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Breakthrough brings 'Star Trek' teleport a step closer
« on: June 10, 2007, 08:04:22 PM »
Scientists have set a new record in sending information through thin air using the revolutionary technology of quantum teleportation - although Mr Spock may have to wait a little longer for a Scotty to beam him up with it.

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Re: Breakthrough brings 'Star Trek' teleport a step closer
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2007, 09:19:29 PM »
Cool. That's all I can say.

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Re: Breakthrough brings 'Star Trek' teleport a step closer
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2007, 10:42:20 PM »
As small as this all seems, it's a pretty big step.  I don't know how likely it is that we'll ever be able to transport actual matter, but this is still really nifty.
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Re: Breakthrough brings 'Star Trek' teleport a step closer
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2007, 10:50:16 PM »
I don't think that people 50 years ago ever thought that we'd have what we have now (tiny phones/computers - everything it getting so small), so who knows. In 200 years, teleporting could be something of an everyday routine!

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Re: Breakthrough brings 'Star Trek' teleport a step closer
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2007, 03:50:23 AM »
You have a point, but keep in mind that 50 years ago, people thought we'd all have flying cars by now.
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Re: Breakthrough brings 'Star Trek' teleport a step closer
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2007, 03:57:26 AM »
Well, you've gotta aim high.

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Re: Breakthrough brings 'Star Trek' teleport a step closer
« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2007, 04:00:19 AM »
I dont like the idea of flying cars. Teleporters are good though, but they can be a bit unsafe...

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Re: Breakthrough brings 'Star Trek' teleport a step closer
« Reply #7 on: June 11, 2007, 04:49:25 AM »
I dont like the idea of flying cars. Teleporters are good though, but they can be a bit unsafe...
You've got that right.  Just ask Dilbert...
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Re: Breakthrough brings 'Star Trek' teleport a step closer
« Reply #8 on: June 12, 2007, 01:51:36 AM »
I dont like the idea of flying cars. Teleporters are good though, but they can be a bit unsafe...
You've got that right.  Just ask Dilbert...
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But I think that if we're gonna have teleporters, they can't be commerically used, because people could teleport on top of each other (unless there's some program which checks if that area of space is free). Also, people could just teleport a teleporter into a bank, grab the money, and teleport out.

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Re: Breakthrough brings 'Star Trek' teleport a step closer
« Reply #9 on: June 12, 2007, 02:45:05 AM »
Or have (like in halo) a teleporter and a reciever so you can only go from one place to another.

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Re: Breakthrough brings 'Star Trek' teleport a step closer
« Reply #10 on: June 12, 2007, 02:59:24 AM »
Or like in Tribes 2, where you can set multiple teleporters/recievers and you can only teleport to them if they're completely empty.

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Re: Breakthrough brings 'Star Trek' teleport a step closer
« Reply #11 on: June 12, 2007, 05:07:24 AM »
I dont like the idea of flying cars. Teleporters are good though, but they can be a bit unsafe...
You've got that right.  Just ask Dilbert...
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But I think that if we're gonna have teleporters, they can't be commerically used, because people could teleport on top of each other (unless there's some program which checks if that area of space is free). Also, people could just teleport a teleporter into a bank, grab the money, and teleport out.

These very things were covered in The Dilbert Future.
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Re: Breakthrough brings 'Star Trek' teleport a step closer
« Reply #12 on: June 12, 2007, 05:19:32 AM »
Albert Einstein Hmmm.

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Re: Breakthrough brings 'Star Trek' teleport a step closer
« Reply #13 on: June 17, 2007, 03:03:14 PM »
That would be so sweet to have a transporter.. No more driving...Is that a bad thing?

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Re: Breakthrough brings 'Star Trek' teleport a step closer
« Reply #14 on: June 17, 2007, 03:32:40 PM »
For some drivers, no that would be a good thing...
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Re: Breakthrough brings 'Star Trek' teleport a step closer
« Reply #15 on: June 17, 2007, 05:53:51 PM »
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    Re: Breakthrough brings 'Star Trek' teleport a step closer
    « Reply #16 on: June 18, 2007, 09:15:38 PM »
    Flying cars, next you will be reading the news paper about how someone came up and upended
    instead of rear ended on take off.  :)

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    Re: Breakthrough brings 'Star Trek' teleport a step closer
    « Reply #17 on: June 18, 2007, 09:34:49 PM »
    That would be so sweet to have a transporter.. No more driving...Is that a bad thing?
    Think of all those bus and taxi drivers......

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    Re: Breakthrough brings 'Star Trek' teleport a step closer
    « Reply #18 on: June 18, 2007, 09:57:24 PM »
    That would be so sweet to have a transporter.. No more driving...Is that a bad thing?
    Think of all those bus and taxi drivers......
    Poor Fat Driver... :P


    But still, with all those jobs gone, there will be many more, such as teleportation mechanic, or teleportation supervisor etc. etc.

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    Re: Breakthrough brings 'Star Trek' teleport a step closer
    « Reply #19 on: June 18, 2007, 10:10:07 PM »
    Yeah but like (hundreds of) thousands of taxi and bus drivers here in Hong Kong. Not all of them can become a mechanic or supervisor.......

    And yes, poor fat driver.

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    Re: Breakthrough brings 'Star Trek' teleport a step closer
    « Reply #20 on: June 19, 2007, 01:44:58 AM »
    fat driver rules. 

    Btw.. Teleportation won't work with humans the way they're trying to make it work. a good way to understand what i'm about to say is the Hugh Jackman movie ''The Prestige''.

    if you try to teleport people, you will need 3 points. A (the human to be teleported), B (The point the human will be teleported to), and C (the ''collision'' point i call it). Point A will start the process which will bring it on it's way of photon entanglement to point B, Point B having an object in it's spot already that's capable of creating human form, and point C will be sent at the same time. i call point C the collision point because it's the point that A collides (obviously) to give C the data it needs for the teleportation. C will take over from  A after having the physiological data that it needs and will be sent to point B, Point A and the human sent with it destroyed during the information transfer. point C will arrive at point B with the information and ready for another transfer, which means during the transfer point C will also *die*, leaving only point B standing, as a perfect replica of point A... but not really... there will be no way to have all the mentalities and personality of point A (the original human) in point B. if point A had not been destroyed (this is possible to achieve, easier even), then there would be the origianal human and the teleported one. all teleportation is, is cloning basically, but the first human dies. yay! congratulations you just killed someone. the second human will be standing there wondering how he got there. you will go up to him and ask him if his memories are all fine and everything and he will say yes (if the possibility of having teleported memories is possible by then too). but he will only have a copy of the original human. he will only BE a copy, and he isn't the same person. every single cell and molecule and action he ever does or has done is exactly the same as the original human, even his memories, but he's not the same. just a copy. if the original is kept alive during the teleportation then you will have to kill the copy after it's done it's little bit in the world, but, that copy is now also a human being. for these reasons alone, i am against teleportation. no matter how it's done, someone has to die. same with animals and non-living things. (teleportation has been acheived with an apple by the way, by australian scientists about 6 months ago. the original was destroyed and the replica tasted exactly the same. no decay.)

    apart from that it'd be fine, i think it would be really useful, but with a massive price tag, and would probably also need to be used in conjunction with your pc. note that windows galactica probably won't support teleportation if you have less than 512 terabytes of RAM and/or did not install the 128 terabit version  :-\
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    « Reply #21 on: June 19, 2007, 03:43:07 PM »
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    « Reply #22 on: June 20, 2007, 06:52:48 PM »
    test.... ignore this.... (feel free to delete it)

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    « Reply #23 on: June 21, 2007, 02:03:37 PM »
    Just testing this apparently broken post.
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      « Reply #24 on: June 22, 2007, 05:30:04 AM »
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      Or have (like in halo) a teleporter and a reciever so you can only go from one place to another.

      Hmmmm....... A stargate!
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        « Reply #25 on: June 25, 2007, 07:42:05 AM »
        Hmmmm....... Don't get excited, I'm just playing.
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        « Reply #26 on: June 25, 2007, 10:18:06 AM »
        so is this topic still even alive even though it doesn't work?
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          Re: Breakthrough brings 'Star Trek' teleport a step closer
          « Reply #27 on: June 25, 2007, 10:37:18 AM »
          Its a nice little play ground. But you have to teleport in. ;D
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          Re: Breakthrough brings 'Star Trek' teleport a step closer
          « Reply #28 on: June 27, 2007, 04:42:41 AM »
          Reaper, I am not reading all that, as insightful as it may be :P

          Its a nice little play ground. But you have to teleport in. ;D
          Our predicament kinda suits this topic, doesn't it?

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          Or have (like in halo) a teleporter and a reciever so you can only go from one place to another.

          Hmmmm....... A stargate!
          Isn't that from StarCraft? Procross can teleport to those moving transporter things (don't know the name), you know.


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          Re: Breakthrough brings 'Star Trek' teleport a step closer
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          Or have (like in halo) a teleporter and a reciever so you can only go from one place to another.

          Hmmmm....... A stargate!
          Isn't that from StarCraft? Procross can teleport to those moving transporter things (don't know the name), you know.
          i was always under the impression that a stargate was from the show/movie stargate... could be wrong :P
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