We have astounding medical advances (my neighbour got a knuckle joint replacement last year! It was the first one the nurses had heard of).
We have the internet and all its applications.
We have ... haha, just asked kids for other miracles of modern science, and Olivia suggested the hair magnet so you can track down Bigfoot.
Well, you know what we have.
But there is something it's just taking too long to get. I mean, is anyone even working on it?
I was just perusing Cupcakes Take the Cake, and Olivia wished she could just reach a particular cake out of the computer. Reminding me that there are even more benefits to be had from the invention of molecular transport. Not just world wide travel and transportation (perhaps we could even create a germ filter!), but the possibility of instant shopping from any place in the world. I could make you cheesecakes and cupcakes and you could have them instantly in your home! I could... I could have a burritto!!!!
Are the boffins even working on this? And if not, why not?
I have a niggling feeling I wrote about this just the other day. But it's important, dammit!
We have the internet and all its applications.
We have ... haha, just asked kids for other miracles of modern science, and Olivia suggested the hair magnet so you can track down Bigfoot.
Well, you know what we have.
But there is something it's just taking too long to get. I mean, is anyone even working on it?
I was just perusing Cupcakes Take the Cake, and Olivia wished she could just reach a particular cake out of the computer. Reminding me that there are even more benefits to be had from the invention of molecular transport. Not just world wide travel and transportation (perhaps we could even create a germ filter!), but the possibility of instant shopping from any place in the world. I could make you cheesecakes and cupcakes and you could have them instantly in your home! I could... I could have a burritto!!!!
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| Whummmmmmmm! One burritto! |
Are the boffins even working on this? And if not, why not?
I have a niggling feeling I wrote about this just the other day. But it's important, dammit!
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I don't know about progress in development of the MTS*, but I do know that I make a wicked burrito.
Many varieties and styles.
So when the do make the MTS* a viable, and as importantly, safe option, I'll send one along.
It is important that the burrito and cheesecake not co-mingle in the cross-dimensional-airlock along the way.
* Munchies Transport System
'tis worthy of note, my verification word = expres
Truly.
Mmm yes. Especially because I went to the shops and forgot to buy snacks, dammit.
I make nice ones too, Craig, but you can't get the tortillas here, they're not right. I've had them from a place on Haight St in SF, it makes me weep to think about it. I've heard good reports of a new place in Dublin though. Fingers crossed.
Mwa, I do hate that!
And it would make visiting so much easier, too.
Well, that was the original wish, of course.
Though, I wonder what cancerous side effect it would end up having? It would surely be too good to be true... like mobile phones... sigh.
Oh, now you've got me wanting a big fat sour-cream-and-guacamole-dripping burrito...
No fair!
Although, it did creep me out when I realised how the MTS in Star Trek works. They kill you by disintegrating your body and then they take the blueprint record of your body/brain as it was at that moment and they replicate it elsewhere using any old molecules to hand, while stripping out any unwanted parts (viruses etc). Theoretically they could make any number of copies they felt like. It's not a transport system at all.
Ever seen The Prestige ?
Where does this Star Trek information come from, Janine? Was that really written into the story?
I think we'd have to come up with something better than that.
I don't know about the Prestige. it was brilliant, but it left me with a bad feeling.
Star Trek: Yep, though they're not overt about the philosophical/moral problems. The MTS "works the same way the replicator system works" according to one of the episodes. And they've established that the food replicator works by creating food from the molecular level - not because the Enterprise is travelling around with 8 billion burritos somewhere in its hold. The virus filter is definitely part of the system ... Goddamn, I never realised I wasted so much time watching Star Trek!
And oh yeah, The Prestige is DARK and mean.
Just like Christian Bayle!
As soon as I started reading this, I thought... Earl Grey... Hot and I could hear Jean-Luc's stentorian tones. If someone can remash me without all the crap, Im all for it!
I have not seen The Prestige - clearly it's one for my LoveFilm list :)
Ah, Jean Luc! How I wished he was my stepdad!
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