Could astronauts have been saved by the transporters?

[Larry Wilkins]

I saw on star trek once that the crew was in trouble on a shuttle craft and
they saved them using a transporter beam. Why didn't NASA do this?
Doesn't the transporter beam work when the shuttle is about to land?

Larry

[Mike Speegle]

In news:Larry Wilkins > typed:
> I saw on star trek once that the crew was in trouble on a shuttle
> craft and they saved them using a transporter beam. Why didn't NASA
> do this? Doesn't the transporter beam work when the shuttle is about
> to land?

Nice joke. ;-) Star Trek *wasn't* fiction, it was a future
documentary. ;-)
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[OM]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:33:20 -0600, "Mike Speegle"
> wrote:

>In news:Larry Wilkins > typed:
>> I saw on star trek once that the crew was in trouble on a shuttle
>> craft and they saved them using a transporter beam. Why didn't NASA
>> do this? Doesn't the transporter beam work when the shuttle is about
>> to land?
>
> Nice joke. ;-) Star Trek *wasn't* fiction, it was a future
>documentary. ;-)

....Actually, TOS was, in fact, a documentary series. The reason the
sets looked cheap was that the documentary was shot on a shoestring
budget as opposed to the movies or the sequel series. Which explains
why things looked so different between TOS and the movies. The only
thing that wasn't a cheap copy was the original Enterprise, which is
where most of the series' budget went into.

Go figure.

OM

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[Mike Speegle]

In news:Allan Folmersen > typed:
> "Larry Wilkins" > skrev i en meddelelse
> et...
> > I saw on star trek once that the crew was in trouble on a shuttle
> > craft and they saved them using a transporter beam. Why didn't
> > NASA do this? Doesn't the transporter beam work when the shuttle is
> > about to land?
> >
> > Larry
>
> No. The plasma trail will disperse the beam.

Not to mention the multi-phasic tachyon discriminators have been
offline waiting for a tech upgrade to be approved by NASA safety techs.
;-)
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[Jon Berndt]

"Allan Folmersen" > wrote:

> "Larry Wilkins" > skrev i en meddelelse

> > I saw on star trek once that the crew was in trouble on a shuttle craft
and
> > they saved them using a transporter beam. Why didn't NASA do this?
> > Doesn't the transporter beam work when the shuttle is about to land?
> >
> > Larry
>
> No. The plasma trail will disperse the beam.


Well ... yes, but also the transporter is in the airlock, and it's a
one-at-a-time deal.

Do *you* get up to go to the lavatory when your airliner is about to land?
It's not allowed. So, that wouldn't work.