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Subject: Re: Matter Transmission
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Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 15:02:00 EDT
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>  A person's genetic code would fit on one or two RA81 disks.
>James Hogan's idea (in _Voyage from Yesteryear_ (1982)) that
>unborn people may travel to the stars in the form of data on
>a computer may be workable.
> [paragraph deleted]
>    Postultimate thought: if you put yourself on file could you ever
>    truly die?

Along these lines, read _The_Hot_Sleep_ by Orson Scott Card

Robert Wallace
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