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From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS])
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: More Dumb Captains, Stupid Viewscreens, and a net.astro Question
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Date: Mon, 3-Jun-85 10:21:31 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  3 10:21:31 1985
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Reply-To: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS])
Organization: U of Waterloo
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Summary: 

just to clarify my previous posting, i was describing typical gaseous
nebulae that are actually observable in the visible spectrum.  a nebula
in the later processes of condensation into a sun and planetary system
have enough things floating around to cause lots of vision problems,
both electronic and (we assume) sensor based.  there is reasonable
evidence that lightning could happen due to charge buildup on particles
as they collide.  of course, with shields down, flying into the middle
of that would be more dangerous than shooting it out with another starship
unless you are very careful to move as the particles are.

then you have the problem of being somewhere close to the target.  these
nebulae aren't small.

Herb Chong...

I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....

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