Comment on I feel like it was on purpose
Bags@piefed.social 2 days agoI'll put on my best Keiko voice and disappointed stare.
"But Miles, where do you think the matter replicators get their matter from? And where does the power to run them come from? Until a complete and total change in human philosophy regarding the accumulation of wealth, any required resource will become the new vehicle of capitalistic control."
SARGE@startrek.website 2 days ago
Matter=energy=matter.
If you can replicate matter with energy, you can turn matter into energy.
First you use a little wall power or even solar power, replicate some chargeable power cells, and then hey look you’ve got some portable replicating.
And as long as you have enough matter on hand to convert to energy, you have enough power to replicate things until we replicate space tech like deflector dishes and bussard collectors to soak in all that tasty hydrogen that’s just laying around all over the universe.
Jaysus, Keiko, it’s like you don’t even listen to me when we’re having dinner…
back to the pattern buffer for you I guess…
Bags@piefed.social 2 days ago
Hah, I guess I wasn't thinking far enough into the Trekkiverse.
I had recently read a book that had replicator-like technology but the matter stream was a luxury that not everyone could afford to connect to, it was laid out as an analog to the internet or other services like that, so that's where my mind went. I can't for the life of me remember which book that was...
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Not the answer, but perhaps a feather for your cap
lemmy.ml/post/33606418/20062375
SARGE@startrek.website 2 days ago
Shit, imma need that title…
Well, shit.
If you remember, let us know! I’m a huge book nerd that (clearly) loves sci-fi, and that sounds pretty neat.
Bags@piefed.social 1 day ago
I will try and dig through my e-reader to find it, but it was a while ago so I might have purged the file.
On a completely unrelated note, just this week I finished up the last of Greg Egan's works, I've been binging all his stuff. If you haven't read any of his stuff I highly recommend it. They were all so good, but Diaspora and the Orthogonal Trilogy were my standout faves. the Orthogonal Trilogy is so unbelievably deeply technically detailed, it kept me glued to the pages and pages of equations, even if the characters were a little dry. It's all about the universe-building in that one. Egan has an entire website with a massive amount of additional information and details about the physics of that universe.