Comments on: Pipe dreams

By: Ian

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:45:34 +0000

The best fictional treatment of ubiquitous personal teleportation I’ve found is Larry Niven’s transfer booths, especially his series of transfer booth short stories that are NOT set in Known Space. Very interesting, and he explores most of these issues.

By: Maddie

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:24:46 +0000

Awesomeness.
As I may’ve said previously, tis my challenge for ’08 to get TCAAST on teh interwebynet, and as the months’re shifting pretty fast, I’d best get a move on.
Lemme know if you find any sites you reckon ‘d be good fer me. I’m not good at all the technical stuff, mind.
thanks!
x

By: justine

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:09:11 +0000

and leave them floating in the air? im seeing some problems in this, adam. this comic reminds me of the time my friend and i thought we could save the energy/fossil fuel crisis with this wicked plan we came up with. one by one the flaws revealed themselves, and each one had more disastrous/hilarious theoretical results than the last.

By: Melva

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:11:42 +0000

on a cooler level it could also spell the end of cancer etc, just reassemble yourself minus the newly acquired diseased cells.

By: Melva

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:10:24 +0000

on the plus side teleportation could mean the end to liposuction, you could just leave those atoms behind.

By: golfwidow

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:55:25 +0000

I like the concept of teleportation, within reason. I quote Asimov’s It’s Such a Beautiful Day. “It’s all right for Canton.”

By: Adam

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:33:13 +0000

OK, it seems to me that you can do the tricky part…

I’ll have a quick look at some of the different sites and I’ll see what we can do…

By: Maddie

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:54:29 +0000

Damn, that replied to the wrong comment. It was supposed to reply to Adam’s, not Ben’s. Uups.

By: Maddie

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:53:33 +0000

Okay then, count this as a shout :p
Yeah, I’m really stuck when it comes to making TCAAST an internetual thing, if that’s a word. I can scan the comics onto the computer, i can spend what seems like hourse inking them via the tablet (which, as you said Joseph, is only a good tool when you learn how to use it properly) but unfortunatly, I’m absolutly rubbish when it comes to actually getting them anywhere. I don’t understand most of the host sites, they’re all very confuzzling. Plus, it seems I’m three years too young for some of them :p.
So yeah, any help would be greatly appreciated Adam. ta.

By: Philippa

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:33:58 +0000

I don’t look forward to teleportation. Half the fun to anything is the journey to get to it.

By: Peggy

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:38:53 +0000

Even with teleportation, people will arrive at the theater at the same time they did before, they will just leave later. There will be the ones 30 minutes before, 15 minutes before, and the annoying people that arrive at the last minute, like the ones I tend to date.

Even though I’m in love with the physics, I tend to think we as humans are slow to take on new transportation ideas and I’m sure we’re centuries from getting a living creature through space in one piece. Like those flash back star trek episodes when they get that technology from the vulcans and people come back all gross. Or maybe I’m just being a pessimist. Someone needs to prove me wrong.

By: Roo

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:02:09 +0000

Haha! It’s the one that made me like Bester: I probably never would have given it a try if it hadn’t been for that Intro to Sci-Fi class I took in college (best class ever!). Since then, I’ve devoured all the Bester I can find at the used book shops — he’s great!

By: Adam

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:20:44 +0000

*slightly ashamed*

Still haven’t read it, though I’ve heard about it before.

The Vintage edition looks like a fine book… maybe I’ll Amazon it.

By: Roo

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:17:39 +0000

Wait… didn’t they do that in Logan’s Run?

By: Roo

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:17:24 +0000

Ah! Make sure to let us know where ever TCAAST end up, when you find a home for it. Don’t want to have lonely comics, no do we?

By: Roo

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:10:27 +0000

Reminds me of the preface to Bester’s The Stars My Destination, with the history of jaunting.

By: tia

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:09:15 +0000

i think she’s talking about the thing you hook up to the computer and draw on

By: franzy

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:43:24 +0000

Followed by Telemolestation!!
MWAHAHA!!!
Look out kiddies!

By: Seraphine

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:53:25 +0000

And of course for the brave, the rich,
the lonely and the perv, even better
than the internet, don’t forget the grail:
Teleportation Sex

By: Ben

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:00:20 +0000

Regarding cars.
We haven’t evolved much in the last 100 000 years or so, but we are easily able to cope with travelling at supersonic speeds, handle mass data, etc.
I think we will cope reasonably well with teleportation.
Likely we will go thru a period where we have to have some one walk in front of the car (so to speak), but soon we will have open limit autobahns.

By: Ben

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:57:37 +0000

Oh, god laptops.
Actually it was AutoCAD, but blaim the pc.
Tear my hair out.
Disjointed?
yes.

By: Adam

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:30:27 +0000

Laptops will try to bring you down any way they know… although that usually just means making your legs unbearably hot on train journeys.

Glad you remembered to check in though

I’ll have a look at the comment notification system tonight and see what’s going on… Is anyone else having trouble with this?

Oh, and if you need any help at all getting your comic online, feel free to give me a shout. A different version of The Flowfield Unity has appeared on virtually all of the hosting sites…

By: Adam

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:26:05 +0000

There’s no problem with long comments, not here anyway…

I think you’re on to something there, about the potential for teleport spam… I mean you could literally put products and salesmen in someones house using a teleporter… a brave new world of agressive advertising.

That and I love the idea of using bittorrent as an antiquated engine.

By: Joseph Hewitt

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:58:58 +0000

ComicGenesis works for me, but I’ll be leaving there soon… it seems like I’ve been saying that forever, now. Also, graphics tablets are what is good in life… at least after you learn how to use one properly.

By: tia

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:44:55 +0000

i’m not experienced in that myself, but my sister uses smackjeeves and deviantart. good luck in creating a webcomic, a tablet’s an awesome tool (i envy you)