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It's surprisingly easy to mix up a couple of coordinates
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this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2023
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This is the reason I don't like materialization/dematerialization transporters. Not only do they have the risk of coordinate failure like in the meme, but also:
The person on the other side isn't guaranteed to be the same person when rematerialized. There's the ontological argument that when you're dematerialized, you die as your physical form is eliminated and that the person appearing on the other side is merely a clone of you, but not you.
Alien interference or environmental contamination can mess up the person on rematerialization. Even small changes can alter the delicate brain chemistry we meatbags have.
Being stuck in the ship's memory buffer while it verifies an open teleporter slot can't be very fun or comfortable.
This is why I only support non-dematerializing wormhole based travel where spacetime itself opens for you to enter. Less chance of mistakes.
The first ever Star Trek tie-in novel, Spock Must Die, dealt with the implications of the first issue you brought up when Spock is accidentally duplicated by the transporter.
What about Thomas Riker?!