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My Baron is equipped with the optional Aces II ejection seats in the front
only. Rather than a ballistic parachute, Beechcraft offered the option of ejection seats. They are zero-zero (will deploy a chute at zero altitude and zero forward velocity). The seat pan has a deployable survival kit as well as a self inflating raft. |
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The Beechjet has a StarTrek matter-transporter that will
beam the passengers and cargo safely to the ground at the nearest discrete place, then it switches to phaser mode and destroys the aircraft so there is no dangerous debris falling on any city. "Viperdoc" wrote in message ... | My Baron is equipped with the optional Aces II ejection seats in the front | only. Rather than a ballistic parachute, Beechcraft offered the option of | ejection seats. They are zero-zero (will deploy a chute at zero altitude and | zero forward velocity). | | The seat pan has a deployable survival kit as well as a self inflating raft. | | | |
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![]() "Jim Macklin" wrote in message news:X6yYg.3090$XX2.1488@dukeread04... The Beechjet has a StarTrek matter-transporter that will beam the passengers and cargo safely to the ground at the nearest discrete place, then it switches to phaser mode and destroys the aircraft so there is no dangerous debris falling on any city. Careful there Jim....we don't want him ejaculating himself from the simulator! :-) D |
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LOL
BTW, matter transmission as done on StarTrek can NEVER happen and just because of the Heisenberg (sp) effect. Einstein's equation works both ways, E=MC^2 means that to create matter with a weight equal to a person would require the energy of several thousand atomic bombs, under full control and without destruction of the mechanism. "Dudley Henriques" wrote in message ... | | "Jim Macklin" wrote in message | news:X6yYg.3090$XX2.1488@dukeread04... | The Beechjet has a StarTrek matter-transporter that will | beam the passengers and cargo safely to the ground at the | nearest discrete place, then it switches to phaser mode and | destroys the aircraft so there is no dangerous debris | falling on any city. | | Careful there Jim....we don't want him ejaculating himself from the | simulator! :-) | D | | |
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Jim Macklin wrote:
LOL BTW, matter transmission as done on StarTrek can NEVER happen and just because of the Heisenberg (sp) effect. Damn you. You just destroyed my dream of never having to sit in traffic again. |
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That really should have said "and not just because of"...
"Emily" wrote in message ... | Jim Macklin wrote: | LOL | | BTW, matter transmission as done on StarTrek can NEVER | happen and just because of the Heisenberg (sp) effect. | | Damn you. You just destroyed my dream of never having to sit in traffic | again. |
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![]() "Jim Macklin" wrote in message news:QNyYg.3098$XX2.1632@dukeread04... LOL BTW, matter transmission as done on StarTrek can NEVER happen and just because of the Heisenberg (sp) effect. Einstein's equation works both ways, E=MC^2 means that to create matter with a weight equal to a person would require the energy of several thousand atomic bombs, under full control and without destruction of the mechanism. Hell Jim, I'm still trying to deal with Scrodenger's cat and after dinner I have to find why Fermat outsmarted both me and the Pythagoreans with the 3rd exponent!!! :-))) Dudley |
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I think a StarWars light saber might be possible with a
controlled magnetic field and plasma. "Dudley Henriques" wrote in message ... | | "Jim Macklin" wrote in message | news:QNyYg.3098$XX2.1632@dukeread04... | LOL | | BTW, matter transmission as done on StarTrek can NEVER | happen and just because of the Heisenberg (sp) effect. | Einstein's equation works both ways, E=MC^2 means that to | create matter with a weight equal to a person would require | the energy of several thousand atomic bombs, under full | control and without destruction of the mechanism. | | Hell Jim, I'm still trying to deal with Scrodenger's cat and after dinner I | have to find why Fermat outsmarted both me and the Pythagoreans with the 3rd | exponent!!! :-))) | Dudley | | |
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I think a StarWars light saber might be possible with a
controlled magnetic field and plasma. Which, of course, always begs the question of: "Why?" I know, I know -- because it's an elegant weapon. But without The Force to guide your hand, you're just a sitting duck for a guy in a walker with a laser cannon... ;-) -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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![]() Jim Macklin wrote: I think a StarWars light saber might be possible with a controlled magnetic field and plasma. But it would not allow users to parry like in Star Wars. This is the real problem with Star Wars technology. Light does not behave like light. In Star Wars, you can have force fields which you can see through but they repel visible laser light. Same problem in Star Trek. A force field that repels a photon torpedo must, of necessity, be opaque. Star Wars is a lot worse, though. WW II battleship scenes and aerial fights involving solid projectiles and explosives, but the recoil of these never seems affect the ship using them. You can blow up a Ti fighter heading straight at you, and the particles do no damage to your ship despite the fact that they have the same mass and speed and are now probably even more dangerous. Ships have artificial gravity, but when one of them is shot down and tilts toward a planet, everyone falls towards the nose (planetside) of the ship. What, the artificial gravity always points toward the nearest planet rather than the floor of the ship, or if it fails the planet's gravity can suddenly be felt on a ship in orbit? And where do these guys get off with the noise in space? Noisy explosions (and you hear the noise at the moment of the explosion, too, not delayed for a time while the sound travels to you -- even if you are on a planet and it is a starship many miles above you that is exploding). And noisy spaceships and engines. What ever happened to the silence of "2001: A Space Odyssey" (no doubt the "music of the spheres" was playing "Blue Danube" all along)? But back to light sabers. Larry Niven in his stories posited a "variable sword." This is actually a wire only one molecule thick (and therefore extremely sharp) coiled in the handle of a flashlight-like device. The wire can be extended out any length up to about four feet. It is held straight and rigid by a force field that affects only the wire -- the same type of force field that enables spaceships to crash into planets without harm to the occupants (although they may be buried beneath tons of rock). If this was a glowing force field, it would look just like a light saber. So you could say that Lucas was just copying something that Larry Niven had already invented. |
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