the symmetry of star trek teleporters seems kinda off.
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the symmetry of star trek teleporters seems kinda off.
you can stand on a transporter platform and then get beamed to a random place hundreds of kilometers away. okay.
but you can also be beamed from a random place to that platform. this doesn't seem like it should work but it does.
but then you can also be beamed from a random place to another random place. the platform doesn't even matter anymore.
slowly beginning to suspect they made it all up.
@lritter "but then you can also be beamed from a random place to another random place." i think you first get back teleported to the teleporter station and then to the new destination. but I think Professor Farnsworth in futurama said it best : "It came to me in a dream" about his hyper dimensional drive.
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@lritter "but then you can also be beamed from a random place to another random place." i think you first get back teleported to the teleporter station and then to the new destination. but I think Professor Farnsworth in futurama said it best : "It came to me in a dream" about his hyper dimensional drive.
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@lritter that was what I meant, you get transported to the buffer and rematerliazed at the new location.
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@lritter that was what I meant, you get transported to the buffer and rematerliazed at the new location.
@tomtrottel but then why ever use the platform
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@tomtrottel but then why ever use the platform
@lritter good point.
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@lritter good point.
@tomtrottel @lritter I always imagined the platform was a bit safer because one end is under ideal conditions. Like, if the chance of a platform-site or vice versa working is X, then the chance of a site to site working is X^2 and although I'm sure X is like 0.99999 or better, there's no point taking unnecessary risk
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the symmetry of star trek teleporters seems kinda off.
you can stand on a transporter platform and then get beamed to a random place hundreds of kilometers away. okay.
but you can also be beamed from a random place to that platform. this doesn't seem like it should work but it does.
but then you can also be beamed from a random place to another random place. the platform doesn't even matter anymore.
slowly beginning to suspect they made it all up.
@lritter I figure the last case is two teleportation events, site_a-to-teleporter, and teleporter-to-site_b and they can skip the materialization from the first teleportation because you're already buffered up. They also tend to do teleporter-to-teleporter when teleporting to other ships where they were invited to do so, so it might just be marginally safer to teleport to a specific well known location, and thus would be the standard operating protocol because military.
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@lritter I figure the last case is two teleportation events, site_a-to-teleporter, and teleporter-to-site_b and they can skip the materialization from the first teleportation because you're already buffered up. They also tend to do teleporter-to-teleporter when teleporting to other ships where they were invited to do so, so it might just be marginally safer to teleport to a specific well known location, and thus would be the standard operating protocol because military.
@lritter site-to-site teleportation is also said at various points to be a lot more difficult to do safely
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@lritter site-to-site teleportation is also said at various points to be a lot more difficult to do safely
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