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| Poll: Would you use a Star Trek style transporter? This poll is closed. |
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| I'd love to! Beam me up Scotty! | 10 | 58.82% | |
| If I have to... But I'm always on edge, like flying. | 0 | 0% | |
| No Way, are you out of your fucking mind! | 7 | 41.18% | |
| Sorry, It goes against my religious beliefs | 0 | 0% | |
| Go transport this poll up your arse! | 0 | 0% | |
| Total | 17 vote(s) | 100% | |
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hypothetical #3 -Star Trek transporter
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   (March 28, 2018 at 2:21 am)Mathilda Wrote: Although in Star Trek the transporter is supposed to move your actual atoms rather than rebuild you each time with new atoms. No idea if that makes a difference to being you. And there are some episodes where I think it's suggested that people stay aware during the transportation. But that must break down at some point. Maybe they are aware while still being scanned. And why isn't it painful? Maybe the people being transported undergo death experience during scanning and deconstruction.  If it is the actual atoms being moved, How does the transporter effortlessly send people through walls? 
There are MANY difficulties, both engineering and fundamental physical laws regarding how the universe works, in ever having a working, safe Star Trek style teleportation device.
I note the device postulated in Cronenberg's The Fly seemed to use some short cuts and clever software to overcome engineering/physics problems, but no one to this day ever seems to want that particular device to be a reality . . . . . . for obvious reasons. ![[Image: fly7.jpg]](https://deepfocusreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/fly7.jpg)
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RE: hypothetical #3 -Star Trek transporter
March 28, 2018 at 4:59 pm
(This post was last modified: March 28, 2018 at 5:02 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(March 28, 2018 at 11:05 am)vorlon13 Wrote: There are MANY difficulties, both engineering and fundamental physical laws regarding how the universe works, in ever having a working, safe Star Trek style teleportation device. Indeed the penetrative power of Star trek communicators and transporter appear on par with neutrinos. On several occasions people were sent deep underground, including to the center of a dead planet, where Kirk was to be Buried Aliiive..... KAAAAHNNNN!
The Star Trek transporter was more of a plot device (and a cheaper way of filming episodes without having to land the damn ship on every planet they visited) than a practical invocation of a potential technological breakthrough.
Cronenberg's take on the idea is interesting, but really disturbing too . . . The 'dimensional shifter' technology in a TNG episode was interesting. A transporter device that was cumulatively dangerous to life forms with repeated use. Ouch. Seems like it would have been great for freight however. The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
If the person is somehow digitised and reconstructed on the planets surface, if they are killed, why can the digital record not be used to reconstruct them? It's not a transperter, it's imortality!
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March 29, 2018 at 6:13 pm
(This post was last modified: March 29, 2018 at 6:14 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I'll pass. I'm not gonna get chucked into the trash just so some reconstituted asshole with all of my good lucks and charm can cavort around on planets surface with the hot green ladies. If I want to invade the local city, I'll do it the old fashioned way and jump down.
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 (March 29, 2018 at 6:15 pm)Cathooloo Wrote:(March 27, 2018 at 5:54 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Chicken. Seth Brundle managed to turn a baboon inside out with his telepods in The Fly. I'll spare you the picture. (or WORSE, the GIF) And actually, for Cronenberg, the telepods were a plot device. Many of his films explore transfiguration of the flesh, and remaking the 1950s schlocky Fly movie was a natch for him. IMO, an even better Cronenberg film in this regard is his Crash. A truly amazing and profound film. Regeneration of human flesh via automobile accidents . . . The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
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