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Old 09-08-2013, 05:55 PM
el_draco (Rom)
Politically incorrect.

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Beam me up?

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Originally Posted by Astro_Bot View Post
It seems that "beaming" a la Star Trek is implausible even if a human could be disassembled and re-assembled faithfully. The problem is it'd take a ridiculously long time to transmit the data:

Beam me up? Not in the life of this universe

Shuttle craft it is, then.
Yep, and we will never build a mirror bigger than 5m. Sci-Fi today, sky-fact later on...

Maybe if we practice on Pollies, Lawyers and Tax agents to start with. Much less complex data streams and, if we lose a few... tut, tut ....
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