U.S. Marines using a Universal Translator -- Are Transporters and Phasers next?

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Device Gives Output in Arabic

The Phraselator, which looks a little like a handheld PDA, allows the Marines to speak a phrase in English, and have a prerecorded output phrase — in Arabic — played through a speaker, so that Iraqis can understand.

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/World/iraq_030326_IraqiPOW_communication.html

 

[Azwed]

I want a replicator.

 

[bad kitty]

I sure would love to get my hands on a transporter. There are a few Lit folk I would love to be able to see at the push of a few buttons.

 

[sunstruck]

All I want is a flying car. And a robot maid. And a replicator. Oh! And a holodeck!! How fucking kickass would that be? lol

 

[huskie]

All I want is a flying car. And a robot maid. And a replicator. Oh! And a holodeck!! How fucking kickass would that be? lol

I'm a little upset that we don't allready have these thingsby now, ya know??? I want my flying car! Damnit!!!!

 

[teddybear4play]

I can't decide between the transporter and the holodeck.

TB4p

 

[Cleopatra]

I can't decide between the transporter and the holodeck.

TB4p

Holodeck. With one of those, you could be anywhere you wanted, so the transporter wouldn't be needed. Well, unless you actually wanted to *go*.

 

[Guest]

I want a holodeck and a transporter

 

[Spinaroonie]

Holodeck. With one of those, you could be anywhere you wanted, so the transporter wouldn't be needed. Well, unless you actually wanted to *go*.

The holodeck can make stuff too.

 

[woodgie2]

I can't decide between the transporter and the holodeck.

TB4p

Well the Holodeck is based in part on transporter technology, so in effect you'd have both if you went for the holodeck.

(damn, I told everyone I was a geeky Trecker on the other thread, would you believe me..?)

 

[woodgie2]

I want a replicator.

So is the replicator...

(reading backwards am I)

 

[Ishmael]

Teleportation was achieved over 10 years ago under laboratory conditions. A full scale teleporter is merely an engineering effort now. (Merely is a huge understatment, but we now know that it can be done.)

http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/quantuminfo/teleportation/

Ishmael

 

[bad kitty]

Holodeck. With one of those, you could be anywhere you wanted, so the transporter wouldn't be needed. Well, unless you actually wanted to *go*.

See, that's the thing. I have already found the fantasy that I would make with the Holodeck. I just need the transporter to get back there.

 

[teddybear4play]

Teleportation was achieved over 10 years ago under laboratory conditions. A full scale teleporter is merely an engineering effort now. (Merely is a huge understatment, but we now know that it can be done.)

http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/quantuminfo/teleportation/

Ishmael

Okay . . .

That's messed up.

TB4p

 

[april-wine]

Teleporter....right here....right now....

 

[sunstruck]

"Teleportation is the name given by science fiction writers to the feat of making an object or person disintegrate in one place while a perfect replica appears somewhere else... A teleportation machine would be like a fax machine, except that it would work on 3-dimensional objects as well as documents, it would produce an exact copy rather than an approximate facsimile, and it would destroy the original in the process of scanning it".

Now see, I never thought that was what science fiction deemed teleportation to be. It always seemed to me that molecular structures were separated, moved and reassembled. I mean, you wouldn't think they would teleport people by disintegrating them and replicating a new version elsewhere.


"scientists are planning experiments to demonstrate teleportation in microscopic objects, such as single atoms or photons, in the next few years. But science fiction fans will be disappointed to learn that no one expects to be able to teleport people or other macroscopic objects in the foreseeable future, for a variety of engineering reasons, even though it would not violate any fundamental law to do so".

Also, unless I missed it, I didn't read anywhere on that page that it had actually been acomplished. Only that the theory was solid and there were plans to test it soon. Unless it's been done since then in which case I'd like to see the article on the completed expiriment.

 

[woodgie2]

"Teleportation is the name given by science fiction writers to the feat of making an object or person disintegrate in one place while a perfect replica appears somewhere else... A teleportation machine would be like a fax machine, except that it would work on 3-dimensional objects as well as documents, it would produce an exact copy rather than an approximate facsimile, and it would destroy the original in the process of scanning it".

Now see, I never thought that was what science fiction deemed teleportation to be. It always seemed to me that molecular structures were separated, moved and reassembled. I mean, you wouldn't think they would teleport people by disintegrating them and replicating a new version elsewhere.


"scientists are planning experiments to demonstrate teleportation in microscopic objects, such as single atoms or photons, in the next few years. But science fiction fans will be disappointed to learn that no one expects to be able to teleport people or other macroscopic objects in the foreseeable future, for a variety of engineering reasons, even though it would not violate any fundamental law to do so".

Also, unless I missed it, I didn't read anywhere on that page that it had actually been acomplished. Only that the theory was solid and there were plans to test it soon. Unless it's been done since then in which case I'd like to see the article on the completed expiriment.

I didn't read the article but it's possible to transfer the properties of one beam of light (i.e. photons) so that another beam of light (other photons) take on the exact same caracteristics.
Working on the fact there is now no difference between the two they can be said to be the same. Destroy one and the other 'lives on'.

Transportation? Of a sort.

 

[sunstruck]

Transportation? Of a sort.

See, I would say absolutely not. That would be replication, as would the expiriment suggested in the article. To transport something means to move it from one place to another.

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

Device Gives Output in Arabic

The Phraselator, which looks a little like a handheld PDA, allows the Marines to speak a phrase in English, and have a prerecorded output phrase — in Arabic — played through a speaker, so that Iraqis can understand.

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/World/iraq_030326_IraqiPOW_communication.html

Can it be programmed to translate "Fem Speak"?

 

[glamorilla]

mmm...i wanna jean luc picard.

 

[Guest]