Would you use a teleporter?
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well, by modifying your genetic structure to grow wings, it would either take a long time for the to grow and be quite painful, (did you ever have growing pains as a teenager?) or happen very quickly and be excruciatingly painful. unless of course this was to happen in a doctors office or something, and some sort of sedative was used. i'd prefer a jet pack, myself. would be a helluva lot faster and less tiring, unless they gave you some sort of metabolism modifying gene as well, which would mean eating ALL THE TIME to supply the energy needed. unless of course...*goes on forever*John the Gamer said:
OT well, yes. i don't believe in any sort of "soul", i believe we are a construct of molecules working in a fantastically complex way, and even if the teleporting process was simply to scan my molecules and then send this data to another transporter which then rebuilds me using the same molecules (any molecule of any particular pure substance is identical, at least that is if i understood me chemistry class correctly) in the exact same structure, and then disintegrating the first me, i'd still do it, because, from my point of view, all that happened is i moved from one place to another.
i don't see anything ethically wrong about this, unless maybe the first me felt pain while being destroyed, nor do i see anything dangerous, unless the power were to go out during the process or the signal to be interrupted, so this process would need numerous fail safes to be safe, but if it was proven to be at least as safe as say driving the freeway, i'd do it.
As in to go back in time or just to travel?VicunaBlue said:
Be awesome for travel. no more baggage fees or long drives!. Not to mention how much money you save no more expensive plane/train/bus tickets. Never have to pay gas for a car, or car payments/insurance.
I would prefer the whole mage portal or hearthstone idea since there is no upkeep and little to no cost for setup.
I would.
While it does kill you, it brings you back just as you where before you left (unless, of course, you decide to go into the teleporter with a fly) instead of making a new you. Your energy, which one could argue is the living portion of you, remains intact, instead of being replaced, so therefore what comes out is you, not a clone.
While it does kill you, it brings you back just as you where before you left (unless, of course, you decide to go into the teleporter with a fly) instead of making a new you. Your energy, which one could argue is the living portion of you, remains intact, instead of being replaced, so therefore what comes out is you, not a clone.
The original Picard is DEAD! It wouldn't be disassembling his atoms and sending them somewhere else. He'd be destroyed on the subatomic level and the machine would create a new one at the specified location! If you kill someone and replace them with an exact copy, the former is still deadDags90 said:
I thought I'd interject here. We don't even need to resort to "supernatural stuff" for that argument to work. What I mean is that all the particles that make you up don't just hang in one place. They are in constant motion. Even if we had technology allowing us to record the position of each and every particle in our bodies - and I don't think that will ever be possible - reassembling them in the same conformation would just give you a neatly assembled mass of stationary particles, i.e. a corpse. You'd probably also need the technology to also record the specific energy and vector of each of the particles and somehow transmit that as well - and somehow do it in a short enough time for them not to change in the origin.Dags90 said:
Bottom line: you cannot stop an organism's functioning and restart it. Suspended animation still involves metabolic functions going on. And no, Venter's group didn't "create life" earlier this year, whatever the media might have said.
No, I don't think I'd have the guts to use a teleporter in the breaking down / building up type of thing. I would give portals a chance though.
Like I care, I'll just make an exact clone of myself, and make the changes to him during his (excellerated) growth. Even if I would have to die. I could always download my conscience to the clone-body (yes that was in a movie). And though that would pretty much mean that "I" die, I'd be willing to make that sacrifice; it's for the survival and awesomeness of the being known as 'ME'(...) Or maybe I should seek out a psychiatrist, what do you think?.......viking97 said:
P.S.: I'd rather go through excrusiating pains to grown wings and get an awesome mutant body-thing, than use instant teleportation and get fat like the people from Wall-E or something.
That Would Be The Coolest Thing EVER!!!!!!
Just Imagine Teleporting To New York, In The Middle Of A Conversation....
Just Imagine Teleporting To New York, In The Middle Of A Conversation....
It could always create a wrinkle (fold in space) and instantly pop you into wherever the set destination was. As for breaking down into particles and moving, yes, that would almost definitely kill you. Probably.
