the.com/transporter
Teleportation device that kills you and makes an identical copy, for convenience.
means A device or person that moves things from one place to another — mundanely a truck or ferry operator, in sci-fi a machine that 'beams' people between locations.
from Built from Latin trans- ('across') plus portare ('to carry') — the same portare that gives us 'port,' 'portable,' and 'import.' The combination passed through French as 'transporter' before settling into English with its straightforward sense of carrying something across a distance. Star Trek borrowed the plain workaday word in the 1960s and bolted it onto a fictional matter-energy beam, giving it the eerie philosophical afterlife it enjoys today.
- star trek origin
- invented to save money on shuttle landing effects
- philosophy problem
- is the copy you, or just confident
- pattern buffer
- your body briefly exists as pure data
- real tech status
- quantum teleportation works, but only for photons