Some people seem to be forgetting that it might be a good idea to have one of the pre-sets be your home.
Otherwise it’s going to be inconvenient when you zap off to Paris for lunch and then realize you have to buy a plane ticket to return.
Can I bring stuff with me when I activate my ring, or do I have to travel naked, Skynet style?
Not buy a plane ticket, just turn yourself into the French version of the INS and get deported home.
I think we’re assuming a reasonable amount of extra weight. Let’s say what you can carry.
Seems a lot of trouble to go through just for lunch. For one thing, I think they only deport you back to your home country not your residence. They’ll dump you at Newark airport and let you figure out how to get the rest of the way on your own.
For another, I’ll assume France will have negative opinions about people teleporting into their country without going through the traditional border checks. At the very least, they’ll probably confiscate your ring to prevent any repeat trips.
Tell them get you to Mars and or the moon then you will have a serious tool.
New battery pack for the rover…sure no problem.
Home and work. Eff this hour-and-a-half-each-way commute. Or rather, the street in front of my home and the street in front of work. I want to still be able to use the settings after I move or change jobs, without appearing in anyone else’s living room. After that… Dunno, I’d want to leave my remaining options open and see what the future brings. I’d probably buy a cabin way out in the mountains and go spend weekends there.
I wouldn’t put my current work on there but think about it - I could take a job anywhere. I could take, say, a much higher-paying job in NYC (a 3 hour drive) and just teleport there and back every day, still paying Albany rent and Albany prices.
Hell I could take a job in SF!
So I’d probably save one for a new job, and look for one anywhere (but in the States, still, so I don’t have to worry about differing labor laws, etc.)
One to London.
I suppose one to India. I haven’t decided this yet.
Paris.
Sydney - no nineteen hour flight for me!
And of course one would be “home”.
Glad to know I’m not the only one thinking in gaming terms!! :p:p
I have to think about this though.I’d want to get very specific. Someplace where I’m away from EVERYTHING…top of a mountain I like, or middle of the woods by a river…I’d have to get specific with that. And home, of course, though right now probably not, since that will be changeable for a while.
I like the idea of selling the ring to NASA for ten billion dollars or so.
Then they can arrange a trip to the Moon for some astronaut. It only has to be one-way - set one of the locations to Cape Canaveral, so he can get home in a jiffy. And, assuming the ring can be re-used a number of times, supplying the new moon base should be easy - just load up one astronaut and have him teleport back and forth and drop stuff off.
The International Space Station might be a good destination as well - save money on resupply there too.
So
[ol][li]The Space Station[/li][li]The Moon[/li][li]Cape Canaveral[/li][li]Washington DC[/li][li]New York City[/li][li]The bottom of the Marianas Trench. But of course, you could only use that once…[/ol][/li]Regards,
Shodan
Definites:
Hawaii
Kathmandu
New York City
Maybes:
Japan (will let you know after we visit Tokyo next April)
Los Angeles
Northern New Mexico (love Santa Fe and really enjoyed living in Albuquerque)
Australia could substitute for one of my maybes. Just can’t seem ever to get there. It’d be nice if it were convenient.
Kansas City, near my sister’s house, for family holidays and other gatherings.
Moscow, Idaho, my current residence. Probably near my current home, but since I don’t plan to live here forever and I can’t reset my locations, maybe a nearby landmark. I can’t be more than about an hour’s walk from anywhere in town, so if I leave the area and come back to visit I won’t be much put out by the walk.
Pullman, Washington, my SO’s house. No more than about 15 minutes from my house by car, but being able to get there in an instant would be worth the use of a preset location.
I’d wait to set the other 3 locations. At the moment, I have no need to get anywhere else in a hurry.
In the meantime, I can teleport to anywhere in line-of-sight and within a mile, which means that I can cover any area I expect to need in the next few years without wasting a preset. In fact, I could probably ditch either my home or my SO’s location, since I could get from one to the other in 10 hops or less via line-of-sight jumps.
So, home in Idaho, and family location in Kansas City. Hold on to the rest. Presets are valuable, and line-of-sight is plenty useful for most of my current needs.
“Home” is preset, Mika, no need to waste one of the optional ones there.
Siberia. I couldn’t resist a chance to take pictures of those bears, wolves, and elderly commies.
Hmm.
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Cincinnati, Ohio; a car rental place. While my parents’ house is centrally located, if they were to ever move, I’d have a bit of a trek to get myself transport.
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Prague: I fell in love when I visited last year. I’d have to think about a specific location; the central square is, well, central, but it’s also the most touristy location in the city, and the metro’s good enough to get you anywhere you care to go. Bonus–it’s centrally located for east/central Europe generally.
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SF: Plenty of internet friends there. Specific location not terribly relevant; probably a centrally located car rental joint.
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St. Peterburg, Russia: Entirely contingent on my being able to work out some sort of half-way favorable visa arrangement with the Russian Federation. But I miss Russia, oddly enough, and I’d do much better with the language if I could just pop over there in the evenings for a beer.
5, 6) Open for now. There’s too much of the world I’ve yet to see, and I don’t want to squander them.
Note regarding my focus on car rentals: I do know you’ve got a line of sight teleport of a mile, but sight lines aren’t always great. The main thing is to keep it centrally located.
My biggest worry would be to transported into the middle of someone or something. Even home, I don’t want to teleport into the middle of a couch because someone decided to refurnish. Very tricky…
Yeah… what if it teleports you to the point in space where the Earth once was when you set it, but the Earth has since spun on in orbit, and in fact, so has the sun, and the galaxy itself is moving.
Could make for some very interesting action on the plane first time you jumped. Dropped your chute, the dived out of the plane. I personally would go for one of those personal gliders that were featured in a James Bond movie.
Overall it might be fun to offer yourself up to someplace like UPS. Set your presets to a specified pickup point in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, London, Tokyo.
For $200 we can have it there faster than you can say “charter a jet”
Given that I seem to move every couple of years and change jobs even more frequently, setting it to either would be futile.
Minneapolis Airport (Let’s call it ‘home port’ since it’s always open and I’d be able to get transportation to anywhere local at any time of day)
Amsterdam
Melbourne
San Fransisco
Hawaii
Mars
Gives me plenty of gateways to get anywhere or spend some time or escape )or smuggle things) or whatever.
Could possible change one or two of them, perhaps New York instead of San Fran, or something like that.
Home, just so I have access to a good bathroom. (I live in NYC)
I’ll come up with the other 5 later.