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Comment Re:Replicator (Score 1) 633

by alainsane (#34698904) Attached to: Trek Tech That Most Needs To Be Invented Before I Die:

Transporter is a much better choice.
The transporter technology could be reconfigured to transport certain molecules from spread out places in the garbage dump to make an ice cream sundae for the starving people...
The replicator would merely convert pure energy into a particular mass; poor efficiency when we have stockpiles of biomass laying around. (On the Star Trek spacecrafts it is different; they have an abundance of energy with scarce biomass)

Further, we could transport the food from where it is abundant to where is is scarce.

Transporter trumps replicator.
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