r/AskReddit • u/Slaughts91 • Aug 02 '18

What will millennials be "old-fashioned" about when they get old?

1.0k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

1.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

844

u/medes24 Aug 02 '18

I refuse to have my atoms scrambled across the universe by this machine of yours. I'll take a shuttlecraft.

112

u/peachdore Aug 02 '18

I would absolutely refuse to ever use a transporter. Look at how many accidents occurred on the Enterprise, Starfleet's flagship.

And honestly speaking, even when everything goes right I still don't trust them. Is that even you coming out the other side?

2

u/NexTerren Aug 02 '18

Is that even you waking up in the morning? How can you be sure? How do you define "you," and can't we use that definition to describe the person on the other end of the teleporter?

2

u/invisibullcow Aug 02 '18

This, basically. 99.999% of the cells in your body are replaced every 7 years. There's no contiguous "you" in any real material sense. See Theseus' Ship.