Hocus..Pocus!!

[RobertScorpio]

What scifi movie, or TV series, do you think best used Transporter technology, yet, in a more realistic way. In essence, after seeing it used, you thought to yourself that it might...actually...happen someday.

Rob
scorpio

 

[The Comedian]

What scifi movie, or TV series, do you think best used Transporter technology, yet, in a more realistic way. In essence, after seeing it used, you thought to yourself that it might...actually...happen someday.

Rob
scorpio

"The Fly."

 

[Silvercrest]

"Realistic" to me means that it would have prohibitive energy requirements, be dangerous to the traveler, and be rife with complications. It also would require fiendishly complex technology, far beyond such piddling things as FTL drive. Quantum entanglement for every particle in your body? Encoding every particle in your body, while somehow getting around the Heisenberg principle? Reassembling every particle in your body on the other end? By what means exactly?

I've always felt that Star Trek was unrealistic in depicting transporters and warp drive as being developed at about the same time. Teleportation belongs to an age centuries or millennia farther on, in order for science to come up with solutions for these things. So, I'm voting for teleportation as depicted on "Andromeda."

Edit: I thought of "The Fly" as well -- but again, needs to be in the future.

 

[Brent]

The ring transporters as seen on Stargate SG-1, they are a point-to-point transmission method along a beam, with huge superconductors, this method seems the most realistic to me.

 

[RobertScorpio]

What scifi movie, or TV series, do you think best used Transporter technology, yet, in a more realistic way. In essence, after seeing it used, you thought to yourself that it might...actually...happen someday.

Rob
scorpio

"The Fly."

That is my pick as well. Sure, it messed up in a big way, but it actually looked like a real life device.

Rob

 

[Mistral]

The ring transporters as seen on Stargate SG-1, they are a point-to-point transmission method along a beam, with huge superconductors, this method seems the most realistic to me.

I'd go with this. A controlled beam, send/receive devices to co-ordinate. Made sense.

 

[Starbreaker]

Primer

 

[Silvercrest]

The ring transporters as seen on Stargate SG-1, they are a point-to-point transmission method along a beam, with huge superconductors, this method seems the most realistic to me.

I'd go with this. A controlled beam, send/receive devices to co-ordinate. Made sense.

Not to mention the Stargates themselves! Should have thought of that one. Or does the use of subspace wormholes detract from the "realism"?

 

[RobertScorpio]

The ring transporters as seen on Stargate SG-1, they are a point-to-point transmission method along a beam, with huge superconductors, this method seems the most realistic to me.

I'd go with this. A controlled beam, send/receive devices to co-ordinate. Made sense.

Not to mention the Stargates themselves! Should have thought of that one. Or does the use of subspace wormholes detract from the "realism"?

Ummm...you know what? Yeah. I don't think most of the regular public out there, or even some scientist, are 'with' wormholes or sliders stuff...thats why I liked the Fly. It really is an attemtp to build a simple transporter. Now, had the fly not gotten in there with Jeff (or David Heddison) then it might have worked...it just looked real...

The most real looking time-travel, on a related subject, is from 12/monkeys..to me at least...

Rob

 

[Timezshadow]

At first I was going to say "The Fly." But I will have to toss my hat in with either the Ring Transporters from StarGate or the Gate itself. It seems the most likely with our level of tech understanding at this time.

Mike

 

[RobertScorpio]

At first I was going to say "The Fly." But I will have to toss my hat in with either the Ring Transporters from StarGate or the Gate itself. It seems the most likely with our level of tech understanding at this time.

Mike

You think? I don't think so. Stargate techonology, sliders, the gate, are, I think, far beyond where we are. My big-bro works at JPL. If they made a real life version of the BIG BANG THEORY, he would be on it. He's informed me, upon reading this thread, that Stargate tech and The Fly tech are both beyond our reach. The best bet for a Transporter, he believes, was in that Critchon book where they actually teleported to a universe so much like our own, but the version of them from the universe they left is destroyed in the process...

Rob