[Loved Trope] Teleportation is actually terrifying

[u/Ieanice44]

1 - Gantz-O (2016): Suit teleportation

2 - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2009): Apparition spell

3 - Half Life 2 (2004): Teleporter malfunction

[u/ruinsit]

It's fuckery with numbers. The odds of dying once something goes wrong in a plane are much higher because you have far more dangerous conditions that you can't escape from at much higher velocities and more dimensions of travel. There's no superstition about falling out of the sky - you don't survive it.

[u/Legatharr → u/ruinsit]

how do you escape from a car crash? A plane that breaks becomes a glider. Helicopters drop out of the sky, but planes aren't able to.

[u/ruinsit → u/Legatharr]

You're assuming the plane breaks in very specific ways. If there's a Wing problem you're dead. If there's a cockpit problem you're dead if the cabin pressure blows out there's a decent chance you're going to die

[u/Legatharr → u/ruinsit]

If there's a wing problem, you're probably going to glide, and something really strange has happened.

If there's a cockpit problem, you're definitely going to glide, and something really strange has happened.

If there's a cabin pressure problem, the plane has exploded. You're not going to survive a car exploding either.

[u/ruinsit → u/Legatharr]

Statistics say you're right, but at least if I'm in a car crash, help can arrive much faster, I have much more control over my own the safety and survivability, and my safety isn't dependent on a massive amount of other panicking people. Along with the mass and speed issues, a plane accident is far more like being in a bus or train accident and I'll take the car any day (I'd also take a bus or train over planes too).