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Turbolaser bolts are capable of striking a target, obliterating it, and passing beyond without any perturbation of bolt geometry. Turbolaser Commentaries, see the 1st image and its caption How does invisible beam theory explain this? If the pulse destroyed the asteroid, the beam is over. There shoul...

Problems I think exist with the energy beam idea Extra exotic particles This was shot down. Actually it may have been still-born, although I’m not sold on that point yet. :) Accuracy This idea may or may not hold up under close observation. It may be that fighters are simply too slow to successfully...

I believe Silence has openly disregarded Occams Razor before. It shouldn't be surprising, since he often works backwards by contorting evidence to fit his conclusion (instead of vice versa). Look up his Star Trek debates, if you're interested. Yes, I recall it vividly in his last attempt to come up...

I believe Silence has openly disregarded Occams Razor before. It shouldn't be surprising, since he often works backwards by contorting evidence to fit his conclusion (instead of vice versa). Look up his Star Trek debates, if you're interested. You are correct Stark. I do work backwards in Star Trek...

Ah, I see you've decided to resort to "smarmy asshole" debate technique. OK, fine. Let's play it that way. Sorry, it’s how I type. I could toss in direct insults or remove all insults and smarmy tones, but it wouldn’t reflect how I feel about this. Honestly it’s as much frustration with r...

My fault, I completely forgot to mention I consider these to be an entirely different class of weapon, perhaps similar to a lightsaber blade which is extended indefinitely toward the target. Really I haven't given much thought towards these except that I recognize them as fundamentally different. B...

Here's the fun part :) What about SPHA-T beams, superlaser beams, My fault, I completely forgot to mention I consider these to be an entirely different class of weapon, perhaps similar to a lightsaber blade which is extended indefinitely toward the target. Really I haven't given much thought towards...

I am starting by stating that I am a purist. I am not factoring the EU into this idea and I do not wish to. If this bothers you I am not forcing you to continue reading. I also wish to state that I do not particularly care for the standard, accepted theory for turbolasers, and this thread's purpose ...

There's nothing wrong with it being alarmist. Alarm is necessary. I have to disagree with you here. If you alarm the general populace too greatly, and then nothing happens right away (which it won't--Global Warming is slow when measured by human attention spans) the populace starts to think you are...

Acidburns wrote:How would the helmet affect your ability to aim with a rifle?

If the shape of the helmet will not allow you to bring your rifle's scope to the proper placement with respect to your eyes, then you cannot use the scope.

OKay here's the problme wiht weight that you are not seeing. Right now a soldier on patrol [Now as in right now on the streets of Bagjdad there is a guy doing this literally almost] is carrying flak jacket, comm gear, first aid kit, knife, batteries for comm gear, helmet, goggles, water, chow, like...

18 kg is 39.6 lbs, that's almost up to the soldiers basic load without weapon, or ammo. That's not very much weight IMO considering it is spread over the entire body. For example, most of the weight of the legs won't even be felt as the force will be transfered quickly to the leg bones while standi...

Only idea I have is Inkscape. It's free, easy to use IMO and is a vector based program, which means easy free-scaling. No common house items AFAIK.

Webpage: I'm dressing it 'cause folks seem to like that

21 years worth of Okudagrams plus 7 years worth of no Okudagrams comes up as...28 years. Oops. I thought we were talking about 40, which clearly referred to the time Star Trek has been on the air dumbass . So... we're counting time spent doing nothing between series as time favoring your position? ...

...over half of which didn't have Okudagrams as they didn't appear until TNG. TNG + DS9 + VOY = 21 years of Okudagrams. Also at least four movies feature these and I believe some of the Shatner movies do as well. Compare with TOS + ENT = 7 years of pre Okudagrams. You were saying? They can work wit...

In Parallels , when Worf jumps to another parallel universe and suddenly finds himself in combat, he finds that the controls are totally different and he can't figure out how to raise the shields. I think that one can be written off as the parallel universe using non standardized/different standard...

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The Silence and I wrote:(since they run on antimatter and you can't just pick that stuff up willy nilly in deep space)

As of VOY yes you can, apparently.

*Waves Hand* No you can't.

I haven't a clue what HE means, but IIRC starships carry matter --> antimatter converters. Perhaps it might be feasible to install such a device in the torpedo bay and arm on the fly so to speak? No evidence for that past the non-canon TNG TM that I'm aware of and even that states the process is in...

I haven't a clue what HE means, but IIRC starships carry matter --> antimatter converters. Perhaps it might be feasible to install such a device in the torpedo bay and arm on the fly so to speak?

That is a work of awesome

I really dig the progress photos, gives a great insight to the process used to make it.

That is not entirely accurate as an analogy. Driving a car is a much more demanding activity than aiming a rifle, and by that I mean response time is much lower. In theory the blind man aims his rifle and does not fire until his spotter has confirmed he is aiming correctly, this is theoretically saf...

Entirely. I was making a case for there being no rational reason, an irrational reason is perfectly plausible.

EDIT: Fell off the page, this is in response to Darth Wong's post at the end of page 2.

Possible reasons: 1. We know that SW ships open "holes" in their shields to fire through. I'm not so sure we know this as a fact. I happen to disagree with the standard shield model, but AFAIK there is no definitive explanation for how energy weapons are allowed to fire. A sustained suppr...

I would have thought firing those weapons would only drain power that could otherwise have gone to the engines, for increased maneuverability and acceleration. Why the captain thought firing power hungry blanks (let's face it, unless the standard shield model is very inaccurate those shots were inef...

The average goldshirt does have enough discipline to fight hand to hand and enough strength to beat Borg. Their main enemies are the Klingons after all, and in ST:FC they held checkpoints for hours, and won, see the Lt.'s bleeding skull. They probably used their phaser rifles as baseball bats. Phas...