Poll: Flying or Teleporting?

[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.

 

[ninetails593]

I teleportal all over the place.

 

[Exia91]

If there's no limit to how often and how far I can teleport then its Teleporting.

IF there are limits that would ..limit.. me too much I'd go for flying.

 

[Iampringles]

I have always been fascinated by flying, but teleportation, if done safely, seems like the more practical option for getting form A to B.

 

[KindOfnElf]

Teleportation. I want to know how it feels to be decomposed and than composed again all that in a second.

 

[Goremocker]

Flight, you can screw up teleporting in too many ways. Like ending up merging with someone or dieing in a wall. Also, there is no way to tell how your teleportation works so you may even end up dead just by trying.

 

[The DSM]

Flying looks much more dramatic.

Leaping out of a window and flying would look bad ass.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Why would I fly when I could violate thermodynamics instead?

 

[Jonluw]

I have a hard time choosing, but seeing how flying (at high speeds) would realistically be very uncomfortable, I am going to choose teleportation.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

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.

And yet it is a force that always expresses itself when an object with mass is around. It can also be predictably measured and modeled. As such, while there is plenty that we don't know about gravity, the simple fact that it follows a known set of observable rules that do not allow for any known instance of violation, it would qualify as a law in my book. And this one will stand regardless of the decress of presidents or despots.

 

[Life_Is_A_Mess]

Teleportation. No doubt. It's faster and you can go anywhere.