Scientists Make First Step Toward Star Trek Transporter

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Check this out. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...first-step-towards-Star-Trek-transporter.html

German engineers have created a machine which can take a physical object, scan it, and re-build it in a new location.Because it is effectively an early prototype for a Star Trek transporter the group have called it "Scotty" after the chief engineer on the Starship Enterprise, who Captain Kirk was regularly seen to order: "beam me up".

The machine scans small objects with a camera layer-by-layer, as a milling machine slowly destroys it. By slicing the object into layers it is possible to get a detailed view of the object, even including any hollow cavities.

A detailed model is then encrypted and digitally transmitted over the internet to a second machine which reconstructs it with a 3D printer.

All of that complex work is hidden from the user, who only has to place an object into the sender unit, name a recipient and press the “relocate” button.
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According to Star Trek lore the transporter was invented in the early 22nd century, so we only have 100 years or so to figure out how NOT to destroy our subject when transporting it.

And hopefully we won't show up at the other end all pasty white with little hairs all over us. :rolleyes:
 
Yes, and let's not forget poor, ole Vincent Price (or I guess it was his buddy) who was wayyyyyyyy before Star Trek, and he had some sneaky fly mess up all his molecules, and voila!! Hep me, somebody please hep me!!
 
nwlady said:
Yes, and let's not forget poor, ole Vincent Price (or I guess it was his buddy) who was wayyyyyyyy before Star Trek, and he had some sneaky fly mess up all his molecules, and voila!! Hep me, somebody please hep me!!
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Oh, man, I had some nasty nightmares after watching that the first time ... :upset:

And just tonight I was taking a shower and a big-azz spider is walking on the molding at head level - he was WAVING HIS ARMS at me! He wanted to grab my ponytail and crush my head against the tile, I KNOW he did! :nightmare:

But I didn't kill him, because if I ever encounter a wee man screaming "Heeeeelp meeeee!" it would be better for my mental health to have HIM disappear than the spider.
 
Capt Lightning said:
If you transport a person, is that the same person, or a clone? I'm not religious, but if a person had a 'soul', would it be transported too?
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Supposedly the person is broken down into an "energy stream" when they are transported, then that stream is re-assembled at the destination. So they wouldn't technically be clones as only one exists at any time.

Now, the big question would be, is the soul energetic in nature? If so, then yes, it would be transported along with the body.

If not, then you could only transport atheists. ;)
 
I want the magic food dispenser [from Star Trek] the one where Captain Picard says 'Earl Grey tea, hot!' As at the moment I only have Mr Oakapple to say that to [and sometimes he refuses on the flimsy grounds that he is doing something important, like re-tiling the roof or painting the kitchen.]
 
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Dame Warrigal said:
Never mind the transporter.
I want them to get on with developing the magic medical tricorder that heals instantly and painlessly.
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Can this include ironing out wrinkles and tightning sagging body-parts? An all-over shrinking skin job. If we lived on the moon with no gravity would we not sag?
 
SifuPhil said:
Supposedly the person is broken down into an "energy stream" when they are transported, then that stream is re-assembled at the destination. So they wouldn't technically be clones as only one exists at any time.

Now, the big question would be, is the soul energetic in nature? If so, then yes, it would be transported along with the body.

If not, then you could only transport atheists. ;)
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atheists without memories, the same biochemical process may or may not be transported but the information would not be the same
 
rt3 said:
atheists without memories, the same biochemical process may or may not be transported but the information would not be the same
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So if they were atheists but lost their memories, they would be a blank slate when it came to religious convictions, right?

That might be a way to end all the religious strife in the world ...
 
Fo'get about it dudes! As long as there are men, someone will have to "make" himself God;) I wonder if there are God'ettes? Of course there are:playful:
 
atheist, gnostic, agnostic are different things. Gnostic and agnostic are subconscious and part of the 7 archetypes, atheist is a church definition. Memory is a chemical process, short term memory only last about a min. , which brings up the age old free agency question. Change like this would violate free agency. It is unlikely that any electrical or wave process would transfer the same coded information. Some insight is given into this in quantum mechanics, as each of us are literally a wave. This has spawned the worm hole stuff. I prefer the Budda stuff.
 
Oh metoo Dame;) And the internet is sort of all-in-one, LOL! What I like most is getting to meet people though, what a bonus, and people from other lands! Woweeeeeeeewow!!
 
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