Hey superheroes, here's what you should be doing with your teleportation power

 By 
Sam Haysom
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Having teleportation as your superpower would be pretty awesome, right?

Well, maybe. If British YouTuber Tom Scott's latest video is anything to go by, the whole thing actually sounds like a bit of a minefield.

Scott breaks down some of the more practical challenges of teleportation –- the Earth's rotation and the planet's atmosphere, to name just a few.

He then goes on to show just how lame teleporting superheroes really are by talking about all the scientifically-accurate cool stuff they could be doing with this power -- such as creating infinite energy or colonizing Mars.

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