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This Stunning Image Is The Highest Resolution We've Ever Seen Atoms (www.sciencealert.com)
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[โ€“] Blum0108@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 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.