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From: canopus@amdahl.UUCP (Frank Dibbell)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: More Dumb Captains, Stupid Viewscreens, and a net.astro Question
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Date: Fri, 31-May-85 14:54:31 EDT
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>    Reguarding comments about why Kirk just didn't look out a port during
> the Reliant/Enterprise battle in the Mutara nebula,  I never said that
> this would give you as good a view as the main viewscreen with all its
> computer enhancements etc..., I simply said it would have been better than
> what they had, which was nothing!
> [...]
>    One question though, just how dense is a nebula?  They may be dense
> enough to totally block seeing through from earth, but how dense is one
> when you're floating inside it?
> Kevin Thompson   {ucbvax,ihnp4!nsc}!voder!kevin

    If you could transport a section of, say the Orion Nebula, to Earth,
it would be a finer vacuum than any which could be produced.
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Frank Dibbell     (408-746-6493)                 {whatever}!amdahl!canopus
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