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From: CARROLL@USC-ISIB@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: more on transporters...
Message-ID: <3422@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-Jul-83 12:01:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 25 12:01:00 1983
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Re. David Levine's msg...

   I agree that IF the transporter was that expensive, secret,
or unreliable that it may not be used for the purposes discussed.
But in "The Trouble With Tribbles" wasn't space station K-7 a 
civilian installation?  Maybe it was run by the Federation, but
it wasn't a military base, and there were transporter stations
inside.  Also, the Klingons, etc. have transporters.  The civilian
version may not have the range or penetration through solid objects
of a more advanced military version, but it could do the job
described.  At the very least, raw material could be run through
to be reassembled as dilithium crystals.  Very profitable, posing
no risk to life in the case of a malfunction.  It's a possibility...

steve (carroll@isib)


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