steerpike opened this issue on Nov 25, 2004 ยท 42 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Thu, 25 November 2004 at 10:20 AM
I've got a feeling that while someone might figure out a way to make a Star Trek style "transporter" actually work -- such a device could only be used for transporting inanimate objects.
I suspect that anything living would emerge very dead on the other side of the transportation process.
Being disassembled at the atomic level would amount to little more than being physically ripped apart.
Take a frog, slice him into 87 pieces, and then glue him back together again. The frog's body is still there, but the frog is dead.
Most likely, a "transporter" would have the same sort of effect on living things.
I know that this thought will be disappointing to hard-core sci-fi fans. But while a few of the Golden & Silver Age sci-fi ideas have come to pass, most of the old ideas were (and remain) pure fantasy.
Message edited on: 11/25/2004 10:25