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That Voyager is one clean burning starship though, I’ll tell you what. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 2 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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