Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!Leban%hp-hulk.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa From: Leban%hp-hulk.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Star Trek Message-ID: <2076@topaz.ARPA> Date: Thu, 23-May-85 05:22:04 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2076 Posted: Thu May 23 05:22:04 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 24-May-85 04:59:48 EDT Sender: @topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 21 From: Bruce > From: Mark Crispin > . When the Klingons are cloaked and getting ready to attack the > Enterprise, its distance is reported as being 5000 kilograms(!!) This is perfectly reasonable. You simply use E=MC^2 to convert kilograms to energy (= 1.5E11 kg m^2/sec^2) and then divide this into the Gravitational constant, G (= 6.67 kg m^3/sec^2) to get 4.45E-11 meters. Well, maybe that is a /bit/ unreasonable.... > . How, with Saavik on board, could Kirk have innocently buried > Spock in space without knowing any better? There actually /is/ a good explanation here. You see, Saavik is actually half Vulcan and half Romulan and was not raised on Vulcan. It is quite possible that she wouldn't know anything about Vulcan "afterlife". [This information is based on info in one of the Star Trek books, I can't remember which one.] -------