On 12/2/2013 5:58 PM, James Holsenback wrote:
> On 12/02/2013 03:09 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 13:11:10 -0500, James Holsenback wrote:
>>
>>> hey if bezos /really/ is the visionary everyone says he is ... he'd be
>>> looking into replicators (ala star trek) NOT drones
>>
>> Either that or transporters.  There's not a lot of money to be made in
>> fabrication-on-demand technology like replicators, but transporters -
>> well, that's just another delivery mechanism. :)
>
> too bad we have to wait for some egghead to figure out how to convert
> matter to energy then back ... hey 10/15 years ago the idea of a 3d
> printer would have been considered a pipe dream, so I don't think the
> eventual reality is /too/ far fetched.
>
Except.. Unless you know how to make "Heisenberg Compensators", you are 
out of luck. lol The problem isn't just getting all the matter turned to 
energy, without like.. turning it into a nuke, or getting a mess of a 
specific kind of energy to rearrange itself into all the different stuff 
making up atoms, which is a big enough problem, but then you have the 
sort of.. problematic issue of getting all the resulting subatomic 
particles to go, and stay, where you want them, long enough to form the 
right sort of atoms, instead of... what ever the hell they feel like, 
and where ever they want to be, instead.

This is.... a rather non-trivial issue, compared to figuring out how to 
melt a relatively stable material, keep it warm enough for all the bits 
to stick together right (if using the home-grown kind, as apposed to the 
resin versions, which use lasers to "fix" the layers in place), in a 
manner that is little more than a computer controlled version of cake 
decorating. :p

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