Destinies, January - February 1979 edited by Jim Baen

[james_davis_nicoll]

Destinies, January - February 1979 edited by Jim Baen

Comments

[grimjim]

Partial or incomplete teleportation could be upsetting, unless the point is to cause harm. Control over what volume was selected for teleportation seems a vague thing, and possibly not easily learned without some trial and error.

[(Anonymous)]

Sleep walking is bad - but sleep-teleporting could be instantly fatal.

[dwight_benjamin_thieme]

But this isn't an intrinsic downside, which is what I was asking for. James pointed out that superspeed necessarily implies a super slowdown from the speedster's perception; that's intrinsic. Similarly, so what if you have super-strength if you don't have the correspondingly fine muscular control? That's intrinsic. Contrariwise, if you want to posit superfine muscular control along with super strength, that's two different superpowers, not one.

So what are the intrinsic downsides of teleportation?