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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Sorry about that ridiculous watermark.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

I think McCoy was more afraid of accidents than existential factors.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Dunno if this is just the millennial in me but I'd use one even if I was directly told it clones and kills me. Better than TSA.

Also I don't fear going to sleep or general anesthesia.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

Me with brain chip implants, especially those with non-libre software

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'd prefer the interdimensional travel they use in Earth: Final Conflict.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Personally, I'm hoping for a future where actually traveling anywhere is entirely optional.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

All that could have been avoided by having a drop pod launched to the surface containing a mechanical avatar. The crew member just sits down in a chair to remotely control the avatar using an FTL link for instant control. Of course the avatar has a hologram projector so it looks exactly like the crew member. But that would be too safe and not dramatic enough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

That's kinda how a piece of technology in Dark Matter works! Not the new show, the one that came out in 2015.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (6 children)

That would make for an interesting story concept. It'd be cool to see the avatar, after exposure to various people occupying their body, begin to form it's own consciousness with shared traits.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't know why, but I feel like I've seen/read something similar to what you proposed... maybe because of 'The Island' to a degree?

I agree though, it would be a fascinating story for sure.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (29 children)

I think I've explained this too many times to do it again, but: teleportation doesn't have to be "destroy and reconstitute" any more than going through a door necessitates killing you and reconstituting you on the other side of the door. The key is establishing continuity of your mind across the intervening space, which is mostly an engineering problem.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (8 children)

I think we are still in the realm of a physics problem for teleportation lol

Fusion is an engineering problem. the sun does it. We've done it. We just suck at it.

Teleporting is not possible as far as we know ....unless I missed something huge in science news

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