Re: OT: Bionic Woman again

In article <9r7mg3dn2olk22bpm8q9v64osegtj4kn97@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Maia Rutledge <Don't bother sent to newsgroup> wrote:

> On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:47:57 -0400, Thanatos <atropos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> >I once read a comment by some physicist that said that even given the 
> >general level of advanced technology on Star Trek, the transporter is
so 
> >much beyond what even *they* could technologically achieve that it
would 
> >be like Columbus having a microwave oven on the Santa Maria.

> Except that some scientists in Europe have been able to create 
> a transporter on a small scale.

Except that the scale of the one on the show is one of the reasons it 
would be so fantastically impossible.