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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Woodside Kid: [QB] [QUOTE] Finally, I'd think there would be transporter enhancer satellites in orbit and at Lagrange points so that it would be possible to beam from Earth to Mars or other places in the inner solar system or even whole solar system. The beaming might be twice (or more) as long, but hell, seems like an easy think to do. [/QUOTE] I'm not sure I'd want to risk a very long range transport like Earth to Mars, if for no other reason than beam dispersal. I remember reading in high school that a laser beam the width of a pencil will spread out to roughly half a mile in diameter by the time it reaches the moon. A transport from here to Mars is about 140 times as far; can you imagine how far the matter stream would spread out over that distance? I think the key to transporter usage on a wide scale would be economic viability. Would there be enough of an incentive to send passengers using a transporter versus more conventional means? As i stated in my earlier post, for Starfleet its more resonable to beam down personnel rather than land a starship. I use passenger transport as my example because I don't believe quantum resolution transporters would be economically viable in shipping cargo. It makes much more sense to simply replicate what you want where you are, rather than manufacturing at point A and beaming to point B. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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