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Krenim
Unholy Triangle Fella
Member # 22

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...maybe the Defiant is 170 meters, its just travelling at 0.708c.

This comment brought to you by the Theory of Relativity and the concept of length contraction.

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Aethelwer
Frank G
Member # 36

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Oh, come on, I never smite people. I bludgeon! *bludgeons Krenim*

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Krenim
Unholy Triangle Fella
Member # 22

posted

Ow!

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Darlene: I read a lot of science fiction.
Herbert: Bless you, my child.
Kay: The world needs more people like you.

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The First One
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed
Member # 35

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*sends Krenim into one corner to write "I will not flog a dead horse" 1000 times; Frank into another corner to write "I will not bludgeon Krenim" 5000 times; Sternbach into another corner to write "I will think before I arbitrarily assign ship lengths" 1,000,000 times* I have one more corner left - behave yourselves, the rest of you. . . }B)

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Bernd
Guy from Old Europe
Member # 6

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Isn't it length *contraction* at relativistic speeds?

Defiant fly-by: http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/mmedia/specrel/lc.html

Anyway:

In the next exciting episode, F. "Defiant" Gerratana will shrink the Krenim Imperium by moving it away from the galactic core.

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Elim Garak
Plain and simple
Member # 14

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Bernd, that's it. And if it's 170 metres, as they say, and in the FX it's 120 metres, then the Defiant is always moving at 0.708c. ("Fast little ship." "Little?"

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Bernd
Guy from Old Europe
Member # 6

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I see o:

It *seems* 170m*1/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)=120m, while it *is* 170m. This is why the ship has multiple pairs of impulse engines

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Elim Garak
Plain and simple
Member # 14

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But now we're giving the FX people too much credit. It scares me.

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