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Sun 23 Feb 25 13:36

Is is April 1? - smokie

www.bbc.com/news/videos/cx20nwlqe07o

That's go well over a busy M25...what could possibly go wrong? :-)

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Sun 23 Feb 25 14:09

Is is April 1? - zippy

This looks more realistic...

youtu.be/5eRdzSWv8NY?t=30

I recall there was a TV stunt years ago where someone delivered a number of cars on a transporter. Left the depot with something like 5 cars. When arrived there were 4 cars because one was just like this and was flown off to spook the transporter driver.

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Sun 23 Feb 25 15:02

Is is April 1? - Kevin

Pah, we've had flying cars in Basingstoke for years.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/4493713.stm

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Mon 24 Feb 25 11:46

Is is April 1? - Zero

Two motoring ideas always come round, and disappear again on a slow regular cycle since the days of the model T

Flying cars, cars that become boats.

Only people that made it work was James bond and the Jetsons.

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Mon 24 Feb 25 16:46

Is is April 1? - CGNorwich

Yep flying cars are a bad idea. Jet packs are the way to go.

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Mon 24 Feb 25 17:31

Is is April 1? - tyrednemotional

nah....teleportation is the ultimate.

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Mon 24 Feb 25 19:49

Is is April 1? - zippy

>> nah....teleportation is the ultimate.
>>

A bit of an existential question, but don't teleport devices have to kill you before reassembling a duplicate elsewhere?

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Mon 24 Feb 25 21:15

Is is April 1? - Terry

>> >> nah....teleportation is the ultimate.
>> >>
>>
>> A bit of an existential question, but don't teleport devices have to kill you before
>> reassembling a duplicate elsewhere?
>>
The alternative is to bring the world of travel to you - commonly known as virtual reality.

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Mon 24 Feb 25 21:30

Is is April 1? - tyrednemotional

As The Moody Blues sang "thinking is the best way to travel".

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Mon 24 Feb 25 23:34

Is is April 1? - CGNorwich

>> A bit of an existential question, but don't teleport devices have to kill you before
>> reassembling a duplicate elsewhere?
>>

Well since all the atoms in your body will be replaced many times over during your lifetime but you still claim to be the same person I would say teleportation which replaces one set of atoms with another would not kill you.

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Tue 25 Feb 25 09:12

Is is April 1? - bathtub tom

>> Well since all the atoms in your body will be replaced many times over during
>> your lifetime but you still claim to be the same person I would say teleportation
>> which replaces one set of atoms with another would not kill you.

Are you saying we're all a sort of version of Trigger's broom?

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Tue 25 Feb 25 11:48

Is is April 1? - Manatee

>>
>> Well since all the atoms in your body will be replaced many times over during
>> your lifetime but you still claim to be the same person I would say teleportation
>> which replaces one set of atoms with another would not kill you.

A great pub discussion topic, beyond hypothetical.

Does the receiving station have a stock of materials, including all the necessary trace compounds? Or a stock of atomic particles? Or does it 'just' create everything from pure energy?

Perhaps the arriving person could be created before the old one is destroyed, provided the person could be fully analysed non-destructively?

Could there exist two of the same person at the same time?

If not then wouldn't there have to be a point in time at which the transportee was non-existent? Is that the same as deaded, or not?

If Musk fancies Mars, perhaps he could be transported there. Perhaps he has already tested the technology and a bit went missing. That would explain a lot.

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