• Blum0108@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Is there much difference between the two logistically? Seems like the replicator is just the second half of a transporter.

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      4 months ago

      Well there’s an episode in ds9 where a replicator is modified into a teleporter, so in the star trek universe they’re very similar. Replicators reconstitute matter from waste material, and seems to me to be far more likely in the realm of scientific possibility.