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Sunspot
Wasting Away
Member # 77

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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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Simon
Ex-Member

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Well theorectically a phaser should behave just like lightning and create a thunderous explosion when they go through an atmoshpere.

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Bernd
Guy from Old Europe
Member # 6

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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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Identity Crisis
Defender of the Non-Canon
Member # 67

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Aw shucks. A few meters. A few meters. Some one should slap Sulu for having such poor aim.

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