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Would you choose teleportation or flying?
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LadyButterfly she/her piefed.blahaj.zone LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone
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applebusch (she/her) lemmy.blahaj.zone applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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LegoBrickOnFire lemmy.world LegoBrickOnFire@lemmy.world
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Flying. Teleportation is too OP and I don't wanna become disconnected from other human's experience.

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Nangijala feddit.dk Nangijala@feddit.dk
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Teleportation. I have zero patience for travel time.

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ladicius lemmy.world ladicius@lemmy.world
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If it worked like in movies or books teleportation would really be the dream.

If it worked like physics demands (everything is constantly moving at unfathomable speeds, you never know what or where your point of reference is or will be in as little as a second) it'd be a deadly and short lived nightmare. In that case flying would be the better choice.

(Yes, I know, we are talking about absolutely impossible capabilities, and I can't leave the scientifical base my world view stands on.)

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Lodespawn aussie.zone Lodespawn@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-10-18
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If it worked like in movies or books teleportation would really be the dream. If it worked like physics demands (everything is constantly moving at unfathomable speeds, you never know what or where your point of reference is or will be in as little as a second) it'd be a deadly and short lived nightmare. In that case flying would be the better choice. (Yes, I know, we are talking about absolute...

Teleporting short distances (ie only teleporting to where you can see) could get around that and might feel like flying anyway if you kept it to 50m jumps above the ground.

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ZDL lazysoci.al ZDL@lazysoci.al
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Flying. Air rushing past, people watching me with envy, totally my jam.

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ZDL lazysoci.al ZDL@lazysoci.al
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Teleporting short distances (ie only teleporting to where you can see) could get around that and might feel like flying anyway if you kept it to 50m jumps above the ground.

Where does the potential energy go when you teleport down 50m?

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Lodespawn aussie.zone Lodespawn@aussie.zone
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Where does the potential energy go when you teleport down 50m?

Powers the teleport? Wherever the potential energy came from when you originally teleported 50m up?

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Tiresia slrpnk.net Tiresia@slrpnk.net
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If it worked like in movies or books teleportation would really be the dream. If it worked like physics demands (everything is constantly moving at unfathomable speeds, you never know what or where your point of reference is or will be in as little as a second) it'd be a deadly and short lived nightmare. In that case flying would be the better choice. (Yes, I know, we are talking about absolute...

Teleportation already requires either violating conservation of energy and momentum and angular momentum or getting those from a previously undisclosed source, given there is any other mass in the universe relative to which one has gravitational potential, motion, and rotation which are all adjusted if one teleports; as well as for doing the thermodynamic work of moving a mass around.

There is no physics violation at all in supposing there is a process that allows these target parameters to be adjusted to avoid harm, and no worse physics violation in other quality of life adjustments like making your feet face the ground, instant barometric acclimatization, removing the air where you arrive, adding air where you left, having a physical process that clears the landing space in a soft but firm way, etc.

Either teleportation is impossible or it might as well be safe. Teleportation that is possible but unsafe is an authorial decision, not a physics constraint.

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SourDragon lemmy.world SourDragon@lemmy.world
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Once I find the full context to this comic, I'll edit my comment with it. Pretty much the point of it is teleportation is 9001% better because you can fake flying without the cost of air resistance by teleporting a thousand times a second. Flying Guy complains about how stupid that is. Teleport Guy glances over Flying Guy's shoulder and teleports away. Flying Guy gets hit by a plane.

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🦄🦄🦄 feddit.org Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org
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Once I find the full context to this comic, I'll edit my comment with it. Pretty much the point of it is teleportation is 9001% better because you can fake flying without the cost of air resistance by teleporting a thousand times a second. Flying Guy complains about how stupid that is. Teleport Guy glances over Flying Guy's shoulder and teleports away. Flying Guy gets hit by a plane.

Teleporting guy dies a thousand times a second.

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Kayday lemmy.world Kayday@lemmy.world
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Yes, teleportation is better. I choose flying.

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Grail multiverse.soulism.net Grail@multiverse.soulism.net
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Teleportation. I wanna drop Trump and Netanyahu in a Iranian prison.

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RebekahWSD lemmy.world RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
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Teleportation. Exciting! Fun! Takes no time! Can do evil things! Can do nice things! Covers the gamut!

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SourDragon lemmy.world SourDragon@lemmy.world
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Teleporting guy dies a thousand times a second.

That's badass

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wezzzy lemmy.blahaj.zone wezzzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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I would go teleportation cuz you can js teleport in a line like 50times a sec to fly and also no travle time and stuff :)

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Okokimup lemmy.world Okokimup@lemmy.world
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I feel like flying would be very tiring. I'll take teleportation.

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