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[–] 48 points 2 years ago* (8 children)

This is the reason I don't like materialization/dematerialization transporters. Not only do they have the risk of coordinate failure like in the meme, but also:

  1. The person on the other side isn't guaranteed to be the same person when rematerialized. There's the ontological argument that when you're dematerialized, you die as your physical form is eliminated and that the person appearing on the other side is merely a clone of you, but not you.

  2. Alien interference or environmental contamination can mess up the person on rematerialization. Even small changes can alter the delicate brain chemistry we meatbags have.

  3. Being stuck in the ship's memory buffer while it verifies an open teleporter slot can't be very fun or comfortable.

This is why I only support non-dematerializing wormhole based travel where spacetime itself opens for you to enter. Less chance of mistakes.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)
    1. Get Tuvixed because you got a bit of alien leaf stuck to your shoe.
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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    How about all those many scenes where someone grabs a transported person to make a quick last minute getaway.

    So the computer was programmed and targeted for just one person but at the start of the transport sequence all of a sudden two people are now part of the transport.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago
    1. The person on the other side isn't guaranteed to be the same person when rematerialized. There's the ontological argument that when you're dematerialized, you die as your physical form is eliminated and that the person appearing on the other side is merely a clone of you, but not you.

    Ah, the ship of Theseus O'Brien.

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    As most of the human cells die and get replaced within a few years, humans are already beings of Theseus.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Roughly every 7 years for most of the body, major organs tend to take longer, more like 10. Your brain replaces cells at a way slower rate, you'll only Theseus your brain about 80% at best if you live a long healthy life.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Big agree, do you think they'd let us into Starfleet if we refused to use transporters tho :(

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Another reason why Stargate > Star Trek

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Except the Stargate also dematerializes you. Also there's no way of guaranteeing that the gate on the other end is open and there's apparently no safety protocols to ensure that it is so you could open the gate and then step through and just die.

    Oh you know it could be underwater.

    Or in space.

    Or around a black hole in which case you die even if you don't enter.

    Really they're actually quite dangerous technology and definitely not safe.

    Also sometimes they accidentally time travel you

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Also sometimes they accidentally time travel you

    As I recall that was one of the problems with Carter's control interface. A proper DHD shouldn't have that issue.

    At least that was the case until it happened again in the Pegasus galaxy. But Stargate never was great about canonical continuity.

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