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Odd looking design. They remind me of the tombs of the ancient kings in the Narnia stories.

Quoting from the book (" The Horse and His Boy ")

"He saw, about five minutes’ walk away on his left, what must certainly be the Tombs, just as Bree had described them; great masses of mouldering stone shaped like gigantic beehives, but a little narrower. They looked very black and grim, for the sun was now setting right behind them.

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There was something very uncomfortable about those great, silent shapes of stone.

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The moon was shining brightly. The Tombs—far bigger and nearer than he had thought they would be—looked gray in the moonlight. In fact, they looked horribly like huge people, draped in gray robes that covered their heads and faces. They were not at all nice things to have near you when spending a night alone in a strange place. "

Odd looking design. They remind me of the tombs of the ancient kings in the Narnia stories.

Quoting from the book (" The Horse and His Boy ")

"He saw, about five minutes’ walk away on his left, what must certainly be the Tombs, just as Bree had described them; great masses of mouldering stone shaped like gigantic beehives, but a little narrower. They looked very black and grim, for the sun was now setting right behind them.

...

There was something very uncomfortable about those great, silent shapes of stone.

...

The moon was shining brightly. The Tombs—far bigger and nearer than he had thought they would be—looked gray in the moonlight. In fact, they looked horribly like huge people, draped in gray robes that covered their heads and faces. They were not at all nice things to have near you when spending a night alone in a strange place. "

Odd looking design. They remind me of the tombs of the ancient kings in the Narnia stories.

I dunno. When I look at them . . . I think they look like those Easter Island Heads:

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Odd looking design. They remind me of the tombs of the ancient kings in the Narnia stories.

I am less concerned with the hand-waving behind teleportation via transporter technology than the resulting effects which Star Trek barely touched. ...

Let's say we've reached step. one. We've recorded our customer and we now have a record and a ball of ionised plasma. Why not beam the record to two receivers? Now we've got a duplicator. The legalities get sticky. We could get around them by permitting one, say, one Isaac Asimov to a planet; but who gets the royalties on the FOUNDATION trilogy?

Similarly, you can keep the record. You fire the signal at the receiver, but you store the tape. Ten years later the passenger walks in front of a bus. You can recreate him from tape, minus ten years of his life. But-aside from questions concerning his soul-can he collect his own life insurance?

Suppose we change our mind after step one. We store the tape instead of firing it. Is it kidnapping? Or, in view of the fact that we have mortally vaporized a man, is it murder? Does it cease to be murder if we reconstitute him before the trial?

Finally, we assume an advance whereby we needn't destroy the model to get the record. Shouldn't we destroy him anyway? Otherwise he hasn't gone anywhere.

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THE ASSUMPTION: We don't need a transmitter. Our teleport receiver will bring anything to itself, from anywhere. Limitations may exist as to distance or mass of cargo.
THE RESULT: Thieves capable of stealing anything from anyone in perfect safety.

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THE ASSUMPTION: No receiver is needed. Our teleport transmitter will place its cargo anywhere we choose.
THE RESULT: We can put a bomb anywhere.

Little of this happens or is addressed in Star Trek but why? It is right up there is why being out of phase allows you to pass through walls but not carpet glue.

Also refer to The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline Asimov. PhD., The timersol is also an endochronic organic chemical, and in keeping with well established Homeopathic Principals, The less timersol in the vaccine, the stonger the effect; Therefore modern vaccines are extremely endochronic because they have no timersol in them now.

To borrow a phrase from Niven's "How the Heroes Die":

The sandstorm was at the height of its fury, which made it about as dangerous as an enraged caterpillar.

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