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Re:'With brain preservation, nobody has to die' by kelnos on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @04:33PM (#42311768)
Star Trek's lore includes some technobabble about transporters operating in "quantum" mode to assuage concerns that the person at the transporter destination is not the same as at the source.
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Re:'With brain preservation, nobody has to die' by bobsmooth on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @11:41PM (#42314534)
Except all those times people got cloned or worse.
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Re:'With brain preservation, nobody has to die' by nytesky on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @08:02AM (#42317032)
But it cloned Riker once!

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Thomas_Riker

This is a similar vein about time machines

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CXhnPLMIET0

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