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Please advise on this conversation we had over on c/Piracy. Transporters and replicators, basic operating principles? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

They “nuh-uh’d” this in Enterprise. The inventor of the technology is introduced and basically says the people who propagate that theory are a constant thorn in his side, despite having no basis for it in the reality of that universe.

You're welcome to believe the inventor if you wish, but I'd ask if you also believe the CEO of Boeing when he says their planes are safe...

They also show people experiencing, and reacting to other things in, the matter streams during longer transports. Kind of hard to do if you’re dead.

Yeah I can see why this'd be confusing. Keep in mind the transport process at the referenced time periods takes ~ 6 seconds. 3 to dematerialize, near instantaneous travel to the destination, and 3 to rematerialze. It is that part in the middle which makes it clear the person has died. Being conscious in the matter stream and hence thinking you're the same person is the result of it being a near-perfect copy.

There are far more examples that refute the inventor:

Dr. Mbemba kept his daughter stored in a transporter buffer for months. She retained no memories of during her storage. Her brain and heart both stopped. This is clinical death by definition. Thus,
every time the transported are held within the buffer completely for any period of time (seconds while they disarm weapons, or decide what to do with them on screen) they are clearly dead and a floppy disk is being discussed.
Thomas Riker's accident creating Wil's duplicate. People are almost literally photocopies of a destroyed original by this example alone.