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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Siegfried: [QB] I'd just like to point out that, in Voyager's defense, The Next Generation also showed Mars to be a brilliantly red planet. "Parallels" shows a surveillance scan of the land-based portion of Utopia Planetia. It's sitting in a field of red Martian soil. So, it doesn't look like it was terraformed there either. However, the viability of terraforming is another thread altogether. Getting back to the thread's subject, it's probably less power-intensive to transport cargo at a molecular resolution than a quantum resolution. With the former, a less perfect pattern needs to be stored. That means less stress on the computer and machinery which equals less power consumption. However, would it still be economically feasible to chose transporters over freighters? For interplanetary transporters to work, you'd definitely need a satellite system or booster relay system in place. I think you'd probably lose too much of the beam integrity without them. However, the booster relay chain would have to be immense. Earth and Mars revolve around the sun at different rates. Therefore, it'd be possible for the two planets to be on opposite sides of the sun. Imagine all of the boosters that'd be needed by doing that. For the interplanetary transport of cargo, I still think that freighters would be the choice. Beam the cargo up from the planet, take a short hop to the next planet, and then beam it down. I just don't think that transporters would be a very good method. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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