"So, okay, I thought as I settled back, we're in for two hours of the Dopeler effect, defined as: If Hollywood can just keep the action coming at you fast enough, no one will have time to stop and think how stupid it is."
That perfectly sums up our recent experience with the G.I. Joe movie. :)
I've seen people make that suggestion before and I have to say I think it sounds like a terrible idea--wouldn't transporting create a vacuum, causing the uterus to implode and bleed a helluva lot (or probably still hurt, at the very least)? And it would still by a huge shock for the infant. I DO think they could have spent some of the many intervening decades finding other ways to make things easier, like using artificial gravity or improved anaesthetics--so while I disagree on the Watsonian solution I'm with you on the Doylian problem. Then again, I've never carried or delivered a baby and I never plan to, nor do I live on a spaceship (yet) so *shrug*.
What - cause you know, ST has done swaps before, nor has there been any sign that transporting A to B involved sudden vacuums (or there would be collapses of the vacuum, and the noise involved).
I have never lived on a spaceship, but I've carried a child. Who had to be cut from my body due to the sheer size of his head. Said cutting caused 6 months of great pain and weakness in my abdomen.
Trust me, if there had been a better way, I would have jumped at it.
And ST has technobabbled how to take someone in need of immediate medical assistance through transporter technology safely and without harm before.
I can't believe I'm actually going to spout this out but...lost_luckNovember 28 2009, 07:41:46 UTC
In the Voyager episode “Deadlock,” the doctor has to deliver a baby of a human mother and Ktarian father. The baby has spiky ridges on its forehead arranged in such a way that it would have lacerated the mother’s uterus and vagina if the doctor had not been able to manage the delivery by transporter beam
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"So, okay, I thought as I settled back, we're in for two hours of the Dopeler effect, defined as: If Hollywood can just keep the action coming at you fast enough, no one will have time to stop and think how stupid it is."
That perfectly sums up our recent experience with the G.I. Joe movie. :)
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I have never lived on a spaceship, but I've carried a child. Who had to be cut from my body due to the sheer size of his head. Said cutting caused 6 months of great pain and weakness in my abdomen.
Trust me, if there had been a better way, I would have jumped at it.
And ST has technobabbled how to take someone in need of immediate medical assistance through transporter technology safely and without harm before.
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