On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 01:34:11AM -0700, Jon Lang wrote: >To be fair, Star Trek wouldn't have gotten off the ground if they hadn't >had transporters.
To me they're kin to artificial gravity. We can't do convincing zero-G on a TV budget, so we'll say there's gravity; we can't do convincing spacecraft-on-planet or shuttles on a TV budget (or, in the case of ST5, on a film budget!), so we'll say there's a teleporter. Both of them were clearly invented as money-saving devices without any thought as to the implications of such technologies' being available. R _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
