At the risk of sounding pedantic (which I am), beaming up doesn’t physically move you up, just molecularly deconstructs you on the spot.
Side note, do transporters purge poop when transporting? Cause why not, they filter stuff out anyway, might as well de-poop and de-pee.
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Yeah, I agree, which is why I only think in terms of small things. Like poop filtering.
Afaik it canonically can. We’ve had people rebuilt from the buffer, so it literally has done most of those things. The downside to most of those is that you would lose your memories of everything that happened since you were last scanned. Also, it’s illegal to rebuild people from buffer. Also, the body is implied to be so complex that you can’t just edit one, like curing their cancer. You have to rely on a scam, so you would need a scam of that person without cancer. For simpler things, you can just edit them without needing an original scan, and that’s how their food makers things I can’t remember the name of work. It’s literally the exact same tech as the transporter.
Their food makers are called replicators, and technically, they aren’t just food makers. While they are primarily used to create food and drinks, they also replicate the plates and glasses, clothes, mechanical parts, and pretty much any matter, with few exceptions.
Given the explanation of how it works, it just vaporises you and constructs a copy elsewhere.
Not exactly, it does a lot of extra stuff in between; it stores your entire molecular structure in the buffer (basically downloads you into RAM), filters out foreign pathogens like viruses (except when it doesn’t), apparently keeps your molecular structure log after each transport (which is somehow different from being kept in buffer), sometimes accidentally merges you with another species if you happen to have a certain flower with you, etc.
Except it has been shown to be able to selectively remove things like weapons. So the question is if it can be expanded to apply to things inside the body.
diseases: it does. they mention this numerous times over the years.
wounds: tricky to differentiate between body modifications and scars (for example). safer to go to a doctor than rely on a computer.
immortality: same thing, basically.
The dominant theory is since there are no bathrooms anywhere on any Star Trek show, the transporters would have to be involved somehow.
They do have sonic showers. Don’t remember any references to toilets tho.
It might have been a joke but I think Jonathan Franks pointed out the single bathroom on the Enterprise one time.
Yeah supposedly the clip is on Journey’s End: The Saga of Star Trek - The Next Generation
That’s just want you to think!
It actually disintegrates you and prints out a new clone.
Tomato, tomato.
With the shit of course.
Does the poop stay where the beamed up lad was? Because that’s going to be a problem for beaming lots of people at once
No, of course not, it goes to the same place all other filtered contaminants go. Recycled for replicators, I presume.
Fecalchemy
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Christ that’s an old one! First saw this graffiti in the 1970s
I laughed so hard I fell off my dinosaur
Maybe “too soon” was sarcasm?
Clearly fake. The splattered shit is missing.
And ye olde red shirt gets to clean out the transporter
who is soon and why is this for him?
Edit: Oh I see you corrected the “to/too” typo in your title. Great.
“Of all the… Son of a… Couldn’t you have waited two seconds?”
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