From:	The Bookworm Thomas.M.Price@*******.edu
Subject:	Technological Teleportation/Energy Sources
Date:	Wed, 17 Mar 1999 15:59:20 -0600 (CST)

On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Max Rible wrote:

> 1. Making it from the stage of "hey, we invented total conversion" to
> "wow, we didn't annihilate life on the planet despite the creation
> of a weapon of unprecedented destructive power".

For reference the enregy levels dealt with in total conversion are roughly
a Megaton per gram of matter converted to use the familar scale we all
know and love from Stratigic Nuclear Weapons. I REALLY dont want to be on
the same planetiod as anyone working on the experimental side of total
conversion at anything above the atomic level! :)

> 3. Transmitting all that data to your receiver. Can you imagine the
> bandwidth required?

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a VW Bug loaded with magnetic tape"
or the moderm addendum "Or a 747 loaded with CDROMs." :)

Thomas Price
aka The Bookworm
thomas.m.price@*******.edu