I was thinking along the same lines regarding the transporter.
Wouldn't it be great to transport food, agricultural machinery, etc (that's a BIG etc btw
The mind boggles at how much the world would change. No more need for road/rail/air transport of goods/people, cutting down pollution and transport times significantly. It would also make space exploration a lot simpler: even if the transporter has a limited range (which I'm guessing it does), a series of them on spacecraft along the path to the destination would allow us to beam large groups of people onto other planets.
Beam me up!
-Stor
> As is every single piece of technology that ever has, and ever will be, invented.
Indeed! As Louis CK says, "Even a single-edged sword is a double-edged sword"
-Stor
I can't vouch for the validity of this, but this is a fun read if your appetite was piqued by PopeRazto's post:
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/aleister-crowley/
You should find the Charlie Manson easter egg there, and a lot of the other twisted stuff mentioned in PopeRazto's post.
I'd recommend taking it all with a grain of salt, and reading this stuff at home, not at work
-Stor
"Don't be a square, be a rhombus." -- Groovy Wordbender
Heh, and here I was about to violently disagree with your post. I'm glad it was a joke, and can't believe I missed it. Emulator, tape, sign-off... lol.
I too am scared by the fact it was modded Insightful. Hum.
Although unintentional, it made your
-Stor
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.