Current Events > You can have one power, but you must choose: Teleport or Time Travel?

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After some careful thought, I pick Teleport.

Does time travel allow infinite travel into the future and/or past at will with no limitations?
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Teleport. Time travel is dangerous and shouldn't be touched.
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Dustin1280 posted...

Does time travel allow infinite travel into the future and/or past at will?

You can go back and forth at will, with all foreseeable rewards and consequences.

Leanaunfurled posted...

Teleport. Time travel is dangerous and shouldn't be touched.

That's what I was thinking too.

Teleport. More likely to fuck something up with time travel. Teleporting is just convenient.
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Time Travel

I'll go back in time to when you learned how to bestow teleportation powers, then get those, too.
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With time travel, if I kept rewinding the same day for 10 years, would I age?
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Time travel for sure...

Teleportation is awesome, but time travel will allow me to live a worry free life off the stock market.

That's ignoring the fact that I can visit any time period I want whenever I want which is awesome.

Fuck the consequences of the butterfly effect :P...
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Can I take things with me to the past/future with time travel? Like money or devices from the future?
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Shotgunnova posted...

Time Travel

I'll go back in time to when you learned how to bestow teleportation powers, then get those, too.

There's no guarantee that you will be able to learn that secret, and you can't subvert the rules of the choice to get the reward. One reward per customer.

Dustin1280 posted...

Teleportation is awesome, but time travel will allow me to live a worry free life off the stock market.

Believe me you will still find something to worry about. You're human. You'll worry until the day you die.

Vindris_SNH posted...

With time travel, if I kept rewinding the same day for 10 years, would I age?

Yes

Vindris_SNH posted...

Can I take things with me to the past/future with time travel? Like money or devices from the future?

Not exactly physical stuff or people or animals, etc. Information though, yes.

Go back in time and become the father of everyone on CE
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You can go back and forth at will, with all foreseeable rewards and consequences.

All forseeable consequences?
So if I ever use the power once, I destroy the universe?

I'll take teleportation.
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Cocytus posted...

There's no guarantee that you will be able to learn that secret

Good thing I have all the time in the world.
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Time Travel so I can win the lotto.
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@Cocytus

With teleportation, could I link up with someone else and do a tandem teleport? Like, say I wanted to go somewhere with my wife, like go get lunch in Paris on a Saturday afternoon, could I teleport her with me?

EDIT: And could I teleport objects with me, like say I wanted to take pics while we were in Paris, could my phone come with me?
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time travel.
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Time travel easily. You can easily guide and manipulate society to eventually give you everything you need, down to shit like deaging, immortality and even teleportation. There's so much room to go back and forth and end up with insane things like galaxy scale empires for example.
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I will take Teleport because that sounds awesome.
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Time travel obviously
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Teleport
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Can I use teleport to teleport all the time in the world away from Shotgunnova?
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ClunkerSlim posted...

After careful thought, Teleportation.

Time Travel itself isn't going to be that useful without a lot of hard work. It's not like you've got a Tardis. You can't move in space. So you're stuck in that spot. You're going to have to put a lot of work into time travel before it pays off. How are you going to invest in Apple stock when you don't have a car, ID, or money in the 1980s? You going to get a second job in the 80s? That sounds like fun.

On the other hand, we've seen just how useful teleportation can be thanks to that one movie. What's the name of that movie where Sam L Jackson is hunting down teleporters? Anyway, teleportation would effectively add years to your life since you're no longer wasting time traveling from point A to point B. So teleportation would effectively add years to your life and pay out cash. I'm zipping around the planet living the high life, meanwhile you're stuck working in a 1980s Burger King saving up for Apple stock.

I'd go back to like 2006 tell 24 year old me what stocks to buy, when to sell, etc. then current me has enough money to do what i want.
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Time travel assuming I'm immune to any loopback paradox shit
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ClunkerSlim posted...

After careful thought, Teleportation.

Time Travel itself isn't going to be that useful without a lot of hard work. It's not like you've got a Tardis. You can't move in space. So you're stuck in that spot. You're going to have to put a lot of work into time travel before it pays off. How are you going to invest in Apple stock when you don't have a car, ID, or money in the 1980s? You going to get a second job in the 80s? That sounds like fun.

On the other hand, we've seen just how useful teleportation can be thanks to that one movie. What's the name of that movie where Sam L Jackson is hunting down teleporters? Anyway, teleportation would effectively add years to your life since you're no longer wasting time traveling from point A to point B. So teleportation would effectively add years to your life and pay out cash. I'm zipping around the planet living the high life, meanwhile you're stuck working in a 1980s Burger King saving up for Apple stock.

At the very least, you can jump to the short future to see the winning lotto numbers and then jump back to the present and win that.
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Leanaunfurled posted...

Teleport. Time travel is dangerous and shouldn't be touched.

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Time travel. I'll win the lottery a couple of times and then do whatever I want

The only way I'd even consider time travel would be on the condition that I never traveled farther back than my present. That's when things go bad. But I would have no problems jumping ahead to figure out a few Powerball numbers winning several hundred million dollars, then jumping ahead again and figuring out which stocks to invest that money in. It'd be fun getting rich.

I'm not sure it'd be more fun than teleporting though.
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Gheb posted...

The only way I'd even consider time travel would be on the condition that I never traveled farther back than my present. That's when things go bad. But I would have no problems jumping ahead to figure out a few Powerball numbers winning several hundred million dollars, then jumping ahead again and figuring out which stocks to invest that money in. It'd be fun getting rich.

I'm not sure it'd be more fun than teleporting though.

You could travel to the future, steal a teleportation machine and then bring it back with you to the present.

Teleportation. Time travel seems like more risk than its worth. Then once I have a kid or family I won't be able to use it regardless. Teleportation has its uses all the time.
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ClunkerSlim posted...

since you're no longer wasting time traveling from point A to point B.

You still have to be careful when doing stuff the legal way. I remember a comic where Flash and Green Lantern are traveling to Europe on vacation, and Hal asks Barry why are they taking the plane instead of ring-flying and water-running there. Barry says he needs to keep his two lives separate, to make sure no one notices an inconsistency. If I teleport to Europe, but then use one of my cards there, it may go unnoticed a few times, that I never bought a ticket, used my passport or went through customs, etc. But if I do it enough times, it's bound to attract someone's attention.

So, pay cash, stay at places that don't need a CC or ID, and never get in an accident. Or buy plane ticket, board, get in bathroom and teleport to destination, and enjoy a few extra hours.

This also reminds me of a Superman story where he was assigned a story near Smallville. He thought "Cool, I'll fly there, visit my parents and relax for four hours!". Then Perry White informs him that he's going too. Damn! The plane it is...
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Time travel. Go back and bet on some sports or win some lottery drawings and be set.

And I'm weird, I'd love to go back and see how some celebrities really died.
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teleport. messing with time is not good i guess.

also, teleport to a bank storeroom, steal bits of money where people won't immediately notice unless it is being audited. go to a different bank in different currency every time in different places, always use cash

= infinite money.
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ClunkerSlim posted...

DoctorVader posted...

Time travel easily. You can easily guide and manipulate society to eventually give you everything you need

And how are you going to do that exactly? Like you could time travel to Ancient Egypt, but then how are you going to get to Egypt? You're not moving in space. So you can probably only manipulate the society that's within 50 square miles of you. You're going to be calling up your teleporting friends and be like, "Hey Bro, can you teleport me over to Rome so I can go back in time and start manipulating society?"

Time travel nearly always comes with some relative space movement. Since it would almost always result in you ending up in the vacuum of space given Earth's tendency to revolve around the sun.
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time travel is more powerful but I would go with teleport. traveling anywhere whenever I want is great. time travel is great too but I think I would go crazy trying to fix everything that didn't work out
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ClunkerSlim posted...

And how are you going to do that exactly? Like you could time travel to Ancient Egypt, but then how are you going to get to Egypt? You're not moving in space. So you can probably only manipulate the society that's within 50 square miles of you. You're going to be calling up your teleporting friends and be like, "Hey Bro, can you teleport me over to Rome so I can go back in time and start manipulating society?"

You have to think outside the box. There's endless possibilities.

You can just start with the natives. Create a powerful empire using technology from the future.

Shape history to evolve faster by exposing them earlier and earlier to future fruits of labor.

Eventually you'll have shit like nuclear powered jet packs or even teleportation to move around.

Keep doing this, eventually pushing society to come up with functional immortality or become a galactic civilization

Sure, you have to be organized in what you're doing and be careful not to get killed (easy with future tech). It won't be a walk in the park, but that's the fun of the challenge.

It's also the only way of living way past the usual 80 years even if you don't become immortal. High chance the farther future will have shit like advanced deaging and cell rejuvenation to prolong life.
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I'd only pick time travel to go back to SB49 and tell Carroll to run the fucking ball. Else teleportation is the correct choice.
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Wait until Wednesday.

Sit on the couch and watch the Powerball. Write down the numbers.


Go back 2 hours to buy a ticket.


????


Profit.

(of course there is the nasty business of killing your clone but you got money now WHOO!)
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Time travel, easily.
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Teleport. Never having to drive or travel ever again would be a godsend.

Vindris_SNH posted...

@Cocytus

With teleportation, could I link up with someone else and do a tandem teleport? Like, say I wanted to go somewhere with my wife, like go get lunch in Paris on a Saturday afternoon, could I teleport her with me?

EDIT: And could I teleport objects with me, like say I wanted to take pics while we were in Paris, could my phone come with me?

You may teleport objects and yourself. You may teleport people but with limits, like no more than four times your weight, give or take. You can teleport objects without weight restrictions and with no more than said people limit vs weight.

Caution999 posted...

Wait until Wednesday.

Sit on the couch and watch the Powerball. Write down the numbers.


Go back 2 hours to buy a ticket.


????


Profit.

(of course there is the nasty business of killing your clone but you got money now WHOO!)

Yes, that is an option. But it won't buy you happiness. You will still have many problems after that, not as part of the bargain, but just a reminder, money won't fix all you think it will.

Teleportation
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Can I teleport to mars for a split second and then back?
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