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From: barnett@ut-sally.UUCP (Lewis Barnett)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: I 'tink I'm going to be spacesick
Message-ID: <1711@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Apr-85 12:02:38 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 25 12:02:38 1985
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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> If you look at the viewscreen on the bridge, the planet is always turning
> underneath the ship. The filler shots during the log entries, etc. show the
> ship moving across the face of the planet with the saucer perpendicular to
> the ground.
> 
> If the latter is the case, then the planet should show up on the left side
> or even the top of the viewscreen. I have trouble believing that the screen
> is "corrected" as this would be very disorienting to people on the bridge.
> 
> Does anyone care to even try to explain this one?
> 
> Name:		John Ruschmeyer
> UUCP:		...!vax135!petsd!moncol!john	...!princeton!moncol!john
> 						   ...!pesnta!moncol!john

Hmmm... Would _you_ build a viewscreen that could only be connected
to _one_ camera?

It seems reasonable to me to have visual sensors that operate in ALL
directions -- interesting things aren't always going to cooperate and
approach the Enterprise from head on, right?  And, while in orbit, 
the most interesting thing is the planet's surface, so that's what
they put up on the screen.  Reasonable?


Lewis Barnett,CS Dept, Painter Hall 3.28, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712

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