Poll: Flying or Teleporting?

[eytrvnbmgkhjiuty]

With teleporting it may aswell be flying as you could teleport you as high as you safely can and just fall and glide all over the place.

 

[NotAProdigy]

I'm kind of scared of teleporting. Assuming that it's demolecularizing you and reassembling you to a different place near instantaneously, that would mean that you would die ever time you teleported.

If I had the power, I would be very weary using it because I would always think "would the 'me' over there be the same 'me' that I am right now or just a clone?"

 

[Thedutchjelle]

Teleportation. I think that if that ability is given to a person, that person must also get an ability to 'feel' where he will end up. Just like a flying person can see where he's flying towards, a teleporting person must be able to feel what his ending spot might be like. Only then I would pick teleport, cause otherwise it's kind of tricky.

 

[Soxafloppin]

I'd take flying only if it was like Superman Style, i Don't want to have to flap my wings and shit.

 

[JohnSmith]

As long as teleportation left your momentum relative to the frame of reference of your destination it would be cool. Otherwise a bit crappy.

 

[NotAProdigy]

Teleportation. I think that if that ability is given to a person, that person must also get an ability to 'feel' where he will end up. Just like a flying person can see where he's flying towards, a teleporting person must be able to feel what his ending spot might be like. Only then I would pick teleport, cause otherwise it's kind of tricky.

Are you, or anyone, not scared of demolecularization while teleportating?!

 

[Juven Ignus]

Flight seems more fun, so that.

 

[Akalistos]

Teleportation. It would be faster and more beneficial overall.

Not to mention that you would be taken down as soon as they spot you in the sky and then being experimented upon.

 

['Aredor]

It depends upon the conditions of course, if teleporting is safe and I can teleport any distance and places I can't see, it's the more practical choice, hands down.

I've said it many times before, flying may be very cool but it's also extremely unpractical: It would be very hard to do without attracting attention (which means you'll end up in a government lab), it's very dangerous because of planes and birds and whatnot and dressing for it is a pain in the ass, because as soon as you fly too high or too fast, you'll freeze your ass off.

Basically it boils down to: would I want to be Nightcrawler or Angel? Easy question.

 

[MicrosoftPaysMe]

telaportation, It's faster

 

[IIWatson]

teleportation, if you black out whilst flying your fucked

 

[Nosense]

I say both! But if I had to choose I'd say teleport. That way I can tele to the sky then free fall then tele before i can hit the ground

 

[SuccessAndBiscuts]

I only have to think about the time I caught a bumble bee on my open face motorbike helmet doing 60 to know that teleportation is a better idea.

Trying to explain that the reason you have a massive black eye is "because a bee hit you" while funny at first soon loses its novelty, and if that was a bee can you imagine hitting a bird at 70 without a helmet?

Yea, I will take the instantaneous transmission over the broken face, cheers.

 

[faspxina]

flying would be way more fun

 

[PoliceBox63]

Flying for the spectacle. Also, I don't want to teleport into an object.

Flying you defy gravity.
Teleporting you defy the natural laws of physics.
I chose teleportation.

Gravity is a natural law of physics, you know.

Gravity isn't a law, it's a force.

 

[Crystal Cuckoo]

Teleportation.

Because Nightcrawler is the shiz, *****.

 

[PoliceBox63]

[HEADING=2]OMG I CHANGE MY VOTE O[/HEADING][HEADING=1]I CHANGE MY VOTE![/HEADING]

 

[Reaper195]

Flying if I got incredibly wicdked dragon wings. If not, then Teleporting if it left wicked black smoke trails like Nightcrawler.

 

[Redingold]

You want to know why teleporting would suck, well, how would you like the idea of insta-killing yourself just so you can be cloned somewhere, and your clone can run about claiming to be you....ever watch the movie The Illusionist?

There would be no difference between you and the copy though. You are your memories. That's what makes you, you. Simply because you would be broken down then reassembled doesn't mean that you aren't you. No one would technically have died. I don't believe in a soul or anything else so what differentiates the teleportee the teleported?

No!

A copy is still nothing more than a copy, you would be dead and someone(thing) else would be running around with your memories, whether we're talking about a soul or not. Your consciousness would cease to be!

In the end, all that will remain of you is a pile of ash or vaporized molocoules while your clone runs around pretending to be you.

By your defining then if someone was able to have their thoughts and memories implanted into a fake body then it wouldn't be them. I disagree. As I said that particular amount of cells would cease to exist. But what makes you, you would have an identical body. your consciousness would be in annother body. The only thing that defines who you are is your mind. If that is in a living body then you are alive. Also for the sake of this topic teleportation wouldn't have to be the breaking down and rearranging of particles. It could be opening a pocket dimension and slipping through it and reopening the dimension at the destination.

I still completely disagree with what you say though.

Also, isn't every part of your body replaced eventually? The hands I'm typing with are not composed of the same matter as the hands I was born with, so are they the same hands? Is my body the same body? Is anyone actually the same person that they were born as?

Besides, who said teleportation has to work that way? What if it works like Nightcrawler's?

I would choose teleportation any day.