Well, we don’t usually see a Day in the Life of a Normally Functioning Transporter. It’d make for a pretty boring episode. It’s kind of like “Well, where ARE the bathrooms on the ship? What do they look like? How do they work? Do they also use the three seashells?” I mean, getting an answer might be mildly interesting, but really… do we need to see the space toilet? They only kind of got value out of complaining about a lack of showers on Voyager.
Transporters are perfectly safe, and we just see those ultra rare times when they aren’t.
No, what you should really worry about is whether it’s you that arrives on the other end of that transporter or not. Is there a soul? Does it survive? What is actually transmitted down to the planet? What makes you you, basically? Some people find that line of thought the stuff of nightmares.
Wacky stuff like that seemingly has been normalized over the years.
But the failure rate of transporters is probably low. With all the dangers of driving (accidents, weather, mechanical failures, etc) people still seem to have no issues driving
Considering transporters are like 200-year-old technology by that point they fail a surprising amount of times.
Can you imagine if cars occasionally transported you to alternate dimensions, would we all just be fine with it? “”
I would be fine with that.
Cars are kinda terrible. More than 1 million people die every year from car accidents. That’s ignoring deaths from pollution.
Well, we don’t usually see a Day in the Life of a Normally Functioning Transporter. It’d make for a pretty boring episode. It’s kind of like “Well, where ARE the bathrooms on the ship? What do they look like? How do they work? Do they also use the three seashells?” I mean, getting an answer might be mildly interesting, but really… do we need to see the space toilet? They only kind of got value out of complaining about a lack of showers on Voyager.
Transporters are perfectly safe, and we just see those ultra rare times when they aren’t.
No, what you should really worry about is whether it’s you that arrives on the other end of that transporter or not. Is there a soul? Does it survive? What is actually transmitted down to the planet? What makes you you, basically? Some people find that line of thought the stuff of nightmares.
I mean cars do occasionally just burst into flames
Wacky stuff like that seemingly has been normalized over the years.
But the failure rate of transporters is probably low. With all the dangers of driving (accidents, weather, mechanical failures, etc) people still seem to have no issues driving
In fact driving is the single most dangerous thing many people do in their whole lives, and they do it every day…
Some people in cars get yeeted into non-existence, at least the alternate dimensions have cool moustaches.
Where is Craig he’s late for work?
Craig texted to say he is at work and everyone’s evil except the HR lady, so he thinks he might be in the mirror universe
Considering aeroplanes are like 100-year-old technology by this point they fail a surprising amount of times.
IIRC they even call transporters “the safest way to travel” at one point.
That’s also true of airplanes.