I will also point out the time when Doug uses "White Wedding" to conjure the shotgun, the IDEC people scanning him say that he's holding about 3 kilograms of energy. So we know that's what scanners would probably see for anything that Doug conjures out of nothing...
DNA scanners need DNA to scan. Even if you say they're reading the energy pattern of the DNA (which they'd _have_ to be doing one way or another if it's at a distance), there has to be an energy pattern for DNA to scan it. Most likely they'd get a null reading, and assume that either the scanner was broken or that the simulacrum has some ability to block it's readings...
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DNA scanners need DNA to scan. Even if you say they're reading the energy pattern of the DNA (which they'd _have_ to be doing one way or another if it's at a distance), there has to be an energy pattern for DNA to scan it. Most likely they'd get a null reading, and assume that either the scanner was broken or that the simulacrum has some ability to block it's readings...
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