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The Science of Star Trek

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

scode sent us the url to an article about The Science of Star Trek. Some cheesy stuff, some interesting stuff- talks about Warp Drives, Holodecks, Phasers, Tricorders, and Transporters.

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  1. Transporters are EVIL! by CaseyB · · Score: 2

    I'd jump at the chance to live in the Star Trek universe, but you'd never catch me in a transporter. What people seem to ignore is that, to use a unix filesystem analogy, transportation is not a
    mv /ship/person /planet/person
    it's a
    cp /ship/person /planet/person; rm /ship/person!!
    The difference is crucial!

    What transportation does is clone you on the planet's surface, then deletes the original! You die a horrible death of disintegration, but no one's the wiser, because your new copy is telling everyone how the transport went just fine!