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Oct 21, 2021 at 12:05 comment added Paul D. Waite @lucasbachmann: They didn't know the ship would work — for all they knew, this might be the only space voyage they'd ever get to attempt. Might as well collect some Bussards while they had the chance.
Oct 7, 2021 at 15:17 comment added lucasbachmann I always deeply hated that this thing had Bussard collectors for a 1 minute trip. It demonstrates how clueless they were or thought the audience was. But in the context of this question those fields will do some deflection work. Ah well first contact is a very overrated film and really did a great deal of damage to the franchise.
Oct 7, 2021 at 10:21 comment added Paul D. Waite Deflector array? Where we're going, we don't need... 😎 ...a deflector array.
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Oct 21, 2019 at 2:07 comment added Lexible "Velocity of impact v = 20,000,000 m/s" I thought that as with the Alcubierre drive, star ships do not have translational velocity in spacetime, so isn't your assumption about velocity misguided? The Phoenix is moving relatively slowly within the warp field, and the warp field of Star Trek, translates the region of spacetime local to the starship through subspace to its destination. Hence "in" and "out of warp" rather than "warping" and "slowing down."
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Oct 20, 2019 at 23:42 history edited Vogon Poet CC BY-SA 4.0
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Oct 20, 2019 at 15:00 history tweeted twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/1185933693111676928
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