Would transporters effectively make people immortal?

[Dinner]

Which also means you can create massive clone armies. Get on brain washed super soldier then create millions of copies of him.

[loinburger]

But anyways, if you don't like author's works, don't read them...

Go **** yourself.

[Tattila the Hun]

You seem to have an issue.

[loinburger]

"Hurf durf if you didn't like the book then you shouldn't have read it, you should have said 'Well Sphere was pretty good but using my powers of omniscience I've learned that this book is about a goddamned time travel medieval amusement park.'"

[KrazyHorse]

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

Via physical quantum entanglement. You don't need necessarily need a giant computer to store all the info on the physical state of particles in order to achieve quantum teleportation.

Think of it like a world where you've invented the radio but not the phonograph.

[KrazyHorse]

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.

Again, not necessarily. It is easily imaginable that you could transport without being able to store a static copy.

[Fve Crathva]

Not so long ago there was a story about how there are currently more data being transmitted in the world than can be stored.

SP

[OzzyKP]

Again, not necessarily. It is easily imaginable that you could transport without being able to store a static copy.

I wasn't really speaking to the storage vs. non-storage issue, but the idea of using a transporter to edit away illness and old age from a person.

[Krill]

Not so long ago there was a story about how there are currently more data being transmitted in the world than can be stored.

SP

Quibble: technically it is stored while moving, just not stored for an indefinate amount of time. Which is only relevent here because it is not editable while being stored in that manner (pretty nice comparrison really).

[KrazyHorse]

I wasn't really speaking to the storage vs. no-nstorage issue, but the idea of using a transporter to edit away illness and old age from a person.

Ah. Then I agree with you there too. They are separate issues. One would assume that it would be necessary to store in order to edit, but even that is not necessarily true.

[Fve Crathva]

Depends on how quickly you can edit. If you can do it in real time, and if you have enough and fast enough storage to buffer editable elements, then sure. The storage may also limit what you can edit, e.g. maybe you can buffer enough data to repair a cell, but reconstructing part of the brain or giving yourself nice tits is too complex.

SP

[Ocktoepuss]

Michael Crighton can choke on a dick.

I heard that's how he bit it. That, and he was found in Michael Hutchens' hotel room as well. Frickin' media conspiracy.

[Dinner]

Was it a cloned dinosaur dick?

[Japher]

I hear transports cause Alzheimers... or cancer