Commander 598 Posted June 18, 2002 Share Posted June 18, 2002 CANBERRA, Australian (Reuters) -- In a breakthrough out of the realms of Star Trek, scientists in Australia have successfully teleported a laser beam of light from one spot to another in a split second but warn: don't sell the car yet. CNN.com-Full story I thought that would be interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Beastie Posted June 18, 2002 Share Posted June 18, 2002 A good beginning. Give them a few centuries. Forget transporters, I want a replicator; I'm getting tired of sandwiches/soup/leftovers that last for four days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander 598 Posted June 18, 2002 Author Share Posted June 18, 2002 A few decades is more like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admiral Odin Posted June 18, 2002 Share Posted June 18, 2002 I would never allow somebody to transport me anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwing Posted June 18, 2002 Share Posted June 18, 2002 I think transporting a human body (alive) this way is a very long ways off. Not teleportation of nonliving objects, however... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander 598 Posted June 19, 2002 Author Share Posted June 19, 2002 I think they'll have solid objects in just a few short years. As soon as they get a single celled organism done things will move pretty fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Beastie Posted June 19, 2002 Share Posted June 19, 2002 This is one of the areas where I think Enterprise got it right. The first transporters are designed for cargo transfer, and only approved for organic material, but the technology is still "primitive." No biofilters, minimal annular confinment, no "beam-down" sensors to speak of (so you can only beam to the transporter, lest you end up inside a wall or in mid-air). Remember the transporter accident that turned a poor crewman into swamp thing (though he probably made a full recovery by season's end)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold leader Posted June 19, 2002 Share Posted June 19, 2002 Originally posted by Flying Beastie Remember the transporter accident that turned a poor crewman into swamp thing (though he probably made a full recovery by season's end)? No. But then again, Enterprise is not yet broadcasted over here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jem Posted June 19, 2002 Share Posted June 19, 2002 Yeo, I saw that in Euronews yesterday. But they can't even teleport an atom yet. Hope something significant happens on that research before I die, I'm in interested in witnessing it. Anyways they said that thanks to this technology computers wil be able to calculate 1 000 000 or even 1 000 000 000 times faster. I want my Supa' Computa' now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle d'Tana Posted June 20, 2002 Share Posted June 20, 2002 I would never allow somebody to transport me anywhere. me too...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander 598 Posted June 21, 2002 Author Share Posted June 21, 2002 Originally posted by Admiral I would never allow somebody to transport me anywhere. What of someone threw you in a glass tube and air sealed it, then said "This might hurt. Might! Okay flip the switch!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Beastie Posted June 21, 2002 Share Posted June 21, 2002 Well, I presume he means that he would never allow himself to be transported unless he has complete and utter confidence in the tech (or there is absolutely no other available option). This isn't something like a plane crash, where you stand a (slim, admittedly) chance of surviving if something/some one screws up. IOW, if I was on Archer's Enterprise I'd avoid the transporters like the death trap they are. If, on the other claw, I was on, say, Janeway's Voyager, I'd probably be safer in the transporter than I would be on a shuttlecraft (especially if Tuvok was piloting ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted June 21, 2002 Share Posted June 21, 2002 Quantum computing still has a ways to go. I'm not entirely sure it will become mainstream technology in my lifetime. So far, they've managed to factor some really small number (6 or something - I don't remember exactly), but they were able to accomplish it using only a few atoms. We will need to work with it a lot before we're able to build the kind of things everyone is dreaming about. There's a lot of money to be made and a lot of fame to secure in that area, so I'm sure there will be no shortage of people trying to get it done when it looks like we are getting close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jem Posted June 22, 2002 Share Posted June 22, 2002 I wouldn't use Teleports for one good reason: Too much bad memories on being Telefragged while playing Doom. I still make nightmares about that and wake up screaming in the middle of the night with cold sweat on my forehead and the word "Telefragged" echoing in my thoughts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admiral Odin Posted June 24, 2002 Share Posted June 24, 2002 Let me put it this way. If I was about to die (I mean there was no other way to prevent it) I would allow myself to be teleported. However if Transporters are common technology, I would rather use a shuttle then be cutted up into millions of atoms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted June 24, 2002 Share Posted June 24, 2002 Telefragging is scary stuff, but I'd be more concerned that there would be a fly in the beam with me, and, well, you know... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jem Posted June 24, 2002 Share Posted June 24, 2002 Indeed the fly thing is scarier. At least with Telefragging you bearly have time to notice it happened that you're already dead... Unless you end up stuck with the other guy, that happened to me only once in Doom...scary stuff... imagine ending up being stuck forever with someone like Nute Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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