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"Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle station!" Emperor Palpatine, Return of the Jedi.
What would be really cool is to develope devices to lob small amounts of minerals with great speed and accuracy.
... Sounds impractical. I'll stick with lightning guns.
All these ideas for weapons are great, but I am still waiting for my flying car and jetpacks.
Technically both are in production. Both of which are not anything like the older generations of sheepish fleshlings thought the machines were going to be today. Considering the Flintstones were aired before the Jetsons, you should have known by now that you would get dinosaurs before you are permitted to have flying, bubble-shaped vehicles that compact themselves into the size of a suitcase.
While radiant and electric projectile weaponry is interesting, I do anticipate further advancement in sonic weaponry.
WHERE ARE MY FLYING CARS?!!!!
Hmm... yeah.... great and all.....
WHERE ARE MY FLYING CARS?!!!!
Here you go…
Hmm... yeah.... great and all.....
WHERE ARE MY FLYING CARS?!!!!
Actually they are too unsafe to put on the market, but they are out there. Most people have trouble driving in 2 dimensions. Add a 3rd and you lose half the drivers...
Actually that might be a good idea, it would cut our oil usage in half...
Teleportation, that is the way of the future.
Until you become Grendel Fly
Teleportation, that is the way of the future.
The only form of theorized teleportation yet conceptualized would only be useful as a way to ship goods. It would atomize the load (obviously killing a living subject) and assemble a perfect duplicate at the destination. An inventive way to commit suicide, however, and potentially an extremely efficient (obviously assuming power expenditure is less than that of conventional long-distance shipping) way of sending bulk goods long distances.
Teleportation, that is the way of the future.
The only form of theorized teleportation yet conceptualized would only be useful as a way to ship goods. It would atomize the load (obviously killing a living subject) and assemble a perfect duplicate at the destination. An inventive way to commit suicide, however, and potentially an extremely efficient (obviously assuming power expenditure is less than that of conventional long-distance shipping) way of sending bulk goods long distances.
A perfect duplicate of the atomized load, or of the load as it was before it was atomized? If the former, its pretty damn useless. If the latter, then why is a duplicate you from the moment before you died not functionally teleportation? If the energy states of the chemicals is not maintained its not a perfect duplicate, I see no reason why a perfect duplicate animal would not be alive.
At any rate, the only teleportation I know of simply transmits the information about how the molecules where oriented, and that information would then have to be used to reasemble the item from molecules on the recieving end (the original is still atomized in the process) so using it to create cargo would be a massive waste of time and energy, as you would have to have all the materials on hand to begin with. Only use would be for sending necessary fabrication machinery to jump start production on the far end, and unique entities that cannot be recreated through avaliable mechanical means (AKA Human and possibly plant/animal life).
Although it would be an interesting test to see if there's anything "soul-like" inside us, because if it works there probably isn't... we'd come out the other end dead if we had any non-material parts.
Also it is far easier to have the required molecules and atoms on hand at the receiving direction then it is to have the actual goods... especially when it comes to transporting foodstuff. A few containers of a few special materials and a whole lot of rock and air could probably be used to make basic edibles. Although of course, at that point, you could probably more easily just use those raw materials for instant production... no copy required.
Perhaps the goal was to atomize the item and then beam the atoms over? They'll probably move at much higher speeds then actual product, but aiming them might be an issue...
I think Klirshon's animation explains the basic reasoning why that wouldn't really be a good idea.
Although it would be an interesting test to see if there's anything "soul-like" inside us, because if it works there probably isn't... we'd come out the other end dead if we had any non-material parts.
Also it is far easier to have the required molecules and atoms on hand at the receiving direction then it is to have the actual goods... especially when it comes to transporting foodstuff. A few containers of a few special materials and a whole lot of rock and air could probably be used to make basic edibles. Although of course, at that point, you could probably more easily just use those raw materials for instant production... no copy required.
Perhaps the goal was to atomize the item and then beam the atoms over? They'll probably move at much higher speeds then actual product, but aiming them might be an issue...
Naw, we'd appear on the other side and just act more evilly, kinda like corporate CEO's, lawyers, and politicians...
It takes way too much energy to atomize something than it would to just ship the thing in the first place. Its the same problem I have with wormhole travel. It would just take too much energy (as in nearly infinite) in order to create a wormhole of any consequence. Not to mention the gravitational forces would rip anything apart that entered one. Like you said the only use that could be made would be to send the plans on how to create things. I like the way 3D printers work, much better. You just take some computer instructions and print what you need. Nasa uses something like that to make silicone replacement parts in space...
Teleportation, that is the way of the future.
Until you become Brundle-Fly
FTFY