Talk:FederalSpace:Technology

On transporters and being bounced- one simple thing that could totally screw up even a well surveyed and planned transporter assault: stringing ropes around the area to change the layout.

Jamming teleporters

Simplest way to jam a teleporter - string ropes across the large areas they'd be teleporting into.

More technological - if warp envelopes (a related technology) are 'finicky' then someone studying the stability of those envelopes would realize that turning those studies on their head would come up with a jammer. My bet is that it would require knowing about the teleporter system and the characteristics of their warp bubbles. That way, someone can take advantage of those characteristics to collapse them unexpectedly, or cause a bounce where there should be none. Also, you might be able to brute force your way through the jamming (if you've got enough power).

Thoughts and comments?

Lifespan

OK, uploads are straight out.

But you've at least implied protein fabricators, so artificial replacement tissues are fairly easy. That means need a new lung? Wait while they customize a left lung template based on your tissues. And so on. This would increase lifespan right there.

What else? Well, there could be nanotech therapies/surgeries that could repair damages from radiation and aging. Time consuming, expensive in terms of the time of skilled therapists, but doable. Another method of increasing lifespan.

So, what are we looking at? Today, we have roughly a 50-60 year useful adult lifespan and 6-10 of that are taken up by education. Given the ability to replace damaged organs, limbs, etc., with a minimum of disruption, repair general aging, better cancer and disease treatments, we're probably looking at at total lifespan of 120+ years, with maybe 80 of that useful adult lifespan.