this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2023
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[–] [email protected] 48 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (23 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)
  1. Get Tuvixed because you got a bit of alien leaf stuck to your shoe.
[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Teleporter going full Bill O'Reilly:

Fuck it, we'll Merge it live!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

We’re gonna need a rebase -hard in here!

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