Could a DS9 Replicator make me a Diet Coke
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Well I'm sure if you gave it the ''right'' Amount of ingredents and such it could repleacate it. Now an even bigger question is, Would it duplacate the CAN?
So you would have a replicator and still pay less than a dollar at a vending machine for a coke?
A replicator could make a Diet Coke as long as in the future someone programmed it into the machine. As for the can, the machine can replicator plates, glass cutlery at the same time as it creates the food or drink so a can would be easy for it.
As for the taste, who knows. It depends on whether there is an actual taste difference between "old-fashion" food and replicated food or if it is just psychological.
The taste?
Dr Atkins speaks from the grave and sez, "just say no to Real Coke"
It amazes me that people enjoy the taste of ANY diet cola.
I think some people have a stronger ability to taste the artificial sweetener than others. I can really taste it; it's a strong, sickly sweet taste initially, quickly leaving a bitter, nasty aftertaste in my mouth. I can't stand diet drinks.
Of course, by the 24th century, you'd think that they'd be able to replicate food with no nutritional content that tastes virtually the same a regular food. It's a wonder to me that anyone is fat in the future, because it would be easy to just eat no-calorie food that tastes as good as the real stuff. Just program the replicator system with your desired daily caloric intake - change the password so you can't later change it back when you have a weak dieting day (because you'd still feel the lack of energy, just not the empty stomach) - and voila! you're put on the perfect diet.
Of course, by the 24th century, you'd think that they'd be able to replicate food with no nutritional content that tastes virtually the same a regular food. It's a wonder to me that anyone is fat in the future, because it would be easy to just eat no-calorie food that tastes as good as the real stuff. Just program the replicator system with your desired daily caloric intake - change the password so you can't later change it back when you have a weak dieting day (because you'd still feel the lack of energy, just not the empty stomach) - and voila! you're put on the perfect diet.
I imagine if the historical records from our era make it to the DS9 era and if they can make root beer, they can make a reasonable facsimile of Diet Coke, using the recipe from any decade you prefer.
I know that to be the case from several people I know. I for one can't detect the difference most of the time, unless someone points it out to me.
It does seem like that's how it would work.
Now, the question remains: would they be able to make the original recipe Coke with cocaine in it?
I know that to be the case from several people I know. I for one can't detect the difference most of the time, unless someone points it out to me.
It does seem like that's how it would work.
Now, the question remains: would they be able to make the original recipe Coke with cocaine in it?
People are only put off by the taste of artificial sweetener out of a lack of familiarity with it. If diet drinks had always been the norm and sugared drinks the alternative, I'd bet the house that the masses would then be whining about how weird sugar tastes.
As somebody who switched from regular to diet drinks and lost a good chunk of flab in the process, I can tell you it's all about familiarity. After time, not only do diet drinks taste perfectly fine, but you find yourself repulsed by the overpowering taste of a regular soda after having been away from them for so long.
As somebody who switched from regular to diet drinks and lost a good chunk of flab in the process, I can tell you it's all about familiarity. After time, not only do diet drinks taste perfectly fine, but you find yourself repulsed by the overpowering taste of a regular soda after having been away from them for so long.
Actually Slug-O-Cola is Diet Coke. It became known as Slug-O-Cola when the secret ingredient in Diet Coke was revealed.
Apologies to those who drink diet sodas, I'll drink them once in a while too, but generally I don't drink any kind of soda most of the time.
Robert
Apologies to those who drink diet sodas, I'll drink them once in a while too, but generally I don't drink any kind of soda most of the time.
Robert
I like it better than real soda nowadays. I drank a sugared soda earlier today and it was just off in comparison.
As for whether it could replicate it, I'm positive it could, and do so effectively perfectly. I get the feeling that replicated meat isn't as good because it doesn't get things like cell membranes, and all those things which create the texture of meat, right. Diet soda by contrast is enormously less complex, because it was never alive (well, it need not be--I don't know where they get the CO2, could be dead things). Either the aspartame or whatever artificial sweetener would be the most difficult, because of the complexity of the molecule, or the phosphoric acid would be, because of the weight of phosphorous.
As for the can, it follows that if the replicator can manipulate phorphorous atoms, or silicon atoms as it does in the glasses it has no trouble replicating, it can manipulate alumnium ones, although in terms of energy the can may be more expensive than anything it contains.
Now, the question remains: would they be able to make the original recipe Coke with cocaine in it?
Quark says, "If you drink enough of it, you start to like it..."
Now, the question remains: would they be able to make the original recipe Coke with cocaine in it?
Quark says, "If you drink enough of it, you start to like it..."
And then you can't drink enough of it. It's a vicious cycle!
It's not canon, but several novels mention that while replicated food is good, it doesn't quite taste as good as the real thing. So you'd get something very close to diet coke, but not quite.
I think the rationale behind that is, "If it doesn't, then why would anyone go to Quark's and pay latinum for food when you could go to the Replimat and get it for free? Ambiance?" Of course, that then implies that Quark imports all his food, but...*shrugs*
Also, that would explain why people would still get fat: Sure, you could have your replicated calorie-free food, but somehow it never quite tastes as good as the real stuff.
(Which begs the question: Do people still raise and slaughter meat? Or has no one in the 24th century ever really had real, non-replicated, artery-clogging meat?)
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