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It sounds like start trek’s transporter beams may be more accurately described than we thought.
by mrtesthah 6y ago
It sounds like start trek’s transporter beams may be more accurately described than we thought.
- maxerickson 6y agoThey repeatedly treat the pattern like data. Riker splits, Tuvix!, the one where the other doctor ages and gets de-aged in the transporter, the one where Scotty is stored in it for decades, etc.
- Snitch-Thursday 6y agoThat's exactly what I was thinking! Running far too much into fandon, this holds also for the fictional 'pattern buffer'. It has to examine the original AND communicate that state back to the duplicate quick enough or the 'clone' will be inaccurate, maybe even enough to kill someone a la Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
- freeflight 6y agoIt's also where the meme comes from how Star Trek transporers are actually suicide booths [0]. [0] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/09/is-beaming-down-in-star-trek-a-death-sentence/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/09/is-beaming-down-in-st...