Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umcp-cs!aplvax!eric From: eric@aplvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Fun with Transporters Message-ID: <209@aplvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Aug-83 08:45:49 EDT Article-I.D.: aplvax.209 Posted: Tue Aug 2 08:45:49 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Aug-83 16:45:33 EDT References: cornell.4925 Lines: 19 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 ...!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!eric