From:	Joshua Ring strago@***.com
Subject:	Technological Teleportation/Energy Sources
Date:	Wed, 17 Mar 1999 00:33:02 -0500

Adam Getchell wrote:

> >Adam, did you recently get some software for easy bibliographic references,
> >or do you just do those references for the fun of it?
>
> Sorry, I'm in research mode. Academic standards and all.
>
> >And here's a theoretically possible (but totally implausible)
> >"teleportation" method. Scan an object to determine its exact chemical
> >composition (including the location of the atoms to within a few
> >picometers). Convert the object to energy, using total conversion. Send the
> >energy and the data to the receiver. Reconvert the energy to matter, using
> >the data obtained earlier. Obviously, as you can not get 100% efficiency,
> >you'll have to sacrifice creating a few molecules, but they aren't all
> >needed, anyway.
>
> Star Trek. Completely ridiculous, and entropy and Heisenberg have something
> to say about how much possible information you can obtain on a system,
> assuming you have a 100.000000000% efficient scanner. Cancer and other
> horrible defects would result from use of such a system. Which .001% of
> your 3 billion base pairs of your DNA, at random, don't you want?
>
> >.sig deleted to conserve electrons. robert.watkins@******.com
>
> --Adam
>
> acgetchell@*******.edu
> "Invincibility is in oneself, vulnerability in the opponent." --Sun Tzu

That's why you got sensors at the other end that make sure that what comes out
is the exact same, and I do mean exact same, as what went in.