But, technically, the transporter would have to take your atoms apart, store them for the return trip and the “pad” on the other side would have to take entirely different atoms and use them to recreate you. Additionally, it would probably have to go down to the quark level to actually get it “right”. At that point,…

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They sort of did that on DS9 once. The problem is that you have to drop your shields to use the transporter, leaving you just as susceptible to that same attack (along with other, more conventional ones).

You won’t. Have had a WRX for 10 years, still enjoy driving it. There is a whole world of modding and a huge community. There is more to the experience than the car itself.

• Jerky: Though really, you should have thought ahead and bought this at Trader Joe’s.

Actually, current percentage of population in uniform is not an all time low at 0.46%. In fact it’s on par with the War of 1812 (we probably should have stepped up our game on that one), Mexican American War and Spanish American War. While the chart is from 2004 you can see that most peacetime percentages prior to…

Very well said. Most veterans that I’ve met were very well-mannered, intelligent, and didn’t mind working hard. Those are traits you don’t see very much anymore. It just makes me sick to my stomach when celebrities are called heroes. When’s the last time a celebrity or athlete jumped on a grenade to save somebody’s…

I’ve never understood why America lifts up it’s athletic, music, pop. culture, type-folks the way that we do. All the while completely ignoring the true heroes that walk among us. Thanks for saying this. I say it all the time and people just roll their eyes like I just don’t “get it”. Americans put a sticker on their…

And thank you as well Tyler. Yours is the only article current on the entire Gawker network that has two important words - Veterans Day - in it.

I think there is an interest in the design and form of these machines, that isn’t immediately associated with gore and destruction. Each one of these objects was crafted with a passion to achieve a specific goal. Sometimes with desperation to be the pinnacle of what they were. In some cases, as a mater of life or…

Don’t make me come over there and oppress you.

Imagine if the wind was blowing North East instead of North… Would have landed in Grovers Mill, NJ!

AH, but what a great idea! Thanks for the info!

OMG that has to be the second greatest compliment I have ever received-Thank you so much.

As you should be proud! I too, volunteered for Iraqi Freedom-being a single mom, they would not let me go. That said I volunteered and helped anyway I could-writing letters, collecting books and things for our troops.

Thanks for the story-good for her! and please thank her for her service (Marine Corps myself).

Cool story Hansel!