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To: NicknamedBob
The transporter technology is as much of an advance in technology over the Fax Machine as the internet is over the telegraph.

Really?! Then it's only a matter of economic feasibility. After all, one could easily implement full Internet connectivity via telegraph -- the pieces are all there, just hook them up to use Telegraph as the underlying datalink layer.

Granted, it'd be a bit slow transmitting even small JPEGs, and you'd want LOTs of error-correction...

5,817 posted on 02/24/2006 6:23:05 PM PST by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† | Libs: Celebrate MY diversity! | Iran Azadi 2006 | Is it March yet?)
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To: sionnsar

And, of course, there is that whole Heisenburg Uncertainty thing ...


5,819 posted on 02/24/2006 6:29:14 PM PST by NicknamedBob (Islamists say we shouldn't make a mockery of religion -- funny, that's the problem I have with them!)
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To: sionnsar
"Then it's only a matter of economic feasibility."

Are you sure you wouldn't rather just use the AIport?

I'm beginning to suspect we may have been misdirected. One of the early researchers into the physics of Star Trek suggested that the transporter is an offshoot of Warp Technology.

This actually makes more sense. Our efforts to "disassemble" living things and reconstruct them as living things is, I believe, always going to be doomed to failure.

However, if you can create a spatial conduit, in which your passenger is simply whisked through a subspace tube to another chamber, then you don't have to deconstruct him to start with.

5,823 posted on 02/24/2006 7:02:50 PM PST by NicknamedBob (Islamists say we shouldn't make a mockery of religion -- funny, that's the problem I have with them!)
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