Not all types of teleportation necessarily involve creating a copy.... quantum teleportation, most notably.

Since society wouldn't allow it to happen to humans...

Today's society... with today's moral values. Who knows what things might be like in a hundred years?

I'm not sure what your point is.

Not necessarily true.... somes sites on the internet are not of general interest to enough people to ever draw the attention of somebody who might even want to hack it.

Obviously... but the parent that I responded to was talking about cloning as it's portrayed in the movie "6th Day"

That would probably be the subject of said science fiction story. If I were writing it, I would say it is gone... completely overwritten by the mind that overwrote it. There could be all kinds of ethical issues we might have with this sort of thing today... but those kinds of issues often make some of the best stories, allowing us to safely examine through the lens of a work of fiction at just what kinds of atrocities the darker side of human nature might be capable of, and possibly giving us a greater respect for life, today, than we otherwise might have had.

Who knows? I did say it was probably the stuff of science FICTION....

Other than the fact that your clone is the same age as you are.... and would have all of the same physical health problems, sure.

.... is the ability to transfer one person's mind into another body... then all you need to do is keep transferring your mind into a younger body as the one you currently have breaks down.

Although that sounds vaguely like the premise of some sort of science fiction story that looks at inequalities between classes.

It's especially ironic because in Britain, they actually use the metric system.

I mentioned dry ice as an example not because you'd use dry ice to cool a superconductor directly, but because the temperatures necessary to make dry ice can be very easily achieved with inexpensive refrigeration techniques.

By my understanding, tax breaks being offered on something only mean that you effectively only get some percentage of the money back that you spent on that thing.

But if you aren't spending any of your money on that thing in the first place, even if it would give you a tax break, aren't you still further ahead than if you did spend the money when you can only get part of it back?

I guess I'm stupid by your assessment then... Not that I particularly care what you think about how I manage my money.

That people who use spaces for indentation are just WRONG. :)

Don't make me come over there and physically remove your "tab" key, heathen!

So they raised the critical temperature of a substance 3/20ths of a degree K above what it is otherwise, and the substance wasn't even among the category of what are considered high temperature supercondutors currently. Color me incredibly excited about this when they can raise the critical temperature of a superconductor to something like the freezing point of water... or even dry ice for that matter.