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<blockquote data-quote="Atavar" data-source="post: 5030464" data-attributes="member: 7136"><p>There is a short story by Stephen King called The Jaunt that does a great job describing the effects on society of the invention of teleportation technology. For example, teamsters are against it because it allows free and instant transportation of goods over long distances.</p><p></p><p>What I found interesting was the one side effect. While non-living things went through just fine, living things would come out insane and would quickly die--unless they went through while unconscious. For a human test they put a volunteer convicted murderer through with the promise of a full pardon if he survived. When he came through the other side he said, "It's eternity in there," them promptly died.</p><p></p><p>It was theorized that the problem was that a conscious mind could not handle the nothingness of non-existence. Put a person to sleep first, and he came out just fine. Put him through consciously, and his mind perceived a nigh-infinite amount of time waiting to exist again, and the wait would drive the mind insane.</p><p></p><p>Later,</p><p></p><p>Atavar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Atavar, post: 5030464, member: 7136"] There is a short story by Stephen King called The Jaunt that does a great job describing the effects on society of the invention of teleportation technology. For example, teamsters are against it because it allows free and instant transportation of goods over long distances. What I found interesting was the one side effect. While non-living things went through just fine, living things would come out insane and would quickly die--unless they went through while unconscious. For a human test they put a volunteer convicted murderer through with the promise of a full pardon if he survived. When he came through the other side he said, "It's eternity in there," them promptly died. It was theorized that the problem was that a conscious mind could not handle the nothingness of non-existence. Put a person to sleep first, and he came out just fine. Put him through consciously, and his mind perceived a nigh-infinite amount of time waiting to exist again, and the wait would drive the mind insane. Later, Atavar [/QUOTE]
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