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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: videoholic on January 31, 2003, 07:32:55 PM
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Damn!! This is pretty freaking incredible.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20030127/teleport.html
Teleportation of over 2 km. Damn. I wonder if we\'ll see any real telportation in our lifetime. Pretty freaky.
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In science fiction, teleportation entails taking someone and creating a replica of him or her a long distance away, and destroying the original.
That sucks. I guess we won\'t be teleporting people. :(
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We\'ll only teleport people we hate.
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BLYME!!!
I predict in 5 years humans will soon be transported via teleportation.. yeah technology!
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yeah, and ive been waiting for those skateboards that work on gravity from "back to the future 3" for like 10 years now.
i say get those first, then worry about all this "teleportation" mumbo jumbo.
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Originally posted by r4nd0m
That sucks. I guess we won\'t be teleporting people. :(
Well really, thats a necessity, because the idea of teleportation is moving something from one place to another instantly. If you read the article you\'ll see that the way this teleportation works is by creating a duplicate of the particle. If it didn\'t destroy the original, you\'d have two of whatever you teleported. Some kind of... messed up cloning.
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well since all their transporting is light, right now, I don\'t see any humnas being transported in 5 years. But cool nonetheless
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After seeing The Fly and The Fly II, I think I will let someone else try first.
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/me jumps through transporter with a horse, then has lucrative career as a porn star
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Originally posted by theomen
/me jumps through transporter with a horse, then has lucrative career as a porn star
:laughing:
I hope you get the \'right\' parts then... otherwise you\'ll just have a small penis and a horse head. ;)
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ok better make it 10 years...
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Originally posted by Solid Snake 88
Well really, thats a necessity, because the idea of teleportation is moving something from one place to another instantly. If you read the article you\'ll see that the way this teleportation works is by creating a duplicate of the particle. If it didn\'t destroy the original, you\'d have two of whatever you teleported. Some kind of... messed up cloning.
Yeah, I read the article. I meant that people aren\'t going to want to be teleported because they\'ll just be sending a clone somewhere and having themselves die in the process. They themselves won\'t actually get teleported, the clone will.
And I don\'t think that teleporting people we hate to kill them would be a good idea, then we\'ll just hate the clone. Now if we teleported them into the middle of space, or a nice active volcano... ;)
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Originally posted by r4nd0m
Yeah, I read the article. I meant that people aren\'t going to want to be teleported because they\'ll just be sending a clone somewhere and having themselves die in the process. They themselves won\'t actually get teleported, the clone will.
And I don\'t think that teleporting people we hate to kill them would be a good idea, then we\'ll just hate the clone. Now if we teleported them into the middle of space, or a nice active volcano... ;)
Well... if people could get over the ethical issues then what would be the problem... your\'re sending an exact double.. along with all your memories so you would remember everything, and you would realize that you have been teleported....
In fact if nobody told you about how teleportation worked and you got teleported you wouldnt even know the difference.
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though-could you remember? could you build a machine that could recreate the exact electrical pathways and charges in your brain the exact moment you were teleported? IF you could, then you run into the fact that you have proven the non-existence of "the soul", and organised religion would not like that.... ;)
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I wonder how many monkey\'s they\'ll fry, tyring to perfect this?
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the computer needed to duplicate a human will have to be unimaginably powerful
EDIT: By the way, they haven\'t been able to "teleport" anything with mass
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Originally posted by Clowd
the computer needed to duplicate a human will have to be unimaginably powerful
EDIT: By the way, they haven\'t been able to "teleport" anything with mass
well..... anyone belive in "the philadelphia experiment"?
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During WWII, there was a big hoax that a US Battleship (name just slpped my mind) was teleported from Philladelphia to another port. I saw it on the History Channel. I\'m sure you guys can find it on historychannel.com if you want. But it was believe that the Philladelphia Experiment was a counter attack to U-boats by teleporting and cloaking a warship. It was a big hoax but very interesting. You can just search the Philladelphia Experiment. I\'ll dig something up.
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They werent actually trying to teleport the ship, they were attepting to make it invisible.
In the "reports" they say that the ship did momentaryily dissapear to the naked eye and then it was teleported to another port and back.
The reports also said that some of the people on board were fused to the metal in the ship.
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I saw the program on the history channel a couple times. Its very interesting. The guy that started it confessed it was a hoax.
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Dug some stuff up from the Navy. I\'m working on finding more. There are sites of hoax believers but I don\'t want my IQ to drop by going there.
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq21-1.htm
EDIT: Found a better link
http://www.softwareartist.com/philexp.html
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Originally posted by Kimahri
Well... if people could get over the ethical issues then what would be the problem... your\'re sending an exact double.. along with all your memories so you would remember everything, and you would realize that you have been teleported....
In fact if nobody told you about how teleportation worked and you got teleported you wouldnt even know the difference.
Wouldn\'t it just be your clone that wouldn\'t know the difference?
From what I read, I got the message that whatever is being teleported would be destroyed, and that there would be a clone created somewhere else.
It\'d be exactly like you but it wouldn\'t be you. You would be destroyed. No one else would know the difference because it\'s an exact clone of you, but your consciousness would be gone, replaced by a perfect replica. So technically you\'d be dead, right?
Well thats what I got from it anyways.