Of Gravity-Drives and Inertial Dampers

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CLJOHNSTON108

Thursday, May 26, 2005 3:10 PM

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XENOCIDE

Thursday, May 26, 2005 5:46 PM

robinhood and co:

Sure, we could stop talking about things that annoy us...

...or all the fucking whiners who don't want to think about physics could start their own damn thread and stop wrecking ours. Or go watch charmed where there are no rules other than what the 'story' demands. OR if your more interesting than that go discuss deep character items like Mal's faith.

Consistency perserves the fourth wall and allows for suspension of disbelief for those of us with IQ's. If the rules change with the episode it can get pretty annoying (see star trek.)

Also, what do you care if some of us geeks want to discuss physics. Piss off.

Luddites need Gorram well not read threads about physics. Why you take time to flamebait on these threads is totally beyond my. All of Joss's worlds have rules. Vamps' get staked, magic goes bad, sould are good, gravity can stay on when main power is off and terraformed earths were made to have nearly 1 G. Some people enjoy thinking, and postulating about these things, if you don't want to fine. But leave those who do in peace, troll. Go read a crappy fantasy novel.

-Eli

If voting mattered, they'd make it illegal.
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CHRISTHECYNIC

Thursday, May 26, 2005 6:33 PM

No need to be hostile. Irritated perhaps, but not hostile.

You have to remember that either he doesn’t know any better, in which case forgive him, or he is a troll, in which case you being hostile is what he wants.

Given the two possibilities the best way to respond is with clear logical arguments or not at all.

XENOCIDE

Thursday, May 26, 2005 7:00 PM

I know. But I'm in a foul mood today and sometime I find yelling at trolls therapuetic.

That and these folks always intrude on our conversations about amusing topics and tell us not to have them and that rankles. I think there just paranoids who don't want to be lumped with trekkies.

I don't tell folks not to have their own threads. I don't ask for much but I do like folks better when they ignore a thread instead of disrupting it.

Sorry for lowering the bar though.

-Eli

If voting mattered, they'd make it illegal.
www.civil-unrest.com

ROBINHOOD

Thursday, May 26, 2005 7:21 PM

CHRISISALL

Thursday, May 26, 2005 7:57 PM

Okay, here it is.
Gravity is a built in constant on most ships, a la exotic matter. It can be negated in certain areas at will. When power is lost, gravity cannot be turned off. Inertial dampers keep people from splatting during Full Burns, and gravometric changes. Emergency lights work on photo- bioluminesence, and are not on the power grid. Phasers are routed through the warp co- OOPS! Wrong show!! Technobabble made me loopy.

An answer for everything Chrisisall

CHRISISALL

Thursday, May 26, 2005 8:01 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by corwyn:
In Serenity, they turn the gravity in the air lock back on.

No, they turned off the power to the system negating the gravity. Make sence?

Trek taught me well Chrisisall

ZEEK

Thursday, May 26, 2005 8:30 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Quote:
Originally posted by corwyn:
In Serenity, they turn the gravity in the air lock back on.

No, they turned off the power to the system negating the gravity. Make sence?

Trek taught me well Chrisisall

lol that was an awesome post.

I assume the lights are also some sort of perpetually shiny material that require power to turn off.

CHRISTHECYNIC

Thursday, May 26, 2005 9:12 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Zeek:
I assume the lights are also some sort of perpetually shiny material that require power to turn off.

Don't you know anything?

Dark Suckers

For years it was believed that electric bulbs emitted light. However, recent information has proven otherwise. Electric bulbs do not emit light, they suck dark. Thus we will now call these bulbs dark suckers. The dark sucker theory, according to a spokesperson, proves the existence of dark, that dark has a mass heavier than light, and that dark is faster than light.

The basis of the dark sucker theory is that electric bulbs suck dark. Take for example the dark suckers in the room where you are. There is less dark right next to them than it is elsewhere. The larger the dark sucker, the greater its capacity to suck dark. Dark suckers in a parking lot have a much greater capacity than the ones in this room. As with all things dark suckers don't last forever. Once they are full of dark they can no longer suck. This is proven by the black spot on a full dark sucker.

A candle is a primitive dark sucker. A new candle has a white wick. You will notice that after the first use, the wick turns black, representing all the dark which has been sucked into it. If you hold a pencil next to the wick of an operating candle, the tip will turn black because it got in the way of the dark flowing into the candle.

Unfortunately, today's primitive dark suckers have a very limited range. There are also portable dark suckers. These bulbs can't handle all of the dark themselves, and must be aided by a dark storage unit. When the dark storage unit is full, it must be either emptied or replaced before the portable dark sucker can operate again.

Dark has mass. When dark goes into a dark sucker, friction from this mass generates heat. Thus it is not wise to touch an operating dark sucker. Candles present a special problem, as the dark must travel in the solid wick instead of through glass. This generates a great amount of heat. Thus it can be very dangerous to touch an operating candle.

Dark is also heavier than light. If you swim deeper and deeper, you notice it gets slowly darker and darker. When you reach approximately fifty feet, you are in total darkness. This is because the heavier dark sinks to the bottom of the lake and the lighter light floats to the top.

The immense power of the dark can be utilized to man's advantage. We can collect the dark that has settled to the bottom of lakes and push it through turbines which generates electricity and helps push dark to the ocean, where it may be safely stored. Prior to turbines, it was much more difficult to get dark from rivers and lakes to the ocean.

The Indians recognized this problem and tried to solve it. When on a river in a canoe traveling in the same direction as the flow of dark, they paddled slowly, so as not to stop the flow of dark, but when they traveled against the flow of dark, they paddled quickly so as to help the dark along its way.

Finally we must prove that dark is faster than light. If you were to stand in an illuminated room in front of a closed, dark closet, then slowly open the closet door, you would see the light slowly enter the closet, but since dark is so fast, you would not be able to see the dark leave the closet.

In conclusion, it has been stated that dark suckers make our lives much easier, so the next time you look at an electric bulb, remember that it is indeed a dark sucker.

The above text was taken from:
http://www.galactic-guide.com

CLJOHNSTON108

Thursday, May 26, 2005 10:12 PM

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