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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] [QUOTE] Except for the trifling on-screen detail that it doesn't collapse in on itself. It just goes from blue to gray (how Civil War...). [/QUOTE]So it was collapsing very slowly. I said the mechanisum could have been damaged, not destroyed. [QUOTE] I've heard of singularities being used as power sources before on Star Trek, but I've never understood how the heck you're supposed to use such a thing as a power source. Seems like all it would do is suck matter in. [/QUOTE]You'd think so, but since we've seen 2 races use black holes as a power source then it must work somehow. [QUOTE] A naked singularity is a singularity without an event horizon. In other words, it is a point in space in which general relativity predicts would have infinite density which is observable from the outside. [/QUOTE]I know what a singularity is. [QUOTE] Well, my friend and I thought if you had an object with so much mass and the kind of almost limitless power it would take to keep it from collapsing a crude bent-space warp field somewhat feasible. I don't know what a "graviton spatial impeller" is. [/QUOTE]Well my friend, neither do I, it's called "MAKING IT UP" its some new fangled technique that a few obscure science fiction writers are using these days, perhaps it just slipped past you. But I'm sure with a rather basic knowledge of the english language and if you get stuck, a dictionary, you may be able to decypher what a "graviton spatial impeller" might actually do. [QUOTE] That's where we disagree. I think it's possible to deal with plausible science and still be dramatic. Sometimes the science itself could suggest a story. [/QUOTE]And some people couldn't spot subtle sarcasum if it walk up and bout them a bunch of flowers. [QUOTE] For instance, a planet killer with that much gravity could just INHALE a gas giant's mass...theoretically it could also suck up a STAR. That would have made for a cool sequence. And it wouldn't even HAVE to attack planets to be deadly. It's gravitational force alone would disrupt orbits with catastophic results. So, even deactivited it would be a menace. Furthermore, if you can somehow drop the a neutronium object's mass below that 1 sun bottom limit (say, it's starved for power and you trick it into consuming some of its own mass), it would explosively decay back into protons and electrons. A mini nova wa-VOOM! [/QUOTE]Maybe so, but it didn't. [QUOTE] But, this would require Star Trek to have a real science advisor on the show and not leave it to the art dept. guys to fill in what blanks they can in whatever free time they have after naking this week's props. [/QUOTE]Indeed. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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