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The 487th Trigintannual Debate About If You Die When You Use The Transporter In Star Trek

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    AnzekayAnzekay Registered User regular
    When did Larlar grow that handsome evil twin goatee?
    your option b is my second option on the poll but less sarcastic

    yeah which is why it totally wasn't for me :p

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    AnzekayAnzekay Registered User regular
    When did Larlar grow that handsome evil twin goatee?
    Gundi wrote: »
    man they should have really asked Q one of those times they wrung a favor out of him

    this is how you get an existential crisis destroying the entire federation though

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    BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    You totally die!
    you'd think the people who make the transporters would understand how they work

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    AnzekayAnzekay Registered User regular
    When did Larlar grow that handsome evil twin goatee?
    I think they were originally designed for use with inorganic material. I.E cargo transfer etc

    but then some idiot tried it on a human in an emergency and it... worked out! so they kept doing it.

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    FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Anzekay wrote: »
    I think they were originally designed for use with inorganic material. I.E cargo transfer etc

    but then some idiot tried it on a human in an emergency and it... worked out! so they kept doing it.

    Some nerd did it to impress their significant other while drunk on a college campus, worelike. And then wrote a paper.

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    TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    edited November 2018
    It doesn't matter because consciousness is an illusion, so one me is as good as any other.
    Whenever the Enterprise is boarded, why don't they just transport bricks into the brains of all invading enemies?
    Anzekay wrote: »
    I think they were originally designed for use with inorganic material. I.E cargo transfer etc

    but then some idiot tried it on a human in an emergency and it... worked out! so they kept doing it.

    whatever you know they'd be testing this on mice the same day it was invented

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    BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    You totally die!
    or transport their attackers into a wall or outside the ship

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    AnzekayAnzekay Registered User regular
    When did Larlar grow that handsome evil twin goatee?
    I went and look it up

    there's no recording of exactly when the first use of it on a person was, but the first person to get transported was the same guy who invented the technology

    we're just shown that in the Enterprise time period everyone was very reluctant to use it on humans at first

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    NorgothNorgoth cardiffRegistered User regular
    It doesn't matter because consciousness is an illusion, so one me is as good as any other.
    Don’t know if anyone’s brought it up but in China Melviles novel Kraken, there’s a Star Trek fan who as worked out how to replicate transporters using magic, and sells his services. Unfortunately he’s also haunted by large amounts of his own ghosts as he dies every time he does it.

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    FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Norgoth wrote: »
    Don’t know if anyone’s brought it up but in China Melviles novel Kraken, there’s a Star Trek fan who as worked out how to replicate transporters using magic, and sells his services. Unfortunately he’s also haunted by large amounts of his own ghosts as he dies every time he does it.

    That doesn't make any sense! It's the other one who dies!

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    discriderdiscrider Registered User regular
    You totally die!
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Norgoth wrote: »
    Don’t know if anyone’s brought it up but in China Melviles novel Kraken, there’s a Star Trek fan who as worked out how to replicate transporters using magic, and sells his services. Unfortunately he’s also haunted by large amounts of his own ghosts as he dies every time he does it.

    That doesn't make any sense! It's the other one who dies!

    Yeah, but the soul gets copied too before getting destroyed, so infinite ghosts of yourself.

    I'm with option, you totally die but it doesn't matter if the original doesn't experience the death.

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    FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    You can't copy a soul! That raises deeper questions!

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    TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    It doesn't matter because consciousness is an illusion, so one me is as good as any other.
    Copying the soul was the easy part. Fixing it to the body so you weren't just creating zombie replicas was hard.

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    SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    When did Larlar grow that handsome evil twin goatee?
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    You can't copy a soul! That raises deeper questions!
    They do in Star Trek, so...

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    AnzekayAnzekay Registered User regular
    When did Larlar grow that handsome evil twin goatee?
    yeah I figure the only time they copy a soul in Star Trek is when the Riker mishap occurs

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    GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    You totally die!
    if there is an afterlife in star trek it is just, like, fucking packed

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    TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    It doesn't matter because consciousness is an illusion, so one me is as good as any other.
    Gundi wrote: »
    if there is an afterlife in star trek it is just, like, fucking packed

    There is, and Q is God.

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    AnzekayAnzekay Registered User regular
    When did Larlar grow that handsome evil twin goatee?
    if Q is god I'd rather go to purgatory tbh

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    BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    You totally die!
    But then Guinan is also probably a god and that means you get to hang out with 90's Whoopie Goldberg

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    GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    You totally die!
    also clearly neither of them are gods.

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