[Shrike]

Because back in the ToS days those weren't Bussard Collectors, they're Psycedelic Glowing Thingies™.  And in fact (fiction?), the ST collectors work by throwing out a big magnetic field, instead of using an actual physical collector 'framework'.

[Thorn]

 

Originally posted by venom2506:
No: real bussard reactor looks like huge (I mean  hundred of meters wide) grids used to collect hydrogen in the space. How can such a ridiculously small thing pick up the amount of hydrogen needed for the ship, when there's less than one Hydrogen molecule per dozen of meters cube?

And think about the size of the ship as well..
Its pretty darn (CURSE YOU THUNDER) big...
That thing is supposed to have a crew of 5 or 6 hundred...

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[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Shrike:
Because back in the ToS days those weren't Bussard Collectors, they're Psycedelic Glowing Thingies™.  And in fact (fiction?), the ST collectors work by throwing out a big magnetic field, instead of using an actual physical collector 'framework'.

a big magnetic field that attracts hydrogen? whoa cool  

[Thorn]

 

Originally posted by venom2506:
a big magnetic field that attracts hydrogen? whoa cool    

Not just hydrogen, anything it can suck up...
It converts the hydrogen to deuterium for fuel, and everything else is either ejected as waste, or used for other ship systems (replicators, etc) (its sad that I know this much about ST)

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[Carl]

that's just basic for me.

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Thorn:
 Not just hydrogen, anything it can suck up...
It converts the hydrogen to deuterium for fuel, and everything else is either ejected as waste, or used for other ship systems (replicators, etc) (its sad that I know this much about ST)

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whoa, that's magic  
anyway: how does the new one looks like? someone has a pic?

[Carl]

 

yes, that is 100 years before the original series    

[Nico]

hey, it's not that bad! mmh, yeah, for "ST, the next new generation"  

[Jabu]

And it looks like something from late-Voyager  

The Akiraprise, they call it. Great Enterprise model, BTW. Though I always thought the original looked a bit like a constipated ostrich  

[Grey Wolf]

 

Originally posted by Thorn:
 And think about the size of the ship as well..
Its pretty darn (CURSE YOU THUNDER) big...
That thing is supposed to have a crew of 5 or 6 hundred...

[This message has been edited by Thorn (edited 10-17-2001).]

289m is big?

[jonskowitz]

You're WAAAYYY too used to the scales in FS.  290 meters is huge.  Most aircraft carriers are under 400 meters to put it in perspective.

[Vertigo1]

Just for reference, the Enterprise-D is only 641 meters long.  The Enterprise-E is slightly longer than that...closer to 680 or 690..give or take 30 meters.

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