Re: How long for teleporters to replace airliners?
- From: Jack Tingle <wjtingle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:49:42 -0500
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:10:26 -0600, Wildepad <noreplies> wrote:
Suppose that tomorrow morning a researcher unveils his theory on
matter teleportation and demonstrates a working model.
He puts it into public domain and distributes complete plans so that
anyone with moderate soldering skill, a lot of patience, and $187.43
can build their own unit which can teleport, at the speed of light,
one cubic millimeter of anything from a transmitting chamber into a
receiving chamber up to seven inches away, regardless of any energy or
matter which happens to be between the two stations.
Further suppose that scaling up the device is only a matter of money,
to the point that being able to send two cubic meters from NYC to LA
requires a $70,000,000 machine using an average of $6.18 worth of
electricity.
Even further suppose there is nothing which is in any way harmful or
hazardous either to the material being transmitted or to external
objects/forces. (Convenient safety features and the impossibility of
certain forms of misuse are inherent in the effect and are not
dependent on hardware design/construction/operation.)
Q1: How long would it take for such a thing to pass all the
scientific, political, and sociological hurdles to become available
for public use?
In niches, a few years (What can Brown teleport for you?). Generally,
a decade (Step through the metal detector, good, now into the
transport chamber. -- Welcome to Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, Mr. Smith. You
can put your footwear back on).
Q2: What factors could either accelerate its introduction or keep it
from ever being used? (Subquestion: which countries are unlikely to
allow its use within their borders?)
Nothing. $70,000,000 ea. slows it down, but conversely, that and the
receiving chanber makes it easier for governments to allow, since they
can keep track of them. Anyone with a desire to 'protect their
borders' is going to hate these things. They won't be able to stop
them in the end, as you describe them. Drug legalization is going to
follow quite quickly, since you don't need a 2 cu. m chamber to send a
few million dollars woth of highly refined heroin from there to here.
Illegal immigrant enforcement will have to be done at the _employer_
end (just as it _should_ be done now).
Q3: What other information would you need to know before forming a
constructive opinion?
Given your givens, none.
Regards,
Jack Tingle
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