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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [QB] Why do I feel like I'm repeating myself...? We can create antimatter [i]now[/i]. Cochrane certainly could have it. The problem is that matter/antimatter reactions result in HUGE MASSIVE LARGE EXPLOSIONS THAT BLOW YOU UP!!! Thus, the reason Trek invented dilithium. Without that, you can't use M/A reactions as a useful source of power. The "Friendship-1" or whatever (haven't seen the ep yet) was apparently launched a few [i]years[/i] after Cochrane's flight. Humans hooked up w/ the Vulcans [i]one day[/i] after that flight. Hence, there was plenty of time for Eartn to gain new technologies between Cochrane's flight and the probe launch. Now that that rant's done... [i]Botany Bay[/i] and [i]Birdseye[/i] both had artificial gravity in the 1990s, and it doesn't seem to have been generated by conventional means (i.e. spinning), so, presumably, the [i]Phoenix[/i] could easily have had artificial gravity. Also, since I expect the inertial dampers and artificial gravity generators work on the same basic principles, the fact that the [i]Phoenix[/i] had an IDF isn't odd, either. The Bussard collectors do seem strange, especially since they aren't all [i]that[/i] effective. Perhaps it wass part of a secondary experiment. Cochrane figured, if the warp flight worked, he could also test the ramscoops at the same time. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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