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Originally Posted by bloodrayne
Oh...I know...I just meant that it was brought up in The Fly, also...You reminded me of it when you mentioned the other thing...Sorry for the confusion.
As for the teleportation idea in general...Even if they had successfully done it on a regular basis...I still wouldn't trust it...The thought of being atomized and reassembled on ANY level (especially cellular) makes me extremely nervous...
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The funny thing about the fly is that it is written by someone who (to my knowledge) wasnt too terribly familiar with programming, or conveniently ignored some things.
The idea with the teleporter is that it takes an exact snapshot of it's contents at that nanosecond, and then destroys it.
it then takes that data (from the computer's memory) and recreates the exact condtitions at that moment in time. Unless there was a memeory leak or data corruption in that fraction of a second, there would nbe no way for the DNA to get "mixed up".
Of course, if we assume his equipment was runningon Wondows NT, then its amazing he even came out the other side (har har. Zwoti knows what I'm talking about...)
I like some of the points that have been brought up by people thinking baout teleportation working in this fashion...
What if you cam eout the other side, but the "original" wasnt destroyed? there would be 2 of you. Not a clone, which is genetically identical, but otherwise its own person, but YOU in every way shape and form.
Or, what if someone dumped the memory of the teleporter in the time between destruction and recreation... you could be come a "lost file" and simply cease to exist. or, maybe you would end up in an error log file, that they could then regenerate you from. creepy... definately make a new twist on Rip Van Winkle...
or there is an error, and rather than just creating one of you, the "output" end keep spitting out copies of you...
You could have an entire sci-fi writing career just off of all the possible permutations of the teleporter story.