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Post by xCompackx on Sept 1, 2019 19:27:04 GMT -5
No. We'll have TRANSPORTERS! 3 of them, too!
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Sept 2, 2019 3:10:03 GMT -5
I hope not. Then the flies will take over.
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Sept 2, 2019 3:15:49 GMT -5
So I can die via disintegration and have a new me be reborn elsewhere? f*** that.
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Post by ERON on Sept 2, 2019 6:46:51 GMT -5
If we're talking about the Star Trek kind that break you down into atoms and then reassemble you, I put that in the same category as driver-less cars - it's a good idea on paper, but you're putting way more faith in the technology than I'm comfortable with. Ever have a computer or phone or some other piece of sophisticated technology glitch on you? We all have. Now imagine your life depends on that technology, and a glitch like that could kill you. Yeah.
Now if we're talking about teleporters that use some other technique, like folding space-time, accessing other dimensions, or something else that doesn't involve being disintegrated, I might be onboard.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Sept 2, 2019 13:21:58 GMT -5
I mean from what I remember my physics teacher telling me years ago they can get the first part of breaking you down into molecules and sending you places no problem already >_> the reassamblage is the tricky part
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Post by "Cane Dewey" Johnson on Sept 2, 2019 13:31:05 GMT -5
No. We'll have TRANSPORTERS! Everyone should have their own Jason Statham.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2019 13:33:11 GMT -5
If we are getting immortality by 2040 with nano technology then teleportation is gonna be here alot sooner than that.
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Post by Hit Girl on Sept 2, 2019 14:33:48 GMT -5
I wouldn't use one unless Chief O'Brien was at the controls.
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Malcolm
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Post by Malcolm on Sept 2, 2019 18:52:31 GMT -5
I think I'll just stick with those Jetsons style transport tubes...
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Sept 2, 2019 20:29:38 GMT -5
No, even if there was a way to reconstitute the atoms to make you you in body form over some distance that's most likely not gonna bring your consciousness over too. And thats regardless of what consciousness even is--whether there is something that could be called a soul or a mind separate from the brain or not.
I mean I guess if there was a way to both clone a body that either would have a copy of your memories cuz the brain is identical or there was some AI simulcra of same that'd be something-which those would both be huge sci fi leaps in their own right.
That still wouldn't be the original you any more than a copy of a document is the original document.
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Post by Dub H on Sept 2, 2019 20:36:21 GMT -5
IMO the closest thing to teleportation we will get is a clone with 1:1 memory transfer, summarily killing the previous copy and continuing the consciousness in the next. They would have to perfect cloning before that, and have a reason to use teleportation over other forms of travel even before that. That is my biggest issue with using a teleporter(if real) depending on the science. If it it just undoing and redoing particles is that even you?Do you just die and a new you appears? If it more of a wormhole thing that is different but also I assume even more of a fantasy.
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Post by Sponsored by Groose Wipes on Sept 2, 2019 21:03:07 GMT -5
TELEPORT MARIO!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GOOD TELEPORT!
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Post by J. Hova on Sept 2, 2019 21:48:31 GMT -5
The technology is there to essentially destroy you, assembling you in the right order is impossible currently. Theoretically, it's possible, just not practical. If we made that leap where it could be done efficiently, it raises all kinds of ethical problems.
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Post by crashmatsbazz on Sept 3, 2019 9:03:20 GMT -5
no.
could you imagine the shit fit the law would have, how do you stop criminals from teleporting away? how do you stop people from teleporting into a bank vault and then out again? how do you stop people teleporting murder weapons to the top of mount Everest? or the bottom of the ocean?
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Post by The 1Watcher Experience on Sept 3, 2019 10:03:00 GMT -5
If we're talking about the Star Trek kind that break you down into atoms and then reassemble you, I put that in the same category as driver-less cars - it's a good idea on paper, but you're putting way more faith in the technology than I'm comfortable with. Ever have a computer or phone or some other piece of sophisticated technology glitch on you? We all have. Now imagine your life depends on that technology, and a glitch like that could kill you. Yeah. Now if we're talking about teleporters that use some other technique, like folding space-time, accessing other dimensions, or something else that doesn't involve being disintegrated, I might be onboard. I always thought the transporters ran a little too conveniently in the original Star Trek series. Then they had them malfunction in the first movie and the results weren’t pretty. Wouldn’t be worth the risk to me either.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Sept 3, 2019 12:00:36 GMT -5
If we're talking about the Star Trek kind that break you down into atoms and then reassemble you, I put that in the same category as driver-less cars - it's a good idea on paper, but you're putting way more faith in the technology than I'm comfortable with. Ever have a computer or phone or some other piece of sophisticated technology glitch on you? We all have. Now imagine your life depends on that technology, and a glitch like that could kill you. Yeah. Now if we're talking about teleporters that use some other technique, like folding space-time, accessing other dimensions, or something else that doesn't involve being disintegrated, I might be onboard. I always thought the transporters ran a little too conveniently in the original Star Trek series. Then they had them malfunction in the first movie and the results weren’t pretty. Wouldn’t be worth the risk to me either. They had some limitations in the original series... in the reboot they just flat out ignored those limitations and had them like beam halfway across the galaxy with no issue...
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Post by The 1Watcher Experience on Sept 3, 2019 12:07:36 GMT -5
I always thought the transporters ran a little too conveniently in the original Star Trek series. Then they had them malfunction in the first movie and the results weren’t pretty. Wouldn’t be worth the risk to me either. They had some limitations in the original series... in the reboot they just flat out ignored those limitations and had them like beam halfway across the galaxy with no issue... The original had very sanitized limitations. They couldn’t beam someone back for whatever reason or the transporter shorted out from time to time. You never got scrambled bodies until Star Trek: The Motion Picture. They didn’t show them but they made it clear that’s what happened to them.
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Post by The Ichi on Sept 3, 2019 12:55:38 GMT -5
Even if it ever happened, I'd be way too terrified to use one.
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Post by Push R Truth on Sept 3, 2019 13:12:06 GMT -5
I'm of the thought that a teleporter and a duplicator are basically the same thing. Once you break down something in energy and transport it to reassemble it, you'd already achieved the crazy part. Having it save/repeat the pattern is the simple conclusion.
Basically a teleporter that does the "matter to energy to matter" conversion would be the single greatest benefit and threat to the universe. Being able to duplicate Popeyes Chicken Sandwich? A great step forward for humanity. Being able to teleport or duplicate Brock Lesnars to destroy your enemies? You could argue this either way. Somebody accidentally fat fingers the controls and we end up with a trillon Andy Dicks? Universe consumes itself.
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