I'd honestly like to know if such a thing is possible, how fast does an airlock decompress and why would you even have one that wasn't designed to decompress before the door opened if the cliche of explosive decompression was reality?Rochey wrote:Stick a timer on a container of matter and anti-matter rigged to a small explosive charge that will breach the M/AM container.
Place in airlock.
Exit airlock.
Hit the big "vent airlock" button.
Watch as M/AM charge gets fired out of the ship by the decompression.
Easy enough, unless I'm missing something.
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Well, presumably you could just break the system that vents the air before the hatch opens. God knows Fed systems are easy enough to break, and they had a good while to prepare for this stuff.
As for whether or not the whole explosive decompression is realistic or a cliche, no idea. But given what happened in NEM, we know it's at least possible in Trek.
As for whether or not the whole explosive decompression is realistic or a cliche, no idea. But given what happened in NEM, we know it's at least possible in Trek.
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Ah, well if it comes to it you just strap a small rocket to the thing. A simple chemical rocket of some sort should be easy for them (and replicatable)
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And they WERE at point blank range
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I guess the better question is where are these antimatter charges being released from?
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Just had a visual of Happy Gilmore and Tiger Woods in TNG uniform running along the length of a room with drivers
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I guess the better question is where are these antimatter charges being released from?
I wrote:Stick a timer on a container of matter and anti-matter rigged to a small explosive charge that will breach the M/AM container.
Place in airlock.
Exit airlock.
Hit the big "vent airlock" button.
Watch as M/AM charge gets fired out of the ship by the decompression.
Easy enough, unless I'm missing something.
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Your forgetting Happy and Tiger. J/K
But a sudden decompression would have "looked" different from what we saw.
But a sudden decompression would have "looked" different from what we saw.
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How so? We saw the bursts from quite a distance away, with no real way to see how it looked as they were launched.
And anyway, just how many real life decompressions have you seen?
And anyway, just how many real life decompressions have you seen?
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Well, the other day I ate a bunch of ranch style beans, and...Rochey wrote:...And anyway, just how many real life decompressions have you seen?
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Well if you're gonna go there, I might as well...Tsukiyumi wrote:Well, the other day I ate a bunch of ranch style beans, and...
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Nice. 
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