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Subject: Re: FTL weapons
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Date: Fri, 28-Mar-86 20:32:18 EST
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In article <417@pucc.BITNET>, 6080733@pucc.BITNET (Gavin Bell) says:
     
>Ok, I can't resist adding a few musings on Faster Than Light Stuff:
>
>It seems to me a big problem with faster-than-light weapons is not making
>them go faster than light (if the enterprise can do it, why not them?),
>but how do you _see_ what you are trying to hit?  Weapons couldn't use
>regular electromagnetic waves to guide them-- they would overtake these
>waves.  I suppose that, if you can hurl ships through space faster than
>light, then it wouldn't be too tough to scan at faster than faster than
>light, but....
     
     From what I've gathered from the show/films, the photon torpedoes are
"aimed" by the Enterprise.  After firing, they're just blind projectiles.
As for guided weapons, e.g. plasma torpedoes, I'd guess they use a primitive
form of starship sensors-- which can certainly scan at FTL.
     Anyone else have additional/conflicting info?
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