Got this quote from some nosy brat aussie who's name will remain unknown
RIKER: Data... noranium vaporizes at... ?
DATA: Two thousand three hundred fourteen degrees. Of course, noranium carbide alloys vaporize at a slightly higher temperature.
Riker indicates the pile of alloys -- Worf, Data, and Geordi catch on.
GEORDI: Phaser setting seven ought to do it...
Riker nods; all four adjust their phasers.
25 ANOTHER ANGLE (OPTICAL)
as Riker, Data, Geordi, and Worf FIRE at the pile of noranium. The noranium quickly bellows huge clouds of SMOKE -- filling the area almost immediately.
RIKER
Now!
25A ANGLE
In a quick moment, Riker gives the others sotto voce instructions, then using the smoke as cover, the four make a break for it.
Well, think ya can make some calcs?
Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who did not.
Probably not. "Noranium" sounds like an element, but there's no such element in the periodic table. "Noranium carbide" sounds like a compound, but they describe it as an alloy. Consequently, we have no idea what they're actually talking about; it makes no sense in modern material-science terms.
All we really know about this "alloy" is its boiling point, and that's pretty useless. We don't know its specific heat, we don't know its melting point, we don't know its heat of fusion, we don't know its heat of vaporization, and we don't even know the mass of material involved.
So, from a calculation standpoint, this incident is completely useless.
Note also, from Mike's database, that the evidents indicates that the phaser shots actually set this material on fire, further muddying the waters.
"This is supposed to be a happy occasion... Let's not bicker and argue about who killed who."
-- The King of Swamp Castle, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
"Nothing of consequence happened today. " -- Diary of King George III, July 4, 1776
"This is not bad; this is a conspiracy to remove happiness from existence. It seeks to wrap its hedgehog hand around the still beating heart of the personification of good and squeeze until it is stilled."
-- Chuck Sonnenburg on Voyager's "Elogium"
Uraniun235 wrote:
"Ammonium" also sounds like an element, but there's no such element.
That observation, of course, does nothing to reveal the nature of "noranium".
"This is supposed to be a happy occasion... Let's not bicker and argue about who killed who."
-- The King of Swamp Castle, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
"Nothing of consequence happened today. " -- Diary of King George III, July 4, 1776
"This is not bad; this is a conspiracy to remove happiness from existence. It seeks to wrap its hedgehog hand around the still beating heart of the personification of good and squeeze until it is stilled."
-- Chuck Sonnenburg on Voyager's "Elogium"
Isn't "titanium" an alloy? Sorry if I'm being an ignoramus, but I think it's not an element, even if it sounds like one... or what exactly is titanium anyway?
It's not my place in life to make people happy. Don't talk to me unless you're prepared to watch me slaughter cows you hold sacred. Don't talk to me unless you're prepared to have your basic assumptions challenged. If you want bunnies in light, talk to someone else.
Slartibartfast wrote:Isn't "titanium" an alloy? Sorry if I'm being an ignoramus, but I think it's not an element, even if it sounds like one... or what exactly is titanium anyway?
"This is supposed to be a happy occasion... Let's not bicker and argue about who killed who."
-- The King of Swamp Castle, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
"Nothing of consequence happened today. " -- Diary of King George III, July 4, 1776
"This is not bad; this is a conspiracy to remove happiness from existence. It seeks to wrap its hedgehog hand around the still beating heart of the personification of good and squeeze until it is stilled."
-- Chuck Sonnenburg on Voyager's "Elogium"
This thread belongs in the PST. There is no Wars related material being discussed here.
"If the facts are on your side, pound on the facts. If the law is on your side, pound on the law. If neither is on your side, pound on the table."
"The captain claimed our people violated a 4,000 year old treaty forbidding us to develop hyperspace technology. Extermination of our planet was the consequence. The subject did not survive interrogation."
Alyeska wrote:This thread belongs in the PST. There is no Wars related material being discussed here.
That's what I said.
It's not my place in life to make people happy. Don't talk to me unless you're prepared to watch me slaughter cows you hold sacred. Don't talk to me unless you're prepared to have your basic assumptions challenged. If you want bunnies in light, talk to someone else.
Alyeska wrote:This thread belongs in the PST. There is no Wars related material being discussed here.
That's what I said.
DOH!
"If the facts are on your side, pound on the facts. If the law is on your side, pound on the law. If neither is on your side, pound on the table."
"The captain claimed our people violated a 4,000 year old treaty forbidding us to develop hyperspace technology. Extermination of our planet was the consequence. The subject did not survive interrogation."
