Comments on: It doesn’t matter how awesome science gets, the Star Trek transporter will never be

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:45:15 +0000

It’s certainly a different but accurate way of describing the process. I’ve always wondered especially regarding the TNG transporter why not after someone dies you couldn’t just rematerialise them from their last trip through the transporter?

By: MC

MC — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:50:07 +0000

If people are having moral issues with cloning now, think about the religious ramifications of simultaneously destroying and creating life.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:01:05 +0000

I actually saw one of the upper managers standing around at the Roma street busway once – So very helpfully directing buses and passengers. Basically, making a complete nuisance of themselves, and this bus pulled up that was absolutely pissing water vapour from its radiator. The look on his face was absolutely priceless. That was in the days before the purchase of private transport, which I now use for every trip. Just got absolutely sick to death of waiting around half the day waiting for a bus or train to pull up.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:52:56 +0000

No more problems with the Go card than usual ;)

Actually I think it might be an interesting exercise to make upper management take public transport and see how quickly things change.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:50:46 +0000

What I am reading into that entire piece there is that you got screwed with a “Go” card, didn’t you? Those things are quite possibly the biggest con job ever hoisted upon a gullible public.

My suggestion for solving the public transport woes of the world is simple. Everytime a bus, or train, or aircraft is late due to the efficiency demands placed upon them by middle and upper managers, who, as a general rule, spend most of their time shackling labour and efficiency with cost control, and painting over these inefficiencies with often expensive and pointless advertisements telling you how great the service is, in a vain attempt to control the minds of the general population and validate their pointless and ridiculous business model, that they, the middle and upper managers, will have one of their kind randomly chosen, taken out back, and shot through the back of the head.

Then we will see buses and trains running to a precise and exacting schedule.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:14:50 +0000

There is also the problem of travelling faster than the speed of light and what it does in regards to time distortion etc – I’m not really sure what the range of the transporter is but it always appears to be instantaneous transportation which then would have ramifications regarding time.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:55:56 +0000

The transporter can generally put you done anywhere so the iris thing from Stargate wouldn’t really help, makes breaking into Fort Knox a little easier :)

I was thinking that they’d probably give you phone number to call regarding lost ears :P

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:53:32 +0000

I have a bigger issue with the replicator from TNG and its implications – I think there may be a post in this.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:52:27 +0000

I think Spaceballs covered that off :)

By: WiddleShamrock

WiddleShamrock — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:13:21 +0000

When you put it like that, then no, a transporter isn’t that cool. They had transporters on The Tomorrow People (maybe a bit before your time) and I would close my eyes and just ‘will’ myslef to disappear to somewhere else and would be so disappointed when I opened my eyes and was in the same place.

But I tell you, transporters would lower travel prices to overseas, less pollution as we are not in planes… the Greens may run with the idea.
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