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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Daniel Butler: [QB] Replicators don't necessarily need matter, just power. Energy-to-matter conversion. Energy being the same as matter, but in a different state, has been known since Einstein. Sean - I'm not sure I'm reading you correctly, but if I am, you seem to think the ablative armor generators put a "bubble" around the ship. That's not true - it hugs the hull, it's physically touching it and attached. Also, the armor doesn't disappear or anything when it hits "0%" - it's just metal, formulated to be very very fragile and with a low evaporation point, so that when weapons hit it, it disperses the energy by evaporating/exploding (or probably deflagrating rapidly). It's like how water cools a surface down by evaporating - it takes the heat energy away from the surface as it leaves, energy it needs to break the hydrogen bonds with the other water molecules. However, water doesn't degrade until it hits 0% 'integrity' and then suddenly it all boils off at once. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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