• Echo Dot
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    2 months ago

    If the transporter really worked they would just transport people out of caves all the time. Saying they can’t do that makes zero sense that rocks would block a subspace transmission. It’s not going through the rocks, it’s circumventing them through another dimension.

    They try to hand wave it away by saying that they can’t get a sensor lock, but wouldn’t you in that case just lock onto the entire interior of the cave, and beam all of it to the surface. You’ll probably transport a lot of useless boulders as well but who cares. It’s not like you have a weight capacity.

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      2 months ago

      Maybe they tried that but discovered a small problem with beaming the away party plus 2000 tons of unsupported rock above their heads.

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        2 months ago

        They just have such ridiculously OP tech that you can solve virtually any problem with ease. For instance:

        • Beam the entire thing and then purge the rock from buffer before materialistic (they do that with guns and viruses)
        • Beam them into a holodeck and create holo-supports
        • Beam-dig? Transport chunks of rock to the side until you have enough “sensor lock”.
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          2 months ago

          You could even automate the process. Automatically purge rock from the pattern, since obviously no part of the away crew are made of rock.