Would you use a teleporter?

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A great idea for SF allowing people to travel instantaneously.

Slight problem in that to be transported you get killed and then an exact replica is created elsewhere with your memories. But is it you? Personally I think not and I would never get into a teleporter.

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Silvanus said:

Someone's been watching/reading The Prestige

Actually it is from a Sci Fi novel I read 40 years ago but can’t remember the name now. The premise is that they use it to send an astronaut. He gets into teleporter on earth and two copies are made - himself on earth and one on the planet he is sent to. He questions whether he is really himself even though “he” goes into the teleporter and comes back out every day thinking he is the same person.