The Nightstar Zoo

I don't want to spoil anybody's appetite, but every atom of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen on Earth has been through some digestive tract or other countless trillions of times over the last billion years or so, courtesy of that handy fusion reactor 8 light-minutes away.

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"A sufficiently-advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke
"Sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology."
Jack L. Chalker
"Magic is just another way of saying 'I don't know how it works.'"
Larry Niven

I want there to be a couple more meters of tubing between this strip and the next one. I don't think the filtration is getting everything

of course it's not, some has to get through for it's meeting with the rotary air impeller.

I think you accidentally a word there. Or, maybe not.

I was about to say the same thing. The suit does the exact same thing as what happens in nature, it just does it more efficiently. With the important "just" being the "just don't think about it".

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Using Ubutnu! Go the Penguin!

and?

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DISCLAIMER: WARNING
these opinions are not humble, they are selfish, self-centered and arrogant to the extreme

Mon canard est en feu!!
- Pierre Francois Dulac

Vielder (or is that Wielder) of FutureMercs brain
(two brains and still cant find his cellphone or obey grammar )

In need of a mad scientist
Don''t worry, i''m plenty crazy.

Oops!

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam


But that was before HTML and full-screen text editors.

This point was mentioned in a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel. I don't remember the title, but the main character was a Cardassian Engineer who had spent ten years on Terroc Nor before it was ceded to the Federation and renamed Deep Space [Station] Nine. He used an unknown service access tunnel to sneak off his Cardassian ship, and onto DS9 undetected. He hid in an unoccupied suite which had several broken items, including the food replicator. He got it working by removing and reprogramming a similar component from the toilet in another suite, reflecting that most people didn't like to think about where the raw organic material the replicators used came from. As I recall, the component recycled all organic waste (uniforms, et al) into a generic organic matrix which could be converted into anything the replicator had a program for.

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"A sufficiently-advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke
"Sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology."
Jack L. Chalker
"Magic is just another way of saying 'I don't know how it works.'"
Larry Niven