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Newsgroups: net.startrek
Title: Re: Why doesn't the Enterprise tumble? - (nf)
Article-I.D.: pur-phy.715
Posted: Thu Apr  7 12:04:43 1983
Received: Fri Apr  8 05:43:07 1983

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pur-phy!crl    Apr  7 11:01:00 1983

Uh, I find this discussion about the Enterprise's "off-center"
propulsion REALLY silly.  Who says that they are off center?
We're talking about a WARP engine here, not a reaction motor!
(Of course, I am assuming that the whole thing is possible
in the first place.)  The Enterprises engines are supposed to create
some type of field effect around the ship that puts them (at least
partially) into "sub-space" (or hyperspace, if you prefer). Thus
it doesn't matter where the matter/anit-matter exhaust goes, it
probably isn't much of an effect.  This reminds me again of those
amusing "Gold Key" comics I read when I was ~10 years old, where
they show the Enterprise's nacelles spouting flames like the
SRB's on the shuttle!

Charles LaBrec
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