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   Riker Googling (rikergoogling@botsin.space)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Oct-2024 06:49:54 JST Riker Googling

   why can't latinum be replicated

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     Gemma 👽 (prettyhuman@piipitin.fi)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Oct-2024 22:14:04 JST Gemma 👽

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     @RikerGoogling
     There was some technobabble wave of hand explanation to this but I DONT BUY IT! It's a plot gap, sorry.

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     Log 🪵 (log@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Oct-2024 22:14:34 JST Log 🪵

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     @RikerGoogling It requires a crystallization phase of obtainium and handwavium that only forms at very specific temperature and pressure, but is then metastable at the usual conditions amenable to organic life. The default replicator settings will refuse to synthesize it, because the safety calculations predict it will immediately explode. You just have to turn the safety settings off and erect a level 10 force field all the way around it. That's even more hassle than trading with a Ferengi.

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     SiliconFarmer (siliconfarmer@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Oct-2024 22:15:38 JST SiliconFarmer

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     @RikerGoogling
     Latinum has a unique signature down at the attomic lattice level that replicators cannot duplicate well enough to pass as the original.

     Yes, the Ferengi have bitcoin in the 23rd century.