Didn’t I read that they were testing to see if teleportation was worth pursuing as a goal of modern transportation methodology and they decided that the only way it could possibly work was exactly as this strip articulates?
This is close to the premise of the Thomas M. Disch novel “Echo Round His Bones,” in which a version of the person who teleported is left behind at the origin point in a phantom state.
Ida No over 1 year ago
No, that’s exactly what happens. The question is, what if the teleporter accidentally forgets to destroy the original.
ArtyD2 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Very old SF story. Wife claims husband is dead, gets his stuff.
Teto85 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Star Trek uses transporters because the SFX for a shuttlecraft was too time consuming and too expensive for the budget of TOS in the 1960s.
po'dawg over 1 year ago
Or you are the one transported to the spider’s web.
erin.adamic Premium Member over 1 year ago
Still beats getting on an airplane.
Preziosilla over 1 year ago
Didn’t I read that they were testing to see if teleportation was worth pursuing as a goal of modern transportation methodology and they decided that the only way it could possibly work was exactly as this strip articulates?
Daniel Mishkin Premium Member over 1 year ago
This is close to the premise of the Thomas M. Disch novel “Echo Round His Bones,” in which a version of the person who teleported is left behind at the origin point in a phantom state.
Pharmakeus Ubik over 1 year ago
Also used heavily in the webcomic Schlock Mercenary.