I mean… there’s lots of different ways to teleport. I get being scared of a portal with perfectly sharp edge due to it being like a hole in space and if it suddenly shrunk- yikes- but… Portal teleportation is probably the safest in terms of what it does… Unless you just dont think about it at all… o_o
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portal is wormhole, teleport is either temporary space fold or its Star Trek. mm
Er… What is “seem’s” ? Is it possessive (of what then?) or a contraction (of what?) This fox is confused.
It’s what we call a typo. When ya type ‘s a lot – sometimes when when something ends in s and you are typing you just end up typing ‘s and you don’t notice it, and then someone points it out in the comments, and then I miss the comment for a day or two, and then I see it and go “wow- how did I make a typo that stupid?” and then i remember I typed it at 6am-8am, there’s no spell/grammar check on ClipStudio, and I’ve had no more than 5 hours of sleep for each night for the past 3 weeks. Usually less. So- yeah… Fixing it XD
“Crazy way to travel! Spreading a man’s molecules all over the universe!”
If teleportation is the destruction of the body at point A and its reconstruction at point B, then teleportation could be death and the creation of a stranger with your memories.
I’ll take the razor-edged doorway / wormhole, thanks.
Star Trek teleporters are suicide boxes. CGP Grey makes a very compelling argument for this in his video The Trouble with Transporters.
molecular disassembly/re-assembly; she has a nice figure
A HHGG song snippet feels appropriate here:
“I’ll gladly take the high road, Or even take the low, But if you have to take me apart to get me there, Then I for one won’t go.” – The Teleportation Blues, Douglas Adams
I see a bunch of people concerned with the philosophical issues of your body being disintegrated and someone with your memories being (re)constructed at the end point, but it’s sooo much worse than that.
What happens to the matter already in that space? Do you push it away? Absorb it into yourself? (even for air that’s terrifying, before even considering what happens if two atoms get too close together) Does an equal volume of matter simultaneously swap positions with you to give you space (and if so could you briefly teleport into a chunk of marble to make a perfect statue of yourself?) What happens if you teleport halfway into somebody else? I see no world that works out well for them.
And everyone thinks about if you teleport to the other side of the earth you’ll land on your head, but I’m much more concerned about the earth spinning 1000 mph in the wrong direction as my angular momentum is conserved. Or missing by a fraction of a degree and ending in space or deep underground.
Portals are scary, but I would trust them (after seeing something else go through, or falling through accidentally). I would NEVER risk teleporting before I understood the mechanics in detail, and even then I would test it slowly.