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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tech Sergeant Chen: [QB] [QUOTE] I don't recall the temporal coordinates for First Contact, but the ability to generate (and contain) small amounts of antimatter isn't too hard to believe. After all, the Phoenix was only going at Warp 1 for a few seconds.[/QUOTE] It actually IS hard to believe. Aside from new theory, Cochrane's tech is worse than ours, although his single stage to orbit is impressive. Lilly says it took her months to scrounge up enough titanium for the cockpit. It strains credibility that existing material is that hard to find but they can find antimatter lickety split. I'd vote for simple nuclear fission for the energy source. Fairly easy to do and it explains the radiation leak they had after the attack. They could cannibalize some SDI weapons that use nuclear warheads to power lasers. As somebody else suggested, then the Vulcans could introduce Cochrane to antimatter. It should be more than a few seconds. There's a small matter of a return trip. He sure couldn't do it on rockets. Even 1.3 light-seconds to the moon took four days for the Apollo astronauts to reach. BTW, what the frell is it with this UBB code? Flare says it's on, but it never works! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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