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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Replicate yourself a bunch of ice, a cooler, and a fresh stew, and...

The answer to replicator problems is always MORE REPLICATION!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Oh... you mean instant.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I always knew it could make hot food, but can a replicator create ice?

It's easy to put energy into a system, but removing it usually takes time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why would it remove energy? It doesn't create liquid water and then freezes it. It creates matter with a certain energy level. Creating ice would probably just cost a minuscule bit less energy than the same amount of liquid water

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

For some reason I always assume the matter is created at ambient temperatures, but then it could just use the outside space for freezing ambient temps.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I guess post scarcity go BRRR, but if I was Chief Engineer and caught some flunky using my precious reactor output to replicate ice there’d be a pointed discussion on thermodynamics

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Replicator, replicate me a flunky to sit through the Chief's lecture again I want piña coladas

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This has me wondering about the semantics of potentially replicating a bunch of high capacity batteries.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

this is why every replicator has a bucket of sand stored underneath

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What about a stew pot sized heatpump cooker/cooler?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Maybe if we tuned the transporter’s annular confinement beam to match the warp core’s frequency we could slow down the particles in the stew, cooling it appropriately!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A week in the transporter buffer should be roughly equivalent to overnight in the fridge

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

ahh, I miss Scottie's transpobuffer hooch

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Use the transporter to make smoothies you say? Surely nothing could make anything more finely mixed than a transporter

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

That's a good point. Could we set a phaser to "cold?"