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From: gts@wjh12.UUCP (G. T. Samson)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Re: Light output of the viewscreen
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Date: Sun, 5-May-85 22:51:18 EDT
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Posted: Sun May  5 22:51:18 1985
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> > I enjoy the viewscreen's limitless ability to put out lumens.  How many
> > times has the bridge filled with a blinding white light from that
> > screen?  Don't they have limiters or something?  Or a brightness control?
> 
> Or a fuse even?
> -- 
> Tony Li ;-)		Usc Computer Science
Actually, the viewscreen's output was better handled in the Star Trek Log
books.  The flash is only blinding until the computer can get to it and tone
the screen down (or off as the case may be).  Apparently, the computer is not
as fast as it could be, because the flash still blinds, if only for an instant.

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