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    6 months ago

    I always wondered why we can’t just take checkpoints of ourselves via the transporter, so if we die on an away mission NBD—we lose the information and experience of of the mission and that’s it. Could even have like a git repo of ourselves.

    git checkout -b “college”

    Graduate, then merge to main. Etc.

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      6 months ago

      Yeah, that one episode with Pulaski growing old confirmed that transporters are immortality machines.

      Sometimes you just have to ignore canon.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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      6 months ago

      This is basically how death and respawn are handled in pretty much every space sim I’ve ever played. You’re insured and if you die, the insurance company pops out a clone of you and charges you (it?) a premium. If we had the tech for it, I’m sure it would actually be a thing.