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Re: Hypothetical design question
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Mon, 23 Jun 2003 21:11:44 GMT
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Ahhhh...why is it that everything comes back to Star Trek? Hmmmm must be a
conspirocy. ;^)
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i think because of all the major scifi shows out there, Star Trek paid the
most attention to actual physics and in making their technologies plausible.
maybe not probable, but who knows what the future will hold?
-Jr.Mar.Hoffman
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| (...) Eesh. Star Trek script writers tend to accept hypothetical physics as gospel truth (with the result that much of Star Trek physics has since been disproven), and a lot of hard-core Trekkies do the same thing with any physics presented on Star (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) You're thinking of Babylon 5 right? Phasers, shields, warp drive. HA. real physics there. :P Babylon 5 had interial momentum, the centrifugal concept of gravity, real-space phycis and everything Rick Hallman (URL) Das-Brick.Org> ... (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) While everyone already pointed out that Babylon 5 is the best mainstream sci-fi at actually obeying physics in space, I would like to point out a few additions to the above statement. The Star Trek "science advisor" has an Art degree. Half of (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) don't forget the old phylosophy that the faster you go, the greater the chance that small particles will hit you. So at 1/2 the speed of light, you would definately need some form of shielding. An old, and possible, idea is to use a barrier of (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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