Posted on 02/20/2020 6:45:35 AM PST by C19fan
Twenty years ago my friends and I decided that a transporter takes you apart - i.e. kills you - and puts the meat you occupy back together. But it would be lifeless.
The only way such a thing could really work is if it was some sort of interdimentional gateway that you pass through, with your atoms unmolested.
I’d probably still hold my breath, though. :)
Ever heard of quantum teleportation?
That involves the faster than light transfer of quantum information from entangled particles.
Well, sure - the shuttle probably ran on some type of fuel, expensive to store and transport.
The Transporter seemed to use much less energy, probably just the excess from the Dilithium crystal's used as power for the starship itself.
The only drawback was being limited to six people at a time.
Magic, Duh.
I just heard about that a few months ago. The implications are spectacular and re-enforces my concept of “heaven”.
I imagine this world being like a video game and my consciousness being “inserted” into my human body, while “I” am actually outside this video game. So, I might be sitting right next to a guy in the “real world” playing the game, but his player is in New York, and mine is in Los Angeles. Yet if I bump his hand and knock it off his “game controller”, it instantly affects his player thousands of miles away - or on the other side of the galaxy.
That is a grossly oversimplified analogy, but I think you get my drift.
Star Trek Next Gen. ignored the sexual ethics of stable societies not at an end stage where sexually inconvenient persons cannot be liquidated so the individual can copulate with any, every, thing or person. Next Gens did it with everyone. Some enlightenment.
Shut up Spock or I’ll beam you up without your < deleted >.
its a tv show
My problem with TNG was that they made up stupid technobabble to solve every problem. "I reconfigured the main deflector dish to emit a pulse of deus ex machina particles and that solved the problem" over and over and over. So you discount that and you are left with a little morality play where Starfleet shows that they are better people than the ones they are helping. Cool, lots of people love it the best of all Star Trek. I'm just an old fashioned sixties-Trek kinda guy, where you talked your enemies into committing suicide rather than bombarding them with non-lethal mystery particles that cause them to peaceably resolve their disagreements.
It’s fiction. It requires some suspension of disbelief.
The transporter is nothing more than a dramatic convenience.
I did and didn’t at the same time.
It is best you not think too hard while watching these shows. Just be entertained or sometimes irritated.
If they could do the transport, they could do about anything. BTW, why didn’t they carry a few spare dilithium crystals?
Repeat to yourself, it’s just a show, I really should relax.
The whole show was BS, but entertaining nonetheless, which is why it was watched by a large swath of people.
Same problems they had in THE FLY?(1958) In the book, the lost cat, fly and man were recombined into a monstrous creature.
Cheesy Plot Device or Deus ex Machina
You decide
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