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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Mike Who Would Be Captain: [QB] A cargo transporter could beam up a LOT of pot... especially if you put it in barrels and did away with the rectums and such. its not that heavy.. i once held a half pound.. ooh it felt nice.. it was huge. ok thats enough of that.. you can tell im in day 8 of quitting smoking. anywho hm.. i assume the cargo transporters could do about 2 whales worth of people (sounds like an ancient measurement) based on the ST:IV predicament.. remember that was with a considerable power drain.. they beamed people a lot in that movie, but really emphasized the power issue when they did the big beamout. the question would be how much more power than a BOP could a starship put into a transporter, and how much signal load can a transporter take. im placing the assertion that two whales and a tank of water are very near the maximum limit that would be created by the data end of it, just because im flabbergasted how much data would be contained at quantum resolution. the power question would be determined by how the transporter uses it: is the power taken right off a feed (giving it a huge upper limit, since warp cores create monstrous amounts of energy.. but then again, is it configured to give a lot of energy or is there a limit imposed by the power transfer system?), or does the unit have to 'charge up', and therefore have an upper limit of how much energy it can utilize. this would clarify the time variable.. it would take a transporter a set amount of time to recharge and be ready for another group... this would also create an ability to increase the amount of people transported.. if you had 10 cargo tranporters configured to charge independantly off the same warp core, the could beam 10 times as many people as one cargo transporter, slowing only to alternate the amount of signals being sent through the theoretical data limit of the emitter array. but if its a power feed question and they really all use ships power and the limit is from the ships power, 10 transporters would be as effective as one. .they would all need to wait for power. i dont think that scenario is likely.. weve seen the e-ds transporters all working at once doesnt the TNG tech manual have lots of bs like this?!.. ive just spent 10 minutes theorizing and sternbach probly wrote the answer there.. i coulda been sleepin! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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