Sayonara

I'm guessing at some point in the design process an engineer and a physicist would gang up on him and hit him with spanners until he accepted that fission reactors on a mid-range cruiser would be fkin stupid. If you were very clever about it you could do all sorts of "conservation of momentum" stylee tricks for launching shuttles.

When Skye said "it could be", he meant "it is".

Warp drive is the ideal solution to going faster than light but still obeying relativity, and then they had to go and say "oh yeah and you can go FTL with impulse engines too", the fools.

Having studied Latin for the same period as Dave, my first thoughts are that this isn't really "learn it in one post on a forum" material. Unless of course you really only want the specific answers to those questions.

How are you going to create a clone of yourself if your body is frozen and your brain in suspended animation?

Do we really need five separate threads on this?

This is really old news - they introduced the cap in 2002. NTL is by no means the only capped service, but they do average the load over a given 3-day period so they are less likely to penalise you than other providers.

Season 4 is going to be made up of several mini-arcs, with standalone episodes dotted around. The Temporal Cold War will be tied up in the first two episodes.

I think you mean a vaccine against HIV, seeing as AIDS is a syndrome.

I find it interesting that nobody mentioned the calls for clemency that often come from the families of victims.

Konnichiwa is equivalent to "hello", but formally means "good afternoon". The simple way to avoid using it incorrectly is to use the other greetings at the right time of day: ohayo gozaimasu in the morning, konbanwa in the evening, oyasumi nasai at night, and konnichiwa at all other times.

That's rich coming from you, seeing as this thread is essentially the bastard offspring of your spam from another thread.

Flies don't think, they just respond. Cephalopods are cursed, because they are intelligent enough to be able to perform simple tasks like opening screw-top jars to get at food etc, but they don't remember the method for much more than 24 hours.

Yeah, I don't think that's going to be as useful to him as a quick dally with Google to be honest.

Why is that? You told me that I said "chemistry is not a science" because I said Phlogiston theory was obsolete (I mean, what the ****?). That's about the most logic-free thing you have ever said. The ramblings about mistakes don't really tell me anything. Where you said "as far as i know means... all what i know" you were not entirely correct. Saying "Afaik" means that one believes one's position based on the information one has available, but one is implying that the information is likely to be incomplete or incorrect. Hence why it was a mistake to use "as far as i know phlogiston theory was alchemy not chemistry" as your sole argument that I "seem to have a nice misunderstanding about what a science is", particularly in the face of the aforementioned reams of evidence to the contrary.

You're thinking of the Drake Equation.

The way phasers are supposed to work is a bit of a cheat really (well I say "cheat", it's more like a total con), and to be honest a half-decent cutting laser would be much easier to use as a short range weapon for surgical strikes and missile interception. I did mention that such a vessel, made now, would be lacking warp and impulse so yeah; unless we came up with some sort of [acr=Effectively Faster Than Light]EFTL[/acr] drive it would have to be either for local research or generational. Neither of those are particularly a problem though assuming we have limitless funds to play with. Cosmic rays aren't too much of a problem really - we already employ sufficient shielding on our manned space vehicles, and it's a given that this craft is going to be superior to those. Micrometeors might present more of a problem depending on how fast this baby goes, and how far it is meant to travel. Federation ships use Bussard Collectors (essentially an electromagnetic ram-scoop) to collect hydrogen, and a deflector field to repel space debris from the path of the ship (from the main deflector, oddly enough). I think we could probably cobble together some form of bussard collector but the deflector might be a bit trickier to duplicate, since it is supposed to work by emitting some kind of graviton pulse. MrL. Make us a graviton pulse blowing kerjigger.

There really isn't a generally accepted consensus yet as far as I am aware. There's a thread on this in the News Forum.

$150 for ME. lolz

Considering I'm the one who is as drunk as a lord right now, I don't think much of your rebuttal.

Ps - in keping with the thread, I recently re-read James Herbert's "Others" (a very well-written but truly sick chiller), and I am currently reading Thomas Keneally's "Schindler's Ark". DBC Pierre's "Vernon God Little" is next I think

There's your first mistake. Your second mistake was taking one example of something that is not a science from the many I offered, and randomly deciding that since you did not agree on the discipline it belongs to, I am therefore devoid of any idea as to what science is. Even ignoring the vast reams of evidence to the contrary, the reasoning there makes no sense whatsoever.

Book, or pamphlet? Really, how long can it be?

No, their foreign policy does that. The capital punishment thing is for when you run out of reasons that sound good.

We have the technology to make a cruiser of similar size and complexity to the NX-01 (with the notable exceptions of warp and impulse engines, and the transporter). Unfortunately due to the financial requirements of such a project nobody is willing to actually do it. It would cost about the same as running a medium-GDP country for the better part of 20 years, and most likely fail in its mission anyway.