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It would be trivial to reroute power from the secondary systems to the forward shields anyway
But we have to reroute power from life support because auxiliary systems are down!
Try reversing the polarity
Antimatter has been transported for the first time
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would be trivial to reroute power from the secondary systems to the forward shields anyway
If it's built to federation specs, we even have redundancies for the redundancies.
Well, in a crunch I wouldn't like to be caught without a secondary backup.
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#185From a layman's point of view antimatter seems like an ideal spacecraft fuel. It's as energy dense as E = mc^2 allows, and if you have infrastructure to make it, the only input you need to produce it is electricity. Being able to transport it seems like an important piece of that puzzle. Production and storage would need to be scaled by many orders of magnitude, but that's merely an engineering problem...right?
I don't like antimatter because it's the most volatile fuel possible. If power is ever interrupted for any reason for any amount of time, the entire mass explodes. A slightly less insane fuel source is a micro black hole. Drag a tiny black hole behind your ship and drip-feed it any kind of mass you come across. You still get >90% mass-energy efficiency which is far beyond anything else we know of. Besides, one of the…
How heavy is the micro black hole? How do you “drag” it?
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would be trivial to reroute power from the secondary systems to the forward shields anyway
If it's built to federation specs, we even have redundancies for the redundancies.
I’m betting they sprung for the cheaper Cardassian ones without the redundancies. O’Brien is not going to be happy.
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#187If containment was to fail, it the total energy released would have been approximately 2.766 * 10 ^ -8 J, so it wasn't particularly dangerous
Traveling the cosmos by folding space is recommended to avoid these types of issues, because "The Spice Must Flow!"
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#188If containment was to fail, it the total energy released would have been approximately 2.766 * 10 ^ -8 J, so it wasn't particularly dangerous
It would be trivial to reroute power from the secondary systems to the forward shields anyway
If all else fails, at least we always have artificial gravity!
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#189If containment was to fail, it the total energy released would have been approximately 2.766 * 10 ^ -8 J, so it wasn't particularly dangerous
First thing that I did was also to do that calc and I was surprised by how little energy it was.
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If it's built to federation specs, we even have redundancies for the redundancies.
I’m betting they sprung for the cheaper Cardassian ones without the redundancies. O’Brien is not going to be happy.
He does feel more comfortable having those Federation tertiary backups in case.
Considering all the weird encounters Star Fleet vessels encounter over the run of a TV series; who can blame him?