Poll: Would You Rather - Superpowers

[V4Viewtiful]

Wait can a human body handle flying at sonic speed? Outside of a plan obviously

You need to think about it in realistic terms (sorta) It's the same as how birds can withstand wind in there eyes or a cheetah not joints not wearing out your body develops to adapt to extreme conditions relating to your ability.


I go for teleportation, there's a a lot you can do with that, you can create a small tear and suck out the air out of someone's lungs, you have the potential to go into other dimensions. Depending what type of teleportation you could lavitate as well.


Speed is cool but it's a little dangerous, running too fast you may not know your own strength or durability. Flight is cool you may find you can increase and decrease the pressure around you greatly enough to - like - stop a plain from falling in mid air, plus like super speed, gives your body durability too.

 

[EHKOS]

Teleportation. There is just something so satisfying about teleporting behind someone in a fist fight over and over. Also I'm really lazy, I'd save a huge amount on airline tickets, and I like to use my own bathroom.

 

[NBSRDan]

Can I choose none? Any of the three would result in death the first time you try to use it.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

Definitely not teleportation because with odds like that, I would almost definitely die from teleporting into a wall at some point. Probably not superspeed because I would almost definitely die from crashing into a wall I couldn't see while blinking, or just any surface the first time I used it. Flying because you can take it slow initially, it's really fun, it's easier to see where you're going and it would be really good for drying hair.

 

[Therumancer]

You have a choice of three superpowers, you have to choose one:

1: Flying at sonic speeds, but you receive no training, you have to learn how to use it

2: Superspeed but there are no proper breaks

3: Teleportation, but you have to have been to the place you are teleporting to and there is a 0.05% chance that you will teleport inside a wall.

Under the circumstances flight given that Teleporation is inevitable suicide by your definition (no matter the odds) and super speed is likely to kill me or someone else. At least the flight leaves the door open to learn how to control the power.

 

[Gottesstrafe]

You have a choice of three superpowers, you have to choose one:

1: Flying at sonic speeds, but you receive no training, you have to learn how to use it

2: Superspeed but there are no proper breaks

3: Teleportation, but you have to have been to the place you are teleporting to and there is a 0.05% chance that you will teleport inside a wall.

Question: How precise is the positioning of the Teleportation power? Is it exact, within a milimeter, off by a few feet? Basically, are my chances of teleporting into a wall due to carelessness, my inability to have second-to-second intel of the place I'm teleporting to, or because of an innate impreciseness to the power that I have to constantly correct for? Also, what will happen if I teleport into an object (does the object explode, do I die, do we merge)?

Also, is the speed you can fly at variable? Do you only fly at supersonic speeds or is that just the maximum? Because I can't imagine that would be good for your body. Ignoring all the birds and insects that would cake themselves onto your face, you'd also have to face hypothermia, the bends, ebullism, and a host of other conditions brought on by rapid changes in pressure and temperature, not to mention any associated organ damage from traveling that fast that suddenly.

Despite the inherent risks, I'd have to choose Teleportation. It's instantaneous, discreet, and viable for use indoors. And I also wouldn't have to suit up for protection every time I use it.

 

[JimB]

If we're being hypertechnical about things, I have to ask if teleporting into a wall is actually fatal. I mean, no matter where you teleport, there is mass there, if only air and airborne particulates, so you presumably displace that mass as part of the teleportation process. Do you similarly displace the mass of the wall you teleport into?

 

[Happiness Assassin]

Number 1, without a doubt. It would take time, but in the long run it would be worth it. 2 would be difficult to master at all and number 3... well, I would abuse the hell out of that power. Meaning that eventually I would end up in a wall.

 

[wulfy42]

Your chance to teleport into a wall is way to high. I mean, thats 1/2000 chance....if you teleport a few times a day you'll be dead in a year or two for sure.

It should be more like, you have the danger of teleporting into matter and dying, but that is avoidable if you can see the place you are teleporting to and know there is nothing there. Basically you never MISS where you are telporting to, but unless you know for sure there is no matter at that location, you might end up dead. Even a fly could be deadly in such a case..which still makes teleportation too risky.

The other concept of teleportation is displacement, where you displace the air (and objects in that location, before teleporting into it. The problem occurs if the matter is too solid to be moved by your amount of mass. So you can displace a baseball flying through the air you are teleporting into, or even water (along with air....or a fly, or even a cat), but if you try and teleport into spot with a parked car....you die...possibly even going BOOM and killing alot of others as well.

That would make the most sense and be the minimum amount of control I would ever consider using teleportation with, otherwise it's just too dangerous.

Flight of course is preferable to superspeed in almost every way, especially when can already move so fast while flying. Super speed is actually super dangerous unless you have some kind of super durability as well....running into any object at very fast speeds would be....super dangerous...and at such speeds running into a wall would be instant death...and easy to do!!

Flying though, while still dangerous in some ways (Especially when learning!!), allows you to go slow if you want, can be used to make you tons of money in many ways (entertainment, saving lives etc)...and would just be awesome. As long as your power can't just fail sometime....causing you to fall to your death, flying is by far the best and safest choice here.

Teleportation could possible be the most game changing/world changing if there are set limits to it. If you can teleport as far as you want, and don't need to have already been there before, and especially if you can bring other objects/mass with you...it could drastically increase the speed we could colonize our galaxy, and you wouldn't even need to teleport to other planets etc, just into orbit/out of orbit with objects to quickly build up our space station.

 

[wulfy42]

If we're being hypertechnical about things, I have to ask if teleporting into a wall is actually fatal. I mean, no matter where you teleport, there is mass there, if only air and airborne particulates, so you presumably displace that mass as part of the teleportation process. Do you similarly displace the mass of the wall you teleport into?

Displacement is pretty much mandatory as...like you mentioned...there is always mass...and you would probably cause a large explosion any time you teleported if you didn't displace objects before hand.

The question becomes how much can you displace...and what are the results if you can't displace something. You could just meld with the current objects in that area for instance.....increasing the mass and density of the object you teleport into by your own mass. That would presumably be very fatal for you.

Another.....concept is that you literally exchange locations with the atoms that are in the spot you are teleporting to. In other words, there was no AIR in the spot your body currently occupied...and the air in the spot you teleport to, changes places and takes your bodies spot while you take its. If you teleport into anything besides just plain air....in theory the atoms in the exact shape of your body would replace your old location.

So if you teleport into solid rock, a rock statue of you would appear where you used to be, and you would end up encased in rock..but totally alive and unharmed (untill you sufficated...but you could just teleport away before that happened).

The main danger in that case is teleporting somewhere that is very dangerous, like the middle of a freeway, an active volcano, or deep in the ocean (The pressure could knock you out and kill you right away).

Yet another concept of teleportation is your mind is involved in the teleportation and sends a shadow ghost to test the location before you teleport. It's all handled by your subconcious.....so basically if you would injure yourself when teleporting, you can't teleport there (it doesn't work).

Finally there is always altered reality. Teleportation works by changing how the universe works...meaning that you are at point B in the universe instead of point A. In such a case the universe is changed to have you be at point B and anything that used to be in that spot no longer exits (and possibly never existed). It's also possible it would just exist at a slightly different location instead. Basically your changing all of recorded history and everything that led up to that point in time to have you be at point B instead of A. Interestingly enough this could actually allow people to have the ability to teleport and never realize it...even when they have teleported multiple times already, because each time they teleport they alter the universe in such a way that they are where they wanted to be naturally at that point in time. It's the easiest form of teleportation to explain and most likely to be possible. It could be simulated with a computer fairly easily, having a set location digitalized and everything that happens at that location for a few days recorded...and then to teleport people around in the simulation you just need to alter events earlier in the simulation...The specific person could then be moved from point A to B....but in doing so you change a ton of previous actions in the simulation as well.

 

[Samael Barghest]

I gotta go with speed. Firstly, because everyone else is a bunch of sheep saying the same thing. Second, I just saw X-Men Days of Future Past today and Quicksilver was awesome.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

Dude, come on. Super speed all the way!

I get that you need to learn how to stop so that all the momentum that you carry with you doesn't send you flying into a wall, but as The Flash and several other iconic speedsters have demonstrated, this super power is amazing if you can to be creative with it.

You can vibrate your molecules to phase through walls, you can create tornadoes and lift by vibrating your body, you can create a wormhole to travel through time, you can throw objects and deliver blows that are faster and more devastating than most firearms, and you can also vibrate you heart to make it seem like you died.

So yeah, super speed is the way to go.

 

[shootthebandit]

Ill take teleportation. Id happily take the risk. Can you imagine zapping yourself to the carribean every time you had a tea break at work

 

[TheRookie8]

Teleportation.

As long as I keep a healthy distance from buildings and structures, and stick to open spaces closer to where I want to go, teleportation is infinitely more useful than flight or speed.

Less effort and collisions, too.

 

[GreyNicor]

I so no practical use for running extremely fast without any breaks.
As for flying versus teleportation I'll need some more elaboration from the OP.
I need to know:
-The consequences of teleporting into a wall.
-What happens if the exact space I teleport/intend to teleport to is occupied by another living being or object that I was not aware of being there? Does the tele not work or are there side-effects?
-I'm not aiming to teleport into a wall, for me to teleport into one in the first place there needs to be some inaccuracy as for where I'll end up, how big is that area?
-If there is no wall within the area (from previous question) I teleport to do I get a 0% chance of ending in the wall, does a wall spawn 0.05% of the time just so I can teleport into it or do I teleport into the ground as a substitute for a wall?
-I fly at sonic speed, can I also fly at speeds below that? If not how long does it take from take-off to end up at sonic speed?

 

[Halla Burrica]

I think I'll have go with superspeed, because the two others kinda seem like they wouldn't fit me.
I'm terrified of heights, so flight isn't an option. I'd probably fly up a couple of meters, then look down and notice just how far up I was, lose control and fall down, leading to serious injury, like being crippled for life, aquire brain damage and spend the rest of my life a drooling vegetable (I've seen some people unfortunate to be like that, I'd rather be blind and deaf than share that fate) or death.
Teleportation kinda weirds me out as well, what if I teleported to where an object was and accidentally merged with that object?
So I'm going with super speed, because it sounds like I'd have better control and I like running.

 

[HBMK]

Superspeed but there are no proper breaks

I second Zachary Amaranth's question about what "proper breaks" means. Until I know that, I tentatively choose speed. There is not enough time in the day.

It means that you can't just stop running as you would if you were going at regular speeds. You would have to think of a way to stop yourself, like wearing really big shoes or something

 

[HBMK]

I so no practical use for running extremely fast without any breaks.
As for flying versus teleportation I'll need some more elaboration from the OP.
I need to know:
-The consequences of teleporting into a wall.
-What happens if the exact space I teleport/intend to teleport to is occupied by another living being or object that I was not aware of being there? Does the tele not work or are there side-effects?
-I'm not aiming to teleport into a wall, for me to teleport into one in the first place there needs to be some inaccuracy as for where I'll end up, how big is that area?
-If there is no wall within the area (from previous question) I teleport to do I get a 0% chance of ending in the wall, does a wall spawn 0.05% of the time just so I can teleport into it or do I teleport into the ground as a substitute for a wall?
-I fly at sonic speed, can I also fly at speeds below that? If not how long does it take from take-off to end up at sonic speed?

The consequences of teleporting inside a wall would depend on the width, if it was thick you would suffocate, if it was thin your body would end up being split in half. If it was a person/animal or object there there would be side effects rather than it not working (similar to the wall situation). The whole wall thing is because the teleport is inaccurate, and even if you had photographic memory it would still be off by up to a metre.

With the flying, you can't fly below sonic speeds but your take-off speed is a lot slower.

Hope that answered everything.

 

[Robot Number V]

Can I choose none? Any of the three would result in death the first time you try to use it.

How would super speed kill you? I'd imagine if I chose that one, I start out by just running across an empty field at like, 30 miles an hour or so. Then I'd slowly work my way towards faster speeds and distances. Seems pretty safe to me, assuming you're careful, and there's certainly more control than the other two.

So yeah, I'd go with speed. I already know how to run, so it's easier to pick up.

EDIT: Unless by "no brakes" (not "breaks", by the way) you mean that once I start running, it's literally impossible for me to stop on my own, in which case...Why the hell would anyone pick that? Why not give me the option to breathe underwater, but only for the same time I could hold my breath for? Or invisibility that's powered by me playing the tuba? (Thanks, Yahtzee) Maybe the power to summon lightning, but not to survive lightning strikes? I ask because, you know, those would all be completely useless.

So if you did mean that, I'll join the flying army.

 

[GreyNicor]

Guess I'll go for teleporting then, I'll just make sure to teleport to open areas.
Flying at only sonic speed or up doesn't seem to useful to me, with the air in your face and all that.