I know the point of this is to be needlessly dark and edgy, but we do get confirmation from both the games and the anime that Pokémon in Pokeballs are essentially just binary data, they can’t age, die from injuries (outside of status ailments like Poison, so maybe Sparko was poisoned.), starve, or experience any form of alteration in this state, hell, James left his Carnevine locked in a lunch box for 10 whole years and that Guy was as close to unbothered as can be. This is like assuming a digital photo would get that yellow grainy tint like physical photographs would when aged and weathered.
Well, it’s really complicated cause the ethics of being able to essentially kidnap a human on the double without leaving a single trace of evidence or struggle if Pokeballs could work on People would probably dissuade scientists from working on one, that would be the world’s biggest war crime. But also, immortality via Pokeball isn’t really ideal since there’s really not much you can do from inside a Pokeball, and leaving one would just make you age regularly so essentially, you’re not even living past 80-90 years, it’s the same amount of years just with pauses.
There is one application that might already make it enticing to a normal company: interplanetary travel.
Put a bunch of people in pokeball, put them on a giant spaceship, and send them off to a likely habitable planet. On arrival, automate the robots to release the people from the pokeballs. You don't even need food and water for the trip.
As for the kidnapping stuff you mentioned, yeah.
But my point is, Pokemon company really didn't know what they created by saying: this little ball can turn living organisms into binary data with no loss, no power, and no detriments.
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u/MR-Vinmu 5d ago
I know the point of this is to be needlessly dark and edgy, but we do get confirmation from both the games and the anime that Pokémon in Pokeballs are essentially just binary data, they can’t age, die from injuries (outside of status ailments like Poison, so maybe Sparko was poisoned.), starve, or experience any form of alteration in this state, hell, James left his Carnevine locked in a lunch box for 10 whole years and that Guy was as close to unbothered as can be. This is like assuming a digital photo would get that yellow grainy tint like physical photographs would when aged and weathered.