Interesting Trek site

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2004-09-24 06:41pm

I found this will searching for how you could use a singularity to generate electricity. I just glossed over it, seems to try at science pretty well.

http://www.cakes.mcmail.com/StarTrek/index.htm

dragon · Post by **dragon** » 2004-09-29 07:06am

intersting even though his tactical system seems to be a liitle off. He say that it would take hours of continous firing of romulan disruptors to equal that of a photon torp. Yet we see numerous examples where thats not the case.But then it seems that the energy weapons in trek seem to be more effective agaisnt shields then hulls.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-09-29 12:44pm

I just skimmed it, but it looks like it's mostly just regurgitating the TM, insofar as any directly Trek-related discussions go.

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2004-09-29 12:53pm

Yes, the site was somewhat enjoyable, even if it mostly was a rehash of other materials. The warp chart, based on Okuda's work, is always amusing as it shows the pitiful speed of the warp drive.

Gustav32Vasa · Post by **Gustav32Vasa** » 2004-09-29 01:48pm

Mange the Swede wrote:The warp chart, based on Okuda's work, is always amusing as it shows the pitiful speed of the warp drive.

Pitiful? FTL travel slow?

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-09-29 01:57pm

Gustav32Vasa wrote:
Mange the Swede wrote:The warp chart, based on Okuda's work, is always amusing as it shows the pitiful speed of the warp drive.
Pitiful? FTL travel slow?

when compared to star wars ftl, at any rate.

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2004-09-29 02:17pm

Darth_Zod wrote:
Gustav32Vasa wrote:
Mange the Swede wrote:The warp chart, based on Okuda's work, is always amusing as it shows the pitiful speed of the warp drive.
Pitiful? FTL travel slow?
when compared to star wars ftl, at any rate.

Yeah, that was exactly what I meant, but since this isn't the Vs. forum, I was deliberatly vague.

teleguy · Post by **teleguy** » 2004-09-29 03:20pm

1 megatonne = 2,977,789,639,020,840 joules

http://www.cakes.mcmail.com/StarTrek/photontorpedo.htm

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-09-29 04:38pm

I like the way he calculates (based on a raft of assumptions and general bullshit) that the bomb in "Warhead" detonated more than 1600 tons of antimatter even though two crewmen were able to carry it around. He notices this obvious problem and concludes that "the units explode and whatever they use for explosive yield does not detonate or that they some how replicate their own supply of antimatter before detonation".

The first hypothesis is not even intelligible (what the fuck is he trying to say?) and the second hypothesis (that they replicate antimatter out of nothing in order to increase their own mass just prior to detonation) is just idiot-speak. The guy is a moron who has learned how to adopt a quasi-scientific style of writing. The fact that he cites Star Trek writers and real scientists interchangeably is also quite irritating.

BlkbrryTheGreat · Post by **BlkbrryTheGreat** » 2004-09-29 09:47pm

On hypothesis 2 I think he's stating that the warhead uses a replicator to replicate antimatter before impact..... which is idiotic.

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2004-09-29 09:52pm

BlkbrryTheGreat wrote:On hypothesis 2 I think he's stating that the warhead uses a replicator to replicate antimatter before impact..... which is idiotic.

LOL. The torpedo could just use that energy in the explossion in the first place.