Thread: Seriousness When science fiction meets science fact
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Old 04-05-2009, 06:12 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I remember some years ago either reading a short story, or seeing a short film - I forget which it was - about the "ethics" of transporter technology, the whole point of which was that it inevitably involves the "death" of the person being "transported", and the ethical implications of that.
You may be thinking of an episode of Star Trek:Enterprise which had the inventor of the transporter and him and Archer discussed this topic and how it was debated and protested during the initial developement of the technology.

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