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^^^ The sci-fi books Ilium and Olympus by Dan Simmons do a good job of making this sort of tech easily understandable. Teleportation, in this manner, will rely on the marriage of two technologies - the teleportation of info (as previously mentioned) combined with rapid 3D printing or rearranging of molecules. Philosophically it's much more disturbing than the popular idea of teleportation wherein space/time is folded.
 
blue9 said:
^^^ The sci-fi books Ilium and Olympus by Dan Simmons do a good job of making this sort of tech easily understandable. Teleportation, in this manner, will rely on the marriage of two technologies - the teleportation of info (as previously mentioned) combined with rapid 3D printing or rearranging of molecules. Philosophically it's much more disturbing than the popular idea of teleportation wherein space/time is folded.
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Yep. With this tech, if something is "teleported", the original is completely destroyed, and a replica is reassembled. So if they ever figure out how to teleport a human (absent folded space/time), it won't be transportation, but murder and instant cloning.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Yep. With this tech, if something is "teleported", the original is completely destroyed, and a replica is reassembled. So if they ever figure out how to teleport a human (absent folded space/time), it won't be transportation, but murder and instant cloning.
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Perhaps more disturbingly, though, there's no particular reason why the original must be destroyed, from a scientific standpoint. Every teleportation could create another branch of your life.
 
Minstrel said:
Perhaps more disturbingly, though, there's no particular reason why the original must be destroyed, from a scientific standpoint. Every teleportation could create another branch of your life.
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Yup! Things get super creepy and interesting with this method of teleportation. I dig it for sci-fi, but I hope that we try to figure out the space/time alternative for real life application.
 
blue9 said:
Yup! Things get super creepy and interesting with this method of teleportation. I dig it for sci-fi, but I hope that we try to figure out the space/time alternative for real life application.
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I think there are several board members who are volunteering the HCP as the first test subject.
 
blue9 said:
Yup! Things get super creepy and interesting with this method of teleportation. I dig it for sci-fi, but I hope that we try to figure out the space/time alternative for real life application.
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Future tech and especially far future tech is really fascinating. I think one fundamental truth is that the underlying reality to everything is information. We're constantly losing and gaining atoms--every year, we've completely replaced every atom in our bodies. In the end, we are just patterns of information and the universe is constantly rebuilding us from that pattern on the fly. Another fundamental truth is that anything with energy can be reduced to computing power--a rock has minimal computing power, a star has a massive amount.

When I try to imagine what things might look like some arbitrarily massive distance into the future, I think of linking stars and galaxies into an unfathomably large computer and manipulating the patterns of energy that make up all of matter. We would control reality in a very real way at that point.
 
Melo's mistress, Mia Burks

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Minstrel said:
Future tech and especially far future tech is really fascinating. I think one fundamental truth is that the underlying reality to everything is information. We're constantly losing and gaining atoms--every year, we've completely replaced every atom in our bodies. In the end, we are just patterns of information and the universe is constantly rebuilding us from that pattern on the fly. Another fundamental truth is that anything with energy can be reduced to computing power--a rock has minimal computing power, a star has a massive amount.

When I try to imagine what things might look like some arbitrarily massive distance into the future, I think of linking stars and galaxies into an unfathomably large computer and manipulating the patterns of energy that make up all of matter. We would control reality in a very really way at that point.
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I know! I really wish I could see and experience, first hand, what the future will be like. The possibilities are incredible, and it seems like we're going to get very close to some of those possibilities in our lifetime, but not close enough for them to be accessible to normal people. Just private space exploration would be enough for me! But not Virgin's upper-atmosphere flights - I mean actually escaping the gravity well and getting at least to the moon.
Of course, human history may be knocked off its current course and our hopes and dreams that seem nearly within our grasp may slip away.
 
Minstrel said:
Perhaps more disturbingly, though, there's no particular reason why the original must be destroyed, from a scientific standpoint. Every teleportation could create another branch of your life.
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The Prestige did a good job of explaining this.
 
Minstrel said:
Perhaps more disturbingly, though, there's no particular reason why the original must be destroyed, from a scientific standpoint. Every teleportation could create another branch of your life.
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Git is a term of insult with origins in British English denoting an unpleasant, silly, incompetent, stupid, annoying, senile, elderly or childish person

This entire new branch of life will give github a different meaning once we start cloning idiots.
 
Shaboid said:
So a couple months ago I moved into a new office with an old desk. I was cleaning things up a bit today and under a bunch of the former occupier of said desk's pay stubs, I found this:
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Or.... Put it to Carmelo's head and make him waive the NTC?

You like how I put the thread right back on topic!?!?
 
Carmelo Anthony said:
I'm not seeing the "jab-step then shoot" button.

Also, those colors are played out. Would look better in red and black.
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They were going for the Loyal Blue scheme ...hint hint....but the jab step then shoot is actually the beast mode button where you will the ball into the basket
 


Is an 84 overall player really worth such a large thread? Gerald Wallace was better than that when we got him.
 
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