Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gitpyr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!gitpyr!msj 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 Article-I.D.: gitpyr.387 Posted: Wed Nov 28 10:16:12 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Nov-84 04:37:38 EST References: <140@nybcb.UUCP> <95@ur-valhalla.UUCP> <> Reply-To: msj@gitpyr.UUCP (Mike St. Johns) Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 24 Summary: 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 -- Mike St. Johns Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!msj