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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday January 07 2020, @01:33PM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 07 2020, @01:33PM (#940616) Journal

    As I age, and see just who rises to the top of our meritocracy (insert whoever you want from Zuckerberg to Trump, Pelosi to Gates), and watch how people get really opinionated and superior when talking about nothing more than healthcare (let alone all the other types of sharing Star Trek requires), and how they don't want to be "paying" for other peoples' choices (fuck you smokers, fuck you runners, fuck you meat eaters, fuck you skiiers, fuck you desk jockeys, fuck you mountain climbers, fuck you couch potatoes, fuck you vegans, etc. etc.)

    All of the above are caused by an economy based on scarcity and control over resources.
    The very anti-thesis of what would make StarTrek technology possible or benefit from that technology.

    - I think it really is just science fiction and unattainable.

    I think so too. Very like for a different reason, tho'. And the reason is the limitations of the matter (substance) as the stuff humans are made of and must use to live.

    Consider this: the highest refractory metal the humans can use is tungsten, with melting point around 3600K. What thickness you think those conductors need to be to carry the energy needed to re-constitute in 2-3 seconds all the chemical bonds between elements that make up a teleported human body (making all the atoms from energy is ludicrous: 7.19×1018J the mc2 of an 80kg body - that's about the entire energy the Earth receives from Sun in about 40-50 seconds, try to contain that in 2 or 3 cubic meters and see what substance would be able to support that energy flux without vaporizing in sub-atomic particles).

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
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  • (Score: 2) by coolgopher on Wednesday January 08 2020, @01:41PM

    by coolgopher (1157) on Wednesday January 08 2020, @01:41PM (#941031)

    Well that's why they use EPS conduits instead. Duh. ;)