Teleportation
An Introduction to Teleporting
“Beam me up, Scotty!”
When Star Trek was first released in 1966, teleportation was only a dream. Now a days, people are claiming that future generations as soon as great-grandchildren will be able to teleport with ease. There are, however, many things that Star Trek hasn’t prepared fans for, and although there are many perks to teleportation, people need to weigh in the risk factors as well. The pros may sound promising but, the cons tremendously outweigh them.
The Downside of Teleportation
This paper could go on and on about “the definition of life” or crap like that, however that would be a large waste of time and space. So, with that in mind, this paper shall continue on wayward.
First of all, by teleporting, all of the atoms in the human body would essentially deconstruct and then reconstruct in a new place. With all of this assembling and disassembling taking place, an issue that needs to be brought up and spoken about is whether or not there would be any mixed up body parts as a complication. While the body is disassembling, the heart would temporarily stop beating and the person would “die”. However, the person would not really die. The body would continue on with “life”. It would just be
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"Beam me up Scotty." You may know what movie this is from. Star Trek right? But teleportation isn't all of the Star Trek fun you think it is. Teleportation does not exist yet, but when (or if) it ever does, it can actually be pretty scary. What is teleportation? How will it work? What are the theories about it? How can it be harmful? To find out, you have some reading to do.
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