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How would you like to have a STAR TREK HOLADECK(sp?) in your home? A room to which you'd go and dial up your perfect escape?

Your perfect environment your perfect experience and the amount of time you had?

You'd be skiing at Whistler and gambling at Monte Carlo and praying at the Wailing Wall or playing tennis/golf with your favorite pro. Only temporarily of course. And there would be a way to quick switch it off if something were to go wrong. Otherwise it would disappear after the time you alotted for it had ended. You'd get a head's up 5 minutes before it was to disappear so you couldn't be caught in a dangerous situation.

The first place I'd go? The Acropolis in Athens...specifically the Porch of the Carytids. "Why" is a long explanation. Some of you have heard it through the years.

After that whatever I fancy.

Is this something you could enjoy or is it way to fantastical for your logical mind to accept? Really? Are you SURE?

Posted - December 4, 2019
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  • 10718
    Oh, if only!!  I'd be totally addicted to it.   I wouldn't go places, rather I'd create my own "places".   I'd keep the safeties on (meaning no harm could come to me), and I'd override any time limits.  Unfortunately, due to my OCD and shyness, I'd become another Reginald Barclay (TNG S3/E21 - 'Hollow Pursuits').  
      December 4, 2019 1:28 PM MST
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  • 113301
    How about including a mechanism by which you could switch once you entered the "vacation" to an OCD-less gregarious outgoing Bon vivant to whom everyone was attracted? Like a Will Rogers for instance? I have a fear of heights but in my holadeck (sp?) experience I'd be fearless. I would bungy jump and skydive and scuba dive and stand on the tallest point on earth looking down on the magnificence without having my legs buckle. Why not? Why couldn't you include changing yourself from the limitations in real life? Just thought of a question. Thank you for your reply Shuhak and Happy Thursday! :)
      December 5, 2019 4:00 AM MST
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  • 10718
    I don't think a holodeck changes the user.  It can change their clothing to suit the setting (at least in the later shows - the first shows had the users getting into "costume" prior to entering the holodeck).  However, changing self (ridding oneself of fears and such) would be an interesting concept, but once one let the holodeck they'd still have the memories of what had happened and just that thought could be terrifying. 
      December 5, 2019 9:54 AM MST
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  • 113301
    Good point. Something that did not occur to me. Boy. Yep. Not something I'd want reverberating in my mind till I died. OK. Scratch that. I've read that rich folks have a SAFE room in their homes. Assuming they have enough warning to gather there it is apparently a fortress that is impenetrable. I expect it's stocked with survival supplies like cases of imported champagne cans of caviar (Russian of course...allegedly the best kind) and a larder cram packed with the finest of comestibles. Freezers loaded with filet mignon or chateau briande or whatever is the fanciest priciest most extravagant stuff. I mean even though they fear for their lives and are imprisoned in one room they still have to eat, right? The rich are different from you and me. I know. Thank you for your reply Shuhak. How about this? A TEMPORARY change to accommodate trying out things you'd never dare do as yourself and then an option to erase all memory of it if you wish? I mean it's a fantasy. Why can't it contain a way out? This post was edited by RosieG at December 5, 2019 4:28 PM MST
      December 5, 2019 3:42 PM MST
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  • 10718
    Safe rooms usually don't have many supplies (if at all).  They're just a fortified place where one can get to in case of a tornado or a home invasion (robbery).  You may be thinking of a fallout shelter.

    This post was edited by Shuhak at December 6, 2019 2:20 AM MST
      December 5, 2019 4:31 PM MST
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  • 113301
    No. I know the difference. I saw one in a movie with Jodie Foster.  Bad guys broke in and as I recall she and her kid escaped to the SAFE room. When you go in you don't know how long you'll be there. Meanwhile I guess "the authorities" are alerted and help is on the way. Poor people don't need SAFE rooms. They have nothing of value that anyone wants. Thank you for your reply Shuhak! :) This post was edited by RosieG at December 6, 2019 9:39 AM MST
      December 6, 2019 2:21 AM MST
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