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From: eric@aplvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Fun with Transporters
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Date: Tue, 2-Aug-83 08:45:49 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  2 08:45:49 1983
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	All right, I admit it. I had forgotten about "Day of the Dove"s
trick with the transporter. It does seem that you can delay the transporter
effect, and hence, "store" the intermediate information. 

	But wait, maybe there is another solution. You can store the
person's pattern, but it takes lots of (memory, circuitry, knowledge crystals).
This effectively means that the system can only be used in a temporary fashion.

	Or better yet, maybe the way the pattern is stored in an extremely
volatile device. So maybe storage time is only a few minutes (has to be at
least a few minutes, I seem to remember several episodes where Scotty
sweats over the transporter board trying to beam some one up).

	Don't you just love trying to come up with scientific explanations
for something that was done strictly for dramatic effect?

						eric
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