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[QUOTE]Originally posted by FawnDoo: [QB] [QUOTE]From Lee: [qb]To build a ship on the ground would require massive gravity-nullification, plus constant and rapidly-shifting and evolving Structural-Integrity field application.[/qb][/QUOTE]Quite aside from the main topic, as a sidenote I don't think this would be too much of a problem for the Federation. Their computers routinely employ subspace fields to run FTL...so couldn't they be employed to manage millisecond to millisecond changes required to forcefield, structural integrity and artificial gravity systems? After all if it's a matter of compensating for local natural phenomena, an FTL computer should (by definition) be able to operate fast enough to take them into account and adjust things accordingly. As I say just a sidenote, but an interesting one. Well, to me anyway! ;-) [QUOTE]And from bX... [qb]it is, at heart, a profoundly silly idea. I'm siding with Lee on this one (minus 80% of the n00Bashing, it's his job, you see).[/qb][/QUOTE]Minus only 80% of the bashing? :-) I've been around here for a while now. Admittedly I read more than I pitch in, but I would have thought I would have been around long enough to at least be not quite so noobish anymore. Still, as I look into the mirror and see more and more of my dad's hairline staring back at me maybe being considered new in some aspects of my life isn't such a bad thing! ;-) While I don't think the idea is all that silly, I agree that the majority of on-screen evidence points to orbital construction and I also agree that this has benefits in some aspects over planetside work. However, there is the point made above that the bad guys in "Parallels" had to be looking at the place for something. Thinking about it, it might tie in with the idea floated earlier that the surface construction area is a place where they build one spaceframe and subject it to extreme conditions for stress tolerance tests. Stands to reason that the hulls they would build in there would be the prototypes for the next series of ships Starfleet would be sending out - that in itself might be enough to entice the bad guys to peek. After all why watch a crew in orbit build yet another Excelsior class when you can train your sensor array on the test range on the ground and see what new stuff they're putting together? [QUOTE]And finally from HerbShrump... [qb]Dang it! And I'm always so good about pointing out to my wife people who've played on Star Trek. Can't believe I missed that![/qb][/QUOTE]I'm afflicted by this as well - my fiance has to endure paused DVDs and trips to the computer to check the imdb all the time. Last time it was watching "Young Frankenstein" for the nth time, when I realised that the copper with the fake arm was the guy from "Malcolm in the Middle". Felt silly that I hadn't spotted that one before. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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