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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Woodside Kid: [QB] It's probably not as common as we'd like to think. Given the amount of computer processing and energy needed to transport someone at quantum resolution, it seems reasonable to assume it's only done where some other means of transport is not economically viable or practical. That's why we see it all the time in Starfleet; it makes more sense to beam someone down than to land a 5 million ton starship. BTW, one of the first novels to come out after TMP (The Abode Of Life) had a society where transporter travel was as common as phone calls. The Enterprise had a hard time beaming down a landing party because there was so much transporter traffic going on on the planet. That's another factor to consider: the bandwith necessary for widescale transporter usage. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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