Why Teleportation Would Kill You

This is why teleporting would kill you, and why everyone in the Star Trek universe is dead.

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[benjaminburkett]

I've always said when someone dies on star trek, why don't they just put the body in the teleporter and rematerialize them according to their last pattern in the buffer?

[lance]

I think there was an outer limits episode where humans had made contact with aliens and they set up a station with a teleporter for people to come visit and study with them and return later etc. What they hadn't told the people is that just the information is teleported and the original version of you is left on the pad after scanning and transmission and then you are murdered to balance the equation. The copy of you that studies with the aliens was also murdered after the transmission back leaving the 3rd copy to return to earth with the gained knowledge and experience remembering only the moments up to being scanned (unaware of the murders that happened to each of its predecessors after scanning). It was a long time ago so I may have messed up some of the details. Another play on this concept is a movie called The Prestige.

[lundsweden]

The teleporter was actually invented by the Star Trek producers, as it was cheaper and easier to do the fake teleporting scenes compared to filming model spaceships landing on different planets etc.

[NashMusicStudios]

If we have souls, what is the prerequisite for having souls? Wouldn’t the new you also get a soul? There’d be a lot of soul traffic with everyone dying all the time casually. That’d be really weird to have the lights go out all of a sudden but the new body would likely have memories of going in and coming out. Wild thought experiment

[stingrayls]

Thats what I have always thought. Its no different than dissasembling a body with a wood chipper, just less messy.

[williamdudleybass]

Brings back memories of “The Fly” movies as well as Star Trek. What happens to pathogens & our natural microbiomes if we were to teleport? Clothes & boots? Metal objects? Pacemakers, hearing aids, metal joints and metal teeth, etc? Would a teleported machine inc a firearm remain functional? Pets teleporting with you? Organs inside out? Especially if the quantum truly tangles…lol

[Chaoticmass]

There was an episode of The Outer Limits where someone was getting teleported, but the original failed to get destroyed, revealing that normally people who use the teleporter die and a copy is constructed on the other end.

[vandl]

Never understood how getting deconstructed at a subatomic level during teleportation isn't painful. And I've always said, I don't think whatever comes out the other end is you. Teleporters don't transfer your soul.

[freedo]

Ive always said, i would NEVER go through a teleporter. No one can guarantee that the teleported me is the same one that got teleported.

[dikkie]

And if it doesn't kill you, there are other fun things that can happen.
In "Schlock mercenary" there was a guy named Gav, and with a teleporter escape attempt, he was killed. 950 million clones lived.
Quoted from the wiki:
"in an instant Gav had gone from being a single, doomed individual to an entire galactic demographic"

[Sanquinity]

I thought it was pretty well known by now that in Star Trek teleporters work by basically disassembling all of your atoms, and assembling everything exactly the same in another location? So yea...you basically "die" and then get "revived" every time you teleport.

[taiwansivispacemparabellum]

Needling to a cloned body in “Altered Carbon “, is a much more plausible facsimile of “teleportation”

What Trek present to us, is just magic without a receiving device.

[NoahSpurrier]

I do mold making and casting as a hobby art. Whenever my castings go wrong I call them my “transporter accidents”.

[shauntr]

There's no difference apart from a change in location between teleportation and splitting your living into time slices. This just shows there's no such thing as a "you" in the first place to "die", you're just atoms evolving from one state to the next.

[slinky]

The star trek transporters use a device called a pattern buffer to maintain and transfer the consciousness. Thats why there are episodes where their bodies are completely destroyed but the can store their minds on the holodeck. Don't ask me how it works, lol.

[anubhavpal]

6:46 On that day, these questions would be raised, probably even boycotted, until it becomes mainstream sometime afterwards, there would also concerns about hacking the transporter and abducting that individual somewhere else, which has also happened in star trek as well

[UFO_PILOT]

This concept also applies to anyone who's been under general anesthesia. When you're put under, your brain loses total consciousness and when you're revived, a completely new instance is started.

[Numinor]

the #1 thing that makes me realize we could live in a simulation, is the *placebo effect*

[destronia]

In ST TOS, the transported was a nuch simpler device desxribed as a matter-energy scrambler. It mixed your matter with enough energy to allow you to be beamed to another location without actually destroying your body.

[teewhy]

Same goes for the cylons in Battlestar Galactica.