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Ok, lasers are possible now and the military could make them operative in relatively short term, agreed.Cpl Kendall wrote:Someone claimed that lasers aren't a practical weapon right now, I'm saying they are provided you are willing to live with the trade offs.SomosFuga wrote:
That is a technological issue.
Wasn't one used on the giant space amoeba in the Immunity Syndrome?Rochey wrote:I'm fairly sure we heard of one in TOS. Damned if I can be sure, though.Captain Picard's Hair wrote:Out of curiosity, when WAS the first time we heard of a probe being launched? Did we ever see one in TOS?
That may have been it.Mark wrote: Wasn't one used on the giant space amoeba in the Immunity Syndrome?
In eight short years, the U.S. went from a manned suborbital flight to landing men on the moon. At that rate of progress, one would expect to find a continuous manned presence on the moon. Yet, man has not set foot on the moon since 1972 - and, according to the latest projections - the earliest man will again set foot on the moon will be the year 2020...almost 50 years later! Sometimes a change in philosophy (and funding!) can wipe out a trend...I don't mean to be a downer, here, just some food for thought...Reliant121 wrote:The problem is the relative progression of technology has jumped so quickly in the past 30-40 years, that it is leaps and bounds ahead of the past millenia. It took us nearly 400 years to go from constructing ships from wood to constructing them from metal. In the past 100 years we have gone through iron, aluminium, steel, fibreglass, plastic even for small ones. Technologically speaking it took us 300/400 years to develop from crossbows to flintlock fired weapons. It took is 100 years from the first practical automatic machine guns to weapons which can fire 3500 bullets per minute, shred an aircraft in seconds and track missiles going at several times the speed of sound. Technology advances so fast today that a phone is virtually obsolete via technology standards merely weeks after it is released, Computers are made redundant compared to their successor in a month. If that trend continues, where technology develops at a phenominal rate, we could have plasma based weaponry, or anti-matter based weaponry far sooner than you would expect.
The blue pulses were from smaller turrets further forward on the saucer, from what I saw.SomosFuga wrote:...Were both fired by the same turret?
ya, that's what it looked like to me too.Tsukiyumi wrote:The blue pulses were from smaller turrets further forward on the saucer, from what I saw.SomosFuga wrote:...Were both fired by the same turret?
In the armament section of the entry, what CIWS stands for?GrahamKennedy wrote:Check the pics on the ship entry. The two turret types are noticeably different, and in different spots on the hull.
Close In Weapon SystemSomosFuga wrote:CIWS