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If you could have any superpower, what would it be and why?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sascamooch.com/post/3343

For me, it'd probably be teleportation. The possibilities with teleportation are basically limitless.

  • Building's on fire? Teleport in, grab the people inside, and teleport out. Easy.
  • Getting your butt kicked by a supervillain? Teleport to a gun shop, grab some weapons, and teleport back for round 2.
    • Alternatively, just grab your opponent, teleport in front of a moving train or something, let go of your opponent, and teleport away.
  • Need to defuse a bomb? No need! Just teleport the bomb to the middle of the desert. Never worry about cutting the wrong wire again!
  • Want to go to a Taylor Swift concert, but you overslept? You guessed it: just teleport! You don't even need to buy a ticket!

Admittedly, stopping time is another very useful power, but teleportation is just really hard to beat. What say you?

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  • Instantaneous learning.

    Want to play the sax? Just pick it up.

    Want to cook? Just pick up a knife.

    Want to draw? Just pick up a pencil.

  • A complete understanding of genetics and manipulation as a technology, with the social connections to make it useful to everyone without capitalist exploitation.

    • I'm not a god, yet I can extend the lives of everyone including myself, maybe indefinitely

    • I can eradicate all diseases. Alter probable animal behavior, or entire ecosystems.

    • I can create a new era of lab grown organic technology that runs from photosynthesis or caloric intake. A computer could be a synthetic brain like structure with similar organic based power requirements.

    • My super power makes humans a galactic species as I can solve all problems related to time, hibernation, radiation, and a sustainable ecosystem.

    • Within a few decades, we would be contemplating the furthest galaxies that could be reached realistically with hibernation ships.

  • Teleportation would be so dangerous. The chancers are too high that you'd teleport into something: a wall, table, chair, etc.