If I had access to a 'super computer', I'd

Punch in the name 'Todd Sampson' and ask if he's cool or a knob.

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myscreenname said..
Punch in the name 'Todd Sampson' and ask if he's cool or a knob.

You need a computer for that?

Its all in the eye of the beholder. It could even be both.

If I had a supercomputer I would just use it to work out which username Bono uses next. (Not you by the way, you drive a Bedford, or at least did).

If I had access to a 'super computer', I'd....

be able to forecast the wind better than Laurie's feather on a string system

....make a toaster that was consistent.

I'd try and coax it to say "Hello World"

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actiomax said..
I would have a teleportation machine like Star Trek except you could go in with injury or diseases & be teleportated & come out instantly healed .

or you could find that a fly was buzzing around you and the teleporter mixed your genes up and you came out as some weird hybrid thing, and then placed part of your anatomy in the shaving cabinet... now that would be a good plot for a movie. What could I call it?

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FormulaNova said..

actiomax said..
I would have a teleportation machine like Star Trek except you could go in with injury or diseases & be teleportated & come out instantly healed .

or you could find that a fly was buzzing around you and the teleporter mixed your genes up and you came out as some weird hybrid thing, and then placed part of your anatomy in the shaving cabinet... now that would be a good plot for a movie. What could I call it?

Sun Fun?

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actiomax said..
No seriously it's a massive hole in the plot of Star Trek.
When you teleport your original is so completely scanned it's destroyed & then your reassembled out of the available atoms at a different point.
So it would be easy to assemble you without diseases or injuries
So why do they need a sick bay & doctor's?
I thought it was very interesting to hear an Australian history professor & stand up comedian say the whole concept of Star Trek was based on captain cook & his voyages

Well, I am still stuck with the same issue that the characters in Breaking Bad talk about. The transporter is effectively killing your original version as it reassembles the new you somewhere else. Does this mean its bad because its killing people all the time? Do the original people feel this death? Is it ethical to kill off someone because you create a copy of them somewhere else?

Then you have to consider how a transporter works. With all the cells in a human body, is there sufficient time to analyse the stream and fix up mistakes, or does it just stream out what it reads in and replicate it somewhere else? If you consider it is creating new atoms from old atoms, that's a huge amount of information, and how do you know when Atom type B is part of a defective part when all you are looking at is individual atoms?

It's like looking at a complete ship bolt by bolt but not being able to see the overall structure. How would you fix a defect in it if you can't see the whole thing?

I suspect this sort of discussion has been done to death on some Star trek forum somewhere.

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actiomax said..
When you teleport your original is so completely scanned it's destroyed & then your reassembled out of the available atoms at a different point.

Not sure that is how it works.

I think it unbinds the subatomic particles until they have no mass so can be sent at the speed of light and then re-assembled back in the same sequence. So the person is never actually destroyed and then re-created as such, it is the same "stuff" both ends, just gets split into small bits (so small they have no mass), beamed as electromagnetic radiation and reassembled.

I guess as time is relative it can be done such that it is effectively instantaneous from the perspective of the transportee ?



Argh yes, Google tells you anything. It's like having your own super computer.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transporter_(Star_Trek)

This topic is now closed.

Thanks for your comments everyone!

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Harrow said..
I just want to know why he refuses to tidy his hair.

Anh Do (?? Anh) has got a pretty good TV show

I was horrified to learn that Todd Sampson was a guest. I saw a promo clip of it on my fb feed. It was as compelling as it was annoying.

I need the help of a supercomputer to tell me if I need to know this information.

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myscreenname said..
Punch in the name 'Todd Sampson' and ask if he's cool or a knob.

Computer says..........knob

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Carantoc said..

actiomax said..
When you teleport your original is so completely scanned it's destroyed & then your reassembled out of the available atoms at a different point.

Not sure that is how it works.

I think it unbinds the subatomic particles until they have no mass so can be sent at the speed of light and then re-assembled back in the same sequence. So the person is never actually destroyed and then re-created as such, it is the same "stuff" both ends, just gets split into small bits (so small they have no mass), beamed as electromagnetic radiation and reassembled.

I guess as time is relative it can be done such that it is effectively instantaneous from the perspective of the transportee ?



Argh yes, Google tells you anything. It's like having your own super computer.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transporter_(Star_Trek)

That wiki article talks about requiring a huge number of years and huge amounts of energy to make a transporter work.

It's obviously a fake news site meant to make us believe that transporters don't already exist. They are keeping them from us and its clearly designed to put us off the trail.

A huge amount of energy to move a human? I can do it myself, so that's obviously wrong.

I even saw a transporter drive down the street, so its clear that someone is lying to us.

Do you think a transporter would be more efficient if it worked in a spiral pattern?

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FormulaNova said..
....Do you think a transporter would be more efficient if it worker in a spiral pattern?

Have you had all your bits mixed up with Macroscienc in a tele-porter or something ?

I don't know. I did have my teleporter synced to his over the internet, but I haven't heard from him for a while, so I doubt it.

Why do yu arsk?

What do you guys do all day at work now that Heavy Weather is no more ?

Do you reckon sun fun still spends all day googling about US legislation changes in 1937, the origins of the petro-dollar and what it feels like to be in a lift ?

I'm up to level 3346 on Candy Crush, so it hasn't been a total waste.

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Buster fin said..
I'd have to know the question to which the answer is "42".