Monday, October 16, 2006

Rubber Soul

I doubt such quantum transport (or whatever) will really ever work

So you don't think the transporter from Star Trek will ever really work?

Imagine if it could though ... Scotty getting stuck in the pattern buffer and coming back in Star Trek: The Next Generation; two Rikers as a result of the beam being partially reflected by the ionosphere of some planet.

The transporter from Star Trek brings up the issues of self and "the soul". If you can transform an individual into a pattern of information and send that somewhere, possible making multiple copies along the way, what does that say about who we are and our undetected souls?

Interesting.

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Yes it's the USB 2.0 (T60) speedup over USB 1.1 (T30). USB 2.0 is capable of a maximum throughput of 480Mbit/sec, USB 1.1 is 12Mbit/sec max.

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