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Posted: 2003-08-20 02:15am
by MKSheppard
From James Blish Trek 8 which I read as a kid.
"Spock's Brain"
A loud hum broke the silence. Its pitch increased to a whine-and the whole cave moved bodily under their feet, descending as a descending elevator descends. It continued its smooth downward plunge; and Scott, checking his tricorder, said, "Captain, that power we picked up before-we're getting closer to it."
"A lot of power?" Kirk asked.
"Enough to push this planet out of orbit."
The whining noise was diminishing. "Natural or artificial, Mr. Scott?"
"Artificial, I'd say, sir."
"And the source?"
"Either a nuclear pile a hundred miles wide or..."
"Or what, Mr. Scott?"
"Ion power."
So we're technically more advanced than Trek now that
we're launching an ION POWERED space probe
Posted: 2003-08-20 10:25am
by Lord Poe
That's nothing! In the aired episode, Scotty says: "Ion power! They can teach us a thing or two!"
Posted: 2003-08-20 11:36am
by The Duchess of Zeon
Isn't that the same episode where the Incredible Ion Ship travels at FTL velocities?
Posted: 2003-08-20 01:06pm
by SirNitram
Lord Poe wrote:That's nothing! In the aired episode, Scotty says: "Ion power! They can teach us a thing or two!"
And another TOS Myth dies quietly in the night.
Posted: 2003-08-20 03:06pm
by Frank Hipper
Werner von Braun first theorised on the type of Ion Drive used on the Deep Space 1 Probe during WWII. OMG!!!!11!! teh n4z1s pwnzorz tr3k!
Posted: 2003-08-20 03:42pm
by kojikun
Frank Hipper wrote:Werner von Braun first theorised on the type of Ion Drive used on the Deep Space 1 Probe during WWII. OMG!!!!11!! teh n4z1s pwnzorz tr3k!
Actually I think Tsiolkovskii theorised how to build one back before WWI.
Posted: 2003-08-20 04:18pm
by Frank Hipper
kojikun wrote:Frank Hipper wrote:Werner von Braun first theorised on the type of Ion Drive used on the Deep Space 1 Probe during WWII. OMG!!!!11!! teh n4z1s pwnzorz tr3k!
Actually I think Tsiolkovskii theorised how to build one back before WWI.
That was a liquid fueled rocket, I believe.
Posted: 2003-08-20 05:45pm
by ClaysGhost
MKSheppard wrote:From James Blish Trek 8 which I read as a kid.
"Spock's Brain"
"And the source?"
"Either a nuclear pile a hundred miles wide or..."
"Or what, Mr. Scott?"
"Ion power."
So we're technically more advanced than Trek now that
we're launching an ION POWERED space probe
I think somebody mixed up propulsion and power generation there.
Posted: 2003-08-20 05:52pm
by Drooling Iguana
ClaysGhost wrote:MKSheppard wrote:From James Blish Trek 8 which I read as a kid.
"Spock's Brain"
"And the source?"
"Either a nuclear pile a hundred miles wide or..."
"Or what, Mr. Scott?"
"Ion power."
So we're technically more advanced than Trek now that
we're launching an ION POWERED space probe :lol:
I think somebody mixed up propulsion and power generation there.
So their ship runs off of lithium ion batteries?
Posted: 2003-08-20 05:56pm
by ClaysGhost
Drooling Iguana wrote:
So their ship runs off of lithium ion batteries?
Whose ship? That's the only ion power I know of.
Hey, at least it's rechargeable.
Posted: 2003-08-20 06:03pm
by kojikun
Frank Hipper wrote:That was a liquid fueled rocket, I believe.
Yes but I think he even mentioned using electrical charges to propel ions as a method of space propulsion.
Posted: 2003-08-20 07:52pm
by paladin
MKSheppard wrote:
So we're technically more advanced than Trek now that
we're launching an ION POWERED space probe
Cut the writers some slack, it was the 60's. They did know better.
Posted: 2003-08-20 09:08pm
by Sea Skimmer
Frank Hipper wrote:
That was a liquid fueled rocket, I believe.[/quote]
Bah, who cares, I just want to be alive to hear a spacecraft report "Underway on nuclear power"