Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 25, 2013

I’m in!

brilliant, bob!

simpsonfan2: And you were going to LA!

When the conversation is at the “transporter beam” stage, you’ve had more than a couple drinks…They’re about two drinks away from “I love ya, man….”………..

The economy is still reeling from the trauma dealt by the paddle-wheeler. It can’t survive another hit like that!

Have Jeffrey give Lars a call and short-circuit the whole “inventing” step.

I still think the “beam” would be the wrong way to go. I prefer the idea of an inter-locational portal, where distances between places are made irrelevant.

If your luggage got beamed somewhere else, you would never get it back!

The baggage must be attached to you by a space lanyard.Unless she’s in the other room.

The transporter may not only upend the travel industry, but manufacturing as well. Why build something in a factory when you can order it from a replicator?

Why does inventing something revolutionary that would improve our lives but put one industry out of business automatically “tank the economy?”

i’m still waiting for a flying car(jetsons). america will have high speed train travel that competes with the airlines. and, a cure for cancer(you would think all that money raised by walks, etc… that they would used the money more wisely instead of using it for lawsuits)

I wish they would invent something to tank the tax industry.

The transporter doesn’t actually transport anything. It destroys the original when it is scanned and than assembles an exact replica at the destination. Step in the transporter and be executed, than be replaced by a carefully government reprogrammed replicate. Yup, the government will love this technology.

Albert Enstein said that time travel is possible. I wonder if he mention anything about teleportation?

I’m wondering what it’s going to do to battery life

boy all the negative vibes about transporters! can’t you people be positive about being transported. “killed and re-assembled”? geesh!!

where the imagination, the good way. lol

getting rid of the TSA and their shoe fetish would be worth it alone. who says we have to be “executed” to be transported?that’s what i want to know!

hope flies out the window with the transporter. but then again. think of all the Republicans we could transport to Somalia in their Libertarian Paradise! now that is a positive!!!!

I’ll buy one.

the more we invent, the more landfills needed !

Yeah sure, let more terrorists in,…but then again there’s bad ppl everywhere,…

One of the advantages of having to remove your shoes during airline screening is that when you’re 75, you don’t have to do it anymore. Woo hoo!

Read Larry Niven’s essay “Theory and Practice of Teleportation” (he’s a science FICTION writer, not a scientist), in which he discusses the factors he considered before writing a series of stories involving “teleport booths” (think phone booth sized space, step in, dial your destination, swipe your card, poof).

- How does the cost vary with:- weight? shipping small valuables is worth it, shipping big things still needs trucks?- distance? Is it the same cost to go near or far?- height? Is it more expensive to “lift” something up to a mountaintop?- movement – including the rotation of the earth? What happens if you go to the opposite side of the planet, which is moving in the opposite direction as the earth spins?

Can it be individualized, or is there still benefit to having transport hubs (short-distance vs. long-distance technology)?

If it’s cheap enough, suddenly everyplace in the country can be a “suburb” of everywhere else. No more flyover places. OTOH when the power goes out, or the line goes down, you’re stuck somewhere for a while…

Rare vacations aren’t rare anymore. Anyone can get to Antarctica, or the Galapagos. But only so many people can fit, so tickets for timeslots still exist.

I’ll take the transporter-ish devise (portal, not dematerialization). Boeing can build unmanned aircraft. The federal agents can keep their gloved hands to themselves.

lets hope any demise of TSA will be a shoe in…..

Teleportation may happen one day…But despite that… Planes, Trains and Cars, Motor-Cycles or Bicycles will still be around for those who still like to enjoy a ride…I mean till this day, Horse-riding still hasn’t gone out of style yet…

It would also screw up real estate. You can live in Bermuda and work in New York. Property values in cities would plummet. Maybe the reason there’s a global government in Star Trek is because anyone can go anywhere at any time and that’s the only way to still have laws.

Egon said to never cross the beams….. but it’s inevitable!!

It’s not destinaion – but the journey…

Ooooh! That sounds a bit like Riff-Raff from The Rocky Horror Picture Show! “We return to Transylvania, prepare the transit beam!”

It would change the transport industry. FedEx, UPS Etc. would not be hurt one bit.

Windows 8 is why I went iOS.

I heard the Airline lobby is what kept us from having flying cars and jetpacks.

As long as it doesn’t cause cancer like the backscatter x-ray machines. Of course I’d have to get a smart phone, too.

Yep end the tsa dog and pony show.

Let us not forget every delivery service. Choose it from the Internet website transport it from the factory floor to your home / office. A transporter would be the 3D printer of the future.

Or the pleasure booth!

Shoe fetish? Is Imelda Marcos returning from the great beyond?

You said: "So it took Wiley all week to get to this … ?

No, dd. It’s only Thursday.

Ah, and ruin the chance to make their lives miserable when they get a whiff of the cheese on my feet?

.How many studies—independent and by the government—have shown the TSA is not only ineffective but a major drain on the federal budget? How many times has the TSA failed to do its job? Look it up and be prepared to be horrified. As our found father Benjamin Franklin once put it, “Those who give up a little bit of liberty for a little bit of security will gain neither and lose both.”

Read about the candle makers union in Ayn Rand’s Anthem. Of course they hated the light bulb!

I don’t know – transporter beams aren’t everything they’re cracked up to be. Still, there are advantages…..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-vSss-03mM

It’s potentially too green an idea so it must be evil.

There would still have to be some travel – the people that build the booths have to travel to the new destination to set up and calibrate the new booth. As the distances get further and further, it will be a longer and longer trip to build one……

Amen!

Putting the airline industry out of business in favor of transporters would tank the economy? Is that what happened when cars replaced horse carriages?facepalmNon Sequitur is funny but Wiley’s non-education in economics is readily apparent.

Leonard McCoy: I signed about this ship to practice medicine, not to have my atoms scattered all over space by this gadget...Captain Kirk: You’re an old fashioned boy, Bones.

Ya canna change the laws of physics laws of physics , ya canna change the laws of physics captain. I miss the REAL Dr. De Mento!