[BiGG]

Why am I thinking this technology already exists and it's all the rage on other planets to send a nonstop wave of conspiracy theorists & religious fanatics to Earth so they can laugh their asses off watching the rest of us having to deal with them? That or the gene pool has been seriously skewed by other means.

Teleportation: Express Lane Space Travel

[RonMN]

Now Bigg...earlier this week you said it was MEEE spreading absurdities???

I guess all we'll need now is the limitless matter/anti-matter power generator & we'll be set! (maybe i should have said a takion sumpin-or-other).

[Wildwell]

When my 15k emails and 2k SMS text messages all arrive when they should, the computer doesn't do weird and explained things and seize up at every opportunity - all computers to that - it might be worth considering - but not in this lifetime!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3777589.stm

'And will we ever transport a human?

To teleport a human would require knowledge of the type and exact position and movement of every atom of the person to be teleported. That is about a hundred thousand million million million million atoms. To send that information down today's fast data transfer systems would take a hundred million times longer than the present age of the Universe (which is about 15 thousand million years).

If it is ever possible, there is the question of whether destroying a human to teleport their information to another place to rebuild them again would constitute murder, and you might also want to discuss if the teleported human would actually be the original person or a copy.'