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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!
We all know that simply rerouting the EPS conduit to emit a low level anti-tachyon beam will nullify any damage space junk will create.
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How is ending up broken into a dozen pieces considered doing "suprisingly well"???
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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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I know it's an actual starship, it says so in the historical documents ;-)
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This looks like the opposite of what you're advocating. I think you meant the line should be kept clear.
Now pardon me while I try to get this holodeck simulation to terminate.
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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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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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