Tim Bruening
06-25-2008, 03:16 AM
Timo S Saloniemi wrote:
> In article <388C0CC8.66E50316@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> Tim Bruening <tsbrueni@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> writes:
> >Blink Of An Eye Spoiler Nits Below:
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> >In this episode, Voyager is in synchronous orbit about a planet that
> >rotates 58 times a minute. Why don't the stars move in Voyager's
> >windows? Why do the graphics show Voyager moving opposite the planet's
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> Is the ship really in a synchronous orbit... Or she it just in an orbit
> and has synchronized her various scanning devices and transporters
> and whatnot to the once-per-second rotation of the planet? I'd
> do the latter, and still call it "synchronizing"!
I thought I heard Paris say that Voyager was in a synchornous orbit.
> >How could the astronauts walk? Shouldn't Voyager's gravity feel very
> >weak to the astronauts (at^2/2, with t = 1/86,400th of a second, and a =
> >9.8m/sec^2)?
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> Hey, (at^2)/2 only gives you velocity, and has nothing to do with
> gravity. Besides, the value of "a" would of course be measured
> using the same time units one would use for "t" - the numerical
> values of 1/86,400 and 9.8 are meaningless in this context.
To the aliens, the gravity on Voyager should be (9.8 meters/86,400^2)
per alien sec^2, or very, very
light.
> >A few native minutes after the astronauts visit Engineering, they visit
> >the Bridge (15 decks up IIRC). How did they climb 15 decks so quickly?
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> Do we know there wasn't a "time cut" somewhere in between?
In Engineering, the female astronaut said that they would stay a few
minutes longer. During those few
minutes, they made their way to the Bridge. How did they climb up to
the Bridge so fast?
> >Katana visits for a few minutes after the towing of Voyager. Why
> >doesn't Janeway ask him to ask the native scientists for help in getting
> >Voyager home? I am certain that Voyager could afford to wait in high
> >orbit a few more days for the hyper fast natives to develop a hyper fast
> >drive to get Voyager home, and give the natives information about
> >displacement waves, wormholes, transwarp conduits, quantum slipstreams,
> >and coaxial warps to help them.
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> A very nice idea! Perhaps Janeway should have spent a few milliseconds on
> the planet so she would have had enough time to think about something like
> this? :)
Unfortunately, Janeway might have been instantly crushed by the planet's
gravity (multiply Earth's gravity
by 86,400 Squared).
> In article <388C0CC8.66E50316@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> Tim Bruening <tsbrueni@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> writes:
> >Blink Of An Eye Spoiler Nits Below:
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> >In this episode, Voyager is in synchronous orbit about a planet that
> >rotates 58 times a minute. Why don't the stars move in Voyager's
> >windows? Why do the graphics show Voyager moving opposite the planet's
> >spin?
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> Is the ship really in a synchronous orbit... Or she it just in an orbit
> and has synchronized her various scanning devices and transporters
> and whatnot to the once-per-second rotation of the planet? I'd
> do the latter, and still call it "synchronizing"!
I thought I heard Paris say that Voyager was in a synchornous orbit.
> >How could the astronauts walk? Shouldn't Voyager's gravity feel very
> >weak to the astronauts (at^2/2, with t = 1/86,400th of a second, and a =
> >9.8m/sec^2)?
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> Hey, (at^2)/2 only gives you velocity, and has nothing to do with
> gravity. Besides, the value of "a" would of course be measured
> using the same time units one would use for "t" - the numerical
> values of 1/86,400 and 9.8 are meaningless in this context.
To the aliens, the gravity on Voyager should be (9.8 meters/86,400^2)
per alien sec^2, or very, very
light.
> >A few native minutes after the astronauts visit Engineering, they visit
> >the Bridge (15 decks up IIRC). How did they climb 15 decks so quickly?
>
> Do we know there wasn't a "time cut" somewhere in between?
In Engineering, the female astronaut said that they would stay a few
minutes longer. During those few
minutes, they made their way to the Bridge. How did they climb up to
the Bridge so fast?
> >Katana visits for a few minutes after the towing of Voyager. Why
> >doesn't Janeway ask him to ask the native scientists for help in getting
> >Voyager home? I am certain that Voyager could afford to wait in high
> >orbit a few more days for the hyper fast natives to develop a hyper fast
> >drive to get Voyager home, and give the natives information about
> >displacement waves, wormholes, transwarp conduits, quantum slipstreams,
> >and coaxial warps to help them.
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> A very nice idea! Perhaps Janeway should have spent a few milliseconds on
> the planet so she would have had enough time to think about something like
> this? :)
Unfortunately, Janeway might have been instantly crushed by the planet's
gravity (multiply Earth's gravity
by 86,400 Squared).