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From: ccs020@ucdavis.UUCP (Kevin Chu)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Viewscreens
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Date: Sun, 28-Apr-85 16:44:35 EDT
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People have been calling the viewscreens "windows" or "crts from different
cameras around the ship."  Well, this can't be.  The Enterprise is moving
at trans light speeds.  Disregarding the possibility of moving at such
speeds, how are normal 'video cameras' going to function at such speeds?
Any image would be highly distorted and probably obsolete by the time a
human eye could see it.

A more reasonable devise would be a tactical map using the sensors.
A one dimentional view of three dimentional space doesn't seem to be the
best way to determine what is around you.  Maybe this is why Saavik is so
easily ambushed in the KM test.

	Kevin Chu
	Computer Center @ UC Davis
	...ucbvax!ucdavis!vega!ccs020

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