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Helm Multimedia Book | 1992-10-23 | 32KB | 399 lines

10-23-92 $VER: SS 1.00 (10-23-92) on SelectUp begin New... Open... Make Copy... Streamline... Print... Report... Preferences... Workbench Help... About... Quit... Paste Clear Select All Cut Page Copy Page Colors Load... Save... Restore Colors Default Colors Brush Colors Image Colors Last Color Font Cycle Grid... Stop Sound Show All Unlock All Edit Form Share Next Page Previous Page First Page Last Page Backward Forward Last Book Browse... Autobrowse... Bookshelf New Page Delete Page New Form Load Form... Save Form... Image Load... Save... Capture... Clipboard Paste Spare Swap Frames Copy to Spare Merge in Front Merge in Back Delete Spare Frame Previous Delete Copy to All Color Remap Transparency Paper <-> Pen Paper -> Pen Count Vertical Horizontal Info... Brush Load... Save... Restore Clipboard Paste Color Remap Transparency Paper <-> Pen Paper -> Pen Center Corner Any Point Any Size Halve Double Halve Width Halve Height Double Width Double Height To PAL To NTSC Vertical Horizontal Shear Vertical Horizontal Rotate Any Angle Paint Matte Color Replace Smear Dissolve Spare Cycle Cycle 2 Gradient Gradient 2 Smudge Chaos Count Custom Dither Edges Object Load... Save... Bring to Front Send to Back Bring Closer Send Farther Group Ungroup Duplicate... Align... Info... Actions... Script... Load... Save... Plain Underline Italic Shadow Font... Spacing... Hypertext Actions... Script... Tools Coordinates Title Bar Palette Colors Patterns Paint Tools Paint Types Histogram Magnifier Messages Draw Tools Layers Pages Author Book... Form... Page... Display... Menus... Narrator... Hypertext... Resources... Effect... Effect Area Book23 topaz.font PTopaz.font DF0:Shackleton.text DF0:eagle.8svx DF0:Shackleton.text fs1:fonts/PTopaz/8 DH0:Work.Helm/ST Fast2:Action.pic DemoBook1 @CCreate Book @mSimple Applications @DDraw Tools @PPaint Tools @BHow to Use this Book @SScripts @AMultimedia Actions @HPresenting Helm! The Helm Welcome Book @kBookshelf @QQuit Helm on SelectUp begin answer "CREATE A NEW BOOK?\n\n" & "Experiment with creating and programming\n" & "objects in a book." with "@CCancel" or "~@OOK" if it is "OK" then doMenu "Book", "New..." CREATE A NEW BOOK? Experiment with creating and programming objects in a book. @CCancel ~@OOK New... -on PageOpen begin set the pointer to 0 Chicago p?0v` p?0|0 s>|~? topaz.font PTopaz.font Garamond.font diamond.font Basic.font Franklin.font times.font helvetica.font Tiny.font Basalt.font Beryl.font Bone.font CGTriumvirate.font Chromite.font Coal.font Marble.font ruby.font Schist.font Silicon.font star_trek.fontPICT ILBMBMHD Index Q u i t TC!ST.Demo:ST )on SelectUp begin go to page "page3" page3 aon Help begin play notes "cx d e" blackboard "The current time of the day" color 0 pen 6 cx d e The current time of the day UMention the word starship and everyone will think Star Trek and the USS Enterprise. VWhich of course belong firmly in the realm of science fiction doesn't it ? Well Star OTrek's creator Gene Roddenberry sure lay down the foundational concepts of what Ra starship should be. In fact if you look the word up in The Space Encyclopedia or Qunder Space Law you will get the following type of definition: A starship is a Nspace vehicle capable of travelling the great distances between star systems. MBy convention the word "starship" is used to describe interstellar spaceships Wcapable of carrying intelligent beings to other star systems; while robot interstellar *spaceships are called interstellar probes. T OK so what are the performance requirements for a starship? First and foremost Uthe vessel should be capable of travelling at a significant fraction of the speed of .light (c). Scientists write light as a small c topaz.font PTopaz.font Garamond.font diamond.font Basic.font Franklin.font times.font helvetica.font Tiny.font Basalt.font Beryl.font Bone.font CGTriumvirate.font Chromite.font Coal.font Marble.font ruby.font Schist.font Silicon.font star_trek.font STAR_TRE.font UMention the word starship and everyone will think Star Trek and the USS Enterprise. VWhich of course belong firmly in the realm of science fiction doesn't it ? Well Star OTrek's creator Gene Roddenberry sure lay down the foundational concepts of what Ra starship should be. In fact if you look the word up in The Space Encyclopedia or Qunder Space Law you will get the following type of definition: A starship is a Nspace vehicle capable of travelling the great distances between star systems. MBy convention the word "starship" is used to describe interstellar spaceships Wcapable of carrying intelligent beings to other star systems; while robot interstellar *spaceships are called interstellar probes. T OK so what are the performance requirements for a starship? First and foremost Uthe vessel should be capable of travelling at a significant fraction of the speed of [light (c). Scientists write light as a small c. Ten percent of the speed of light (0.1c) is Toften considered as the lowest acceptable speed for a starship while cruising speeds Rof 0.9c and beyond are considered highly desirable. This "optic velocity" cruising Tcapability is necessary to keep interstellar voyages to reasonable lengths of time, 4both for the left at home and for the starship crew. V For example, a trip to the nearest star system Alpha Centauri-a triple star system Vwith its nest star about 4.23 light-years away. At a cruising speed of 0.1c, it would Utake about 43 years just to get there and another 43 years to return and that's just to the nearest star! T A truly starship must be able to cruise at will light years from its home star Rsystem at a significant fraction of the speed of light. The crew must be protecti Nform the propulsion system not to mention dust or gas. For expample, a single Qproton (which we can assume is stationary maing its' own bessis) being hit by our Vstarship moving at 90% of the speed of light (0.9c) will appear to those on board like Ua one billion election volt (GeV) proton being accelerated at them, or put anther way Rbeing at theoutput end of a very-high- energy particle accelerator! Without proper ?deflectors or shielding survival of the crew would be doubtful. Y Navigation through interstellar space at near light velocities is intoting to say the Uless "look" forward at near light speeds and everything is "bluseshifted": while when Ryou look aft things appear "redshifted". The starship and its crew must be able to Gfind their way from one location in the Galaxy to another-on their own. Index Q u i t C o n c e p t w a r e TC!ST.Demo:ST )on SelectUp begin go to page "page3" page3 'Conceptware the future for software! on SelectUp begin aon Help begin play notes "cx d e" blackboard "The current time of the day" color 0 pen 6 cx d e The current time of the day K S t a r s h i p UMention the word starship and everyone will think Star Trek and the USS Enterprise. XWhich, of course, belongs firmly in the realm of science - fiction doesn't it ? Well , RStar Trek's creator, Gene Roddenberry sure lay down the fundamental concepts of Uwhat a starship should be. In fact if you look the word up in The Space Encyclopedia Tor under Space Law you will get the following type of definition: A starship is a Nspace vehicle capable of travelling the great distances between star systems. MBy convention the word "starship" is used to describe interstellar spaceships Wcapable of carrying intelligent beings to other star systems; while robot interstellar *spaceships are called interstellar probes. U OK! So what are the performance requirements for a starship? First and foremost Uthe vessel should be capable of travelling at a significant fraction of the speed of ]light (c). Scientists write light as a small c. Ten percent of the speed of light (0.1c) is Ooften considered as the lowest acceptable speed for a starship, while cruising Pspeeds of 0.9c and beyond are considered highly desirable. This "optic velocity" Wcruising capability is necessary to keep interstellar voyages to reasonable lengths of <time, both for those left at home and for the starship crew. X For example, a trip at a cruising speed of 0.1c, to the nearest star system - Alpha TCentauri - a triple star system with its nearest star about 4.23 light-years away Pwould take about 43 years just to get there and another 43 years to return and that's just to the nearest star! T A true starship must be able to cruise at will, light years from its home star Tsystem, at a significant fraction of the speed of light. The crew must be protected Nfrom the propulsion system, not to mention dust or gas. For example, a single Uproton (which we can assume is stationary minding its' own business) being hit by our Vstarship moving at 90% of the speed of light (0.9c) will appear to those on board like Va one billion electron volt (GeV) proton being accelerated at them, or put anther way, Rbeing at the output end of a very-high-energy particle accelerator! Without proper ?deflectors or shielding survival of the crew would be doubtful. Z Navigation through interstellar space at near light velocities is interesting, to say Wthe least. When you "look" forward at near light speeds everything is "bluseshifted"; Swhile when you look aft things appear "redshifted". The starship and its crew must Tbe able to find their way from one location in the Galaxy to another - on their own. S Now, in Star Trek, the Enterprise has warp engines which produce power through Jthe controlled annihilation of matter with antimatter. However, even with Qantimatter our starship would need to re-fuel. Remember, we are in effect burning Sfuel and our starship would need the equivalent of a petrol station for topping-up Wit's fuel supplies. When a particle and anti-particle meet, they instantly annihilate Rone another, converting all of the mass of both particles into energy. Two-thirds Sof the energy is converted into unstable particles, called pions; now a pion will Qtravel 68.898 ft (21 m) before decaying - far enough for a "nozzle" of powerful Smagnetic fields to direct it out the back of our starship providing cruising speeds Tfrom 0.1c to 0.99c. This is one of the best propulsion system our understanding of physics will permit. M OK! So much for the present! Now, for Star Trek I have been asked on many Ooccasion about warp speed. In the Star Trek universe warp speed is a method of Rmeasuring the enormous speeds attained by warp drive ships i.e. faster than light Q(in our Universe faster than light is the number one no no of physics). However, Wback to warp speeds: warp factor 1 refers to the speed of light ( 186 282 . 397 MPS ). RWarp speeds beyond that are multiples of the speed of light. Warp 2 is 8 times the Mspeed of light ( 2 x 2 x 2 = 8 ) and warp 3 is 27 times the speed of light R ( 3 x 3 x 3 = 27 ). To find the speed, multiply the speed of light by the cube of Othe warp factor. In the full Conceptware program we may have a disk dedicate Oto Star Trek but for now, here is the answer to a another question - what is a Standard Orbit " ? Standard orbits are holding paths, most often from 1000 Nto 7000 miles above a planet's surface, used by starships that keep the ship Jdirectly above a selected place on the surface of the planet to facilitate Rcommunications with a landing party (away team). They are calculated according to Rplanetary size, gravity, and conditions, as well as to the locations and orbits of Rnatural and artificial satellites. Sometimes, however, local conditions may make Sa geosynchronous orbit impossible, and the ship will not be able to remain above Rany specific spot on the planetary surface. In our Universe our starship would do Smuch the same but as we will see, with designs for starships from 12 000 tonnes to ?over 80 000 tonnes, the distances from the planet would very. TC!ST.Demo:Warp/SO TC!ST.Demo:IMAGE/SO