If teleportation ever pans out in the direction they are currently taking it, there would be no reason to teleport table scraps. The current idea is to completely deconstruct an object, record the position and velocity of every atom, and then recreate it elsewhere. You would need raw material at the receiving end where an exact copy would be reproduced from the information gathered while ripping the original object apart.benheck wrote:I've often thought the best use for teleportation would be to put your table scraps in a box and it gets sent to countries where people are starving. I know that sounds gross, but think of leftover pieces of pizza or doggie bags that sit in the fridge until they rot.
So, instead of teleporting your half-eaten sandwich, just deconstruct the original sandwich, store that information permanently , and create a copy every time you wanted one (and allow others to make a copy in the third world so they have sandwiches too.) Actual existence of the teleportation technology would actually allow for replication as long as there is sufficient storage space available for all of the information needed to replicate the object. At that point, teleporting half-eaten food becomes cruel when it's just as easy to give a whole new sandwich just as easily. Instead, use your half-eaten sandwich as raw material to either teleport or replicate something else.
Also, to vskid's comment about teleporting the fuel back to earth from the moon, this wouldn't be possible unless the correct raw materials to make the fuel already existed on earth, at which point it wouldn't make sense to teleport it.
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