Why can't I stream applesauce to my fridge?: How teleportation will worsen the obesity crisis.

[Folio]

If we could teleport ourselves too, what would stop us from having teleporters that arrange the particles on the other side in such a way that you're not obese anymore? I mean, it should work. Different body(or rather, the same body but in shape) with the same mind comes out the other end of the teleporter.

I bet that disintegrating your molecules and re-integrating them a while later would hurt like hell! It may be that it would drain your energy or quicken your age.
What would happen if you teleport yourself with a bottle of beer next to you?

 

[Dags90]

There are a few problems with this line of reasoning. Your argument assumes several things which are not explicitly stated. It would be more precisely phrased as "How cheap, widely available teleportation will worsen the obesity crisis." The internet didn't slash the music industry, relatively cheap broadband connections with "unlimited" bandwidth caps slashed the music industry. Do you know how much it would cost to fill an iPod on a dial up connection with their usage rates? Do you know how long it would take?

Now, working on the presumption that aforementioned teleportation is both readily available, and cheap I still don't see much of an argument. Modern comforts don't actively preclude or dissuade people from remaining physically active (we're not in the Matrix, yet). The domestication of horses didn't stop people from walking if they so chose, neither did the invention of the automobile. The only thing that really led a lack of these things to cause an increase in obesity was overwhelming amounts of ignorance on personal fitness.

I also think that by the time such teleportion reaches a point where it would be used instead of HotPockets, we would have hopefully educated the world on how to remain fit and the importance of such a state on quality and length of life.

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

Well, fat people will just get fatter and fit people will go exercise anyway.

It will only worsen it for fat people.

I believe I've been ninja'd

Spoiler: Mild Rant

THANK YOU! Someone else gets it! We don't have an obesity crisis. We have a moron crisis. Are you obese? STOP EATING! Go outside and exercise for Christ's sake. It doesn't take THAT much willpower to go out for a walk for half an hour, I promise.

well, the problem is that you have the willpower to go out and exercise... So you don't see the true problem.. Lotta people are so mentally weak, they just literally don't have the willpower to force themselves to stop being lard asses. They want to... they may even take a couple steps toward that goal. But after a couple days of exerting themselves, they lose interest, or find ways to become "too busy".

With willpower that low they're never going to be good mages.

Seriously though, what about people who are genetically fat, who excercise just so that a mars bar won't give them insta-diabetes?

 

[Z(ombie)fan]

I feel a Sci-Fi novel coming on!

No, I will not write it. I prefer fantasy.

 

[_Janny_]

Reminds me of this book where one of the characters was from a place where people literally never leave their homes. He was perplexed by the door to outside too, and when he got out it was baren and identical. Good book though.

Totally offtopic, but what's the book called? The plot sounds really awesome.

 

[IzisviAziria]

Seriously though, what about people who are genetically fat, who excercise just so that a mars bar won't give them insta-diabetes?

there are exceptions to the rule.

they don't change the rule.

 

[Moriarty]

If we could teleport ourselves too, what would stop us from having teleporters that arrange the particles on the other side in such a way that you're not obese anymore? I mean, it should work. Different body(or rather, the same body but in shape) with the same mind comes out the other end of the teleporter.

we don't need to rearrange particles for that.

IF we mastered teleportation, we could just automatically teleport everything we've eaten from our stomach and replace it with healthy nutrition dosis B3!

 

[Seizurebleak]

You mean I'd have to walk all the way to the fridge to get a snack? Forget that nonsense, beam the food directly into my fat face! Smack a few buttons on a keypad and instantly have a mouthful of prime rib... mmm, now that's the life!

Hopefully they'll just be able to teleport the fat right off of you! Or maybe come out the other end of the teleporter a few pounds shy of what you were when you stepped in.

If not, we're in for a lot of trouble like the OP predicts!

 

[YouBecame]

Am I the only one who thinks that the invention of teleportation could lead to the last time they ever saw their own feet?

I had never thought about it before but you bring up an excellent and completely logical point. Hoo-boy, I can definitely see that happening.

You'd surely have at least 7 days before the rolls of fat started to obscure vision!

 

[Elle-Jai]

Hopefully they'll just be able to teleport the fat right off of you! Or maybe come out the other end of the teleporter a few pounds shy of what you were when you stepped in.

If not, we're in for a lot of trouble like the OP predicts!

That would solve the problem, and no more invasive surgery to boot!

 

[Miumaru]

Reminds me of this book where one of the characters was from a place where people literally never leave their homes. He was perplexed by the door to outside too, and when he got out it was baren and identical. Good book though.

Totally offtopic, but what's the book called? The plot sounds really awesome.

That setting is not that big though, its about 3 people from different dimensions or time or something that go to some other world. I forgot most of it, but I liked it. Was called Diadem I think. May have been the first of a series too since I dont remember a final resolution. I should re-read it.