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Star Trek Enterprise Tested to Mach 5
Sporkinum writes "University of Queensland Laser Diagnostics Dept
has a page
where they put the Enterprise through the gauntlet in a mach 5 wind tunnel. It did surprisingly well."
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I was planning to use a scale model of the Enterprise as a hood ornament for my SR-71 Blackbird.
All that wind resistance in space could have meant certain doom for the crew!
It is good to know that a fictitious ship designed to operate in a vacuum in a fictitious universe can handle mach 5 winds..... no really it is.
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How is ending up broken into a dozen pieces considered doing "suprisingly well"???
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More to the point, there is no Starship Enterprise, freak.
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I really guess "She canna take it anymore!"
I want to see them try this with the Borg cube.
This is like an uber-geek/nerd role call.
5 times the speed of sound is just about 0.0005% of the speed of light. That's not a conslusive test, it's like doing a car crash test at a speed of around 5 millimeters per hour.
I hope they realize they still have a *lot* of work to do.
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Of course! Scotty is an Engineer and Kirk is just management, silly.
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For a second I misread it and thought that the article would be about Star Trek OS, Enterprise Edition running on a Mach 5 Microkernel. Imagine my disappointment.
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well, id think not... mach 5 biting at your "end" is gotta burn something off!
that blows me away...sorry
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Mrsev was found dead in his mach 5 wind tunnel, pants around his ankles, member in his hand.
We are going to Miss Mrsev. He was truly a Slashdot Icon, being the first person to pleasure himself at Mach 5.
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Imagine it as a sort of toast to slacking.
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I personally find this great. After all, I know that's exactly what I would do if I had a wind tunnel. I would also be testing the aerodynamic properties of the Millenium Falcon (which was designed for atmospheric travel), and numerous other fictitious "space ships". I would probably also test aluminum cans, coke bottles, penguins (after all I want to know how fast a penguin can go, having played too much tux racer), and numerous other objects.
Of course, this is the exact reason no one wants to give me access to a wind tunnel! I'd probably break it.
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I know it's an actual starship, it says so in the historical documents ;-)
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Only the saucer module of 1701D made planetfall, and it was damaged beyond salvage (I'd love to be a member of the pre-warp civilization in that system whey they stumble accross THAT little suprise on their neighboring planet). NX-01 looks like it MIGHT be able to make a landing intact, but the fact that its equipped with shuttle pods and transporters seems to suggest it wasn't intended to do so (at least not regularly). Wasn't Voyager able to land? I can't remem ber for sure. The Defiant is the only one that ever not only flew atmospherically a number of times, but maintained maneurverability in an atmosphere.
This looks like the opposite of what you're advocating. I think you meant the line should be kept clear.
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"End this simulation, NOW!"
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Warp 1 is stated to be c in both the TOS and TNG warp scales in the Star Trek TNG Technical Manual.
Okay, of all of us who actually do own both manuals, who are proud of it and who are slightly ashamed of it? I was proud of it, but now I tend to keep them hidden...
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The Defiant is the only one that ever not only flew atmospherically a number of times, but maintained maneurverability in an atmosphere.
Tough little ship.
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Of course it blew up. They didn't have the deflector dish or the shields activated. Any idiot would know without them that it would blow up as soon as it started moving at any significant speed.
I'd like to see them retest with shields and deflector - then let's see how well it performs!
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SO I guess the pertenent question is:
Mach 5 at what altitude?
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> I want to see them try this with the Borg cube.
Fool. Borg cubes travel in transwarp conduits. They don't have to deal with this sort of problem. Fool. Federation fool.
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Jeez... what do you think the Hiesenberg Compensators are for?
Kind of like paying to go to a Trekkie convention and laughing at the guy who has a slide rule in his pocket.
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If you run the numbers you'll find that, at warp 10, the windows of Ten Forward will rise from a space normal temperature of 4K to the melting point of 933.52 K in 2.73 hours.
And not only that! Did you know the Ringworld is unstable!?
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