Duggy wrote:   
   > On Sep 18, 8:34 am, j...@xmission.com wrote:   
   >> I always thought Star Trek should use something like a portal toilet.  A   
   >> transporter toilet.  You don't need little private stalls, you wouldn't   
   >> even need to partially disrobe.  You just stand in front of the unit and   
   >> press the bladder or bowel button, and presto, the contents are   
   >> transported   
   >    
   > Transported?  Rendered to component molecules and stored in the   
   > replicator buffer.   
   >    
   >> directly to wherever they store such things on starships.   
   >> Or perhaps to the Romulan Neutral Zone.   
   >    
   > And if the transporter is even slightly off part of you bowel and   
   > lower intestine.   
   >    
   > ===   
   > = DUG.   
   > ===   
   >    
      
   Yeah, but in Voyager they used a medical transporter to transplant    
   organs in at least one case, so apparently it can distinguish between    
   flesh and non-flesh.  I think there would be more of a danger that    
   incompletely digested meat would not be removed.   
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