Food replicator???

[trekkiedane]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDJbVL6CgfA[/yt]​

Probably not possible, but this one seems doable:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqoO5ArTd44[/yt]​

Automated molecular food 'replicator'! -Would you buy one?

I mean, it seams like a nice way to 'cook' pre packaged mealstuff, but somehow I think the technology would be like ink-jet printers: cheap machine and xpensive as hell ink.
What do you think about this idea? -or any of the others.

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[RobertVA]

The results would probably end up resembling prepackage pudding or those nutrition loaves inmates have sued prisons over as "cruel and unusual".

 

[Trekker4747]

The results would probably end up resembling prepackage pudding or those nutrition loaves inmates have sued prisons over as "cruel and unusual".

Or what some people call "Taco Bell."

 

[MEATLOAFr]

nuttin like eating soggy snot like the matrix movie

 

[Trekker4747]

Probably not possible...

Well it's "possible" under the strictest concepts of science. In Star Trek the food replicators used a combination of energy and stored molecules to "assemble" food at the atomic and molecular level. This is all "technically" possible. Energy can be converted to matter, and if you've mastered fusion and other high-concept nuclear methods (as they have in Star Trek's time) you could, "in theory" build whatever you wanted "from nuclear scratch."

Practicality is another issue. The energy required to construct even a crumb would be enormous.

 

[trekkiedane]

Probably not possible...

Well it's "possible" under the strictest concepts of science. In Star Trek the food replicators used a combination of energy and stored molecules to "assemble" food at the atomic and molecular level. This is all "technically" possible. Energy can be converted to matter, and if you've mastered fusion and other high-concept nuclear methods (as they have in Star Trek's time) you could, "in theory" build whatever you wanted "from nuclear scratch."

Practicality is another issue. The energy required to construct even a crumb would be enormous.

True, but the premise of designing something for the next ninety years... no, I don't think so... 'Eventually' perhaps.