Movie Premises That You Wish Were Possible...(SPOILERS Are Inevitable Here)

[stygianwitch]

the holodeck from star trek, i'd love be able to interact with my favourite characters, to be a part of the story or game instead of just watching :cool:

and the computer from star trek too, to be able to ask it for an analysis verbally and have it done in minutes would save me hours of work.... bliss :)

[urgeok]

the time machine .

i'd love to go back to several eras - and go ahead far into the future as well ..

pick a nice spot that would suit me .. where i wouldnt be killed for being a witch or eaten by moorlocks ..

[Vodstok]

Originally Posted by bloodrayne

In 'Godsend' a couple who loses their son, uses his DNA to clone him so they can have him back...If the doctor hadn't been selfish, you are supposed to assume that the child would have turned out okay...If you were in this situation in real life, and this were possible...Would you try to 'bring back' your child this way?


In...umm...shit...I forgot the name of the movie, but you guys will know it...Anyway...You can bring back your dead pet through cloning (I forgot the name of the company in the movie, too)...If it were possible, would you do THAT?


In 'Cut' a computer chip is implanted in your brain at the time of your birth...It uses your eyes as lenses to record EVERY SECOND of your life...At the time of your death, a 'cutter' (Robin Williams in the movie) has the job of editting your entire life to create a video homage at your funeral for your family to watch and keep...There have been MANY times in my life when I had wished that certain experiences had been recorded, but I would NOT want EVERY moment viewed by a stranger...How about you guys?


These are only a few quick examples...I know that you guys can come up with lots of them...

So...What do YOU wish you could actually do?...And are you sure that you would REALLY want to be able to do it?...Consider the possible 'down sides'...As in Pet Sematary...Wishmaster...Or The Monkey's paw

Kind of off subject, but what a list of shit movies.... of all the movies you listed that i have seen (Cut, Godsend,...) I HATED.


At any rate, No i wouldnt. Especially the last part. With my luck, the turkey would be a little dry.

[Vodstok]

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...

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.

[urgeok]

Originally Posted by Vodstok

or there is an error, and rather than just creating one of you, the "output" end keep spitting out copies of you...

i could be my own volleyball team ...
6 guys who knew exactly what the rest were thinking.

which would be great once we trained ourselves not all to go for the same ball at once every time.

[Vodstok]

Originally Posted by Urgeok

i could be my own volleyball team ...
6 guys who knew exactly what the rest were thinking.

which would be great once we trained ourselves not all to go for the same ball at once every time.

I would make at least 1 more Bree... We had a talk about this very thing one time on the way to visit her family... I would never leave my house again...


I dont think i need to elaborate.

[urgeok]

Originally Posted by Vodstok

I would make at least 1 more Bree... We had a talk about this very thing one time on the way to visit her family... I would never leave my house again...


I dont think i need to elaborate.

i understand .. she could go visit her parents without you - AND stay home and make dinner !

good thinking !

[Vodstok]

Originally Posted by urgeok

i understand .. she could go visit her parents without you - AND stay home and make dinner !

good thinking !

I do the cooking, my friend.

With my luck, such an arrangement would lead to twice as many back rubs needed from me, rather than given to me...

[urgeok]

Originally Posted by Vodstok

I do the cooking, my friend.

With my luck, such an arrangement would lead to twice as many back rubs needed from me, rather than given to me...

twice as many shoes and hair care products to find your way through ..

[Vodstok]

At least she(s) would have help with the baby. Lily LOVES her momma more than anything on earth.... she would probably pop.

Shit, i need to get to work on this right now... both of them would only get groped and annoyed by me half as often :)