I saw this movie in the theater when it came out and have watched it several times since then and only now I just noticed that the scream sounds suspiciously like an altered Wilhelm scream.

Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody's gonna die. Come watch TV.

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That scream - distrubing does not describe it well enough.

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Why would they delete the pattern at the source before it was confirmed that they arrived at the destination successfully? That's 1992 networking technology if you enable reliable network packets

This, and the interrogation scene from The Last Starfighter really screwed up some of my dreams when I was a kid.

Transporters are creepy anyway.

"Yes. You will cease to exist, but we will create an identical copy of you somewhere else, so needn't worry!"
"But my consciousness will be transported right? Into the new body?"
"Errrrrrrrr. Maybe!"

I always thought the answer to that issue was "Of course not, but the new you won't be able to tell the difference and neither will we."....I'm with Bones, screw that.

Sometimes I wonder if the person that wakes up in "my" body is the same one that went to bed with it.



I don't get much sleep.

I suggest you not read about the concept of a boltzmann brain then..it might add to your sense of unease

One is reminded of the sperm whale from Hitchhikers Guide.

I think in Star Trek the physical mater is converted to energy and then sent in the beam, and reassembled into matter. So, you get pulled apart and put back together, still made of the same stuff.

That's why, even though they have subspace communications with earth, they can't transport someone that far because it's not merely data being sent.

http://www.reasonablefaith.org/invasion-of-the-boltzmann-brains

There was an Outer Limits episode which explored this theme. Certainly more than a bit of a mindfuck.

The still forming beta unit terrified me so much I couldn't watch the rest of the movie. It wasn't until years later I got to see the movie in full.