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From: syn@uo-vax3.UUCP (syn)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: re: Transporters
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Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 17:12:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 16 17:12:00 1985
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Nf-From: uo-vax3!syn    Apr 25 16:12:00 1985

But there is more to it than tachyons.  Think about it.  The transporter
is a device that records information, destroys the original, constructs a
copy.  I support the notion that the Enterprise larder stocks one steak
one egg, one eggroll, six jellybeans in various flavors, and simply 
reconstructs from the original recording.  Obviously in such a case it
would be inhumane to send those red shirts into life-threatening situations,
let them get killed, and refuse to warm up another "copy".  The crime of
murder, then would not lie in wiping out the original, or a reproduction,
but in erasing the record.  A realistic extrapolation from the existance
of the transporter is that everyone is immortal until their recording of
choice is destroyed.  I, for instance, would like to integrate my 1976
body with my present memories....