“The Stars My Destination” by Alfred Bester. Considered one of the all time best science fiction novels. Everyone can teleport just by thinking about it.
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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 11 months ago
Teleportation
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 11 months ago
hddsx@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Your accuracy is +/- 3 light years.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
If your already on your deathbed, it would be a painful way to die, but you’d at least get an amazing view for a few seconds.
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 11 months ago
The event alone causes an explosion, killing anything 50 meters to you, damaging anything 100 meters from you, temporarily disabled any electrical thing two kilometres from you.bYou won’t be affected by any of this.
watson387@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
You can’t control the destination.
Donkter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You can materialize matter out of thin air.
faltryka@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Granted, but your momentum is teleported with you. The earth is hurtling through space at over 100,000 km and you are on its -spinning- surface subvert to multiple momentum influences constantly.
Keep it to short distances and you might be ok, but with distance comes chaos.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lmao not how it works. Things are only moving in relation to other things, if you’re affixed to the earth then almost any other point on earth relative to you is not moving.
If you teleport in refence to some other celestial body that sounds kind of dumb and also possibly a skill issue.
Brown5500@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
The surface of the earth at the equator is moving at ~1600 k/hr in order to rotate fully in a day. If you teleport to the opposite side of the planet, you’ll still be moving at that speed but the surface there is moving in the opposite direction. You will now be having a very bad day.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
(Along the equator) in relation to the core along the polar axis. See how I did that? I filled in your implied point of reference. Isn’t that a pretty stupid reference compared to, idk, where your are standing now?
BennyInc@feddit.org 11 months ago
This was fantastically embedded in the Jumper books.
Zahtu@feddit.org 11 months ago
Don’t you Just have to Teleport rapidly Forward in short disxtances then to mitigate that risk? Would probably also bei safer since you could See where to Teleport to.
jewbacca117@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You can only teleport your body. Meaning you will always arrive naked.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Are prostheses and implants considered part of your body for purposes of teleport?
jewbacca117@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If say only you physical body teleports, leaving behind a pile of clothes, the contents of your digestive tract, and contact lenses. You arrive naked, hungry, and blind.
bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Tooth fillings?
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 11 months ago
You should watch The Boys, if you haven’t already.
jewbacca117@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I have but totally forgot about that part!
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 11 months ago
You have to have been there first within 24hrs to teleport there
scytale@lemm.ee 11 months ago
This can actually still be convenient if you need to be physically at work 5 days a week. No more commuting and waking up early in the morning except on Mondays. If you want to skip Monday traffic, take a quick drive on Sunday to your office so you meet the 24 hour criteria.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 11 months ago
Couldnt you just teleport there for a second on weekend so the timer resets and you dont have to drive at all?
AtariDump@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Could also do that with international vacation spots too.
Teleport home to feed the cat and then back to Italy.
OZFive@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Jarix@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Anywhere you haven’t been is an imaginary place