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A company invents a teleporter.

The device has been demonstrated hundreds of time in private and the company has just now gone public with an initial stock offering of one million shares at $100 per share.

Not only has the device been used successfully on Earth but it has also been used to move men and material from Houston to Moon Base Alpha and both the Russian and American space stations. No accidents, glitches, or other malfunctions have occurred while using this device.

The device consists of two "booths." Each booth is ten feet tall, five feet wide, and five feet deep. To operate the booth, you step into the booth, punch-in a code which corresponds to a receiving booth, deposit a coin or coins, and press the "GO" button. Following a black flicker, you, and whatever is in the booth with you, arrive at the desired destination.
Ten booths have been built and are considered prototypes.
The price of each booth, according to the company, will be around $2000, though mass production would inevitably lower that cost. For each operation of the booth, three watts of electrical power will be consumed.
There is no possible way accidents can occur, so scenarios such as those depicted in The Fly are impossible. The receiving booth will not operate if there is anything other than air in it, and before a teleport can occur, the air and everything in the booth is flushed clean; therefore, the transmitting booth sends not only occupants and materials but also atmosphere.

Tell me /sci/ what would be the positive effects, negative effects, unusual effects, and marketing plan, from your point of view?

>> No.2836231

Mass (gravity) quantum tunneling effect. Upon initialization, device location is fixed within 1 x 10-12 meters; conduit fixed; codes cannot be reused.
Conduit shape and size are fixed at 3.076923 x 1.538461538 x 1.538461538 meters.
1 x 10.783216 24 locations (codes) are available on Terra; conduit numbers vary directly with mass.
The U.S. Government has reserved the first ten thousand numbers.
Transport time within this galaxy: 1 x 10-18 seconds.
Mass manufacturing, 5000 units per month, will lower booth costs to $275 per booth, excluding electronics.

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>> No.2836260

We would get fatter than we already are.

>> No.2836262

>>2836260
Amerifag? Lol

>> No.2836289

>>2836228
fyi watts is not a measure of energy

>> No.2836295

Share price of the company would go to $1000000 if not more.
Share price of oil company, airline, car manufacturer, aerospace company, transportation company would drop 99%.
Tourism related industries rise

>> No.2836296

>>2836289
Not really important, but thank you for informing me of my mistake.

>> No.2836312

It would be lame if you had a booth at college, and everyday at 8:30, dozens of people desperately try getting in.

Anyway, I could foresee a huge market in public transport. You pay 5$ for access to code of a booth, would remove the needs for trains/airplanes. You wouldn't even need to go to the station, since you could just get a code online, and get in your own booth

>> No.2836317

>>2836228
>negative effects
The xorblaxians find the adress to one teleporter and eat all of us.

>> No.2836321

>>2836312
Another question, How would the company go about securing these machines?

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this

>> No.2836354

 

>> No.2836370

I'd get my damn fedex package faster

>> No.2836380

>Positive Effects

Druugggggs

>> No.2836386

>Security

ID scanner

>> No.2836396

There would be considerably less accidents related to transportation as all other forms of transportation would slowly become obsolete.

>> No.2836411

>>2836317
Agreed

>> No.2836446

/sci/ isn't interested in teleportation?

>> No.2836447

>Marketing Plan
Bitches, we just invented the mothefucking TELEPORTER. And you can own one for less than a car.
YOU CAN GO ANYWHERE FOR 1/8 THE PRICE OF A JETTA.
FUCKING SCIENCE BITCHES.

>> No.2836452

>>2836447
/commercial

>> No.2836467

>For each operation of the booth, three watts of electrical power will be consumed.
That'll add up over time.

Use a booth a few hundred times, and it'll sit there consuming a kilowatt.

What happens if you stop powering it? Does all spacetime collapse to a point and we get another big bang?

>> No.2836476

>>2836467
It wouldn't stack up just use 3 watts each time.

>> No.2836487

>>2836228

>>The device has been demonstrated hundreds of time in private and the company has just now gone public with an initial stock offering of one million shares at $100 per share.


Lots of companies offer free energy. They bilke investors and then never deliver.

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>>2836228
That's not realistic.
In reality that story would have gone like this "A company invents a teleporter.

Everyone is dead.
The end."

>> No.2836500

How do the booths work?

>> No.2836501

>>2836476
Like, from the sun?

Then the sun will go out if it's used about 10^26 times. That's not bad. Even if it gets used a trillion times a day, it won't destroy everything even after a trillion days.

>> No.2836507

>>2836348
wtf is that?! real or fake!? sauce!!!

>> No.2836508

>>2836507
Real and no can do.

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>>2836476
mfw he doesn't know what a watt is.

>> No.2836511

>>2836348
Is that a fake ?
There's no way they could get the dog head to move the machine, even if they could keep it alive... right ?

>> No.2836524

>>2836501
...What? I think he's saying its powered by any source of power, since that's how electricity generally works.

>> No.2836532

>>2836507
It's based on a real experiment of keeping a dog's head alive.

Point to experiment added for dramatic purposes.

>> No.2836530

>>2836509
Ok, ok. That is irrelevant. It is powered by electricity.

>> No.2836539

>>2836507
The dog bits are real. The robot parts are not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiments_in_the_Revival_of_Organisms

>> No.2836545

>>2836511
its easier to get the dog to move the machine than it is to keep the head alive off of the body.

they actually did this with live chimps and robotic arms using electrodes directly into the chimps brain. it is MUCH easier to simply use the descending motor nerves to control any robotic apparatus.

>> No.2836556

>>2836545
It wasn't possible before 1991, though, was it ?

>> No.2836568

>>2836556
using motor nerves to control robotics is pretty damn simple. it could have easily been done in the mid 70's.

your nerve's electrical impulse isn't all that different from any other electrical impulse.

>> No.2836604

>>2836545
>it is MUCH easier to simply use the descending motor nerves to control any robotic apparatus.
If that were true, they'd be using this for amputees already.

The dog's head experiments were done decades ago. The monkey-brain-robot-arm experiments started less than a decade ago, and never did anything more impressive than headband biofeedback toys.

>> No.2836615

>>2836568
That's fine if you want to be able to control a half-dozen switches when you concentrate with only a moderate error rate, but if it were as easy as you make it sound to have fine control of multi-jointed limbs, artificial limbs would already be as dextrous as natural ones.

>> No.2836628

>>2836604
your totally wrong. have you ever seen a decent robotic leg? no. the robotic limbs just don't exist. the methods of converting nerve impulses to electronic signals is incredibly easy.

>> No.2836633

>>2836615
exactly.you were hearing it as easy, all i said was the nerve to electronic impulse conversion is retarded simple.

>>2836604
now you can see why they were using brain electrodes.

>> No.2836634

>>2836628
>your totally wrong.
Your understanding of this issue is about as good as your grasp on grammar.

>> No.2836651

>>2836633
Trolling or really this stupid?