Would transporters effectively make people immortal?

[Dinner]

I mean supposedly it reconstructs the body completely from the atomic level up and if you have the power to do that then you have the power to change just about anything about the body. Clogged arteries? Just a few little changes and their gone. In fact you could change just about anything removing those pesky extra pounds, make someone taller, change that nose you never liked, solve just about any medical condition, get rid of that bald spot, tighten up that skin, build some muscle mass, give the ladies a bit more cleavage. The possibilities are endless.

[Krill]

The death toll would be so horrific though. But it would finally give the world a cheap and clean way to be rid of all the dirty j00s.

[onodera]

So they basically kill you and create another person who thinks he's you, only leaner and younger, and other people think that way too? O-o-okay...

[loinburger]

Transporters tend to have the opposite effect to that of making people immortal. Two guns and jumping through the air??? Somebody's about to get ****ed up.

[Dinner]

That movie sucked.

[KrazyHorse]

Oerdin, it might be possible to transport objects without also having the information processing capacity to actually store or edit them.

[loinburger]

IIRC, in Timeline they could transport people back in time but couldn't reconstruct them back in time, so they relied on the fact that somebody in a parallel universe would be able to reconstruct the people who got sent back in time, problem solved. Also, the tech villain had quantum computers and a time machine and was going to use them to make a medieval amusement park. Michael Crighton can choke on a dick.

So anyway, my point is that all we need to do is build a transporter, and then somebody in a parallel universe will take care of unclogging our arteries.

[Dinner]

Oerdin, it might be possible to transport objects without also having the information processing capacity to actually store or edit them.

Yeah, but it would be cool.

[Lonestar]

So they basically kill you and create another person who thinks he's you, only leaner and younger, and other people think that way too? O-o-okay...

Clone Wars mang!

[KrazyHorse]

Michael Crighton can choke on a dick.

I bought that book secondhand for 2$ right before I took a flight to Colorado. Wasn't worth it.

[a.kitman]

Oerdin, it might be possible to transport objects without also having the information processing capacity to actually store or edit them.

how would that work? not saying your wrong i just dont know how you could copy soemthing whitout full information.

[BeBMan]

Being immortal sucks. Old people should just make room for the younger ones when their time has come.

[ShaneWalter]

how would that work? not saying your wrong i just dont know how you could copy soemthing whitout full information.

You'd have full information, you just wouldn't have the knowledge to manipulate that information.

As an analogy a guy working in a manufacturing plant can put together a car, but he probably cannot redesign the engine to make 15 more horsepower.

[Tattila the Hun]

IIRC, in Timeline they could transport people back in time but couldn't reconstruct them back in time, so they relied on the fact that somebody in a parallel universe would be able to reconstruct the people who got sent back in time, problem solved. Also, the tech villain had quantum computers and a time machine and was going to use them to make a medieval amusement park. Michael Crighton can choke on a dick.

A bit late for that, didn't he die last year? But anyways, if you don't like author's works, don't read them...

As for the op, you'd end up in a situation like the Eugenics Wars in trek. No genetic manipulation, transport manipulation.

KHAAAAANNN!

[OzzyKP]

You'd have full information, you just wouldn't have the knowledge to manipulate that information.

As an analogy a guy working in a manufacturing plant can put together a car, but he probably cannot redesign the engine to make 15 more horsepower.

Well you might not be able to tweak things (or at least the ability to do that would come later) but if you used a transporter at 25 you could get a copy of yourself saved, and then just "restore" that copy when you're 50.