Platt%upenn.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa (08/28/84)
From: Steve Platt <Platt%upenn.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa> Syd Logsdon: ^SA Fond Farewell to Dying^S, discusses the problem of the transfer of the soul in a cloned human being. Alternate notes on matter transmission/creation: why is it necessary to create ^Sa lot^S of matter? If you are re/constructing to meet subatomic specifications, you might as well create wafer-sized IC's, worth far more than gold by weight. Surgical implants and extractions in otherwise unreachable sites, etc, etc. As a weapon: pump some small amount of mass (say, one years' garbage output of NYC) into a single point; this'll create a black hole which will quickly evaporate in a rather nasty explosion. (I ^Stried^S to turn this into an energy source, but the amt. of mass to stabilize the evaporation is just too large. In what would be managable, you could only create a blot which would explode in no time at all.) -steve