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From: spock@hope.UUCP (Chris Ambler)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: FTL weapons
Message-ID: <185@hope.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 20:50:31 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 21 20:50:31 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 27-Mar-86 07:27:07 EST
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Organization: University of California, Riverside
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Gentlemen! The issue here is *NOT* FTL!!! The weapons used by the Feds
(and for that matter, all) that travel FTL (phasers are at C) are not
in our space! Take a look at the explanation of 'warp' speed. The ship
projects a shell of 'otherspace' around it so as to slip into an alternate
space (known, again, as 'otherspace'). When one fires a torpedo, it, too,
is in 'otherspace'. A common tactic for evading a torpedo (I know this
because I am in the porting stage of an advanced starship simulator) is
to drop out of otherspace when you see it coming. It then, goes 'right
through you' (actually, this is a paradox, but it sounds good to describe
it this way). In 'otherspace', C is a different value. I could attempt
to explain further, but it's dinnertime in the old cafe...(DORM FOOD SUCKS),
see net.jokes (you know you're in college when...)


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