Breakfast cereal with milk, disguised as orange cake
Lunch sandwich chicken and lettuce disguised as orange cake
Dinner, roast beef with gravy peas and mashed potato disguised as orange cake
What would you do with a Star Trek replicator?
Tau.Neutrino said:
Breakfast cereal with milk, disguised as orange cake
Lunch sandwich chicken and lettuce disguised as orange cake
Dinner, roast beef with gravy peas and mashed potato disguised as orange cake
What would you do with a Star Trek replicator?
Make another one.
Peak Warming Man said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Breakfast cereal with milk, disguised as orange cake
Lunch sandwich chicken and lettuce disguised as orange cake
Dinner, roast beef with gravy peas and mashed potato disguised as orange cake
What would you do with a Star Trek replicator?
Make another one.
Say you had a bigger replicator, what then? One of these?
https://www.mercedes-benz.com.au/passengercars/mercedes-benz-cars/models/mercedes-maybach/mercedes-maybach-saloon/explore.html?gclid=CjwKCAjwq_vWBRACEiwAEReprBka02WAL8DGtxTNiflB7o6dUoI5gReP6KzuAM-mroFaitAS6cSCoxoCxSsQAvD_BwE
> What would you do with a Star Trek replicator?
Gotta think about that one.
My insight is failing me here.
First thought was to set up an Earthlike environment on another planet. But that would take too much time and money.
Then thought of using it as originally intended. For supplies in an enclased environment such as a submarine or ISS. But that’s of limited utility.
I tried and failed to think of a great piece of scientific equipment to replicate.
For personal use, something beautiful, useful and practical. Perhaps one of these?
Nah.
Was holodecks for kinky sex stuff, could use the replicators for sex toy I imagine, “computer one Klingon dong “
Processing
One of these perhaps.
Nah.
One of these perhaps.
Nah.
One of these perhaps.
Nah.
A small breeder reactor, makes its own nuclear fuel. Perhaps.
At least it would be more practical than a luxury yacht or luxury jet.
> What would you do with a Star Trek replicator?
How about SSTAR, a small self-contained fast breeder reactor that pumps out a constant 100 Megawatts for 30 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small,_sealed,_transportable,_autonomous_reactor
Still not an ideal answer, but getting there.
> What would you do with a Star Trek replicator?
But let’s suppose that the replicator was only the size of, say, a microwave oven. One good use would be for producing products that greatly enhance the quality of life but are uneconomic to produce.
And that description includes the production of orphan drugs.
Dictionary definition: “orphan drug: a synthetic pharmaceutical which remains commercially undeveloped”
> What would you do with a Star Trek replicator?
If small of size but can create new elements. Then consider the energy opportunities from antimatter.
Or Hafnium 178m2, which is a feasible power source but currently costs about 1 trillion dollars per kilogram. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafnium_controversy
But on the other hand the initial results remain unconfirmed.
But consider using it to produce human kidneys that are in very short supply for people on dialysis. And other human organs for transplant.
Perhaps bulk carbon nanotubes, decimetres in length.
> What would you do with a Star Trek replicator?
Fluoride Toothpaste!
Without mint, or with only 10% of the normal mint concentration.
A lot of people would want it to produce good tasting foods, like on Star Trek.
eg. Perfect coffee, tea, wine, real ale, gourmet cheese, chocolate.
Freshly picked peas, strawberries, and other fruits.
Perfectly ripe avocados.
Instant meals.
I suppose it depends on it’s limit, bring back recently extinct animals
Cymek said:
I suppose it depends on it’s limit, bring back recently extinct animals
I still feel that I’m missing 99.9% of the potential of the thing.
Sure drugs, food, transport, habitat, power supply, scientific tools, robots, isotopes, extinct animals, human organs and toys.
But what else?
