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My pet theory is that Star Trek just beams the waste out of folks automatically.
by unsnap_biceps 2y ago
My pet theory is that Star Trek just beams the waste out of folks automatically.
- jsheard 2y agoHopefully no beta testers had their guts beamed into space by accident when they were dialing it in. What a way to go.
- ceejayoz 2y agoThe frequency with which the supposedly mature tech glitches out would have me very leery of using it for mundane purposes daily.
- hyhconito 2y agoHaving spent an uncomfortable and expensive night in a foreign hospital after creating my own personal fatberg, this sounds like a technological innovation that would bring tears of joy rather than stress to my eyes.
- hk1337 2y agoMy understanding is the waste gets resequenced and used to create other items. * Enterprise - S1E8 Breaking the Ice > Tucker: The first thing you've got to understand is we recycle pretty much everything on a starship. That includes waste, and the first thing that happens to the waste is it gets processed through a machine called a bio-matter resequencer. Then it gets broken down into. > So the waste is broken down into little molecules and then they get transformed into any number of things we can use on the ship. Cargo containers, insulation, boots, you name it. * Discovery - S3E12 There is a tide... > Admiral Charles Vance: It's made of our shit, you know. > That's the base material that we use in our replicators. We deconstruct it to the atomic level and then reform the atoms.