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SW engines are steam powered!
Posted: 2004-11-06 12:58am
by Winston Blake
AOTC ICS: Jedi Starfighter wrote:Electromagnetic nozzle elements direct and pinch the relativistic thrust steam.
Without a shadow of a doubt, this means SW engines are steam powered. Therefore, they obviously cannot hope to compete with Trek ships, whose Impulse Engines are far more advanced. If all you fanatical, sex-deprived, small-testicled Warsies want 200 gigaton TLs, you must accept steam based engines as canon! Obviously, so-called 'hypermatter reactors' are in fact simple 20th century level coal-heated boilers. That's right! Coal! Against incredibly high-powered super-advanced Antimatter Reactors!
What's that you say? Nitpicking a typo? NO!! Canon!!
CANON!!!!! TREK UBER ALLES!!!!
[/rabid trekkie]
Posted: 2004-11-06 01:11am
by Praxis
Nope. One of the dictionary.com definitions...
3. Any exhalation. ``A steam og rich, distilled perfumes.'' --Milton.
Dry steam, steam which does not contain water held in suspension mechanically; -- sometimes applied to superheated steam.
Exhaust steam. See under Exhaust.
Whammo. Any exhalation, or exhaust, can count as steam. So nyah. The exhaust could be plasma for all we know.
Posted: 2004-11-06 01:16am
by Darth Raptor
Even if it is just water vapor, it's
relativistic water vapor.
Posted: 2004-11-06 02:52am
by Icehawk
I thought it said "thrust
stream"
Posted: 2004-11-06 02:55am
by Winston Blake
Icehawk wrote:I thought it said "thrust
stream"
Check your copy, pointing at the starfighter's engine behind it. Mine definitely says 'thrust steam', i don't see how other copies would be different.
Re: SW engines are steam powered!
Posted: 2004-11-06 03:38am
by omegaLancer
Winston Blake wrote:AOTC ICS: Jedi Starfighter wrote:Electromagnetic nozzle elements direct and pinch the relativistic thrust steam.
Without a shadow of a doubt, this means SW engines are steam powered. Therefore, they obviously cannot hope to compete with Trek ships, whose Impulse Engines are far more advanced. If all you fanatical, sex-deprived, small-testicled Warsies want 200 gigaton TLs, you must accept steam based engines as canon! Obviously, so-called 'hypermatter reactors' are in fact simple 20th century level coal-heated boilers. That's right! Coal! Against incredibly high-powered super-advanced Antimatter Reactors!
What's that you say? Nitpicking a typo? NO!! Canon!!
CANON!!!!! TREK UBER ALLES!!!!
[/rabid trekkie]
hummm my copy saids "Stream"
Posted: 2004-11-06 04:01am
by Spanky The Dolphin
It says "steam" in my copy. But I would assume that it might be a typo. Seriously, use your God damn brain and try to see if "steam" makes any sense in the context than "stream". It doesn't.
Posted: 2004-11-06 04:08am
by Lord Revan
Well in my version it's "työntövoima" to retranslate that into thrust steam one needs quite vivid imagination for thrust stream no such thing is needed. (And I'm using the finnish translation if want to know.)
Posted: 2004-11-06 04:29am
by Pcm979
Isn't he joking?
Posted: 2004-11-06 04:42am
by Lord of the Farce
Pcm979 wrote:Isn't he joking?
"What's that you say? Nitpicking a typo? NO!! Canon!! CANON!!!!! TREK UBER ALLES!!!!" and
"[/rabid trekkie]" are pretty obvious hints.
Posted: 2004-11-06 04:54am
by Spanky The Dolphin
Must have skimmed over that part.
Posted: 2004-11-06 05:07am
by Pcm979
Lord of the Farce wrote:Pcm979 wrote:Isn't he joking?
"What's that you say? Nitpicking a typo? NO!! Canon!! CANON!!!!! TREK UBER ALLES!!!!" and
"[/rabid trekkie]" are pretty obvious hints.
Dat's wot I thought. Some people seem to be taking it a leetle too seriously.
Posted: 2004-11-06 05:52am
by Winston Blake
Anyway, i guess they must've found the typo and fixed it after some were already sold.
BTW, I was about to prove i wasn't a complete idiot with this:
...but i was too slow to post.
Re: SW engines are steam powered!
Posted: 2004-11-06 06:42am
by Crazedwraith
omegaLancer wrote:Winston Blake wrote:AOTC ICS: Jedi Starfighter wrote:Electromagnetic nozzle elements direct and pinch the relativistic thrust steam.
Without a shadow of a doubt, this means SW engines are steam powered. Therefore, they obviously cannot hope to compete with Trek ships, whose Impulse Engines are far more advanced. If all you fanatical, sex-deprived, small-testicled Warsies want 200 gigaton TLs, you must accept steam based engines as canon! Obviously, so-called 'hypermatter reactors' are in fact simple 20th century level coal-heated boilers. That's right! Coal! Against incredibly high-powered super-advanced Antimatter Reactors!
What's that you say? Nitpicking a typo? NO!! Canon!!
CANON!!!!! TREK UBER ALLES!!!!
[/rabid trekkie]
hummm my copy saids "Stream"
can ya check the back page to see if its a second edition then?
Cos' mine first and it says 'Steam'
Posted: 2004-11-06 06:56am
by Spanky The Dolphin
For the record, mine is the first American edition.
Posted: 2004-11-06 07:31am
by Winston Blake
Hmmm, i can't seem to see any indication of edition in the back pages of mine. Although interestingly, the acknowledgements for Curtis Saxton include a lot of SW debaters. Some i recognise are Bob Brown, Wayne Poe, Brian Young and Mike Wong.
Maybe one of the reasons darkstar hates the ICS is because he would have to accept that MW and other enemies are mentioned in a piece of SW canon...
Posted: 2004-11-06 07:33am
by Ghost Rider
Winston Blake wrote:Hmmm, i can't seem to see any indication of edition in the back pages of mine. Although interestingly, the acknowledgements for Curtis Saxton include a lot of SW debaters. Some i recognise are Bob Brown, Wayne Poe, Brian Young and Mike Wong.
Maybe one of the reasons darkstar hates the ICS is because he would have to accept that MW and other enemies are mentioned in a piece of SW canon...
Amongst other things
.
Posted: 2004-11-06 07:57am
by Spanky The Dolphin
Winston Blake wrote:Hmmm, i can't seem to see any indication of edition in the back pages of mine.
It should be up near the top, in the middle of all the business and copyright information.
Posted: 2004-11-06 08:41am
by Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba
Thanks for a good laugh, guys.
And for the record, I assumed it was probably a joke before I even clicked on the topic. I just got a hilarious image of Astromech Droids shoveling coal into a furnace while singing.
Re: SW engines are steam powered!
Posted: 2004-11-06 01:44pm
by The Original Nex
Winston Blake wrote:AOTC ICS: Jedi Starfighter wrote:Electromagnetic nozzle elements direct and pinch the relativistic thrust steam.
Without a shadow of a doubt, this means SW engines are steam powered. Therefore, they obviously cannot hope to compete with Trek ships, whose Impulse Engines are far more advanced. If all you fanatical, sex-deprived, small-testicled Warsies want 200 gigaton TLs, you must accept steam based engines as canon! Obviously, so-called 'hypermatter reactors' are in fact simple 20th century level coal-heated boilers. That's right! Coal! Against incredibly high-powered super-advanced Antimatter Reactors!
What's that you say? Nitpicking a typo? NO!! Canon!!
CANON!!!!! TREK UBER ALLES!!!!
[/rabid trekkie]
It most certainly IS a typo as the info on the
Acclamator's engines says this
Eight electromagnetic thrust-vectoring panels deflect exhaust particle streams to provide turning force (pg 22).
Re: SW engines are steam powered!
Posted: 2004-11-06 06:43pm
by Winston Blake
The Original Nex wrote:Winston Blake wrote:AOTC ICS: Jedi Starfighter wrote:Electromagnetic nozzle elements direct and pinch the relativistic thrust steam.
Without a shadow of a doubt, this means SW engines are steam powered. Therefore, they obviously cannot hope to compete with Trek ships, whose Impulse Engines are far more advanced. If all you fanatical, sex-deprived, small-testicled Warsies want 200 gigaton TLs, you must accept steam based engines as canon! Obviously, so-called 'hypermatter reactors' are in fact simple 20th century level coal-heated boilers. That's right! Coal! Against incredibly high-powered super-advanced Antimatter Reactors!
What's that you say? Nitpicking a typo? NO!! Canon!!
CANON!!!!! TREK UBER ALLES!!!!
[/rabid trekkie]
It most certainly IS a typo as the info on the
Acclamator's engines says this
Eight electromagnetic thrust-vectoring panels deflect exhaust particle streams to provide turning force (pg 22).
Of course it's a typo. I was
joking.
Posted: 2004-11-06 07:30pm
by Winston Blake
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Winston Blake wrote:Hmmm, i can't seem to see any indication of edition in the back pages of mine.
It should be up near the top, in the middle of all the business and copyright information.
All i can see that's relevant is "First published in Great Britain in 2002", but that doesn't really say what edition it is.
Re: SW engines are steam powered!
Posted: 2004-11-07 03:58am
by omegaLancer
Crazedwraith wrote:omegaLancer wrote:Winston Blake wrote:
Without a shadow of a doubt, this means SW engines are steam powered. Therefore, they obviously cannot hope to compete with Trek ships, whose Impulse Engines are far more advanced. If all you fanatical, sex-deprived, small-testicled Warsies want 200 gigaton TLs, you must accept steam based engines as canon! Obviously, so-called 'hypermatter reactors' are in fact simple 20th century level coal-heated boilers. That's right! Coal! Against incredibly high-powered super-advanced Antimatter Reactors!
What's that you say? Nitpicking a typo? NO!! Canon!! CANON!!!!! TREK UBER ALLES!!!!
[/rabid trekkie]
It must be, but i have found nothing that tell me it is. I do have an earlier copy ( that I gave to my kids )that i purchase during the Star Trek expo at the Brooklyn museam it also has the typo "steam".... Hummm amazing that it slip past the proof readers...
hummm my copy saids "Stream"
can ya check the back page to see if its a second edition then?
Cos' mine first and it says 'Steam'
Posted: 2004-11-07 04:16am
by darthdavid
Well I'll be damned, mike wong is listed in the list of people saxton would like to thank.
Posted: 2004-11-07 04:47am
by Pcm979
Count me in the 'steam' crowd. First British Edition, BTW.