound effect to be customizable via an app.

      • Tedesche
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        No, that super sense wasn’t one of the options.

        • qyron
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          28 months ago

          The best teleporter ever created, regardless the drawback.

  • @[email protected]
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    Do I keep my velocity relative to earth if I teleport? Because if would really suck if I teleported from one side of the equator to the other one and am suddenly moving at 3300 km/h

    • @[email protected]
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      38 months ago

      In the same line of thinking: do I go blind if I turn invisible? After all: no light falls onto the receptors in my eyes, it all just passes through.

  • @[email protected]
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    118 months ago

    Teleportation would be neat assuming you can just totally disregard basic laws of physics like conservation of momentum - otherwise you end up either as a red smear somewhere, or accidentally turn yourself into a kinetic energy weapon

    • qyron
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      I always understood teleportation as a accelerate-decelerate sequence to reach the end point, as in not A to B but A to B to C, where B is the midpoint where you have enough momentum to naturally stop at your destination.

      • @[email protected]
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        18 months ago

        A lot of depictions of teleportation seem to imply that you instantaneously move between two distinct points in space without having moved through the intervening matter - if that’s the case you have to deal with a whole lot of complexity to ensure that you are moving at an appropriate speed at your destination - it depends a lot on your reference point, but imagine teleporting from the equator to the north pole without accounting for the difference in velocity of the ground due to the earth being a sphere. If you were standing still on the equator but preserved your momentum through the jump, you’d be moving at 1600km/h when you arrived. Air friction and the sonic boom alone would mess you up, let alone if you collided with something.

        You are right, you could solve it by having the teleportation move you through some sort of hyperspace and making the jump almost instantaneous so you have time to accelerate and decelerate, but even then you’d need to hand wave away where the energy goes. Imagine the same set up, you’ve accelerated through hyperspace towards the pole, then decelerated back down to end up going 1600km/h slower than you started. For an average person this is about 8 MJ of excess kinetic energy that has to go somewhere