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[QUOTE]Originally posted by mrneutron: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Mojo: [qb]A friend of mine thinks the Doomsday machines were invented to fight the Borg. What a cool pic THAT would make - a blast from the Doomsday Machine tearing a cube apart - kind of like the way we see houses get torn apart by the shockwave from a nuclear blast... COOL! :eek: [/qb][/QUOTE]Wayyyyy back in 1989 a friend of mine, who read heavy physics books for entertainment, found a mathematical formula for neutronium (hypothetically matter you would find in a neutron star). The mass figures were astronomical for even a teaspoon of the stuff. So, that go us wondering how massive a pure neutronium cone as seen on the show would be. So, we figured it's size relative to the Enterprise, thickness, etc. A little math and the number ended up having so many zeroes it was frightening. In fact, the thing wouldn't need a tractor beam...it's gravitational pull alone would suck stuff towards it! The funny thing was, we realized that any power source capable of moving something so super-masssive would never be able to be disabled by a mere 97.835 megaton blast, and THAT suggested a story. I wrote it, pitched it, but it was too hard SF for TNG I guess. (Oh my God, REAL science? On Star Trek?!) Hey Mojo, if you're curious, I'll dig up the math we did and fire it your way. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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