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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Masao: [QB] I was thinking about planetary assault by transporter and was wondering what was the largest (most massive) object we ever saw transported. In ST IV, of course, we saw 2 whales, which weigh 25 to 40 tons, plus a couple hundred tons of water. Was there anything larger than this? What were other large objects transported? Was a weight limit or rate of transport (persons per hour, for example) ever quoted on air? The TNGTM had some figures, I think, but I'm mostly interested in the TOS period. In a related question, do you think transporter capacity differs for organic (live) vs inorganic (dead) objects? For example, a 70-kg man weighs the same as 70 liters of water, but does transporting a person require more computer memory than transporting an equal volume of water? Would the transporter scan and store the location and momentum of every water molecule (as for every atom in a person) or would it just store a record of "generic" water that could be averaged and reassembled easily? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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