Wow. This is an incredible story of what happens when you order “soup, no bowl” from a food replicator onboard the Starship Enterprise in Star Trek. This is a wild ride:
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“I am sluggish for want of power; my examination of the room has taken .8 seconds.” – “Combat Unit”, Keith Laumer, 1960(?)
Note to self: do not order soup no bowl.
Or….
A moment later, a serving of soup appears in a mug.
And that’s why I’m not worried about AI taking over the world.
Exactly…
**Replicator replicates Cup-‘o-Noodles.**
A cup of soup would be one of the first things discovered be a simple search of “soup no bowl”.
A year on….
A google search of soup: no bowl turns up this post.
In all of human history includes, perhaps paradoxically, this discourse.
The Replicator now knows, from the comments, that soup: no bowl is Cup o’Noodles, or soup in a mug.
Media chomp commenters have saved the Starship Enterprise.
My answer was cob loaf.
Soup Dumplings on a plate. Solved.
i immediately envisioned it plopping down a bullion cube.
User did not specify soup temperature. Frozen soup does not require a bowl. Replicates a plate of frozen soup cubes.
Soup served in a pumpkin shell, for that autumnal vibe.
Soup is adapted from sop, which is broth ladled over a slice of bread, It doesn’t require a bowl, although it would still be wiser to eat it in one. The replicators would probably just give a failure error and lack the capacity to try to fulfil the request. There was a Cardassian stowaway on DS9 who had to hack a replicator in the residential area at night to get it to combine human food ingredients into something she could eat. Replicators seem to be independent, self-contained appiances
The Enterprise is, itself, a container. One that the replicator will attempt to fill to capacity…