Speed of light vs warp 5

[Bunkermaster]

much less fire weapons...

what is juisprudence? 😃

[epimeth]

the prudency of juris, duh...

[eclipce]

Straight from Dictionary.com

jurisprudence

1. The philosophy or science of law.
2. A division or department of law: medical jurisprudence.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=jurisprudence&r=2

[BuzzLY]

Ah, but that wasn't the question... the question was

what is juisprudence? 😃

As for the "sidestepping" issue... Star Trek has sidestepped many times. The best example is teleportation. Gene Roddenberry came up with that because their TV budget wouldn't cover the special effects required to create planetside landings with spacecraft. "Beaming" down the actors was a much cheaper solution.

[Bunkermaster]

\o/ Buzz got it!!! Nice to see you back Buzz 🙂

ok in clear english now, eclipce fix your sig dude 😃

[hermand]

The doppler effect just shifts the wavelength though. If I could be arsed I'd work it out with some formulae, but I can't be.

[epimeth]

funny thing is, teleportation is feasible... but requires a computer with terrabytes upon terrabytes of really really fast memory.

even at the rate we're going now, I doubt we'll see something like that anywhere near the near future ...

now why does Buzz get it??? he never answered the question!

I WANT A MARGARITA AS WELL!!!!!!

[eclipce]

My sig is a quote from one of Joseph Story's writings. It would not be proper for me to change it.

[BuzzLY]

Ok... for the slow people in the room...

I'll speak slowly...

eclipce, you misspelled "Jurisprudence" in your sig. You spelled it without the R: J-u-i-s-p-r-u-d-e-n-c-e

Hence the smartass question,

What is juisprudence?

Was that clear enough for all y'all??? :p

[dar-k]

Durn episode's still downloading. :mad:

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by epimeth
funny thing is, teleportation is feasible... but requires a computer with terrabytes upon terrabytes of really really fast memory.

Of course, if you only want to teleport something really simple you don't need such capacity; at Australia National Univeristy a team is already realiably teleporting lasers, and hope to have their apparatus weaned onto solid food (like single atoms) within a few years. After that, I guess the next challenge would be a water molecule..

Now the real challenge is teleportation without a receiver - like on Star Trek ... all the existing methods rely on having one handy.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go out and recalibrate the main sensor array or I'll never get decent reception.

[Bunkermaster]

and I got to change some gelpacks on deck 4 section 12.

[epimeth]

I did a quick google search.. couldn't find any mention of how they did it. Do you have any information on the experiment itself?

[eclipce]

Oh well, one little "r". 😛

[Bunkermaster]

\o/ Eclipce!

I think that the details of the teleportation thing are quite secret at the moment for most universities in the world are in some kind of a race...

[BuzzLY]

Try here. It's a very interesting explanation and discussion... And it's a PHP site (of course)!

[eclipce]

Other than the idea that the original copy is destroyed in the transport. I think thats cool. When they can actualy send the original copy I might not mind transporters transporting humans...

Untill that happens the current transportation system has religious implications.

[BuzzLY]

I think the idea is like moving a file... you aren't really physically tranferring the file. It is copied to it's new location, then deleted from the original place.

What I want to know is this: Let's assume that in 300 years they perfect transportation / replication. Will they be able to transfer the soul, too? How about brainwaves? Will a person be the same person when they are transported?

Makes ya think... love to hear what you all think about that.

[Elizabeth]

If you are of the assumption that the soul exists outside the flesh and blood and molecules of the body, then transporting a person via molecular breakdown shouldn't harm the soul. But one wonders if the soul has nothing to encase it, will it simply float away to heaven, and thus the person dies upon re-entry?

Perhaps they should also develop a means by which a machine can be attached to the brain to keep the brainwaves going during the process, like a battery back up 🙂 That way, no hiccups and no brain damage, and perhaps a "transfer" of the soul as well.

I'm not volunteering to be the first, though.

-Elizabeth

[Bunkermaster]

Concidering that we achieve teletransportation, we can asume that one technological prerequisite will be to backup a person's brain and that at that point we will know how to "see" the soul.

I believe the soul is a form of energy that exists outside of space and time. If you loose your arm or your leg do you loose a part of your soul?

Some believe that when you cremate the body it helps releasing the soul. Would we not "cremate" the body in a way?

Too deep for me tonight :rolleyes: