Oh, and --
LONG before . . . ? Quit pullin' my leg!Long before the sound waves hit them, everyone in the room was dead.
LONG before . . . ? Quit pullin' my leg!Long before the sound waves hit them, everyone in the room was dead.
That much is easy for me to understand. Also, I think nitrogen is fairly important to have handy for the replicator, but that can come out of the air.It stands to reason that the replication would require some raw materials: atoms, elementary particals, and/or energy. There are plenty of atoms in the air, but you could conceivably assemble a living creature from water and soot. Most organic molecules are composed entirely of hydrogen, oxygen and carbon. What we consider comlex life is really just the movement of ions and the assembly/breakdown of molecules.
If you can suspend your disbelief about somone actually getting past the uncertainty principle, then it isn't a much more of a stretch to accept that a human could be assembled with the ions along the proper gradients to allow spontaneous nerve activity.
Bill, you haven't seen the old Flash Gordon movies? They used teleporters, and the special effect was -- still is -- one of the best I've seen.Matter transport via the means of disassembly and reassembly of each atom in the object is one of the most ridiculous mechanical devices ever conceived. I'm pretty sure it was a Roddenberry thing.
I don't know how it was done, I just knew it looked better than ST's.Actually, I don't remember what it looked like. Wasn't it a fade-in/fade-out effect using lights and a glass reflector?
Yeah, but all those Lacoste shirts and Dockers and blazers would be a pain to maintain (dry-clean only, of course). And Abercrombie and Fitch and J. Crew can only manufacture so much in their offshore slave labor camps!davjonz wrote:Preplicants? That's an awesome idea!
-- david j.