Teleporter from The Fly
Apr. 20th, 2022 12:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alex_antoninThe teleporter from The Fly would never work properly, at least not without a very advanced AI filtering the information. Even with mosquito netting, it's impossible to guarantee you won't still accidentally let in an insect while going through the netting. Also even if you did manage it, humans are not a single organism. Humans have more bacteria on and in us than human cells. We also have microscopic insects we're host to; one eats the gunk from our sebaceous glands, the other is dust mites who eat our dead skin cells. And then what if someone has a tick on them? Or a tapeworm or flatworm or other parasite inside them?
Actually now that I think about it, the teleporter shouldn't have been able to work at all, if the system can't tell the difference between a fly's cells and a human's cells. Because it would have to be able to tell different kinds of human cells apart. If it can't tell the difference between a human and a fly, it shouldn't have been able to tell a brain cell from a sperm cell, and thus should have liquefied anything it tried to transport.
Thus, if it could tell different human cells apart, it would also have the ability to tell the difference between different species. Not to mention the fact that it would also have to be able to put all those cells back in the right place. So even if if thought the fly was part of the same data stream as the human, the most that should've happened was teleporting both of them independently by virtue of putting the fly's cells in the same place and configuration they were in when the teleporter activated. Thus if the fly had been flying around when it got teleported, it would still be in the air when it was reconstructed. If it was sitting on his skin when the teleporter activated, it would still have been sitting on his skin when it was reconstructed. If the teleporter can't manage that, how could it possibly know how to put his brain back together properly? Or for that matter, keep from blurring all his organs into one large coagulated lump?
My verdict: if it were real, the teleporter from The Fly would either have worked perfectly, or not at all. There's no middle ground.
Actually now that I think about it, the teleporter shouldn't have been able to work at all, if the system can't tell the difference between a fly's cells and a human's cells. Because it would have to be able to tell different kinds of human cells apart. If it can't tell the difference between a human and a fly, it shouldn't have been able to tell a brain cell from a sperm cell, and thus should have liquefied anything it tried to transport.
Thus, if it could tell different human cells apart, it would also have the ability to tell the difference between different species. Not to mention the fact that it would also have to be able to put all those cells back in the right place. So even if if thought the fly was part of the same data stream as the human, the most that should've happened was teleporting both of them independently by virtue of putting the fly's cells in the same place and configuration they were in when the teleporter activated. Thus if the fly had been flying around when it got teleported, it would still be in the air when it was reconstructed. If it was sitting on his skin when the teleporter activated, it would still have been sitting on his skin when it was reconstructed. If the teleporter can't manage that, how could it possibly know how to put his brain back together properly? Or for that matter, keep from blurring all his organs into one large coagulated lump?
My verdict: if it were real, the teleporter from The Fly would either have worked perfectly, or not at all. There's no middle ground.