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I'd like a teleporter

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:24, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
This, my friends a physics post doc at cambridge
I always tell him to hurry up and fucking invent one.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:25, Reply)
It's not going to happen though
And even if it were possible, it would be banned because of the disastrous possibilities.
*sadface*
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:29, Reply)
It'll happen,
it's mathmatically and physically possible, and that means it can and will be done.
Just not in our lifetime.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:31, Reply)
I'm banning you from this thread
fuck off
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:31, Reply)
I read that as:
LET ME STAY IN MY BUBBLE OF PATHETIC IGNORANCE I DONT LIKE FINKING
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:39, Reply)
I read everything you say as
RAPERAPERAPERAPE MUST HAVE SEX RAPERAPERAPE
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:41, Reply)
I don't think it will
I can't explain why. It's just a feeling I have.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:32, Reply)
We could weed out the stupid though
By telling them all to teleport to the same place, and telefrag each other.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:35, Reply)
bit of a shame
but I can't see them being used for good with the way things are these days
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:32, Reply)
Eggzackly

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:35, Reply)
it's one of those things that won't work out well
unless there is a fairly high level of global harmony.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:36, Reply)
I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony
I proper would as well
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:37, Reply)
They'd be used
to beam in asylum seekers from Bongo-bongo-istan, I'll be bound.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:49, Reply)
But, get this right.
A transporter, at least following star-trek's logic, creates a copy and deletes the origional.

Surely if you can do that, you could make loads of copies of anything, like money or hot girls or sushi.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:05, Reply)
like in the Prestige

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:09, Reply)
Exactly
Huge moral/philosophical questions abound!
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:10, Reply)
But only I would be allowed to control it
Nobody else in the world.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:10, Reply)
It'd ruin the game of rugby
But I'm ok with that.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:28, Reply)
it would ruin lots of games

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:29, Reply)
And Chompy would use spreadsheets
To work out the precise co-ordinates and timing of when to teleport to be inside a woman, which is totally not rape, he'll have you know.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:33, Reply)
He would get right in like Flynn before laws were changed to accommodate developments in teleportation

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:35, Reply)
"Dear Diary"
"Today was good, I tele-violated over six hundred women, all before lunch! One minor miscalculation at the zoo caused me some alarm, but it wasn't all that unwelcome now I come to think about it. Maybe I'll go back there tomorrow."
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:39, Reply)
Was it a white rhino?

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:41, Reply)
Ha!

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:44, Reply)
Thus proving my point no one does mental arithmetic anymore

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:35, Reply)
I can't do mental arithmetic
I am disabled
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:35, Reply)
Chompy would be too scared of accidentally 'porting into Bert

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:37, Reply)
The game of Rugby is fundamentally crap and boring
a teleporter would make it vastly more interesting
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:30, Reply)
rugby is aids

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:35, Reply)
I like this

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:39, Reply)
I think strategically placed trampolines
would be a low-tech alternative.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:43, Reply)

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