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From: eric@aplvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: The Transporter; why it can"t do that
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Date: Sat, 30-Jul-83 20:53:49 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 30 20:53:49 1983
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	Thought I would throw my $0.02 in. Ignoring the animated series, it
is fairly simple to argue that the transporter can not "store" the information
used for transportation. Simply put, no one said it is a digital process. It
could very well be an analog device. Consider the vast amount of computing
it takes to do a fourier transform, and then remember that it can be done
easily with optics in an analog manner. Being even more extreme, all of us
can change ice to water and then back to ice, without having to save information
about the crystaline structure of ice. Perhaps we are to used to thinking in
terms of digital processes, and ignore the fact that the universe is not
usually a place of only 1's and 0's.

						Eric Bergan
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