Timeline for Why can latinum not be replicated?
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| Apr 8 at 17:54 | comment | added | Perkins | @JohnSensebe Another, very simple, explanation would be that it's not that it can't be replicated. They do, after all, seem to have no difficulty running it through the transporter, and replicators are based on transporter technology. But simply that the resolution, precision, and power requirements for replicating it are so high as to be infeasible. Sort of like how we could use nuclear processes to convert base metals into gold today, but the process would cost so much more than the gold was worth that there's absolutely no reason to bother. | |
| Aug 13, 2016 at 21:58 | comment | added | John Sensebe | I think a better explanation would be that it produced certain electromagnetic fields that interfere with replicator technology, the same way certain atmospheric conditions can prevent transporter use. You can't replicate something that breaks replicators. | |
| Jan 6, 2015 at 16:40 | comment | added | Jaydee | @ApproachingDarknessFish I've met the occasional bit of organic matter that claims it is intelligent but is really incredibly dense. | |
| Jan 6, 2015 at 13:13 | comment | added | FuzzyBoots | Aw man... I was so proud for remembering this book and you already got it. :) | |
| Dec 18, 2013 at 20:58 | comment | added | Greenstone Walker | As far as I know, the technical term for the Federation is a "post-scarcity economy". | |
| Sep 30, 2013 at 3:46 | comment | added | Jeff | @Bobby: Nope. The Federation runs on a communist economy. There is no money, all corporations exist at the whim of the government, etc. The Federation, as an idealized society which has eliminated greed, can exist under Marx's flawed 'ideal economy'. | |
| Sep 28, 2013 at 20:23 | comment | added | Bobby | @Jeff: That's not correct, the Federation is not communistic. It is similar to communism, but not communistic. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 3:01 | comment | added | ApproachingDarknessFish | @zipquincy Presumably its complexity lies at the atomic or subatomic level. And organic matter is not very dense compared to something like uranium. | |
| Jan 4, 2013 at 18:18 | comment | added | zipquincy | more dense and complex than organic matter? | |
| Sep 5, 2011 at 2:02 | vote | accept | Thomas | ||
| Sep 2, 2011 at 13:59 | comment | added | Jeff | @John: Yep...but don't worry, the Federation is still the communist paradise. They don't use filthy, filthy lucre. | |
| Sep 2, 2011 at 13:02 | comment | added | John C | Star Trek has money? :) | |
| Sep 2, 2011 at 11:56 | history | answered | BBlake | CC BY-SA 3.0 |