Transporters Yay/Nay

Butters · May 18 2011, 08:49 PM

So you're at the technology fair and on display is the world's first teleport, Star Trek style. As we all know, it scans the original, destroying it in the process, and reconstitutes it elsewhere. Lots of people are trying it out and they all seem unharmed by the experience. You're offered a trip to anywhere and back again. What do you say?

BillJ · May 18 2011, 08:54 PM

Hell no.

Distorted Humor · May 18 2011, 09:11 PM

Nope, but I would figure out how to split the stream so to speak so another copy is created elsewhere. Tom Riker will not be alone. That, and I would be afraid of something like Whipping star happening....

C.E. Evans · May 18 2011, 09:14 PM

Yes. The person who emerges at the end of the process will still be me in every way that counts--same looks, memories, beliefs, and skills. It'd be a different story if that wasn't the case, but otherwise I don't have a problem being dematerialized in one place and rematerialized somewhere else. The cells in my body now aren't the same ones I was born with anyway...

Timo · May 18 2011, 09:26 PM

..I won't mind having my suddenly truncated life continued by my identical twin. Especially if the teleporter really takes me "anywhere" and back, rather than just a few thousand kilometers away like its Trek counterpart. With suitable protection, I'd love to do a quick tour of the various highlights of our own solar system, then take a trip to somewhere spectacular and distant like the place in "Where No One Has Gone Before".

Timo Saloniemi

Rom's Sehlat · May 18 2011, 09:36 PM

I would be one of the people who want its testing to proceed, but I would wait for thousands of people to go through it before me.

scotpens · May 18 2011, 11:02 PM

Before stepping onto that thing, I'd make damn sure there wasn't a fly within a hundred feet of me.

SchwEnt · May 18 2011, 11:33 PM

I know it's never been shown to be true in ST.
But you know what? I bet it HURTS to be transported.

Your body is dematerialized while you're conscious.
How can it NOT hurt?

What, your brain is concurrently disintegrated so that prevents the pain from registering as a sensation?
And what of the after effects?

Hawku · May 19 2011, 01:28 AM

I'd try it, but I'd need a few drinks first.

Tiberius · May 19 2011, 02:36 AM

As long as whatever comes out the other end isn't me, I won't. Even if it's an exact copy of me, I won't.

Colonel Midnight · May 19 2011, 02:37 AM

It wouldn't a transporter thread unless we have this wonderful quote from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

I teleported home one night
With Ron and Sid and Meg.
Ron stole Meggie's heart away
And I got Sidney's leg.

Cheers,
-CM-

Mr. Laser Beam · May 19 2011, 02:51 AM

We have seen in "Realm of Fear" that a person's consciousness continues unharmed throughout the transport process, so I don't see the downside here. You don't die and get replaced by a duplicate of you; your *body* is duplicated, but your mind - soul, if it were - stays the same.

BillJ · May 19 2011, 02:54 AM

Mr. Laser Beam wrote:

We have seen in "Realm of Fear" that a person's consciousness continues unharmed throughout the transport process, so I don't see the downside here. You don't die and get replaced by a duplicate of you; your *body* is duplicated, but your mind - soul, if it were - stays the same.

Which makes no sense. The thing essentially disintegrates you.

Mr. Laser Beam · May 19 2011, 02:56 AM

^ Well, if you get right down to it, NO part of the transporter makes sense in a scientific way. But we have to go with what they show us.

sbk1234 · May 19 2011, 04:54 AM

I sure as hell wouldn't be one of the first on that damn thing. Maybe after a few hundred thousand have safely gone through...

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May 18 2011, 08:49 PM	#1
Butters Captain Location: The Summerland	Transporters Yay/Nay So you're at the technology fair and on display is the world's first teleport, Star Trek style. As we all know, it scans the original, destroying it in the process, and reconstitutes it elsewhere. Lots of people are trying it out and they all seem unharmed by the experience. You're offered a trip to anywhere and back again. What do you say?

May 18 2011, 08:54 PM	#2
BillJ Vice Admiral Location: Greater Cincinnati	Re: Transporters Yay/Nay Hell no. __________________ J.J. Abrams didn't change Star Trek, audience expectations did.

May 18 2011, 09:11 PM	#3
Distorted Humor Fleet Captain Location: Z'ha'dum	Re: Transporters Yay/Nay Nope, but I would figure out how to split the stream so to speak so another copy is created elsewhere. Tom Riker will not be alone. That, and I would be afraid of something like Whipping star happening.... __________________ In the Marmalade forest (forest), between the make believe trees, in a cottage cheese cottage! Lives Albie, (Albie,) Albie, (Albie,) Albie the Racist Dragon...

May 18 2011, 09:14 PM	#4
C.E. Evans Vice Admiral Location: Saint Louis (aka Defiance)	Re: Transporters Yay/Nay Yes. The person who emerges at the end of the process will still be me in every way that counts--same looks, memories, beliefs, and skills. It'd be a different story if that wasn't the case, but otherwise I don't have a problem being dematerialized in one place and rematerialized somewhere else. The cells in my body now aren't the same ones I was born with anyway... __________________ "Shout, shout, let it all out..."

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May 18 2011, 09:26 PM	#5
Timo Admiral	Re: Transporters Yay/Nay ..I won't mind having my suddenly truncated life continued by my identical twin. Especially if the teleporter really takes me "anywhere" and back, rather than just a few thousand kilometers away like its Trek counterpart. With suitable protection, I'd love to do a quick tour of the various highlights of our own solar system, then take a trip to somewhere spectacular and distant like the place in "Where No One Has Gone Before". Timo Saloniemi

May 18 2011, 09:36 PM	#6
Rom's Sehlat Fleet Captain	Re: Transporters Yay/Nay I would be one of the people who want its testing to proceed, but I would wait for thousands of people to go through it before me.

May 18 2011, 11:02 PM	#7
scotpens Rear Admiral Location: Los Angeles, CA	Re: Transporters Yay/Nay Before stepping onto that thing, I'd make damn sure there wasn't a fly within a hundred feet of me. __________________ “All the universe or nothingness. Which shall it be, Passworthy? Which shall it be?”

May 18 2011, 11:33 PM	#8
SchwEnt Fleet Captain	Re: Transporters Yay/Nay I know it's never been shown to be true in ST. But you know what? I bet it HURTS to be transported. Your body is dematerialized while you're conscious. How can it NOT hurt? What, your brain is concurrently disintegrated so that prevents the pain from registering as a sensation? And what of the after effects?

May 19 2011, 01:28 AM	#9
Hawku Lieutenant Commander Location: Canada	Re: Transporters Yay/Nay I'd try it, but I'd need a few drinks first. __________________ Star Trek: Phoenix-X

May 19 2011, 02:36 AM	#10
Tiberius Commodore	Re: Transporters Yay/Nay As long as whatever comes out the other end isn't me, I won't. Even if it's an exact copy of me, I won't. __________________ The Best of Both Worlds eBook \| Every episode of Trek in viewing order Tiberius

May 19 2011, 02:51 AM	#12
Mr. Laser Beam Fleet Admiral Location: The visitor's bullpen	Re: Transporters Yay/Nay We have seen in "Realm of Fear" that a person's consciousness continues unharmed throughout the transport process, so I don't see the downside here. You don't die and get replaced by a duplicate of you; your body is duplicated, but your mind - soul, if it were - stays the same. __________________ It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.

May 19 2011, 02:56 AM	#14
Mr. Laser Beam Fleet Admiral Location: The visitor's bullpen	Re: Transporters Yay/Nay ^ Well, if you get right down to it, NO part of the transporter makes sense in a scientific way. But we have to go with what they show us. __________________ It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.

May 19 2011, 04:54 AM	#15
sbk1234 Rear Admiral Location: Los Angeles	Re: Transporters Yay/Nay I sure as hell wouldn't be one of the first on that damn thing. Maybe after a few hundred thousand have safely gone through... __________________ In all the history of the world, a riot has NEVER broken out at a Sci-Fi convention. "It's a fucking TV show!" - Gary Lockwood