Timeline for In Star Trek, does the transporter conserve the momentum of transported objects?
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| Sep 26, 2023 at 22:19 | comment | added | releseabe | @Jersey: I always thought The Prestige as well as Think Like a Dinosaur were very good explorations of transporter technology and the broader question of whether uploading one's mind to an artificial body would not be what most people had in mind when they stepped into a transporter or paid for immortality. If someone said, "You successfully transported; You don't mind if we disintegrate you since a perfect copy exists? Do you mind?" I sure would mind... | |
| Sep 18, 2017 at 23:33 | comment | added | Ellesedil | If this were true, then every starship and space station comes with a high-throughput cloning facility. Just run multiple copies while the pattern is in the transporter buffer and you now have an army of Datas. | |
| Sep 1, 2013 at 23:57 | comment | added | Lodewijk | The actual matter is transformed and transported. It's a bit sentimental though. It's not possible to replicate living things, not even on a transporter pad. | |
| Aug 12, 2013 at 14:45 | comment | added | Jersey | So... are they carbon copies like in The Prestigue? Their bodies die everytime, but thanks to some high-level math, they get reborn? Creepy. | |
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| Aug 11, 2013 at 18:13 | history | answered | JustSayin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |