Teleportation and spacecraft

[iamwearingpants]

So, I was bored to hell in science class today, and drifted off into thought...

Say you have a system of teleportation in the far future, using gates of sorts.

Regular chemical/antimatter/whatever fueled spacecraft are also being used simotaneosly.

My thought is, a teleporter could be placed near the fuel plant, and then another in the spacecraft.

Fuel could be sent through, indefinitly powering it. Once the spacecraft reaches it\'s destination,

a self-sustaining bace could be constructed with a gate, and the spacecraft takes off.

Another idea I had is flinging a gate at the speed of light into the galaxy. It could send information through

to some kind of \'ground\' station, which looks for objects of interest. Once one is found, a space probe is

sent through the \'ground\' gate at the same speed as the gate iself (assuming conservation of velocity when

objects are teleported) to cancel the velocity of the gate it came out of. It then explores the system.

What are your thoughts on these ideas?

I seriously need to write some Sci-Fi stories

[hachiman]

The OTC-X1 which was built in the 50\'s/60\'s and could teleport but not fly. It got taken by the government.

One of the engineers (Ralph Ring) who claims to have built it is still alive.

[Tosh]

In \'Blindsight\' novel by P.Watts \'quantum blueprints\' of antimatter particles were sent by quantum teleportation from a fuel plant at low Sun orbit directly to the spacecraft which \'assembled\' an antimatter from whatever was available.