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hypothetical #3 -Star Trek transporter

Poll: Would you use a Star Trek style transporter?
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I'd love to! Beam me up Scotty!
58.82%
 10 58.82%
If I have to... But I'm always on edge, like flying.
0%
 0 0%
No Way, are you out of your fucking mind!
41.18%
 7 41.18%
Sorry, It goes against my religious beliefs
0%
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Go transport this poll up your arse!
0%
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hypothetical #3 -Star Trek transporter
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#11
RE: hypothetical #3 -Star Trek transporter
March 27, 2018 at 4:56 pm





No thanks.
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RE: hypothetical #3 -Star Trek transporter
March 27, 2018 at 4:57 pm
. . . and it exploded . . .
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RE: hypothetical #3 -Star Trek transporter
March 27, 2018 at 5:16 pm
If it is a true 'Star Trek' type transporter, I don't see the problem.  If the transported 'me' is identical in every particular to the destroyed pre-transported me (same height, weight, hair colour, memories, emotional balance, predilection for bathing in syrup and so on), I fail to see any dilemma.

A difference which makes no difference is no difference.

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RE: hypothetical #3 -Star Trek transporter
March 27, 2018 at 5:18 pm (This post was last modified: March 27, 2018 at 5:23 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(March 27, 2018 at 6:55 am)alpha male Wrote: No way that I want my head put on backwards. What if my ass is big and no one ever told me?

You just weren't listening.
(March 27, 2018 at 8:14 am)vorlon13 Wrote: "Enterprise, What we got back didn't live long . . . .



 . . .  fortunately."

Why can't they rematerialize a new copy using records of a previous transport?
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RE: hypothetical #3 -Star Trek transporter
March 27, 2018 at 5:27 pm (This post was last modified: March 27, 2018 at 5:27 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
Quote:Why can't they rematerialize a new copy using records of a previous transport?

Pretty sure it's something to do with reversing the polarity of the neutron flow.

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RE: hypothetical #3 -Star Trek transporter
March 27, 2018 at 5:33 pm
(March 27, 2018 at 6:55 am)alpha male Wrote: No way that I want my head put on backwards. What if my ass is big and no one ever told me?

Nah..... I'll be nice and let it go.

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RE: hypothetical #3 -Star Trek transporter
March 27, 2018 at 5:35 pm
I'll take the shuttlecraft, thanks.
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RE: hypothetical #3 -Star Trek transporter
March 27, 2018 at 5:54 pm
(March 27, 2018 at 5:35 pm)Cathooloo Wrote: I'll take the shuttlecraft, thanks.

Chicken.
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RE: hypothetical #3 -Star Trek transporter
March 27, 2018 at 6:04 pm (This post was last modified: March 27, 2018 at 6:58 pm by ignoramus.)
They have triple redundancy memory buffering. It's safe I tell ya!
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RE: hypothetical #3 -Star Trek transporter
March 27, 2018 at 6:19 pm
If I'm destroyed and replicated in a different location, I've been destroyed and I've been replaced by a replica. That it won't be able to tell it was created a second ago instead of actually moved won't make it me, it will still be my replacement. I wish it well if it happens, but you're not getting me into the damn thing voluntarily. As for being no different than me, for starters, it's in a different location and was made seconds ago by applying my pattern to a matrix. I was in another location, and I came into being the old-fashioned way.
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