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From: captain@spock.UUCP (John Griffin '87 cc)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Transporter uses...and abuses...
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Date: Wed, 1-May-85 13:02:04 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  1 13:02:04 1985
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I had a discussion with some friends recently, and the actual mechanics
of the transporter came into the discussion.  Since the transporter
makes a "blueprint" of the transportee, and, in the ST animated episode
the "blueprint" can be used to re-reconstruct a person, how does the
transporter make this "blueprint"?  Is every single cell of the person codified
and filed in the memory banks of the transporter (multo memory!)?  If so,
some system for determining which little impulse corresponds to a certain
memory, feeling, or thought in a person's mind.  Since someone had to program
the transporter to store this info in a recallable method, someone must
be able to translate the "code".  Therefore, some way must exist to CREATE
entirely new materials out of the transporter, simply by "mix and match" of
these impulses.  Should the Enterprise need dilithum (all the much easier
to create because of its elemental nature) Scotty needs only to throw
some garbage on the transporter, and punch up the code for dilithium.  The
transporter then breaks down the garbage into energy, reforms it as matter
in dilithium format...voila!  New dilithium.  Unlimited resources...even the
creation of new people (if someone had the patience to program him) would
be possible.  Does this seem possible?  Comments?






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