www.bbc.com/news/videos/cx20nwlqe07o
That's go well over a busy M25...what could possibly go wrong? :-)
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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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Pah, we've had flying cars in Basingstoke for years.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/4493713.stm
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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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Yep flying cars are a bad idea. Jet packs are the way to go.
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nah....teleportation is the ultimate.
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>> nah....teleportation is the ultimate.
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A bit of an existential question, but don't teleport devices have to kill you before reassembling a duplicate elsewhere?
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>> >> nah....teleportation is the ultimate.
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>> A bit of an existential question, but don't teleport devices have to kill you before
>> reassembling a duplicate elsewhere?
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The alternative is to bring the world of travel to you - commonly known as virtual reality.
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As The Moody Blues sang "thinking is the best way to travel".
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>> A bit of an existential question, but don't teleport devices have to kill you before
>> reassembling a duplicate elsewhere?
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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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>> 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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>> 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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Is is April 1? - zippy
