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From: frdish@aecom.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Phasers and Deflectors
Message-ID: <944@aecom.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Nov-84 12:34:45 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 14 12:34:45 1984
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> [ a sprinkling of boric acid ]
> 
> > 	One other inconsistency associated with phasers.  We saw several
> > times (in "Arena" [with the Gorn] for example) that one cannot beam up or
> > down with the deflectors up.  Deflectors also stop phasers.  So how does
> > Enterprise fire phasers when the screens are up???
> > 	Sorry for harping on this, but my area of research is laser-induced
> > chemistry.
> > 
> > 				George Raiche
> > 				Dept. of Chemistry
> > 				Dartmouth
> > 
> > 				"Let's get the hell out of here."
> 
> 
> 	Perhaps the deflectors are timed in such a way that the very
> portion that the phaser will be firing through at a given time is dropped
> for the duration of the blast.  If small portions of the screens could be
> selectively dropped, this sort of timing would be a simple thing to do.
> I would be analogous to the way World War I fighters planes had their guns
> timed so the bullets wouldn't hit the spinning propellor.
> 	But this just brought up another question in my mind.  A shot to
> this area where the shields were dropped would hit the phaser beam.  What
> would happen then?  What is the effect of colliding phasers?
> 
> 						Jim Drennan
> 						New York Blood Center
> 						..seismo!cmcl2!nybcb!drennan
> 
> 
> 			"Damn it, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!"

assuming what Jim says is true, wouldn't the same be true of a transporter
beam? just drop shields where the transporter beam is to go through. any
ideas about that?
-- 

		"It's either believe that, or else believe we're 
		 only characters in a series of stories being 
		 written by a couple of hacks who need the money."

Larry Freund
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