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Re: Hypothetical design question
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lugnet.space
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Tue, 24 Jun 2003 00:47:22 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
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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?
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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 Trek (mostly because they keep telling each other that Star Trek physics is
all true, and partly on the long-standing singular fact that warp travel was an
existing theory during the days of ST:TOS). Star Trek is nice candy-fluff
sci-fi as far as science goes, but a lot more credit is given to Star Trek
physics than it deserves. If you want to see a show that actually paid
attention to real physics, watch Babylon 5 (it should be noted that B5 had not
one, but two physicists on the production staff). Without getting into the
whole FTL debate (it’s all still largely hypothetical at this point, and
therefore moot), all of the standard sublight travel obeys real physics. When
your engines conk out, you stop accelerating, but you don’t stop moving. When
life support conks out, you don’t instantly start suffocating (why is it that
Federation air is only warm and breathable as long as some machine is able to
say it is?). When you want to shoot someone on your six, you spin the ship
around and fly backwards instead of doing wide banking curves through, um, near
vacuum.
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| (...) If you spin anything around without curving or coming to a complete stop, you'll be sorry. Inertia still applies in space, and at the speeds probably used, a 180-degree spin will turn the entire crew into little puddles on the back of their (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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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 (URL) (22 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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