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| From | John <Man@the.keyboard> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.vintage |
| Subject | Re: Happy 50th birthday Apple |
| Date | 2026-04-16 21:01 +0100 |
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On Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:46:47 +0100, John <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:
>On Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:40:10 +0100, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
>(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
>
>>John <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:
>>
>>[...]
>>> 10**25 particles in a human body can not be scanned by
>>> anything less than a gamma-ray burst that would volatilise the human
>>> and bore a hole in the ship a yard wide from the emitters past the
>>> hull. The beam would go on to fry a moving circular spot on the
>>> surface of the nearby planet. The storage-in-the-buffer would take a
>>> bandwidth of truly astronomical magnitude and more computing power
>>> than could be created were the observable universe full of chips made
>>> from single particles. The reconstruction would take a similar beam of
>>> death-rays and years, probably more years than the current age of the
>>> cosmos.
>>
>>...but apart from that, is there any reason why it couln't be done?
>
> We.eee...ee.llllll, if we assume that we want Human-A on the planet
>and she's supposed to be the same person as Human-B who stood upon the
>processing plate, with a complete continuation of her thoughts,
Of course, we don't *have* *to* assume any such thing. If we take the
practical, unethical approach then we could just nominate the rebuild
as the original, legally and for all purposes and continue from there.
That would make the two "Rikers" both "Riker", legally, morally and
for purposes of the StarFleet service records and it wouldn't matter,
to anyone save the Rikers which stayed on Enterprise and which went
walkies into the great beyond.
If we don't care about human life, then we could make transporter
copies of blondes, torture them, drop them into a transporter with no
target location and blend ourselves another toy to play with.
We could have our wife staying 23 years of age forever. Not the same
wife and we'd need one of those memory implanters to feed the "newer"
one the last year's worth of news but who cares?
We could have real "action movies", where the actors really bleed and
die. Real wars as spectator events but no permanent harm to anyone;
the casualties get rebuilt from *before* their suffering and death.
No, Picard wouldn't take such an approach .........
....... but Tuvix-killer Janeway might. :)
I need to get out more.
I did get out today. I went to a spa. Had hot bubbles time. I was sad
because I couldn't have an ice-cream.
This is all highly [OT], isn't it?
J.
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