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From: msj@gitpyr.UUCP (Mike St. Johns)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: A new question
Message-ID: <387@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 10:16:12 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 28 10:16:12 1984
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Reply-To: msj@gitpyr.UUCP (Mike St. Johns)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <> zubbie@wlcrjs.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck) writes:
>Since the phasor beem is limited in its speed of propogation to the speed
>of light one can only assume that as with any weapon fired from a moving
>point at another moving point one would aim for a place where the target
>would be when the beam arrived at that point.

>jeanette zobjeck
>wclrjs!zubbie
>

The phasor beam is a warp based device.  (It power source is the warp
engines and the dilithium crystals)  It propogates at a multiple of light
speed. The photon torpedoes are also a warp device.  The  reason that we can
see either when they fire is that the view screens convert the
multi-lightspeed view into something we can handle.  (It has to, we couldn't
see the stars otherwise, they would red shift right out of existence when
the ship passed warp 1.) Mike



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Mike St. Johns
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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