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28 Jul 2024 20:32:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Philosophical pondering  
From: scott
Date: 21 Jan 2014 03:36:43
Message: <52de319b$1@news.povray.org>
> This reminds me of the solutions I've seen for a "Beam me up, Scotty"
> machine: iirc it would involve replicating a person atom by atom,
> destroying the original in the process. Which sounds a bit too much like
> murder and cloning all-in-one :S

Until some hacker figured out how to disable the "destroy after copying" 
part of it (which no doubt the government has forced to be kept on with 
some bad DRM system). That would open a whole can of worms :-)


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