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[–] Skyrmir 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They don't create matter, they create an energy matter stream that moves the person molecule by molecule. How it happens is scifi magic, but it's not the same as creating new atoms, which would require every replicator to have the energy to obliterate a planet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Replicators can make more than enough food to feed the ship.

Why not use some of those atoms to reconstruct victims of unfortunate accidents? If there's not enough, why not pack enough?

[–] Skyrmir 2 points 1 year ago

Because the stored patterns have the where, not the how fast. What would come out is a brain dead corpse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, they explicitly are written to a buffer of sorts and only when they were read completely are they reintegrated. That means you could easily just create two from the data and it would only use more energy.

[–] Skyrmir 1 points 1 year ago

The buffer contains the stream(s) before being sent to an emitter. It's not a hard drive, it's a container.