Re: (TFT) please help (OT?)

[Jim Kundert <gypsycomet@gmail.com>]

Trek ships, or at least the Federation, also use that big dish on the
front.  It's call the Deflector Dish for good reason. It uses a
combination of focused tractor and shield effects to push stuff out of
the way of the moving ship.

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 3:01 PM,  <dwtulloh61@cox.net> wrote:
> I seem to recall hearing about "navigational shields" on a Trek show
> once.  NavShields would certainly mitigate the effects of dust and other
> small particles, small being relative to the amount of power dumped
> into the shields.
>
> ---- Mark Tapley <mtapley@swri.edu> wrote:
>> "Magic" - Star Trek/Star Wars, you have some sort of drive that makes
>> space look like nothing.
>>
>>       At some point, relativity gets involved and you start having
>> to crank in time dilation, redshift/blueshift, and similar effects.
>> At some point, very fast (relative to you) dust particles hitting you
>> become fatal projectiles; likewise normal light photons blue-shifted
>> up to the gamma radiation range. Apparently, "magic" drives overcome
>> both of these effects and probably many others.
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