Rattle wrote:

Replicators seem to function well in star trek... I gouess were're about to see a projection on how this might affect things.

Well, yeah.. The replicator is how the Star Trek Federation made communism work. :)

However, Second Life exists requiring support from a world that does not contain replicators, hence it must create an economy that interfaces with the economy that exists around around it.

I'm sure star trek had to have something like that too...

I'm just not enough of a treckie to know. But I'm sure it was a wormhole, crystalline, quasi dimansional entity or something that served just this purpose on the economy of Star Trek.

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