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how much fuel does the enterprise use?

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Hmm... about 17mpg.
 
Agent11 said:
You would turn into a salamander.
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UberNeuman said:
Don't. Mention. That. Episode.

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\which broke anything Trek to me for a long time...
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What amazes me is after all that, the conclusion to the episode is that the Doctor simply had to bombard with an even higher dose of whatever radiation he was using and the cells just magically regenerate using original dna.

There was only 1 other episode in the entire series I thought was as bad as that one.
 
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GrumpyMan said:
How come they don't run into a bunch of planets and meteors/astroids going at that speed?
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Pre-charted navigational routes and navigational deflector arrays (shields that are always up that deflect micro meteors and other small hazards, but not powerful enough to disrupt normal day to day stuff).
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That, and the volume of the Universe is quite exceptionally, ridiculously, overwhelmingly comprised of of empty space.
Loosely borrowing from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the percentage of the Universe's volume that is occupied by matter is "as near to nothing as makes no odds."
 
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Jeff7 said:
That, and the volume of the Universe is quite exceptionally, ridiculously, overwhelmingly comprised of of empty space.
Loosely borrowing from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the percentage of the Universe's volume that is occupied by matter is "as near to nothing as makes no odds."
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So in other words our material existence is nothing more than a rounding error. 😉
 
Jeff7 said:
That, and the volume of the Universe is quite exceptionally, ridiculously, overwhelmingly comprised of of empty space.
Loosely borrowing from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the percentage of the Universe's volume that is occupied by matter is "as near to nothing as makes no odds."
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Uh, no. Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy. Without precise calculations you could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova, and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?
 
So are you guys saying that travelling at warp 10, the space ship can turn on a dime and do a z formation if it encounters a suprise black hole?
 
dmcowen674 said:
You must have missed the Next Generation episode explaining why.

Running at Warp creates a ripple in space similar to a wake a boat makes.

Causes havoc in some star systems so you if you don't need Warp 9 you go a bit slower (lower wake).
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yup, this was the reason for movable nacelles on intrepid class and later starships. it reduced the impact of the warp field on surrounding space, allowing for faster travel.
 
brainhulk said:
So are you guys saying that travelling at warp 10, the space ship can turn on a dime and do a z formation if it encounters a suprise black hole?
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no, but that's what astrometrics are for. also I know you said warp 10 as an exaggeration, but warp 10 is akin to being in all points in space at once. so there are a bunch of other problems that come with that, like turning into lizards.
 
Ventanni said:
Given how Star Trek warp travel works, it takes significantly more power to achieve each warp factor, so I don't think that's very realistic either unless they've found a way to harness neutrinos for power (matter-antimatter reactors).
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That is exactly what they're doing. They're bombarding matter and antimatter, using dilithium to stabalize the reaction and producing high energy plasma.
 
vshah said:
no, but that's what astrometrics are for. also I know you said warp 10 as an exaggeration, but warp 10 is akin to being in all points in space at once. so there are a bunch of other problems that come with that, like turning into lizards.
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Salamanders arent lizards 😛

nehalem256 said:
You think antimatter comes cheap?
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its free


SunnyD said:
Learn to read. I never said the sails were the fuel dumbass.
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Phoenix86 said:
Someone pee in your cheerios today?
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seriously, calm down killer
 
SagaLore said:
So in other words our material existence is nothing more than a rounding error. 😉
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Damn close. 😛



Triumph said:
Uh, no. Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy. Without precise calculations you could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova, and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?
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I can take care of my own parsecs, thank you very much.
 
Juddog said:
They don't have money in the Star Trek future universe, so "free" is a relative term.
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Sure they do. They're called "commodities". Things like replicator rations, warp plasma, deuterium and whatnot. Also: Gold-pressed Latinum comes to mind as a distinct currency.
 
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