Is that the one with the “dinos”? I recall a short story about teleportation in that manner, and something happened, but it was the confirmation that got delayed. So the original person was up walking around, waiting to be sent again, drinking tea, etc… when the equation had to be balanced. Stories like that really make you think, not just bam-pow-punch-kick… in space.
I wonder where they went?
Is this the new “Honey Badger Don’t Care” meme?
This alone is enough to answer why people need to vote for Biden next term!!!
Somehow I feel like you would know better than I on the matter pertaining to this subject… (Lemmy equivalent to “username checks out”?:-P)
Mustache only=sexual predator, goatee=evil, etc. - facial hair never lies!:-P
I heard that your mother is smaller than Egypt!
And if you happen to die in the meantime, well then in that case you cannot sue :-P.
Life is difficult for redshirts. Fortunately not for long though! :-P
“I use Arch btw” has become the new “And my ax!”
The problems that robots face are not unique to them.
True, but he was built for a purpose: to emulate humans. So ask yourself: would a human ever do that? Uh oh… you’re right, they’re screwed, aack!? :-D
Most of the humans and other aliens there could also kill everyone there, if they wanted to - e.g. Capt. Picard, or Geordi La Forge, or Beverly Crusher. Data is a bit of an exception in that without anyone else around, he could still fly the ship on his lonesome. He could also just float around in the cold empty wastes of space for a few hundred years first, to avoid being caught by any authorities.
What stopped him wasn’t some “override” - or if one existed, he demonstrated multiple times how he could also override the override - but the simple and plain fact that he did not want to. They knew him, they trusted him, they understood his motivations. And, e.g. if he ever did kill everyone, his career in Starfleet would most definitely be over. Plus, they were his friends. That is a powerful blocker:-).
The True power of the Ring… was the friendships we made along the way, or something something.
Tore it to shreds you say?
Her clone is already there…
He didn’t even bother with the pattern buffer on that one… :-D
Okay that’s definitely not the one I was thinking of. However, he reportedly wrote a story a year for Issac Asimov’s periodicals for almost two decades, plus his many actual books, so it is no surprise that some of his themes were re-used, yet hard to find the name of:-).
I thought the one I am thinking of was neat b/c the dinos were gate-keeping offering their transportation technology to humanity, thinking that surely no warm-blooded mammal could possibly keep their emotions in check to do what must needs be done, unlike the cold heart & keen mind of a reptile.
In other works like his collaboration with Arthur C. Clarke “Altered Carbon”, Pohl used the concept of that “stack” to limit the spread of one human mind that would otherwise just be spread out amongst the stars with as many copies as bodies could be found to hold them. But in other anthologies there were other limitations preventing that (and presumably some others still that I haven’t read where those limitations were removed?:-P).