Would you choose invisibility or teleportation?

You could turn invisibility on and off as you like and there would be no time limit. Your clothes would turn invisible too, and you could decide whether the items you are holding would be visible or not.

There would be no limits on how many times or where you could teleport. The items you hold while teleporting would be teleported too. You would also have the ability to know if the place would be safe to teleport to, so you wouldn’t teleport and get impaled by an icicle or teleport inside a wall and get your insides filled with concrete or something.

Personally, I don’t know which one would I pick. Invisibility would be awesome for pranks and stuff, but teleportation probably would be more useful for everyday life.

pewgar_seemsimandroid,

eat both pills

RIP_Cheems, (edited )
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Depends on the situation. On the one hand, you can choose to teleport and go anywhere instantly and be able to save time, money, and get tasks done faster. On the other hand, you could choose invisibility to avoid Carl the office dickhead and prank the shitty hr department.

Feathercrown,

Teleportation 100%. I could be anywhere on Earth, at any time. Invisibility is super cool but its most practical applications are kinda weird tbh. Being there without people knowing is basically always a privacy violation.

AceFuzzLord,

Teleport. I could be running late to something important but in the blink of an eye be there right on time. Plus, absolutely no need for any form of transport when you can just teleport.

hansl,

If Flash taught me anything, is that being slow doesn’t make you late, but being fast makes you lazier, and laziness makes you very late.

EmoDuck,

Do I keep my velocity relative to earth if I teleport? Because if would really suck if I teleported from one side of the equator to the other one and am suddenly moving at 3300 km/h

Chetzemoka,

There’s always a catch, huh …

Rednax,

In the same line of thinking: do I go blind if I turn invisible? After all: no light falls onto the receptors in my eyes, it all just passes through.

reddig33,

Teleportation. I love to travel, but I hate the airport.

mycatiskai,

If you had the teleport jump ability from the book Jumper that would be pretty cool and useful. The character fills a cistern by being in water and in the cistern simultaneously which would be a great way to help drought suffering areas while also helping flooding areas.

EmoDuck,

I’m looking for a new book to read but wasn’t blown away by the movie. How different is the book?

mycatiskai, (edited )

Far better than the movie. Much crap was added to the movie. Better antagonists in the book and the sequel was also good. Upon searching just now I found that there are a total of four novels in the series.

Jumper, Reflex, Impulse and Exo all by Steven Gould. Now I have two more books to read.

intensely_human,

I’d pick invisibility if it came with some mechanism to keep people from running into me.

I attract way too much attention in public and I’d like to be able to go out and walk around without all the attention.

GrayBackgroundMusic, (edited )

Teleport. Could make so much money. Could advance science, depending on range.

tungah,

Don’t you became blind if you’re invisible?

How will your eyes function if they can’t control the way light hits your retina?

3migo,
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Not even a question for me, absolutely teleportation.

I wouldn’t need to own a car, never need to pay for plane tickets or any sort of transportation.

I can go anywhere at any time. Live anywhere and then just blink where I want/need to be.

Invisibility doesn’t provide nearly the same practical applications. The only useful thing I can think of for invisibility would be to hide inside a bank vault and steal money, but that could technically be achieved via teleportation too.

intensely_human,

You could also surf all day without getting sunburnt.

roofuskit,
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Invisibility does not get you out of the bank vault.

Usul_00_,

And unless you are stuffing your orifices, don’t think you are getting far with a theft of floating cash anyhow

intensely_human,

I’d just steal the regular cash

RememberTheApollo_,

Are you truly invisible? As in not appearing on thermal or any other commonly used forms of visual detection and imaging?

Alphadef,

Invisibility is cool and all, but teleportation is simply way better

TheDoctorDonna,

I’m already invisible.

Onaltau,

Who said that…?!

intensely_human,

Lucky

RandomVideos,

How fast can you teleport? If there is no cooldown, you could teleport so fast nobody would see you being there

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