Phasers as a torpedo defense

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 7:18 pm

Damned mathmaticians

You guys do realize of course, that there is NO WAY the writers of FX people EVER gave this much thought to the battle scenes, right?

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 5:20 pm

And that's why they consistantly give us stuff to complain about.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:43 am

I wonder.....if they DID take the time to get everything up to speed...............what the hell WOULD we be talking about most of the time????

RK_Striker_JK_5 · Post by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:13 pm

Mark wrote:I wonder.....if they DID take the time to get everything up to speed...............what the hell WOULD we be talking about most of the time????

Sadly... probably still finding things to bitch about.

Coalition · Post by **Coalition** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 12:43 pm

Sionnach Glic wrote:IIRC, surface area is 4pir².

What he meant was that if you double the distance from an explosion, you only experience 1/4 the destructive energy.

I.e. if a ship 1 meter away from an explosion experienced 100 megatons of explosive energy, then a ship 2 meters away would experience 25 megatons of explosive energy.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 2:49 pm

Ah, right.

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 1:05 pm

I would agree that there are a few main emitters that fire the high power phaser which would be for "real" battle, and then additionally a bunch of smaller emitters that could only fire shorter, much lower power shots for defense such as shooting down torps? Just like battleships in WW2 had: a few main guns for ship/ship ship/land firing, plus tons of machine guns to shot at torps and close planes.

Post by **Mikey** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 2:42 pm

If so (and you're right, there is no reason there shouldn't be the 'Trek equivalent of the difference between 16-inchers and 20mm mounts) then this is another POD of the Abrams-verse. I don't recall seeing anything that is specifically made as a PD gun on a 'Trek ship in the original uni, rather than just using a ships mains guns in that role.

alexmann · Post by **alexmann** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 7:59 pm

sunnyside wrote:
Tyyr wrote:(4/3)r^3 actually.
That would be the volume of a sphere, not the surface area.

No, that would be (4/3)PiR^3.

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 5:29 pm

alexmann wrote:
sunnyside wrote:
Tyyr wrote:(4/3)r^3 actually.
That would be the volume of a sphere, not the surface area.
No, that would be (4/3)PiR^3.

I think it was the cubing of the formula. That would be a volume not area. No big deal though.

alexmann · Post by **alexmann** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 11:30 am

Yeah, what I meant was that (4/3)r^3 isn't the volume.

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