New Enterprise May Have Nacelles That Suck Plasma Through A Fifty-Foot Garden Hose.
New Enterprise May Have Nacelles That...
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Because you need an electric arc to form between the electrode and the workpiece.
First, there wouldn't be any high energy proton because the nacelles don't emit plasma.
Two ,who said anything about a few feet away?
There is more then one reason. But my favorite is that NASA doesn't want the spectators to suffocate to death.
because the reaction is extremely exothermic.
please google plasma welding.
again, the plasma will escape in all directions, hitting the Enterprise too.
I would never ask you to put your hand in front of a plasma beam, either.
Oh no, you're trying to use reason. Honestly, it's not gonna work. He's going to tell you that the sun is different because it's made of magical jelly...
A solar system is not a perpetual motion machine. It does no work. (I'm referring, of course, to an ideal solar system, with no space dust, extrasolar objects, or other sundries mucking up how it goes. I'm also, apparently, assuming that the body at the center, be it sun or black hole, will not expend its energy or eventually evaporate).
Excuse me while I go a little off topic here...
It took quite a bit of energy to get that solar system moving in the first place (the supernova of an older star, for example). I think a solar system only gives up energy equal to what was put into the system in the first place -- albeit, it's a lot of energy and will take biliions of years to use up. The energy out will still be less than or equal to the energy put in.
I may be wrong, but I think that would not qualify it as a perpetual motion machine
Both of which are forms of light... so I assume your point is 'yes, you're correct'.
If you're confusing 'light' with 'light in the visible region', actually, most ionised gas at that kind of temperature would emit light in the visible wavelengths too - you mention plasma torches' visible arcs yourself.
Why don't you just admit you came up with that 'script' yourself, rather than just happening to come across the exact part of the script which includes the thing you were being teased about in this thread? It doesn't even read like realistic dialogue for the characters involved, you could at least have tried a bit harder.
Not to mention its made a freaking huge Treknology error right there in the 'script' by saying the impulse engines are on the nacelles. Either you made it up or someone's feeding you some serious bull.
What he said. A solar system does not use energy so is not a perpetual motion machine. What energy it does lose (through the small amount of resistance the planets encounter in airless space) results in the planets slowing down their orbital velocity, at a very very slow rate as the resistance is particles of space dust versus the momentum of the Earth. In a perfect solar system (without such resistance items), the solar system is merely obeying Newton's first law.
And let's not forget that ol' Sol will eventually expend all of its fuel and die over the course of the next few billion years, so it doesn't even live up to the "perpetual" part of the equation.
STARTREK11 is obviously a science-illiterate preteen fanboy. Why you folks continue to indulge his wanker fantasies is beyond me...
STARTREK11 is obviously a science-illiterate preteen fanboy. Why you folks continue to indulge his wanker fantasies is beyond me...
I was assuming he was referring to planetary motion, but you're right, the sun is just a fuck-off-massive nuclear fusion reactor, with a finite fuel supply. Course, he may have meant that the Sun God lasts forever.
It's kinda amusing to get his new lists of 'explain <basic scientific inaccuracy> then!!!11!one'
Plus, you know, he has connections. He'll have the whole script any day now.
I think it's time to close this puppy down. This whole thread has turned into a joke.
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