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- From: cboerm48@ursa.calvin.edu (Christopher Boerma)
- Subject: Re: Transporters & replicators
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- Organization: Calvin College
- References: <1992Dec30.051310.7625@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 14:33:15 GMT
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- freier@mail.physics.utah.edu (rodney james freier) writes:
-
- > One of the things I don't like too much about Star Trek is that
- >no one seems to want to explore the logical conclusions their
- >technology should come to. They should be able to make an
- >exact duplicate of anyone who's been transported simply by
- >using the trace and giving it the appropriate amount of energy.
- >(Note that I'm ignoring the idea that transporters only look at
- >your DNA pattern; it would be completely impossible to reconstruct
- >someone based on their DNA alone.)
-
- This idea has been debated to death here many times. The
- explanations I've heard are less than satisfing but, such
- is life, we can't have everything we want.
-
- CtB
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