An old podcast of This American Life mentioned it, and I'm torn on it.

5/30/2009 2:13:37 PM

I always was asked 'teleportation or invisibility'

invisibility; you can stow away to get around, and would make you a good spy. Only if you can turn it on and off though, being invisible forever would suck.

5/30/2009 2:16:36 PM

Invisibility

5/30/2009 2:16:52 PM

I think I'd pick flight. It seems like it would have a lot more use/versatility. What all is someone going to do with invisibility besides spy on naked women or pull pranks on people?

5/30/2009 2:17:26 PM

I would jerk off on so many bitches if i was invisible

5/30/2009 2:18:02 PM

Invisibility by far

5/30/2009 2:20:56 PM

Invisibility

Women's Locker Room.....nuff said

5/30/2009 2:21:53 PM

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"What all is someone going to do with invisibility besides spy on naked women or pull pranks on people?"

Fight crime, duh....

5/30/2009 2:25:33 PM

Flight if I could do it for long distances without getting tired.

5/30/2009 2:27:06 PM

flight

only closet rapists would choose invisibility

5/30/2009 2:30:42 PM

obligatory: Can you turn other stuff invisible? Like your clothes?...or other people? Can you still talk?
Also, can you carry unlimited weight when you fly?...Can you hover?

[Edited on May 30, 2009 at 2:47 PM. Reason : ]

5/30/2009 2:32:15 PM

i'd think there'd be snipers that try to shoot you when you're flying

5/30/2009 2:36:46 PM

Depends on the details, but probably flight.

5/30/2009 2:40:08 PM

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"only closet rapists would choose invisibility"

Yeah... closet rapists would. But the rapists that don't hide it would choose flight.

5/30/2009 2:42:58 PM

i would fly around with a GPS in hand

5/30/2009 2:45:18 PM

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"Depends on the details, but probably flight."

you wouldnt need to spy on naked chicks.. you could get all the chicks by saying "hey you want to go fly around?" you can't pick up chicks with invisibility unless you can sneak into a bank and steal money.

5/30/2009 2:52:53 PM

Flight. Invisibility would be creepy, but flight would be so terribly fun. I'd fly around in the mountains all day looking at the views, then fly along the beach when I got bored of that.

With invisibility I'd just be fooling people that I wasn't there, whereas flight would really open up some cool shit for me to do (get a passport and explore the world on the cheap, lol).

5/30/2009 2:53:41 PM

youd be a better commodity with invisibility though, governemnt would kill to have you work for them. wtf you gonna do with flight, charge people to take them places? then youd have to carry them and shit, fuck that. invisibility

5/30/2009 2:56:04 PM

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"obligatory: Can you turn other stuff invisible? Like your clothes?...or other people? Can you still talk? Also, can you carry unlimited weight when you fly?...Can you hover?"

Per TAL, lets say you can turn your clothing and other objects invisible but not other people, yes you can still talk. With flight you are limited by your own personal strength and I see no reason why you couldn't hover.

5/30/2009 2:57:02 PM

^ in that case invisibility.

5/30/2009 3:00:23 PM

The bitter reality is that I am pretty sure there would be legal consequences for both, especially flight. I bet that if a human ever was able to fly then they would be sued by the FAA for violation of obscure airspace regulations. It would likely just be an excuse to capture you and dissect you and figure out how you managed to fly.

In the TAL episode I am also pretty sure that they addressed the "anyone who says 'flight' is a liar."

Besides, if you were invisible you could just walk onto any airplane you wanted and go anywhere.

5/30/2009 3:05:53 PM

whats tal?

5/30/2009 3:10:30 PM

This American Life

5/30/2009 3:10:53 PM

o


...

still lost

5/30/2009 3:11:17 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_American_Life

5/30/2009 3:12:04 PM

cool

5/30/2009 3:13:04 PM

flight

to really use invisibility I'd have to become a scoundrel, and I'd druther not be a scoundrel

5/30/2009 3:13:34 PM

flight all day.

as quoted above, you could pull mad bitched being able to fly.

5/30/2009 3:16:26 PM

But with invisibility you can steal money and become rich... and then you can have any snatch you want.
Also with invisibility you can ease drop, which is easier that stalking a chicks facebook page in order to get the scoop

5/30/2009 3:20:13 PM

i changed my vote cuz you could steal lots of money if you could make money invisible and having limited flight time would be kinda gay..

[Edited on May 30, 2009 at 3:21 PM. Reason : ^ and that too]

5/30/2009 3:20:30 PM

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"ease drop"

5/30/2009 3:20:53 PM

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"yea"

5/30/2009 3:24:52 PM

5/30/2009 3:25:38 PM

you know, Kevin Bacon chose invisibility, and we all saw how well THAT turned out . . . naked penis and people dying

5/30/2009 3:26:55 PM

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"naked penis and people dying"

sounds like my kind of night!

5/30/2009 3:27:33 PM

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"In the TAL episode I am also pretty sure that they addressed the "anyone who says 'flight' is a liar." "

Haha yeah, I like that they mention no one ever uses it to fight crime either, that was a fun point.

5/30/2009 3:29:13 PM

^ yep.

^^^ & ^^

Definitely invisibility!

[Edited on May 30, 2009 at 3:30 PM. Reason : +]

5/30/2009 3:29:49 PM

plus personal flight is much more likely to be acheived through technology within our lifetimes as compared to invisibility

5/30/2009 3:30:39 PM

I had a technician that thought he was invisible.. . he tried to hide from the researcher because he was not wearing any PPE. He is a huge man and there is nothing to hide behind, in, around, or under in that room. Dumbass.

good story Ashley!

5/30/2009 3:32:25 PM

true story

5/30/2009 3:34:26 PM

Invisibility, hands down. Free shit all the time. If I want to fly somewhere, my invisible ass will just get on a plane. Not like I'll have to pay for a ticket, and even if I do, my stolen money should more than pay for it.

Free admission at every place that charges admission. Free money off the back of Wells Fargo trucks. Scarlett Johansson naked.

Unlike JefferyBSG, I have absolutely no qualms about becoming an scoundrel once I have invisibility.

5/30/2009 3:51:11 PM

and as ive pointed out you can make mad loot being the premier international spy and pull mad bitches. you dont have to be a scoundrel to get everything you want using invisibilty. any one who says flying is retarded

5/30/2009 3:52:31 PM

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"plus personal flight is much more likely to be acheived through technology within our lifetimes as compared to invisibility"

Both seems fairly likely. Of course, we already have the technology to negate traditional invisibility. That's one of the many problems with the idea that invisibility will turn you into some sort of magical ninja who can do anything.

5/30/2009 3:59:03 PM

how many mph is flight?

5/30/2009 4:22:34 PM

Invisibility!

5/30/2009 4:24:42 PM

Flight seems like the obvious choice by far. You guys are talking about stealing stuff and jizzing on girls, you could get money and get women to get freaky with you easy if you could fly.

5/30/2009 4:29:24 PM

with flight, as soon as you hit a bird you are done

5/30/2009 4:30:39 PM

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"But with invisibility you can steal money and become rich... and then you can have any snatch you want."

I'm pretty sure if you could fly getting "snatch" would very easy, and neither would money. Fuck, you would be the ultimate NBA player.

5/30/2009 5:31:17 PM

o my


idk, teleportation does beat out both flight and invisibility, though..

5/30/2009 5:33:56 PM

My only real question about invisibility is whether or not you'd be able to hide from IR detectors.

But since we're allowing these powers to begin with, I suppose breaking laws of physics isn't that big a deal.

5/30/2009 5:37:55 PM