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This is what us computer scientists call the 'Closed World Assumption' (it's the fallacy of most logic programming languages and other fact-database based systems). Anything that cannot be proven from the fact database is considered false, because it assumes no world exists beyond the database...

People switch commision quite a lot in WC. For instance, Angel was a Lt. Commander the WCM.

It's quite simple. 4:3 is the size relation of a normal TV. So if the top is 100cm wide, the screen is 75cm high. A widescreen TV has relations 16:9 which is wider (w'll duh!). Letterbox means a picture meant for a 16:9 screen is displayed on a 4:3 screen by adding black bands above and under...

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There is a window on the top of the Bridge, both in TOS and in TNG. You can see this when the Ent-D crashes in Generations.

Please take note I have not yet seen Voyager's seventh season (bar the first 3 episodes). I think there's a significant difference between attacking or trying to get past the Borg who are just doing routine flights in their own territory, and trying to stop a Borg warship which has the sole...

You read it a while back. Perhaps in a post I made *in this thread* a while back. Are we going in circles here? The effect, for all practical purposes, is the same. And has the nice (although unethical if applied on people) side-effect of having the maybe possibility of replication. Although...

You *can't* describe an atom. You can't know everything just as precise at the same time. If you know it's position exactly, you have no data at all about it's speed and direction, and vice versa. That's Heisenberg's uncertenty principle, and the reason transportation cannot be done by...

I don't believe that. How do you transmit atoms digitally (ie how do you convert them from atoms to some form of digital data and how do you convert that back to atoms on the receiving end)? How do they get past Heisenberg's principle. Why wasn't this front page news because it would be the...

The Confed Handbook says Scylla is pretty weird, it's gravitational field doesn't extend any more than 30000km for a reason I can't recall and am too lazy to look up but I'm sure LOAF will tell you. :D No one apparently knows how or why that could happen in nature, there is even some...

I thought it was truly a shame that Spirit died. She was one of my favourite wingmen (wingwomen?). Being a kindof afficionado of Japanese culture it pleased me to no end how much time was devoted to make Spirit seem truly Japanese. The developers payed so much attention to detail, right down to...

...go back in time and assasinate Chris Roberts. Because of him, humanity already knew about the Kilrathi war in the 20th century, and Petath was convinced that that was why the Kilrathi lost the war. Thrakkhunia thought it was because of the uber-fleas (which is correct) but he lost the...

My info might be a little outdated, it is possible that they've done it with something larger than a photon by now, but I'm not sure. You understood it wrong. The EPR-experiment was designed to prove Quantum Mechanics wrong, because that communications channel couldn't exist. Since it turns...

The problem with WCP lighting was that it casted no shadows, and was therefore also visible in the launch bay. Oddly enough, they did turn it off for the landing animation, so it wasn't visible in the landing bay. I prefer space to look real. Why not dump a few Hubble photo's in the background...

According to the WC4 novel, didn't Maniac have a squadron aboard the Intrepid as well?

Scientists have indeed create what some call a transporter, but it can only transport photon's, not even molecules. The idea is based on the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen experiment. This experiment was created by those three to prove that Quantum Mechanics is wrong, and goes as follows (greatly...

No it showed us that wine in spacedock doesn't freeze. They were in orbit of Earth, that's hardly deep space.

The Handbook suggests that's impossible, as a ship needs to be at the exact location of the jump point to jump, and no two ships can be at the exact same location at the same time.

At this point, the Kilrathi discovered that Kilrah was still under warranty and went to the Magratheans to complain. They explain that Kilrah was actually built by the Uber-fleas because they wanted to prove the mice wrong. The fleas believed the Answer was 41, not 42. The Kilrathi were...

Still, programmers are expensive. And for the sake of my future career I hope that stays that way! :D