PLEASE READ: To register, turn off your VPN (iPhone users- disable iCloud); you can re-enable the VPN after registration. You must maintain an active email address on your account: disposable email addresses cannot be used to register.
Gonna sound super cheesy here but..Well, for starters, it's impossible?
Well, for starters, it's impossible…
Yes, all hell would break loose. The economy would collapse.
There would be no need for cars, trains, airlines, buses, public transportation, oil to make fuel, or any of the support services that surround these industries. Millions up millions of people would be unemployed.
mbamike already beat me to it.
not to mention thefts, rapes, etc...
Well, for starters, it's impossible…
What if two people teleported to the exact same spot at the exact same time?
![]()
Perhaps. But isn't that forecast based on the assumption that the technology would be instantly available to all? On a micro scale, would it be economically feasible for me to have this technology installed in my home to enable me to pop, relatively instantaneously, the four blocks I am from the nearest grocery store? Here, I'm assuming that at least in its earlier states such a technology would require a fairly hefty individual investment: not only the machinery itself (which I assume would start out fairly large), but the space necessary to house this machinery, and the energy it would take to power the process.
That doesn't even take into consideration who's 'responsible' for the machinery and for the process. Since the beam or stream which carries the person has a physical presence, what's to stop some third party from 'intercepting' the beam in mid-traffic? If X disappears between points a and b, who's liable? What happens when someone, to get out of a messy divorce from a partner, sets the transporter pattern for 'widest possible diffusion', as was done in at least one Trek episode? Is it kidnapping if I decide to take a day off from work, but my boss transports me there anyway?
My boyfriend has just informed me that it is possible, scientists, have teleported quantum particles or some such sciencey nonsense.
I, however, realising that this is a hypothetical exercise, will answer yes. All hell would break loose, it'd be a pure blast.
I'd use my new telporting gadget to torment Tom Cruise to an early grave.
One of the biggest problems with a scientific teleportation device (like Star Trek has), is finding a data storage device that could hold the exact location, and rotation of every single atom in your body.
At least, according to some nerdy tech science show I watched on TV once. Also, there is some question as to weather you're actually TELEPORTING (moving the atoms), or just breaking them down, copying, and replicating in a new location the data.
Some may say "well technology could get better to allow it to be possible". I would simply counter... technology has its limitations.
And if it was somehow made possible, I certainly would not beta test the device, nor do I think anyone would be crazy enough to do so.
