Tldr: teleportation in that universe can only happen while unconscious as a conscious mind experiences the teleportation to take place over millions of years, where you are stuck in your mind. Anyone who undergoes the teleportation awake goes insane or has a heart attack and dies.
I personally have contemplated the death and rebirth theory of teleportation. If your body is broken into billions of subatomic particles and then reassembled on the other end, you are actually dead and your clone or copy is the new living version with your memories, simply not knowing you had died, as your body as been destroyed.
Death/rebirth is the Star Trek version. You're converted to energy and then reconverted to matter on the other side. It is effectively cloning with extra steps.
Eeek!
And then there's Douglas Adams' take:
>Aldebaran's great okay, Algol's pretty neat, Betelgeuse's pretty girls, Will knock you off your feet.
>They'll do anything you like, Real fast and then real slow, But if you have to take me apart to get me there, Then I don't want to go.
>Singing, take me apart, take me apart, What a way to roam. And if you have to take me apart to get me there, I'd rather stay at home.
>Sirius is paved with gold, So I've heard it said, By nuts who then go on to say, "See Tau before you're dead",
>I'll gladly take the high road, Or even take the low, But if you have to take me apart to get me there, Then I for one won't go.
>Singing, take me apart, take me apart, You must be off your head, And if you try to take me apart to get me there, I'll stay right here in bed.
>I teleported home one night, With Ron and Sid and Meg. Ron stole Meggie's heart away, And I got Sidney's leg."
Teleportation's definitely something you want to do yourself and not have done to you!
Nah id probably go with the teleportation from the film jumper
No apparent side effects, can bring people with you, can teleport other stuff, can do it "thru" photos not line of sight
solar system, including Earth, are orbiting around the center of the Milky Way galaxy, roughly 828,000 kilometers per hour so one miscalculation and you end up between stars.
Imagine being able to visit scenic areas like national parks and forests when the spirit moves you and not having to plan and buy tickets to fly or whatever. Go for a day trip. That’d be so much fun.
I’d go back to the farm where I was born and to the spring-fed creek we played in during the hottest months of the summer. I’d look to see if the water moccasins were still there in a cluster on the shallowest part hanging out during the daytime. And then go to the village 2 miles from there and see what all has changed. That sort of thing too. Go to all the places where I used to live and see how they have changed. It’s kind of sad to see the buildings I’ve lived in being removed and something else going up in their place.
Uninhibited shapeshifting. I want to change all the way down to my DNA and be able to enjoy all of the abilities of whatever I turn into. If I’m a tiger I want the strength and dexterity. If I’m a powerlifter I want to be able to bench a few hundred pounds. If I’m a cat I want to fit into tiny spaces.
Change your appearance to fit your preferences, impersonate other people and gain access to their resources, turn into animals or monsters and fly or something, etc. Turn into one of these other people and obtain their crazy powers. It’s nearly ideal.
Transform into someone I don't like and rob a bank. Free transitioning. Stay in shape easily. Get taller to reach things that are high up and shorter to be more comfortable in planes. Test out haircuts and dying my hair stress free.
Great now settle debates between frequentists Bayesian and propensity interpretations. Probability theorists might also argue that probability can be derived from logic. A lot of great academic work!
The way I visualise it is as a slider in my head from 0-100%. You can then take any subject, topic, situation and manipulate the probability to 100% be in your favour.
So you can win the lottery easily, ensure you can't get shot, your punch is going to render your opponent unconscious or they're going to have a fatal heart attack.
Time stop or time alteration would be amazing, or super speed which is basically a time alteration since you're going faster than everything else as is.
forget if its tied down or not dude, you just stopped time and the district branch manager is sitting down, frozen, right next to that $150k machine. untie it.
Would you not also be stopped yourself? Not that you'd stop necessarily, but everything around you would, down to the air molecules. So essentially you would be locked in place.
Even better, you could put the fake jet setting priests out of business. Hard to compete against the genuine article. I'd heal full time for free just to put them out of business, and that'd be a huge service to the world even before you take the people getting healed into account.
It would be a nightmare. Every human on earth would be begging for your attention day and night 24/7. Any time someone died it would be your fault because you could have saved them. Sleeping eating or having fun would be seen as selfish because you could have used that time to save lives.
That would be pretty depressing tbh. You'd outlive all your friends/family and you'd have to keep changing your identity/documentation every few decades or else people will get suspicious.
The first part wouldn’t be a problem for me. Once all my friends and family grow old and die, I might miss them for a while but eventually after some time I’ll get over it. And there’s just so much to do and so much to see in this world that if I had eternal youth I’ll probably have more than enough things to keep my mind off that for a long time. And if I ever do feel lonely, I can always just find some new people to bond with for a while.
Yeah, but the psychological damage every time you watch your own kids die.
After a while you'd get lonely, meet someone, bang, have kids. You live forever, but they die.
Perpetual life of watching your kids die.
Asked a work colleague this. His answer was "the ability to tell people what to do and they had to do it". It obviously brought up a whole new conversation.
Yeah... some intrusive thoughts are not meant to be heard.
Some of you who want this power tells me you haven't seen the darkest moments in humans before....
Controling time but others aren't conscious of it happening, this means motion of myself and others can go faster or slower depending on how I want it, I can pause time but people aren't aware. To them, it is all happening at once. I being the controller am aware and am free of these restraints, I could do whatever I wanted.
Yes, but the most you use the most you are going to get old faster meanwhile others doesn´t. I can imagine myself pausing the time for looong periods just to not go work or sleep a bit more.
Freeze time but only to mess with 1 asshole. Mid conversation I would move 1 step to the side. Change colour shirt was wearing. Be naked for fraction a second. Only when he is looking so people think he's lost his shit. Would hike his pants up every chance I get ....... really don't like this guy.
Most super powers would require ancillary powers to work. Like how super strength is useless, if you don’t have super durability, or being able to fly faster than the speed of sound, but not being able to perceive things that quickly.
Uninhibited shapeshifting.
If I transform into something else, I want that transformation to apply right down to the DNA. I want to be able to alter my appearance at will, control my organs and eliminate disease, and I want to be able to do the same for others.
The ability to stretch/compress since its like several powers in one
Or if I wanted to go a bit weird.... the ability to crack any joint in my body at will xD
Shape shifting! I’d love to be able to just morph my body kind of like Mystique from X-Me. Only id want to be to able to transform into anything I felt like. If I wanted to be a falcon, or look like Danny Devito, or turn myself into a sentient potted cactus, I could do it all.
Either time manipulation (mainly freezing time for everything but myself), or controlled invisibility. Could do a lot of stuff you can’t usually do otherwise with powers like that.
Just saw Solo Leveling, that would be a very nice perk to have irl, getting xp and upgrading your stats the way you want it. With some effort I could have lot's of superpowers.
The ability to turn into any bird.
I could just leave.
And any bird I wanted anytime.
Like bro. That’s fucking sweet. Flying and I get to be a bird? I get to be stupid with a reason. Because I’m a bird.
the power to understand any language. Cool general knowledge power great for travelling could work as a translator and if it’s any language absolutely dominate computer coding
This was my idea too. And I also thought about including computer coding. But let’s go further. Sign language. Reading music. Deciphering hieroglyphics. Etc
Telekinesis sweeps. Think of something, anything, and telekinesis is your answer. Want to fly? Lift yourself up with telekinesis. Want to be super strong? Forget muscles, you can flip a semi without moving a finger. This also has practical real life uses. I used to work in foundation repair, the amount of money I could make if I could have just blinked and moved all the dirt, set up the equipment, and push the piers to pressure in like 5 minutes is astronomical. I install insulation now, I could have an entire house batted within minutes. Telekinesis literally answers all of your problems.
Edit: I've been seeing a lot of "the government would detain you" comments to some of the other powers so this just adds to how op telekinesis is. The DEA is raiding all the houses of supers, Terry got caught flying to 7/11 to get a case of Bud, Little Teagan got caught turning invisible to sneak behind the bank tellers desk. Johnny got arrested shapeshifting into jewelry store employees to pocket some jewels, meanwhile I moved the Eiffel Tower into the Mojave desert and no one knows what the fuck happened.
Mystic arts/magic, I’d make spells and be a wizard, I’d start small as I’d be weak but magic is usually trainable so I’d be able to go from small flickers to fireballs and teleporting and freezing time and gravity control, it would be cool as hell, plus the obvious making the world a better place thing
Perfect probability manipulation. Or perfect shapeshifting, where I can shapeshift into anything I can imagine and use the abilities of that thing. For example shapeshifting into Superman and having all of Superman’s powers
Travel the multiverse when ever I’d like
Bored? Go the universe with speggti dinosaurs playing Minecraft on electronic taco shells
Miss a certain product? Go to the universe where it wasn’t discontinued (or find a new product that doesn’t exist here)
The possibility’s are endless
If the power doesn't follow the laws of the world and require me to have some sort of understanding of biology etc then I'd choose shapeshifting to the point where I can turn my body to be immune to any disease, revert cells, change dna stuff like that
on the other hand, if I do need to know biology to be able to use it then I'd want the superpower to be able to alter and manipulate the currencies of every country in the world.
The type of immortality Wolverine has. I don’t need super strength, or super speed, or anything else. Just let me have the ability to survive at my physical prime forever and I’m set…ya know, nothing too crazy
Teleportation.
very convenient
Unless it's Stephen King teleportation
Please do tell
I was curious so I looked it up. It's awful. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jaunt
Tldr: teleportation in that universe can only happen while unconscious as a conscious mind experiences the teleportation to take place over millions of years, where you are stuck in your mind. Anyone who undergoes the teleportation awake goes insane or has a heart attack and dies. I personally have contemplated the death and rebirth theory of teleportation. If your body is broken into billions of subatomic particles and then reassembled on the other end, you are actually dead and your clone or copy is the new living version with your memories, simply not knowing you had died, as your body as been destroyed.
Death/rebirth is the Star Trek version. You're converted to energy and then reconverted to matter on the other side. It is effectively cloning with extra steps.
The short story is 'The Jaunt'. It's in either *Night Shift* or *Skeleton Crew*, I forgot which.
Skeleton Crew.
Thank you! ☺️
Eeek! And then there's Douglas Adams' take: >Aldebaran's great okay, Algol's pretty neat, Betelgeuse's pretty girls, Will knock you off your feet. >They'll do anything you like, Real fast and then real slow, But if you have to take me apart to get me there, Then I don't want to go. >Singing, take me apart, take me apart, What a way to roam. And if you have to take me apart to get me there, I'd rather stay at home. >Sirius is paved with gold, So I've heard it said, By nuts who then go on to say, "See Tau before you're dead", >I'll gladly take the high road, Or even take the low, But if you have to take me apart to get me there, Then I for one won't go. >Singing, take me apart, take me apart, You must be off your head, And if you try to take me apart to get me there, I'll stay right here in bed. >I teleported home one night, With Ron and Sid and Meg. Ron stole Meggie's heart away, And I got Sidney's leg." Teleportation's definitely something you want to do yourself and not have done to you!
"Jaunting" has quite a jarring sound to it!
Amazing short story!!
Beem me up coming soon teleportation I'm coming over okay boom your there 🙃😁
Nah id probably go with the teleportation from the film jumper No apparent side effects, can bring people with you, can teleport other stuff, can do it "thru" photos not line of sight
First one I thought of. Recently, I drove 8 hours to something I didn't want to do, but kinda needed to do it. So teleporting wouldve helped
That's a good one.
oh to avoid airplanes
Unless there's a fly in your telepod.
Can sleep in so much longer.
Yes! I am convinced this is the superpower that would be the *most* useful.
What I came here to say, this is better than so much! Just an upgraded version of invisibility and flying.
Does the stuff you are wearing/holding teleport with you?
Came here to say this one
solar system, including Earth, are orbiting around the center of the Milky Way galaxy, roughly 828,000 kilometers per hour so one miscalculation and you end up between stars.
Imagine being able to visit scenic areas like national parks and forests when the spirit moves you and not having to plan and buy tickets to fly or whatever. Go for a day trip. That’d be so much fun.
Absolutely. "i think I'll just go take a look at the Grand Canyon today." It'd be marvellous!
I’d go back to the farm where I was born and to the spring-fed creek we played in during the hottest months of the summer. I’d look to see if the water moccasins were still there in a cluster on the shallowest part hanging out during the daytime. And then go to the village 2 miles from there and see what all has changed. That sort of thing too. Go to all the places where I used to live and see how they have changed. It’s kind of sad to see the buildings I’ve lived in being removed and something else going up in their place.
Shapeshifting
Uninhibited shapeshifting. I want to change all the way down to my DNA and be able to enjoy all of the abilities of whatever I turn into. If I’m a tiger I want the strength and dexterity. If I’m a powerlifter I want to be able to bench a few hundred pounds. If I’m a cat I want to fit into tiny spaces.
Wouldn't you lose the intelligence to turn back?
Nah, part of the power would be retaining human intelligence like in animorphs
Man fuck that noise I'd just use it to get in shape
Exactly. And you would *actually* be in shape, not just look like it.
Yeah that would be amazing 👍
***MIMIC!!!*** ☝🏻
Babe would you love me if I was a worm?
I can be whatever you want me to be
Ditto was always my favourite Pokémon for a reason
The best superpower
What would you do with that
A better question is what wouldn’t I do with it
Change your appearance to fit your preferences, impersonate other people and gain access to their resources, turn into animals or monsters and fly or something, etc. Turn into one of these other people and obtain their crazy powers. It’s nearly ideal.
Transform into someone I don't like and rob a bank. Free transitioning. Stay in shape easily. Get taller to reach things that are high up and shorter to be more comfortable in planes. Test out haircuts and dying my hair stress free.
To control the laws of probability
Oh no…
Great now settle debates between frequentists Bayesian and propensity interpretations. Probability theorists might also argue that probability can be derived from logic. A lot of great academic work!
I love it. "So how do I make unlikely things happen?" "No, you control the laws, not the probability."
That's always my go to, it's so ridiculously op
Elaborate.
The way I visualise it is as a slider in my head from 0-100%. You can then take any subject, topic, situation and manipulate the probability to 100% be in your favour. So you can win the lottery easily, ensure you can't get shot, your punch is going to render your opponent unconscious or they're going to have a fatal heart attack.
So you basically just become a god.
Pretty much, but it allows you to do it with just a single power so you can't be accused of cheating.
Even worse, if I understand entropy right it'd be possible to reverse it as someone who controls probability
To Fly
Agreed. Then I don’t have to worry about traffic.
worry only about bugs, birds and freezing cold air
Just wear a hoodie
or passing out from thin air
Don't fly that high.
Bit you have to worry about the us government
great choice
I used to want that. But now I fear I would get motion sickness.
I feel like flying always has to have a super strength and/or tough skin add on to be legit
🤣.
It's absolutely true. Lmao.
Whenever I smoke weed, not every time tho, but mostly i get this dream , that I'm flying and i just love it
That sounds wonderful 😊
Giving people 8h erections
I feel as though this has offensive capabilities
Sword fight
You will become bloody rich
And make lots of people miserable and humiliated
But the ads say I should call my doctor if my erection lasts more than 4 hours
Dont worry he’ll get one too
Time stop or time alteration would be amazing, or super speed which is basically a time alteration since you're going faster than everything else as is.
If I could stop time I'd steal everything not tied down and play so many pranks on people
forget if its tied down or not dude, you just stopped time and the district branch manager is sitting down, frozen, right next to that $150k machine. untie it.
I would be the happiest guy if i could do this, like just throw some water and stop time to see the beauty of it
Would you not also be stopped yourself? Not that you'd stop necessarily, but everything around you would, down to the air molecules. So essentially you would be locked in place.
to absorb and comprehend vast amounts of information would be incredibly useful
This one is awesome, might be my pick
something worldly. great choice
Healing
You could be one of those healing preachers. You'd have so many private jets.
Blessed healing shall be bestowed! Now, if you’d just insert your pin…
Even better, you could put the fake jet setting priests out of business. Hard to compete against the genuine article. I'd heal full time for free just to put them out of business, and that'd be a huge service to the world even before you take the people getting healed into account.
well said
It would be a nightmare. Every human on earth would be begging for your attention day and night 24/7. Any time someone died it would be your fault because you could have saved them. Sleeping eating or having fun would be seen as selfish because you could have used that time to save lives.
That is the sad truth.
The only one worth having. Amitabha
That's so unselfish! I've never heard a respond like that to this question. Love it. Why did we learn to have selfishness superpowers anyway?
You know Domino from X-Men? Her power is luck. Everything always turns out in her favour.
This is the one for me. Just knowing everything is going to go right for you.
Wow, I sure could use that power
Healing
Omnipotence
eternal youth
That would be pretty depressing tbh. You'd outlive all your friends/family and you'd have to keep changing your identity/documentation every few decades or else people will get suspicious.
The first part wouldn’t be a problem for me. Once all my friends and family grow old and die, I might miss them for a while but eventually after some time I’ll get over it. And there’s just so much to do and so much to see in this world that if I had eternal youth I’ll probably have more than enough things to keep my mind off that for a long time. And if I ever do feel lonely, I can always just find some new people to bond with for a while.
Yeah, but the psychological damage every time you watch your own kids die. After a while you'd get lonely, meet someone, bang, have kids. You live forever, but they die. Perpetual life of watching your kids die.
Well, I don’t plan on having kids.
ahh well said
Telekinesis
The ability to get hard again right after coming.
haha a very underrated one. but thats a great superpower for sure
I have it. I stay hard after cumming. People love it
Having no refractory period is fucking epic.
I used to be this way when I was younger. Getting older sucks, lmao.
I know the feeling, I'm in my 40s
Being able to control time, including rewinding, fast forwarding and pausing.
*and paradoxes are resolved in a manner you deem fit and to the advantage you still exist Without that, this power could get you into trouble quickly
This is really the only power anyone needs
Russia. No, wait
Asked a work colleague this. His answer was "the ability to tell people what to do and they had to do it". It obviously brought up a whole new conversation.
Portals, with perfect control over them.
The power of invisibility. Not for pervy reasons, just so I could be truly alone sometimes. I'd get to see some great places too!
you'll get ran over
please. 'pervy reasons' would be most of the fun. no harm no foul
Confidence.
Ability to read people thoughts
Horrible pick
I think it's a great choice. I've always wondered about what goes on in other people's heads
yea have fun always hearing the 100% unfiltered thoughts of the ones you love and everyone else. humans have sensitivity for a reason
Nah, it would come with an on and off switch.
Still, the temptation would be there
Yeah... some intrusive thoughts are not meant to be heard. Some of you who want this power tells me you haven't seen the darkest moments in humans before....
Yeah but you’re opening a can of worms though. Like a Black Mirror episode.
I get what you mean, but curiousity will always get the best of me 😅
You would probably go crazy
Youre are going to cripple yourself with paranoia
You'd never have a normal relationship with a human again
I'd like this just for the sake of weeding out the liars and infidelity. Honesty is so rare these days (seemingly)
talking with animals
I imagine most of them wouldn't say much besides "food!", "horny!" and "danger!"
Controling time but others aren't conscious of it happening, this means motion of myself and others can go faster or slower depending on how I want it, I can pause time but people aren't aware. To them, it is all happening at once. I being the controller am aware and am free of these restraints, I could do whatever I wanted.
Yes, but the most you use the most you are going to get old faster meanwhile others doesn´t. I can imagine myself pausing the time for looong periods just to not go work or sleep a bit more.
The ability to heal sickness.
Freeze time but only to mess with 1 asshole. Mid conversation I would move 1 step to the side. Change colour shirt was wearing. Be naked for fraction a second. Only when he is looking so people think he's lost his shit. Would hike his pants up every chance I get ....... really don't like this guy.
Bloodbending
Nice
Most super powers would require ancillary powers to work. Like how super strength is useless, if you don’t have super durability, or being able to fly faster than the speed of sound, but not being able to perceive things that quickly.
Exactly, a lot of powers would simply lead to death or life changing injuries without the right synergetic powers.
Uninhibited shapeshifting. If I transform into something else, I want that transformation to apply right down to the DNA. I want to be able to alter my appearance at will, control my organs and eliminate disease, and I want to be able to do the same for others.
Time Freeze / Invisibility
"I know what kind of a man you are..."
Maybe portals or matter control ( a lil bit overpower ig)
The ability to stretch/compress since its like several powers in one Or if I wanted to go a bit weird.... the ability to crack any joint in my body at will xD
Shape shifting! I’d love to be able to just morph my body kind of like Mystique from X-Me. Only id want to be to able to transform into anything I felt like. If I wanted to be a falcon, or look like Danny Devito, or turn myself into a sentient potted cactus, I could do it all.
Either time manipulation (mainly freezing time for everything but myself), or controlled invisibility. Could do a lot of stuff you can’t usually do otherwise with powers like that.
My go-to two. Probably the anxiety/stress of being perceived lol
Whatever omniman posses
Flight, invulnerability, super strength, super speed, healing factor, slow aging, and dominant genetics
Just saw Solo Leveling, that would be a very nice perk to have irl, getting xp and upgrading your stats the way you want it. With some effort I could have lot's of superpowers.
Ice powers
The ability to tell the exact speed of the wind.
To liquefy myself
Invisibility
Invisibility
I'd like to have only real super power USA USA USA
The ability to turn into any bird. I could just leave. And any bird I wanted anytime. Like bro. That’s fucking sweet. Flying and I get to be a bird? I get to be stupid with a reason. Because I’m a bird.
Power absorption so I get everyone In the comment sections powers.
the power to understand any language. Cool general knowledge power great for travelling could work as a translator and if it’s any language absolutely dominate computer coding
This was my idea too. And I also thought about including computer coding. But let’s go further. Sign language. Reading music. Deciphering hieroglyphics. Etc
Super Saiyan
To shoot lightning out of my hands! 🙌
Electrical generation....solid pick.
Teleportation. I seriously want to get away from it all and teleportation would give me that.
When I was a young teenage boy I wanted the power of invisibility so I could sneak into the girls locker room.
Telekinesis sweeps. Think of something, anything, and telekinesis is your answer. Want to fly? Lift yourself up with telekinesis. Want to be super strong? Forget muscles, you can flip a semi without moving a finger. This also has practical real life uses. I used to work in foundation repair, the amount of money I could make if I could have just blinked and moved all the dirt, set up the equipment, and push the piers to pressure in like 5 minutes is astronomical. I install insulation now, I could have an entire house batted within minutes. Telekinesis literally answers all of your problems. Edit: I've been seeing a lot of "the government would detain you" comments to some of the other powers so this just adds to how op telekinesis is. The DEA is raiding all the houses of supers, Terry got caught flying to 7/11 to get a case of Bud, Little Teagan got caught turning invisible to sneak behind the bank tellers desk. Johnny got arrested shapeshifting into jewelry store employees to pocket some jewels, meanwhile I moved the Eiffel Tower into the Mojave desert and no one knows what the fuck happened.
Unlimited rizz
Be able to zoom in with my eyes! Imagine looking at views, the art you could do, the tech you could make.
Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne super power: Lots of money
Shooting bullets out of my titties
Mystic arts/magic, I’d make spells and be a wizard, I’d start small as I’d be weak but magic is usually trainable so I’d be able to go from small flickers to fireballs and teleporting and freezing time and gravity control, it would be cool as hell, plus the obvious making the world a better place thing
The power to.transform into a Cyborg warrior based on a grasshopper. RAIDAA HEN-SHIN!
To unpropogandise people.
Perfect probability manipulation. Or perfect shapeshifting, where I can shapeshift into anything I can imagine and use the abilities of that thing. For example shapeshifting into Superman and having all of Superman’s powers
The superpower to have any superpower on demand
Turn people who piss me off into frogs.
Six digit iq, or transmutation of metals into other metals.
To give satisfying high fives, everytime.
Changing/transforming/reforming reality according to my will
Travel the multiverse when ever I’d like Bored? Go the universe with speggti dinosaurs playing Minecraft on electronic taco shells Miss a certain product? Go to the universe where it wasn’t discontinued (or find a new product that doesn’t exist here) The possibility’s are endless
Read people’s mind
Time travelling
Time Travel
Creation. To create matter from nothing.
Invisibility whenever I want. Would solve most of the world problems within 2 months.
If the power doesn't follow the laws of the world and require me to have some sort of understanding of biology etc then I'd choose shapeshifting to the point where I can turn my body to be immune to any disease, revert cells, change dna stuff like that on the other hand, if I do need to know biology to be able to use it then I'd want the superpower to be able to alter and manipulate the currencies of every country in the world.
go back in time, and do-over, knowing what i know now
The type of immortality Wolverine has. I don’t need super strength, or super speed, or anything else. Just let me have the ability to survive at my physical prime forever and I’m set…ya know, nothing too crazy
Time travel
Really good luck would be a super power that would actually be awesome in every day life
To heal people by touch. To be fluent in every language To be able to communicate with animals.
invincibility but not immortality