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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] I'm sure they *have* a machine shop for making just about everything the old fashioned way. Rick Sternbach has posited that there are certain components of things which must be precision made and machined, such as shuttle warp cores and coils, in order to be customized to certain other things, such as shuttle physical parameters (anyone who's assembled lawn furniture knows that no two chairs are assembled exactly alike). Logically, the more complex a meterial is, the more energy it would take to replicate, to the point that really complex stuff like warp components and latinum simply can't be replicated on a practical level. There probably is a physical limit to the size of some objects being manufactured, too; we've never seen people replicate stuff any larger than what can be manhandled. And finally, remember that replication of most (if not all) materials involves the re-organization of matter that's already existing - we know that food replicators on staships utilize vats of [i]stuff[/i] from which food is synthesized, and into which waste is converted to for re-use. Even if you could easily replicate stuff at the quantum level, it would probably be less energy-intensive to rearrange proteins than quarks to create your salisbury steak. This same principle could be applied to metals for construction. Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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