: I would not use it for this
: reason (the fact that the resulting clone of me would make exactly the
: same decisions as me and live out the rest of his life as I would is cold
: comfort).
You, I, and Doctor Leonard McCoy seem to agree. :)
There's also the kinetic energy transfer problems addressed by Niven in Playgrounds of the Mind, IIRC. (Yes, it was collected from somewhere else but I can't remember from where for the life of me.)
-- Steve is trapped at work, far away from his research resources.