Phantom wrote:
1. A shield is simply a barrier of Energy depending on the energy modulation the shield could withstand whatever energy it was thrown at. This wouldnt protect from solid masses though, only energy beams
2. Scientists at the end of the 1900's I think it was 99 were able to transport light from one room to another. To transport a human. the computer power and nuclear power required would be extreme. The computer would have to know the co-ordinates of every atom in your body to comile you again
3. Not a lot I can say
4. Who knows what is out there. There could be polymometic alloys in the form of sentient beings, Impossible is a word humans use far to often
5. Time travel may exist but we'd be unaware of it
6. Communicators are possible. Hospitals are testing them. And look at Mobile Phones (Cell Phones) they are getting so small now-a-days that they could pass as a communicator
Adam
I must correct myself... I didn't mean communicators, I ment Universal Translator.
And one more thing - the thing I wrote are just an analysis of ST universe. They are not a conviction or a attack on ST...
As far as the scientific aspect is concerened:
I do belive that a person with more diplomas and awards in physics who is leading a collosal project knows more than you Phantom(no offense meant). Even if he didn't I haven't consulted only him. Let's just say I know lot's of people on lot's of places...
I didn't go into a more broad explenation of why the thins mentioned are impossible, since I didn't have the materails with me, and I didn't have time or will to write it anyway.
Suffice to say that:
1. i never said shields are impossible. I only said that they can't be devided into quadrants and that they can only protect from one type of energy AT A TIME...
2. Yes, a foton has been sucessfully transported. But a photon is quite a different thing than a atom or molecule. From all I've been told about it by those scientists, such a thing is not possible (the Heisenberg principle). Even if it were, it would require astronomical ammounts of procesing power and energy.. And even if that was available there still is a question of can a living beeing be transported? If your body is dissasembeled into molecules (and a disruptor or phaser does the same), shouldn't you be dead? All brain acitivity has stopped..all organs are gone... And what about the soul?
3. Sorry to burst your (time)bubble, but time travel IS impossible (Heisenberg principle again).
4. Agian, energy lifeforems and shapechanger like Odo are impossible.
Do I really need to write down several laws of psysics out here to prove it?
Odo changes mass, density and volume! Any such action would require MASSIVE ammounts of energy..and shapechangers don't eat or drink..Perpetuum mobile anyone? On the other hand, wh nhe takes the shape of a human do you really think his skin feels like real shik, or clothes fel like real clothes? Human hands are the most touch sensitive areas. How can the fluidic mass of which they are built take on atomic properties of other things. The distincitve matle shine, for instance. The only way to do that is if he changed his molecularatmic structure. And that would require even more energy...several nucler reactirs worth of enery if I'm not mistakn...
5. I knew I forgot something! I forgot to ask them about warp speed!...
While I do belive that faster-than-light travel is possbile, I have evidence that can prove such a thing. There is no known phenomena in space that travels faster than light, but we only know such a small ammont of space....
We did, however, talk about antimatter. As dr. Puljak informed me, they are trying to contain antimatter with a magnetic field. So far, the energy required to produce antimatter is greater than the energy that can be gained from it.
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What I wrote about flaws and plot holes and inconsistencies in ST (DS9 and VOY in particular) are FACTS supported by PROOF. They cannot be altered by discussion.
Now, some ST fans probably didn't notice them, others went over them... People are entilted to love whatever they want.
If someone loves a sT musicle, where Picartd is a two-headed ogre, Data mowes down Klingons in a blak jacket, black glasses and with a minigun, and Worf shoots torps out of his behind - that's fine with me...
Everyone is free to ignore or go over flaws. However, judging something without taking such flaws into consideration - that is subjective oppinion.
I've tried to take everything into consideration. Overall, the St univere is a great thing to watch, alltough the TOS and TNG are by far the best..
And that is as Objective as possible...