Okay, phasers are hot, right? So if a ship or large phaser cannon fired the beam through an atmosphere, wouldn't there be a wave of expanding air flying outward from the beam?
I am not sure, this may be confusion talking...
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Posted by Simon on :
Well theorectically a phaser should behave just like lightning and create a thunderous explosion when they go through an atmoshpere.
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Posted by Bernd (Member # 6) on :
I remember several times the shipboard phaser was used against targets on a planet and Kirk was only a few meters away...
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Posted by Identity Crisis (Member # 67) on :
Aw shucks. A few meters. A few meters. Some one should slap Sulu for having such poor aim.