Where is the hydraulic press channel?
We can go farther.
Ok, so each person is a little less than 20% carbon, so a pile of 177 bodies would contain about 2000 kilos of carbon.
A 1 carat round cut diamond has 0.2 grams of carbon and is about 5mm in diameter.
So what is that, 2 million diamonds? It would be a pile about the size of a car?
There’s some weird assumptions being made here–for example, a cremated body would not end up as a 13kg pile of carbon, almost all of it would be lost–but most of your basic facts are correct. The number of humans is actually 200 (there were 177 cars).
If you did somehow extract all ~13kg of carbon from each of the 200 passengers pictured, you’d end up with 2,590,000 grams of pure carbon dust. If you then formed that into a single diamond, you’d get an object quite a lot smaller than a car. I couldn’t find a way to calculate the size of a diamond from a known mass (apart from doing a bunch of algebra, and I didn’t want to), so I used https://www.omnicalculator.com/other/diamond-carat and put in some ballpark numbers for diameter and depth until I got close to the target mass.
I ended up at a sphere of diamond about 128cm in diameter. Still a big fuckin diamond, but you could put a bunch of those into one car, and it would be a lot smaller than the satirical pile of cremains in the meme.
So crematoriums are the transportation of the future. Sweet!
Case in point: Star Trek’s transporters, which pretend to be teleporters but probably just atomize you while building an identical clone somewhere else.
That’s literally the case. There’s two Rikers running around because the transporter malfunctioned one time.
Nah that’s because they locked a second “transporter beam” onto the pattern while it was in transit, thus basically making a copy. Normally it’s supposed to turn your matter into energy in a specific pattern, then move that energy to another location and turn it into matter again.
Now, in my opinion, in our universe, the end result is the same - your continuous consciousness is interrupted/ended and an identical copy of you is created somewhere else. But we’re talking about the star trek universe, where thoughts are apparently at the very basis of physics and can directly influence the universe, especially anything to do with “subspace”. So it’s safe to say that consciousness exists on an additional, metaphysical layer other than just your corporeal form.
Also, there are multiple cases of people being turned into “pure energy” and retaining their consciousness somehow, so I dont see how a transporter would necessarily be different.
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