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From: eder@ssc-vax.UUCP (Dani Eder)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Matter Transmission
Message-ID: <42@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 11:50:28 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  9 11:50:28 1984
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Organization: Boeing Aerospace, Seattle
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[9 August 1984]

     How about pursuing the idea that matter transmission/duplication is
possible, but very energy intensive.  An obvious figure is the energy
content of the mass sent/copied, i.e. E=mc^2.  The US electrical generating
capacity is something like 6 grams/second.  What cargo/product would
justify that?  This works out to roughly $14,000 a gram.  A five carat
(one gram) diamond just about is worth that much.  Not much else is.
Certain rare postage stamps, a few radioactive isotopes.

     Anyone have ideas on the consequences of this?

Dani Eder / Boeing Aerospace Company / ssc-vax!eder