Question from a non-LJ'd friend
Nov. 10th, 2005 07:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
justalurkrSo, regarding teleportation devices in general, and Wraith harvesting systems in particular:
Are they transporting matter, or just the digitized information that could be re-combined as the ‘same’ person? If matter, how can a Dart gather unlimited amounts of humans in its storage unit? If digitized info, why can’t the Wraith make unlimited copies of one or two really tasty individuals and have no food shortage???
My off the cuff answer so far:
Limited storage space on a dart would preclude gathering unlimited humans. I don't believe the directors have given viewers the opportunity to correlate a single dart with a certain number of humans collected.
As the copy of a copy is never as sharp as a copy of the original and Wraith dig the taste of defiance, allowing unlimited copies of a single tasty human would imply ugly things about the human spirit.
Who's got a better answer for the man?
Are they transporting matter, or just the digitized information that could be re-combined as the ‘same’ person? If matter, how can a Dart gather unlimited amounts of humans in its storage unit? If digitized info, why can’t the Wraith make unlimited copies of one or two really tasty individuals and have no food shortage???
My off the cuff answer so far:
Limited storage space on a dart would preclude gathering unlimited humans. I don't believe the directors have given viewers the opportunity to correlate a single dart with a certain number of humans collected.
As the copy of a copy is never as sharp as a copy of the original and Wraith dig the taste of defiance, allowing unlimited copies of a single tasty human would imply ugly things about the human spirit.
Who's got a better answer for the man?
