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Post by Luke on Feb 15, 2012 13:15:40 GMT -6
Yeah right. Just picture ten officers all with the same name, same serial nubmer, same service record, same families, fighting over the same possessions!
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Post by chilidog on Feb 15, 2012 17:38:21 GMT -6
Imagine his poor (or is it lucky?) wife... lmao
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Post by Atoz 77 on Feb 16, 2012 9:48:25 GMT -6
C'mon man! Be honest! Lol, the Enterprise has energy enough to replicate food daily for what like a thousand crew members? I don't think the replicators create food out of thin air! They probably recombine raw materials stored somewhere on the ship. If what you suggest were possible, then in "The Enemy", Dr. Crusher could have simply replicated Romulan ribosomes, no problem. At any rate, it doesn't sound like something very many people would voluteer for, for the reason Luke suggested. I have this horrible picture of my girlfriend copying herself nine times, and now all ten of them expect a Valentine's Day present!
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Post by chilidog on Feb 22, 2012 11:20:38 GMT -6
OMG, right now on TV is an episode of TOS with another transporter malfunction causing a Kirk duplicate. This duplicate is all psycho tho. lol.
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Post by Arkroyal on Feb 26, 2012 10:26:33 GMT -6
Oh yes, I saw that one recently. I think that was due to some property of the dust covering the technician's jacket affecting the transporters causing it to split things into "good" and "evil" which makes you wonder where the matter to make the extra Kirk came from - the ship's power supply?!
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Post by Atoz 77 on Feb 27, 2012 9:08:56 GMT -6
I think we touched on that a little in the topic on that episode, "The Enemy Within". I've recently been reading about "Alien Hand syndrome", an extremely rare condition where the corpos callosium (in your brain) gets severed. The upshot is that your left hand begins to act on its own, seemingly. What's happening of course is that the hemispheres of your brain act almost semi-independently. Logic on one side, feelings on the other side. I've been wondering if this might have something to do with this transport malfunction.
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Post by Luke on Mar 10, 2012 9:20:37 GMT -6
What's happening of course is that the hemispheres of your brain act almost semi-independently. Logic on one side, feelings on the other side. I thought the two brain theory was a myth.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Mar 12, 2012 8:10:31 GMT -6
What you've heard IS probably a myth, because the hemispheres are so intricately interconnected, there isn't any real difference between "right brain" and "left brain" people. But the brain DOES have two hemispheres, and they do have somewhat specialized functions.
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Post by tracytrek on Apr 29, 2015 10:53:51 GMT -6
C'mon man! Be honest! Lol, the Enterprise has energy enough to replicate food daily for what like a thousand crew members? I don't think the replicators create food out of thin air! They probably recombine raw materials stored somewhere on the ship. If what you suggest were possible, then in "The Enemy", Dr. Crusher could have simply replicated Romulan ribosomes, no problem. At any rate, it doesn't sound like something very many people would voluteer for, for the reason Luke suggested. I have this horrible picture of my girlfriend copying herself nine times, and now all ten of them expect a Valentine's Day present! Now this is going to sound disgusting, but I think probably the raw material to replicate food and other things could maybe come from waste. The replicators break it down into it's atomic structure (so it's no longer sewage) and recombine the atoms and molecules into something usable or even edible. Opinions, anyone?
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Post by Atoz 77 on May 1, 2015 7:41:43 GMT -6
That makes perfect sense to me. When it comes right down to it, it's all carbon, hydrogen and oxygen after all, with a few trace elements. It's even possible that they convert the atoms straight to energy and feed it to the anti-matter drive. But no matter how perfect your recycling system, the ship would have to stop at a planet eventually for new raw materials, I would think.
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