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- From: mcelroy@bu.edu (Carl Mackin)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.tech
- Subject: Re: Holodecks
- Message-ID: <105398@bu.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 15:59:25 GMT
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- Greg Tapolow (gtapolow@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
- : In article <_-n2p9n@rpi.edu> petitc@vccsouth04.its.rpi.edu (Christopher Jon Petit) writes:
- : >John_Bafford%Laughing_Dragon@uu0570.foggybottom.com writes:
- : >
- : >>How can someone get hurt within the holodecks? I thought it was all holograms
- : >>and stuff.
- : >
- : > Because any objects that might be touched/felt are made solid so that the
- : >illusion of reality is complete. Also, if you ask to do something really
- : >straining (e.g. go spinning around in a tornado), the forces you experience
- : >will be simulated, but you can get bruises from any program---remember the
- : >part in the TNG episode where the crew loses its memory where a girl got a
- : >sprained ankle from doing some cloud diving?
- : >
- : >
- : My guess is that the H-deck also generates small force fields to act as
- : the physical areas the person comes in contact with. It can generate
- : different fields of intensity to simulate water (Wesley falls in during
- : season 1 {I think}), mud baths (Lwaxana & Alexander), and the 1701's
- : bridge chairs (Relics).
- :
- : Since the Holodeck works with Visual Holograms coupled with force field
- : generation and possibly a little kick from the replicators and
- : transporters, my Fooble has asked a question. Please do not flame either
- : of us on the material of the question, it is asked in all seriousness. If
- : a woman were to be involved in sexual relations while on the H-deck with a
- : Hologram(ic person). Everything would be reproduced. Since the man's
- : ejaculation can cause the fertilization of the egg. Would this occur?
- : Would the egg stay fertile if the crewperson left the H-deck?
- :
- : We've just looking for general discussion, if the question seems strange
- : or misplaced, just let the thread die here and don't worry.
- :
- : Thanx
- : Greg
- : --
- : Fingering a plan tells you so much about a person!
- : --
- : Begining my quest for the ultimate (working) Greg A. Tapolow
- : sig gtapolow@nyx.cs.du.edu
- : all rights turned left probably at albequerque
-
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- I would tend to doubt that the holodeck would allow a woman to get pregnant
- by a person produced by the holodeck because of the holodeck safeguards
- would not allow this. This will also answer the other question as to how
- one could get hurt. This can occur because of the malfuctioning of the
- safeguards. The matter is is not just a hologram, but uses the technology
- of the transporter and sheilds to make the matter "real".
- mcelroy@acs.bu.edu
-