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- From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
- Subject: Re: Star Trek Realism
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.203928.12622@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
- Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
- References: <9207280200.AA24681@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:39:28 GMT
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- In article <9207280200.AA24681@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov> roberts@CMR.NCSL.NIST.GOV (John Roberts) writes:
- >
- >-From: 18084TM@msu.edu (tom)
- >-Subject: Star Trek Realism
- >-Date: 27 Jul 92 16:47:03 GMT
- >
- >-As long as we're on the Star-Trek vs. reality thread, here's a question
- >-that used to come up before my housemate Doug said "Shut up and just watch
- >-the show!": When the ship is streaming through space, stars moving past
- >-at several per second, how is it that the ship is steadily lit from one
- >-side? What is the source for this light? It's pretty bad when you aren't
- >-even into the actual show, and it's already violating known principles :-)
- >
-
- As for the stars streaking by...I never really assumed that they were
- stars. Could they be some optical phenomena of FTL travel? Remember
- the same effect seen when the Millenium Falcon was in "hyperdrive"?
- Were those things necessarily stars?
-
- As for the point about where is the source of illumination come
- from...yeah, I've thought about that one too. That's about when I "shut
- up and just watch the show!"
-
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