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Does the US Navy (or the Royal Navy, for that matter) actually use dynes to measure force (if navies measure forces at all )? Does ANYONE use dynes?
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kilodynes have been used in Trek for a while IIRC... I remember seeing them before. Maybe in the Ency is the place to look?
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quote:Originally posted by BJ_O: So, the shuttlepods have idiot lights? Malcolm said something about the engine temp light coming on. B.J.
These are Mk-I shuttle pods, it's actually a check engine light. His engine was probobly overheating, because they probobly haven't changed the oil since leaving Earth.
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Firestone makes the shuttle's landing gear. Even in space they fall apart.
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-They load Sim into a photonic torpedo casing. Note that when the casket enters the tube, a nifty red light conveys the image that it fires right away - moving a little, then accelerating.
-However, the casket exits through one of the regular torpedo tubes, and not the "new" one on the ventral centerline. Damn.
-WRT the shuttlepods working to move Enterprise: well, it's not REALLY a case of zero-gee physics here. There IS a fluid mass to work through, so friction and momentum are in effect. There was also a magnetized centre of gravity, and a whole schwack of it pasted onto the ship; it's possible that they were working against the cloud's anti-polar centre of gravity, as you would when breaking two magnets apart. Or at least, that's what Boramis was feeding the writers.
-They could have busted the aft phase cannons out of their casings by using phase rifles. They're lots smaller than the flight bay doors.
-Okay, so Trip wants to get a STABLE warp five field going by compressing the antimatter stream before the reaction. This is all fine and good, but it seems like a hell of a lot more work than pressing a few buttons. Also, what of warp cores like those on the movie Enterprise and Voyager? We've basically established that they work on different intermix methods than the TNG "compression" cores.
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From the graphics, it looked like Tucker was (merely) adjusting the magnetic antimatter constraint mechanism, possibly pushing it beyond some Starfleet safety standard. But if it was this simple (and it actually worked before they flew into the cloud), they could've easily done this from the very beginning.
And even IF they couldm't have made this adjustment in the rush to get Klaang to Kronos, there still was enough time to do it later on. Especially considering the refit at Jupiter Station.
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