I think the best demonstration of replication and/or matter printing is from the movie "The Fifth Element". From a few remaining cells after a body was obliterated in an explosive attack, the protagonist's body was reprinted tissue type by tissue type, organ by organ,system by system. It is really a great visual.
@jonathanscherer7482
Жыл бұрын
They never did explain how her memories were restored though.
@MorganatorOne
Жыл бұрын
@@jonathanscherer7482 Yeah I've always wondered about that also. Maybe that was what the doctor was talking about when he said humans had 40 memogroups and Lelu had over 200,000? Or maybe it was just a function of her genetic memory since she was a supreme being? In any case, it's an excellent movie...
@nondescriptbystander
Жыл бұрын
Best Sci-Fi movie ever made. It is perfect.
@snarkasticdouche3863
Жыл бұрын
@@jonathanscherer7482 She didn't have any memories restored, that's the point. Lilu was essentially a hybrid clone, and she just learns things extremely quickly.
@hackman669
Жыл бұрын
She was a genetically engineered genius. Half human, half alien. Sent centuries in advance to save Earth from a meteor. 🦄
@sean.chiarot
Жыл бұрын
Gene Roddenberry said that the invention of the replicator was what saved humanity from destroying itself. Since anyone could have anything, humanity stopped it's pursuit of material wealth and started working towards the betterment of mankind. Too bad it won't happen in our lifetime.
@internet_introvert
Жыл бұрын
Hate to break it to you bro, but even in a post-scarcity world, ideologies and religions would fuel conflict. People are more willing to die for ideas than for money.
@sean.chiarot
Жыл бұрын
@@internet_introvert I know, that's why it won't happen. The universe of Star Trek can't happen here.
@willmfrank
Жыл бұрын
@@internet_introvert ...And even more willing to kill for them.
@hackman669
Жыл бұрын
Some folks are dumb as donut 🍩🙄
@scifirealism5943
Жыл бұрын
@internet_introvert why go to war when both sides have infinite resources?
@J.B24
4 ай бұрын
We may be far away from replicators but Star Trek has inspired us to try to build them. This show is the epitome of what TV should be about. Inspiring us to push the human race forward.
@4Usuality
Жыл бұрын
When I'd heard that Japanese scientists had created a piece of WAGYU BEEF through a 3D printer, I told everyone I knew, that was when I felt like we actually made a jump in tech. I'm a trekkie so you know that stuff gets my heart beating.
@harrietharlow9929
Жыл бұрын
That's very interesting. I know a lot can be 3D printed, but I didn't know food can be. I'm a Trekkie, too, so This got my heart racing a bit, too.
@anthonyscarfe4853
19 күн бұрын
Yep. All you need is a stem cell factory for the type of living thing you want in order to have enough stockpile for the version you want to print out. This means that you can simply use something that grows beef stem cells to feed into your 3D printer in order for it to make either a stake or a burger patty. They’ve now used this technique to take a stem cell sample from a patient, grow more and then manipulate it to grow a living organ replacement for the patient. This still means that you need each individual ingredient factory or stockpile ready to make the full burger. The Enterprise level technology would be when they are able to re sequence the insides of the cells in order to not need multiple ingredients each time, so you’ll just be using up the stockpile. The punchcards in TOS are probably when instead of everyone using up the whole stockpile and having to have the whole recipe book on hand it instead came with the ingredients and the recipe, so it’s an all inclusive dish on a disk that just needs to be topped up when empty. After that it’s just completely rearranged matter and energy straight from the source with every single bit of unused or waste matter in the ship going back into the stockpile.
@glrasshopper
Жыл бұрын
Fun fact; in Star Trek: Picard, some of the replicator props they showed on screen were visibly identifiable as 3D printers
@pamelamays4186
Жыл бұрын
On The Jetsons Jane would just press a few buttons on her Foodarackacycle to make meals for her family. I guess one could say that a type of food replicator was first seen on TV two decades before TNG. The Jetsons was set in the year 2062. Which isn't really not far from now.
@malirabbit6228
Жыл бұрын
I remember that episode! She complained to George that her finger all missed up from pushing all those buttons. I’m pretty sure that’s how the jetsons got their robot maid Rosie!
@looksirdroids9134
Жыл бұрын
And everyone knows that The Jetsons wasn't fiction, but rather a look into the now very near future.
@BaronVonQuiply
Жыл бұрын
The one thing that always got me was how they had meal pills. Somehow I don't see a future where we take 2000 calories in a pill and just don't gorge on food ever. Calorie-free food? Yes, I can see that. (l-glucose is as sweet as sugar, it is sugar, it has no calories because you can't digest it like d-glucose)
@RCAvhstape
Жыл бұрын
@@BaronVonQuiply Right? Besides, we'd put chefs out of business. Nobody would want to be a protein pill chef.
@RCAvhstape
Жыл бұрын
It's interesting to compare the Jetsons future with, say the Blade Runner future. Both had flying cars, Jetsons has Rosie the robot maid, BR has Rachel Tyrell the Replicant. Jetsons is a mostly happy future, while BR is a cyberpunk dystopia.
@liamwinter4512
Жыл бұрын
The future of 3d metal prints will blow most people's minds.
@snowstream1815
Жыл бұрын
3d metal printing already exists!
@rubiconnn
Жыл бұрын
@@snowstream1815 It's very expensive and there are big limitations on what you can print due to technical issues though. I'm sure we'll get it sorted out soon though and I can't wait.
@loka7783
Жыл бұрын
You're not wrong. A 3D metal printed gun will certainly blow someone's mind... all over the wall.
@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391
Жыл бұрын
I've seem a pic of a 3d printed gas turbine nozzle, it looked organic, half man made, half natural.
@levib0057
Жыл бұрын
@@loka7783 tbf, you don't need metal 3d printing to make a gun. There's a decent sized community behind 3d printing guns with PLA+
@jacara1981
Жыл бұрын
On starships they have Bio-stores and Mass-stores for the replicators (you can find them in some technical manuals). The Bio-stores store Biological molecules, instead of the base elements, probably to reduce power costs and it doesn't need to start at the elemental level. The Mass-stores store Elements, but only the most common ones, and can easily be replenished from planets, asteroids, gas giants and so on. The more complex an element is (normally the higher its atomic number) the less is stored, this puts a limit on what can be replicated as to make a lot of the heavier elements takes a lot more power. Another thing that limits them are materials that can't be replicated because they contain components to their structure outside normal space-time like Di-lithium. Lithium, is stable. However in Star Trek they have Di-Lithium (which can't exist in real life) which is actually a Tri-Lithium with 1 Lithium atom in another layer of space, that stabilizes the Lithium. In star trek when Di-lithium is bombarded with antimatter some small amount will convert to Tri-lithium as a byproduct. But because of its extra-spacial properties, it can't be replicated.
@StormsparkPegasus
Жыл бұрын
It's not due to having extra spatial properties. It's due to the structure being too complex for the "molecular resolution" of the replicator. Replicators use extensive compression and averaging techniques, because it is not possible to store a pattern at the quantum level necessary for that, because even in the 24th century the storage space for that doesn't exist. (Transporters use something called quantum resolution, but they store the pattern itself in a buffer that degrades.)
@0011peace
Жыл бұрын
@@StormsparkPegasus this is why yu can't make living organisms with replicators too. Though that limit may change in the futer as when the TNG Enterprize was transforming into alien ship it did make living materials. Andm it did mak a child(procreated) in another episode.
@SiXiam
Жыл бұрын
@@0011peace They have made living things in the replicator, like Worf's spinal cord.
@finscreenname
Жыл бұрын
@@SiXiam was it "living" or just a bunch of bio matter? As for the power it takes for these to work, or the "Stores" needed for them to work..... I remember one Next Gen show having portable Replicators about the size of a kitchen trash can, they brought down to a planet.
@0011peace
Жыл бұрын
@@SiXiam Thst isn,t itself alive and it used a solution no just replicstor
@AndrewHalliwell
Жыл бұрын
We did see the weaponised replicator in DS9, when they accidentally trigger an insurgency protocol and the replicator in ops created something that fired disruptor beams out at random...
@striker8961
Жыл бұрын
Hey on the bright side Dukat got trapped in there with everyone else.
@pauljensen5699
8 ай бұрын
... and there was the episode in where a Vulcan printed out a rifle with a transporter on it. Star Trek was 15-ish years ahead of the time. (Minus the transporter part)
@Zeithri
Жыл бұрын
I do want Replicators. It'd be such a marvelous thing. As for Star Trek, I'm honestly very fond of Enterprise with it's lack of any such technology but had to rely on actual on-board chef's. Unforgettable is the time Kirk orders food only to get a dish of tribbles while two oddly looking strangers that seem out of time softly giggle in the corner as Kirk laments to Mr. Spock.
@pamelamays4186
Жыл бұрын
I've been waiting for this one for months! Thank you Simon & Co.
@ThatWriterKevin
Жыл бұрын
Welcome!
@OgdenM
Жыл бұрын
Fun fact: One of the stories of how replicators work is that they don't create anything, they replicate things.. as in copy them. There is a warehouse somewhere that stores one version of everything and the replicator is a copy machine. They are effectively actually transporters, but just don't destroy the original copy. --Which, yes, transporters actually destroy the original person and create a new one elsewhere.
@knighthawk3749
Жыл бұрын
They create a copy of the original person. The original is murdered in effect.
@cheapskatecoins5709
Жыл бұрын
Honestly I always thought the two best technologies from Startrek (other than the ships of course) were the ships sensors and both the medical and science tricorders. To have devices that can gather that level of information would be amazing.
@SaraMorgan-ym6ue
9 ай бұрын
literally eat shit well you can do it now the real question is would you want to?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@hannibalstrausskahn4033
Жыл бұрын
The Orville (Seth McFarlane star trek) has an interesting take on replicators. Since everyone's basic needs were met everyone could focus on your career or artwork without the fear of being poor because there was no need for money.
@RoraighPrice
Жыл бұрын
but their was a child lock on some of them. prof by kids hacking one to make alcohol
@KeithElliott-zd8cx
Жыл бұрын
I thought that was sci fi, too - no curency so no 'need' for jobs, but the culture revolved around honor and rep which inspires people to ste
@gelmir7322
Жыл бұрын
people will just do drugs.
@iWhacko
Жыл бұрын
That''s the whole philosophy of Star Trek too. Gene roddenberry imagined awe would start exploring and helping civilisations, if no one was poor
@SuperTonyony
Жыл бұрын
@@gelmir7322 No, YOU will just do drugs.
@hattielankford4775
Жыл бұрын
0:22 I'm tired of rewinding to watch that over and over and over and over again.
@harrkev
Жыл бұрын
If replicators are based on transporter technology, they wouldn't need that much energy. They just need a block of matter. If you want a cup of tea, you just transport the mass of the tea and cup. The key is that you change the pattern while it is flying around. I would assume that things like baryon number are conserved, so you can't replicate antimatter. But you can theoretically turn lead into gold, but not create gold out of thin air.
@heatheradams4221
Жыл бұрын
Transporters dematerialize an object and create what they call a 'matter stream that is held in a pattern buffer'. It seems that a replicator just dematerials the object and substitutes a new pattern in the pattern buffer.
@richarddeese1991
Жыл бұрын
Thanks. It occurs to me that there's an aspect of this that no one talks about. Imagine you order a turkey sandwich. Fine. I'm sure they made a *_really_* good one to use as an example. But after the second or third time you eat one, your brain's going to start noticing something. 'I've eaten this turkey sandwich before. Not just *_a_* turkey sandwich; *_this exact turkey sandwich - right down to the molecule.'_* It better be the best turkey sandwich anyone ever made or ate, because you (and everyone else in Starfleet) will be eating precisely that same turkey sandwich forever. This is one of things about great food that people don't seem to consider. You want consistently good ingredients, cooked well, and presented nicely. But you also want just that little tiny bit of variety. I imagine the ship's counsellor might have to deal with a few people swearing they'd gone back in time and eaten the same meal again, until everybody gets used to the idea. Of course, I suppose you could have 5 or 6 different random choices of the same thing, but Star Trek at least seems to have implicitly avoided that. It would probably take up a lot of computer space. tavi.
@looksirdroids9134
Жыл бұрын
No
@MrHowzaa
Жыл бұрын
this point was addressed in a star trek episode involving the counselor and icecream sundes.
@bial12345
Жыл бұрын
It should be said again and again. We currently live in a post-scarcity society. We have enough resources and technology to make sure everyone's basic needs were met. But.. we choose not to, so a few thousand people can live in obscene luxury.
@smackerlacker8708
7 ай бұрын
We have a lot of resources, but not an infinite amount. Post-scarcity means that there is no limit to the available resources.
@HighmageDerin
Жыл бұрын
I always knew that the ST replicater was basically a transporter, but I always thought it just rearranged existing molecules from some storage room when it "beamed in" the food. Not doing full Energy to matter transformations.
@MyLibertyTV
Жыл бұрын
You thought correctly, it's mind boggling that this went over his head.
@TheZamaron
Жыл бұрын
I always saw it as liek a 3D printer but on a molecular level and able to use almost any element, obviously some like Latinum and Dilithium is impossible for some reason.
@HighmageDerin
Жыл бұрын
@@TheZamaron Well I know if dylihium it's impossible to replicate it because it's molecular crystalline structure is too volatile. It be like beaming A-bomb into your replicator. As far as LatnumI'm guessing it's just too hard to arrange the molecules into the shape needed
@TheZamaron
Жыл бұрын
@@HighmageDerin You didn’t exactly need to explain all that, but yes. I do find it interesting that they did make some materials impossible to replicate, dilithium so there’s not an easy fix for that, and Latinum for a currency valued by the Ferengi.
@striker8961
Жыл бұрын
Well my understanding of a transporter is that it converts matter to energy and sends that through sub space to the destination on the other end. With a person it’s a perfect rebuilding of the person (basically killing them and making a clone every time they use the transporter, unless you believe in the soul.) with the replicators it’s the same deal just the matter on one end it some generic material and is rearranged into whatever you want on the other end.
@douggale5962
Жыл бұрын
Engineers will always be able to bypass security mechanisms. The trick is, you make the security mechanisms so good, that you need an engineer so good, that they aren't a criminal.
@levib0057
Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, this concept is why internet security is an issue. In the 90's and 00's, all hackers were vilified, even if they went directly to companies they just hacked to warn them about security flaws. They would be ignored or prosecuted, so they often turned to crime to rake in big bucks. Now a lot of internet companies have realized how dumb that was and started initiating bounties for security flaws, but the damage is already done
@douggale5962
Жыл бұрын
@@levib0057 I experienced that exact thing! I port scanned back when people were dialling up to the internet with their entire root directory and printers shared. I was contemplating printing out a page telling people to install a firewall, on the shared printers. I decided against it, because I expected to be prosecuted for trying to help them.
@brianstraight9308
Жыл бұрын
It's been said, but worth repeating, Trek replicators didn't convert energy to mass it used mass stores to produce the requested item. It effectively did the same thing as Kirk's food synthesizers but the implementation of transporter technology and more advanced computers gave them more "resolution" better quality and accuracy. Though, often stated, it's quality still wasn't equal to the actual food.
@SneezingEagle
Жыл бұрын
Hope to see one in my lifetime, maybe at the end of it at least...
@NATIK001
Жыл бұрын
If a ship has transporters, running a replicator isn't a big step from that point. Especially since the food and construction replicators in Star Trek are often not drawing all their power from the Warp core but hooked up to tanks of matter which they reconstruct into whatever matter they need, so rather than pulling the entire object out of the warp core's energy storage, it pulls most of the energy out of a matter tank which it turns from matter to energy to matter in the same single process.
@KeithElliott-zd8cx
Жыл бұрын
Replicators are probably easier than teleporters. Teleporters need to copy the current pattern and stream the energy/info to a location without a specific tech in the location to aid reassembly.
@michaelcoffman4185
Жыл бұрын
If memory serves me correctly, one show got it right, and that was the original V. The drive section took up most of the ships that arrived on Earth. That was a great shot for the 1980's.
@WTDoorley
Жыл бұрын
"Evil wish-granting boxes." Sounds like the Krell machine from "Forbidden Planet."
@randym4121
Жыл бұрын
A couple of misconceptions here. The following was in a Star Trek encyclopedia I read a few decades ago, so some small details may be wrong. Firstly, starships have special storage tanks (made perhaps of stainless steel?). Before a starship leaves port, these "slurry" tanks are pumped full of a special type of gel. This odorless, tasteless gel (I believe it was described as being translucent), is made up of specially formulated molecules that can easily be combined in myriad different ways to facilitate the replication of foods, drinks and a very limited number of other products (clothing, for example). The replicator (located in a central location), on demand, synthesizes consumables by withdrawing the proper amount of gel, rearranging the molecules (in some cases even rearranging individual atoms), assembling them into, say, cheesecake or a T-bone steak, and dematerializing it (transporter technology). It then sends the matter stream through waveguides (sometimes called replicator conduits) to the proper replicator station where the cheesecake (or T-bone steak) was originally ordered. There, the replicator station reintegrates the molecules into delicious cheesecake (or T-bone steak). Each replicator station has a small disintegrator/reintegrator module built-in. The replicated cheesecake (or T-bone steak) can then be removed and eaten. You can also specify preferences like steak "rare," Earl Grey "hot," or coffee "hot," "black," "double sweet." So you see, the replicator is NOT a "magical" device that can create ANYTHING from "THIN AIR." But wait...how does the replicator know how to arrange molecules into cheesecake or a whole meal? The replicator must access a library where the formula for making cheesecake resides. World famous chefs help develop the recipes for all foods in the library (every meal is five star, cordon bleu). The recipes are then programmed into the replicator's computer and stored in replicator memory (the aforementioned "library"). If you ask for "New York cheescake" and the recipe for "New York cheescake" isn't in replicator memory, the replicator may tell you, "Such item does not exist" or "Please select another item," or something to that effect. Or the replicator may tell you, "Conventional cheescake may be substituted for New York cheesecake." So you see, ordering a weapon is problematic because weapons are not likely to be programmed into replicator memory. There have been some Star Trek episodes where the replicator station in a "guest's" (prisoner's) quarters is disabled so the "guest" is unable to arm him or herself, but technically, this goes against Star Trek canon. Anyone wishing to replicate a weapon will have to find a way to break into the replicator room, sit down at a computer terminal and write a program that will tell the replicator how to create the weapon desired (no easy task, especially if you're not fluent in replicator language). Clothing can also be replicated (there are no laundromats on a starship). At the end of each day, dirty, smelly clothing can be placed into a drawer just below the replicator station where they are disintegrated and sent back to the replicator. There, the replicator reintegrates the matter stream into elemental molecules that happen to resemble the original gel in the slurry tanks and stored there. I assume that since cotton fibers are organic in nature, most uniforms are made of replicated cotton. We all know that EVERYTHING on a starship is recycled. This includes poop, urine and all manner of nasty things. So when we order food from a replicator station, are we REALLY eating recycled poop? Of course not...that's a silly notion. When you pump out a "log" into the toilet, that "log" (and anything else in the toilet) is immediately disintegrated and sent to the replicator. Once there, the replicator reintegrates the matter stream into elemental molecules that in no way resembles, disgusts or smells like the pre-disintegrated matter. In fact, as soon as the "log" is disintegrated, it no longer resembles anything that even remotely resembles a "log." So perhaps the biggest misconception in all of this is that a starship's galley and every room onboard has a replicator. In reality, the replicator itself is a rather large, centrally-located machine that uses a tremendous amount of energy. That's why the replicator may be taken offline in order to allow more power to the engines. So, although everyone thinks of a replicator as being in every room, that thought only serves to make a rather complicated technology seem simpler and friendlier. What is actually in every room is a replicator STATION.
@DarkSnideoftheRainbow
Жыл бұрын
I like these videos. So many sci-fi videos are doom and gloom, to have a video imagine a happier future that could be coming soon is always a nice way to remind yourself that as bad as the world seems today it's better than it was yesterday and we have reason to hope tomorrow will be better still.
@hackman669
Жыл бұрын
Doom and gloom is so passed. Most folks are hopeful accept doomsday cults and radical religious leaders.🦧🦍🐒
@mikecobalt7005
Жыл бұрын
Ronald Moore was emphatic on his statement about The Replicators. Later in DS9 (Moore's style was more prominent) Engineer O'Brien said he was bored on the Enterprise, he just wished for something to malfunction. Later still in BSG (Super R. Moore) food, parts, weapons, medical supplies, etc. (Items the replicators easily provided) were a constant issue and often prominent story theme.
@scifirealism5943
Жыл бұрын
Lol.
@scifirealism5943
Жыл бұрын
You can't have war unless scarcity existed. Thus. Military scifi requires scarcity.
@jeremythornton433
Жыл бұрын
I want one! And I want one now!
@joliver81
Жыл бұрын
On The Original Series Kirk didn’t have replicators, they weren’t around until Picard was Captain, Next Gen. ✌️
@ThatWriterKevin
Жыл бұрын
It's almost like this was addressed in the video...
@JustWasted3HoursHere
Жыл бұрын
When we discuss energy requirements we have to remember that we're basing that on how we currently know how to create energy. It may be that in some few decades or perhaps 50 years we may discover some new way to harness energy on a scale undreamed of today, such as matter/antimatter reactions. One major discovery, such as the transistor, can completely change the direction of what we can even imagine is possible, so you never know!
@pev_
Жыл бұрын
The legendary computer game "Deus Ex" had a nice name for such a device: a UC, Universal Constructor, which built objects, even living organisms, by arranging molecules in a massively parallel operation.
@scifirealism5943
Жыл бұрын
Epic. I loved that series.
@krisgonynor689
Жыл бұрын
There was a book that pointed out that post STTMP replicators used the transporters to beam dishes and glasses from storage instead of creating them ftom scratch. Food like coffee was beamed up and stored as energy as well. I'm thinking the book was "Spock`s World".
@jmd1743
Жыл бұрын
For big castings that require custom mold you hold on for potentially decades for replacement parts we currently might as well be using star trek technology. The fact that steam locomotives used castings is a big reason why they were replaced. Today with 3d [printing you could store a virtual mold for 50 years before you need to use again.
@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391
Жыл бұрын
There's a nearby company that make power generation stuff, they had some large castings done, left them to weather and age for a few months (possibly longer) - and they were stolen. Fortunately they got them back.. I find the frame castings for the duplex locomotives amazing, all cylinders and steam/exhaust pipes cast in one piece of steel, itself difficult to cast because it's not very runny.
@jmd1743
Жыл бұрын
@@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391 Lincoln Welding company is 3d printing metal with robot arms & a welder.
@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391
Жыл бұрын
@@jmd1743 It would interesting to see the difference in emergency consumption of casting and 3d printing, I presume that it would be about the same, but it still could be wildly different. I presume that you could change the alloy in different places with different feeders, possibly even using bronze bearing surfaces on a steel print. If you added a milling head to a 3d printer, you could print and finish machine something in one operation.
@jmd1743
Жыл бұрын
@@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391 I'm interested in seeing where 3d printed guns go because a 308 cartridge exerts 60,000 PSI on the gun when the gun goes off. Compare 60k PSI to say the stress seen with air compressor. Guns were among the first mass produced items on the planet in a factory mass production environment because it was a matter of life & death to standardize the tiny parts such as springs. A gun is likely able to withstand more pressure than a rocket engine. Imagine the day when SpaceX could 100 percent 3d print one of their raptor engines. I'm interested in 3d printed organs, my prediction is that we'll replace hearts like we do with timing belts on a diesel. If we could 3d print a gun we'll likely be able to produce organic material that would allow a 3d printed heart to last 50 years before it needs replacement again. My long term objective? We'll we're about to enter a transition for human civilization like we saw where we went from hunter gathers to farmers. Mexico has gone from 6 babies per woman to 2 babies per woman, their pension system has collapsed. Japan's and China's pensions are about to collapse along side America's. What I'm hoping to see is science greatly extend a person's life such as making frail bones, heart attacks & strokes a thing of the past so that if people were to die it would be peacefully in their sleep and not because of a cascade organ failure. So we'll need to do things such as 3d print new hearts, kidneys, be able to produce bone marrow in giant vats and to be able to produce gallons upon gallons of blood & plasma.
@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391
Жыл бұрын
@@jmd1743 I don't know much about guns, but I think the first barrels were made by making a spiral of steel, perhaps a 3d printer could do something similar, and have something like a de-scaler following the nozzle to forge the steel and change it's Chrystal structure. Your comment seems to have interesting contradictions, you talk of guns, and also of prolonging life, and the problems with pensions. I think if we could do something about the unfairness of illness, it would be an incredible advance, instead of people suffering and dieing at a young age, before they've had a chance of life, they'd be able to live as long as the rest of us. The blind would be given sight, the crippled given movement - but then would we be in danger of having everybody the same? Don't our weaknesses define us as much as our strengths?
@gordonhowell9701
Жыл бұрын
Actually replicators already exist and you are living proof. How else can one explain how just one person could make so many great videos?
@cozmothemagician7243
Жыл бұрын
Da buybull started it all... Just two hormone infused people made all of us (: Reminds me of an old computer nerd joke... How do we know that Eden was the start of the computer revolution? Eve had her Apple and Adam had his Wang O_o
@STSWB5SG1FAN
Жыл бұрын
@@cozmothemagician7243 🤔😲🤦♂😬🤦♂🤭😂🤣
@ScarabD
Жыл бұрын
I saw a twitter thread recently where a guy was talking about an episode plot for the Orville: which is basically an affectionate deconstruction of star trek. A woman from an alien race was basically begging for access to their replicator technology so they could fix all the inequality problems on her planet, and the crew was like "yeah you've got it backwards." Just like in trek, the world of the Orville was ALREADY post scarcity before the replicator tech was even invented. It was that level of teamwork and cooperation between all of humanity that LED to us being able to create and use the replicator most efficiently. The replicator would NOT HAVE WORKED pre-scarcity, not just because of the difficulty in acquiring the scientific knowledge and resources, but also because capitalist societies would've immediately found ways to patent and abuse it. Like, if they created a fully workable replicator Musk wouldn't just GIVE people in developing countries access to free food. He'd put a lock on it's coding so he could charge governments inordinate sums, then cut off the power to them if they didn't pay those fees. There would be whole groups of lobbyists terrified of losing money from their huge corn stockpiles and their first response would be to come up with some bull study about how replicator food was imperfect, or dangerous, or in some cases even "against the will of god" or something. We've seen that happen before. Much like star trek, everything had to hit rock bottom, so we could rebuild better.
@bpdmf2798
Жыл бұрын
I always wonder what the world would be like with replicators. They also take back material ("how hard is it to put your plate back in the replicator, Jake?" -DS9) and I wonder if it takes only replicated materials or if you could build a replicator that's toilet shaped and you just pee into it. You could realistically live in a tiny box with a mattress and a replicate everything you need and use it as a toilet. You could replicate heated rocks or some futuristic handheld heater running on trek tech and heat your living box. You could seriously just live in the woods and have everyone you need limited by only your imagination (unless you want gold pressed latinum, it can't replicate that). You could even start with just a small replicator and replicate the building blocks for a home and piece it together. The possibilities are just crazy.
@MistahBryan
Жыл бұрын
Could you use a Replicator to get rid of a body? Asking for a 'friend' Lol :)
@scifirealism5943
Жыл бұрын
Read "Venus equilateral Pandora's millions" by George o. Smith.
@scifirealism5943
Жыл бұрын
There's a book called Pandora's millions by George o. Smith that details what would happen if you had a replicator. If there was truly no unique object in existence the entire world economy collapses immediately.
@Nostripe361
Жыл бұрын
I mean you still have entropy so you might still need resupply based on how much matter and energy is lost over time.
@KeithElliott-zd8cx
Жыл бұрын
Depends on the energy needs - might be easier to only have communal replicators, not like 2-3 every bedroom. I mean, you could build a toliet replicator that just breaks down what's in it, but if every 'flush' was a big energy cost, it'd maybe less worth it.
@williamkirk1156
Жыл бұрын
From what I understand, Gene Roddenbury said the only reason mankind was able to progress to a Star Trek Civilization, was the replicator. The logic is anyone can have anything... Ok, I want the Titanic, a starship, and the Death Star... you see why it will not create such a civilization? I think I am pretty normal (even if I want the Death Star), imagine a twisted mind with the ability to make anything.
@TheStammzilla
Жыл бұрын
As a proud Star Trek fan since a boy, I can say that I'm so here for this!
@TheMonkeyworks105
Жыл бұрын
Anyone else notice the difference between Simon talking about Trek tech and Star Wars (clearly superior) tech?
@gregchapman2646
Жыл бұрын
But Star Trek is future tech and Star Wars tech is from the distant past.
@masere
Жыл бұрын
No transporters, no replicators, no cloaking devices. Luke's treatment in a container of liquid would be a few simple hand-held tools on the Enterprise. Now tell me again which has the superior technology.
@TheMonkeyworks105
Жыл бұрын
@@masere for one, I was simply trolling Simon as I am aware he hate SW. Two, I didn't specify in my comment (apologies) that the tech created in the legends books is rather amazing and easily on par with trek IMO. I grew up in an all trek household so I do also love trek, Simon and I share a love of Voyager, by far one of the best in the series.
@j.p.6932
Жыл бұрын
8:02 I still remember going to the Field Museum and thinking the little wax or plastic figures they printed out were magic
@carlrood4457
Жыл бұрын
I always found replicators to be essentially magic. When you add in the things transporters have done by accident (cloning, splitting a person along emotional lines, de-aging while maintaining memories) and what they've done upon spur of the moment theories (restore someone to before they were infected with an aging disease, kept someone alive for decades) you realize Star Trek is pretty much fantasy.
@pierremainstone-mitchell8290
Жыл бұрын
I really did like the words "endlessly cool" juxtaposed with an image showing "Hot surface. Do not touch!". Nice one Simon! Great video btw!
@logicalfundy
Жыл бұрын
I was able to get a 3D printer recently, and it's a pretty cool device, but it has its own limitations, and has made a few things clear to me. * For any current or near-future 3D printer, including MIT's device, you need a source of material. We are nowhere near being able to create any element we want on demand, so if you want something made of carbon, uranium, copper, etc, you need to have a source of that element. Some elements are common, but many elements are rare. It doesn't really matter if the material is headed to a standard factory or an advanced version of MIT's device - rare is rare. * In the case of widely available technologies - we can't make custom molecules on demand, either. That kind of stuff may exist in a lab, but that's a long ways from being commercially available. * Printing can take a long time, and the smaller the details need to be, the longer it takes. Making things literally at a molecular level will struggle to even make something visible with the naked eye in a reasonable amount of time, much less making a cup of tea in seconds. This will likely be the limiting factor for a long time, unless a major breakthrough happens. * A truly post-scarcity society likely can't exist without true Star Trek style replicators. There will always be things that are rare. Rearranging atoms won't make the various elements any less rare.
@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391
Жыл бұрын
" made things clear to me" - you mean you printed stuff from clear plastic ? cool!
@logicalfundy
Жыл бұрын
@@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391 LOL. And although I know you're just joking around a bit - actually, yes! PLA in its pure form is transparent, and I've printed with it. The layers do mean it's not like glass, but it's a pretty neat effect and I plan on more prints with it.
@ScottLahteine
Жыл бұрын
As one of the developers at the forefront of Replicating Rapid Prototyper technology, maintaining Marlin Firmware, I am super optimistic that we will develop proper Star Trek replicators within the next 2000 years.
@karnivaltwitch
Жыл бұрын
the food from shit thing would explain why so many of the crew talk about it not being as good as non replicated food
@battlesheep2552
Жыл бұрын
All food comes from shit, it's just a matter of degrees of separation.
@karnivaltwitch
Жыл бұрын
@@cancermcaids7688 sorta, the food tastes better if someone cooks it for you isn't entirely accurate, in truth it just tastes worse if you make it because you begin salavating and metally tasting it while you prepare it. but i agree the the rest of this, hard to replicate the way cooking on an old cast iron grill vs a new nonstick pan can change food when every thing else is done the same.
@willmfrank
Жыл бұрын
Mike Myers: "It tastes like shit." Michael York: "It IS shit, Austin."
@melkiorwiseman5234
Жыл бұрын
Originally, the replicator on Star Trek was supposed to be an extension of teleporter technology in that it created matter out of nothing but energy. I think that was somewhat retconned later on. In any case, we're still just about as far away from an energy-to-matter replicator as we ever were, at least in a major part due to a lack of the phenomenal amount of energy required to create even a tiny amount of matter. On the other hand, the ability to use existing matter to construct new objects "from scratch" just might be within our technology not all that far into the future (possibly even within the lifetime of this generation's children). The ST:TNG episode "Darmok" when originally broadcast opened with a sequence where the Enterprise crew were engaged in a negotiation with a new government to trade some technology to the world's newly established government in exchange for some minerals. The government were attempting to "alter the deal" (ha) and wanted to pay for the technology with some of their worthless (to the Federation) currency instead of with the minerals. One of the items of technology was a duplicator/fabricator machine, one step below a replicator. Ryker managed to use that machine to end the stand-off. In front of the government representatives, he picked up one of the government's currency "chits" and put it into the machine. When it spat out the duplicate, he examined the duplicate and the original and commented "not quite right... but it'll be perfect once the machine has local materials to work with... and changing the serial numbers is just a minor programming change." Then Ryker pointed out how the new government's enemies might be willing to trade the minerals the Federation requires in exchange for the duplicator machine. The deal was closed... on the original terms. It's rather a pity that sequence was removed from all subsequent airings of that episode. I thought it was fairly clever.
@Sett86
Жыл бұрын
The problem with replicators is not that they require a lot of energy. So does warp drive. The problem is if we were capable of handling that kind of energy, there would be no space battles, because the slightest containment leak (let alone intentionally destructive release through a weapon) would evenly spread the ship across the entire solar system, one atom at a time.
@scifirealism5943
Жыл бұрын
Correct.
@remingtonghiasso2286
Жыл бұрын
Actually as an engineer I can say we are 100% here! With notable differences mentioned in the video, no energy replicators.
@KeithElliott-zd8cx
Жыл бұрын
Interesting thing is, warp drive would require so much energy anyway, replicator would be a drop in the bucket - in fact, a replicator system might be the best way to refuel - deconstruct asteroids of any kind for energy, use that energy to create matter and power the engines. It would basically be a step up from fusion energy - the equivalent of harvesting a matter antimatter reaction, without the antimatter needed. Warp currently still needs way more power than 'a few asteroids', but the old E=MC2 would basically be the expected energy formula. Just that (Well, assuming the process has power requirements and it's not 100% effective) googling it, fusion in the sun versus energy from matter antimatter reaction, the result was at least 500x ish more energy - plus if you've got some beam doing it, you don't need to figure out how to get or contain the antimatte, how to optimally mix with matter, how to properly contain the reaction, or how to fit that to a water to steam to kinetic energy idea.
@michiganspencer6920
Жыл бұрын
We are CLOSER than most people think. With 3D printers now making everything from car parts to veggie burgers...the only thing missing is the SPEED of the replication!!!
@jjbarajas5341
Жыл бұрын
Woah, another quality science channel to add to my subscriptions? Heck yes
@benpierce1774
Жыл бұрын
Big thumbs up for the nonchalant storytelling. I really enjoyed the looser feel and I stayed engaged. 😁
@riftalope
Жыл бұрын
played in the short lived, online play by post DS-14 game. We were the Federation's foothold nearest the wormhole in the Delta Quadrant. One of the plotlines involved an outbreak on the station. We couldn't track it nor contain it for a few turns of the game. It turned out to be a syndicate plot where they had slipped a virus making virus corruption into the station's replicator system! They were even clever enough to have the corruption self erase. That happened to be the tell for where the disease was coming from because when a freshly docked but quarantined Federation ship linked to update the replicator menu there was a minor outbreak. So add Pathyngs an unregulated replicator could make. In my character's plotline we used the replicator as a password of sorts. Agents sent an object that could have a piece torn or broken off. like a transporter and the rest was returned.
@anthonybaransky137
Жыл бұрын
Hey Simon, replicator in the TV series Stargate were self replicating metal bugs that could destroy everything including human like beings that were very powerful so that they put their hand inside a person's head and discover their memories and thoughts including secrets
@michellemahar9030
Жыл бұрын
The idea of not having to make or order everything is wonderful.
@qnxvr576
Жыл бұрын
8:15 Please tell your editor to check the sound levels for music, it was quite high at several points and made it difficult to hear to the point that I had to turn captions on. It should be background to your voice, not fighting in the foreground. Enjoyed the video other than that, though. Thanks for pulling this topic together.
@ashuradragosani5960
Жыл бұрын
Nice to hear about molecular factories. I think the first I heard of such a thing was in the late '80s playing GURPS, or perhaps '90s?
@scottdoesntmatter4409
Жыл бұрын
STNG replicators are basically magic. Whoever came up with them wasn't thinking at all.
@scifirealism5943
Жыл бұрын
Lol gene Roddenberry.
@GameHammerCG
Жыл бұрын
Holy crap, the molecular factory is closer than I expected. Next step is the Von Neuman Machine then the Galaxy is our oyster.
@mikehong2691
8 ай бұрын
Simon!-I'm Not Looking For--The Future!-But-Right Now!-The Foods&Silverwares From Antique Stores!-Instead!-Is A Work Of Art!-Raymond "Mike" Hong!&(Good Luck!-Simon&Everybody!-Mike!)😎👍!!!!!!!!!
@An0therR0gue
Жыл бұрын
yes, I asked for this (probably along with a thousand others, lol). thanks Simon. I think you also missed the positives of recycling with the replicator as well. imagine converting your trash into base elements or compounds, then reusing them.
@MistahBryan
Жыл бұрын
@2:26, "I'll have a name of dish with name of dish for my beverage. Then I'll have name of dish as my desert."
@meh.7640
Жыл бұрын
i read the title and was like "FOREVER!" when i was a kid i thought replicators could work by putting subatomic particles together to form new atoms. but i realize now that it would be far less energy intensive to use preexisting atoms to form molecules
@RobinTheMetaGod
Жыл бұрын
The things is; converting energy into matter probably requires more than the amount of energy for converting because of the converting, and you have 20 gigajoules per cm cubed.
@KeithElliott-zd8cx
Жыл бұрын
Sounds like you're saying the energy needed for the transfer process is more than the energy converted to matter. Like a back transfer of 20 dollars having a 30 dollar charge for the process - nah. I mean, you're right in the sense of that example is 50, not 20. But think back to the 'cup of flavored water us like 500 megayield nukes' bit. e=mc2 is a motheRfucker of energy. Deconstruct a few grams of material, you'll probably be able to power the process a billion times. Yes, you'd roughly need to break down as much matter as you created, but that's no biggie, break down some asteroids
@RobinTheMetaGod
Жыл бұрын
@@KeithElliott-zd8cx The concept is more that you have to put in a bit of energy, not that it has to be greater than the amount being converted. Come on.
@KeithElliott-zd8cx
Жыл бұрын
@@RobinTheMetaGod like i... think i said, i wasn't quite sure what you were trying to say. But like i'm pretty sure i did say - this level of energy gains is ridiculous. If fusion is 'way better' than fission nuclear energy, deconstructor is essentially matter antimatter reaction without the antimatter needed -able to harness nearly all the energy in the ol' e=mc2 equation, i really doubt it'll require more energy than that.
@d-resmin
Жыл бұрын
I always wondered about a device that can take garbage, break down the molecules, and separate the atoms.
@fhuber7507
Жыл бұрын
Closest we'll get to replicators will bee something on the order of the robatic pizza machines. Take supplies, combine them and after production time, put it on a plate.
@byronic-heroine
Жыл бұрын
1. How am I just now finding this channel when I've been subbed to the others for years? 2. Do you even sleep?
@Mad-Bassist
Жыл бұрын
Heh, I remember the writers of Star Trek having to set a limit or two on replicators, especially Latinum: a transuranic element that's liquid and can't be replicated. It's the only way to make it useful as a currency. I like how they can replicate a whole shuttlecraft on the newer shows.
@scifirealism5943
Жыл бұрын
Exactly.
@scifirealism5943
Жыл бұрын
You can't have conflict unless scarcity existed.
@hackman669
Жыл бұрын
Could you do an episode on Trek uniforms? Creative designs and relation to real military uniforms. Thank 😊
@Carstuff111
Жыл бұрын
Hehehehe, as a HUGE Trek fan, this just made my night!
@fhuber7507
Жыл бұрын
5:55 the 3D printer pictured can take over 10 days to print one object that fits in its "build volume" of appx 8 X 8 X 8 inches. (if it takes up most of the volume and has high "infill" percentage) I have 2 printers that are a little more advanced than that one....
@MisakaMikotoDesu
Жыл бұрын
Please do a Casual Criminalist on VIncent Chin. What happened to him is extremely relevant today, even though it happened in the 1980s.
@rickywinthrop
Жыл бұрын
Good video. Thanks.
@fakename1656
Жыл бұрын
Sweet another new Simon channel, legendary
@JohnRandomness105
Жыл бұрын
I was thinking of machines that create themselves, as replicators, when I clicked on this. The grey goo.
@Tekdruid
Жыл бұрын
How far? Yes. It would require absolute control over matter-energy transformation, which is a process we're nowhere near. The closest _we_ have come is mashing a bunch of matter together so part of it turns to energy and goes kablooie. As for the energy requirements? Well, assuming the process works both ways, you could just turn a few cubic kilometers of rock directly into energy to power the replicator and any other fancy science fiction gadgets you choose for years.
@PlanetJeroen
Жыл бұрын
You should share all your channels in the description or something .. I keep finding more. Edit: found the channels tab .. holy ..
@Dwendele
Жыл бұрын
I saw a new construction tech video about 3D printed Lego like blocks for building houses. Now that could be useful
@lukamustafic8412
Жыл бұрын
I am thinking about another problem, how do you even transfer that much energy from energy core to a replicator. If we transfer energy with electrocables then good luck with getting that tea this week. Also let's not forget that cables don't transfer energy perfectly and that cross section is important thing in increasing speed of transfer. At the end probably waste of limited resources and space to build it directly from energy.
@scifirealism5943
Жыл бұрын
Antimatter is an unlimited power source in Star Trek
@spencer1980
Жыл бұрын
Incredibly far away. Being able to synthesize matter like that is probably thousands of years away, if not more. That is literally God tier technology. Teleporters and FTL are thousands of times closer than a replicator. Even just reforming ordinary matter on a molecular level is God tier tech. I don't even know how you would do that. If anyone has an idea, I'd love to hear it.
@spencer1980
Жыл бұрын
Aa far as next Gen food goes, I think digesters producing nutrient slop could be done. No need to do that here on earth (don't worry, we won't be going all solvent green), but could be essential for interstellar travel when we make that leap (and possibly for early colonization efforts in our own solar system). Basically I'm thinking throw some genese into algae to make it produce more protein and grow a wheat soup basically? I'm tired and sober so that's the best I've got right now, but that makes sense yeah?
@Enjoymentboy
Жыл бұрын
I can guarantee that even if we did come up with replicators there would be someone who upon first seeing one would say "That's not how they did it on Star Trek".
@masere
Жыл бұрын
And if the first ever test of a replicator is not "tea, early grey, hot", there will be hell to pay.
@zdlax
Жыл бұрын
Cop at the door: "Boy you're sucking down an awful lot of electricity... And why do you need all that silicon carbon and lithium?" Basement: Replicator making replicators making replicators making hunter killer drones.
@NZobservatory
Жыл бұрын
The background music wasn't loud enough; I could still sometimes hear Simon.
@safiremorningstar
8 ай бұрын
If you follow the original Star Trek their food synthesizers were based on Transporter technology meaning the various and sundry food products searches meat dairy were molecularly disassembled and then reassemble.
@mau48310
Жыл бұрын
I think we need to push this tech further, imagine printing a steak with out the cow , the feed and the manure . Imagine replicating organs that failed and repairing the errors in the genes that led to that failure . This could really be the next big leap.
@anthonybaransky137
Жыл бұрын
Really neat seeing you in a spaceship window
@dand3953
Жыл бұрын
No replicator could ever function without computer technology. Because all replicator computers would be programmed with security protocols, according to what is offered in its "menu," for certain products (such as A-bombs), very complex programs would prevent the production of certain necessary components. STtNG had holo-decks that also employed a very specialized version of replication/transporter technology. It all hinges on computer technology. By being able to regulate HOW any energy is being applied to produce a circumstance, what you believe would take the power of a small nuclear explosion could be levered by way of AI programming down to just a gigawatt, or even much less.
@jeremyandrews3292
Жыл бұрын
My thinking is that replicators for civilian use might be unrealistic. They might be restricted to government and corporate use, highly regulated. Sort of like how nuclear weapons are. I mean, it doesn't seem that crazy to imagine them being used for manufacturing, but then still having things made in centralized factories under strict supervision rather than being something ordinary people can have.
@TakumiJoyconBoyz
Жыл бұрын
It feels like every day I'm finding out that Simon has another youtube channel...
@Srindal4657
Жыл бұрын
I didn't know mattershift was actually trying to make a molecular factory. My hope for the future has suddenly gone up
@johnbennett1465
Жыл бұрын
Assuming that molecular screens require specialized equipment to make, then restricting that equipment gives some control over what can be created. Without the correct screen, you couldn't produce C4. On the other hand a gun made out common materials would still be possible.
@Be_Harris
Жыл бұрын
The best part of waking up is Mr.Tuvok in your cup. 😃☕
@TheSwamper
Жыл бұрын
If the limitation for almost anything we could imagine has the bottleneck of energy requirement, then I think that's more than surmountable. There is a near-infinite amount of energy in the universe that could theoretically be tapped into.
@Restributordevill
Жыл бұрын
When I think of replicators, I think we’re Fkd. Stargate replicators aren’t something you’d like to ever face…
@evlkenevl2721
Жыл бұрын
"The replicator's broken?! How?" "Idunno, I just ordered some food." "What did you order?" "Four fried chickens and a Coke."
@mikegLXIVMM
Жыл бұрын
I think of a "Replicator" as a highly advanced 3D printer that works on a atomic or molecular scale with a wide variety of elements.
@sigvar6795
Жыл бұрын
There was an STNG episode ..or movie, I think it was "First Contact" A local from Earths past asked, "Why cant you just replicate all the ships you need?" Picard's answer was "It doesnt work like that". But definitely, bad actors are why we cant have nice things! Hey Can we take the bad actors and add them to the energy pool?! A bad thing for a good reason?! But Im ok with it and I'm really a nice guy so it's OK!
@richvandervecken3954
Жыл бұрын
The replicators in the Star Trek series were based on the transporter technology they was based in matter / energy conversion. That is way different than taking a biomass and 3d printing it.
@ulrichkalber9039
Жыл бұрын
the reason that the use of the replicator had to be rationed was, most probably, storytelling related. In this situation the high energy needs of the replicator came in handy. And no it is NOT E=mc² because the replicator does NOT change energy to matter, it changes matter into other forms of matter. carbon, which is stored for that purpose, into whatever you want to have. and whatever you want to get rid of into carbon. The principle of function is to decompose the matter into energy, as a transporter would do, but then condensate(for lack of a better phrase) the energy into whatever you wanted to have. this does technically change energy into matter, but that energy comes from matter that has been changed into energy, so that the net energy need is not calculated E=mc², it is only what you need to control the decomposition and recomposition of matter.
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