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   From: kwicker1b_nospam@comcast.net   
      
   "Paul Vader"  wrote in message   
   news:11lvtrbgi0u4193@news.supernews.com...   
   > ANIM8Rfsk  writes:   
   >>> What part of "geosynchronous orbit" don't you understand?   
   >>>   
   >>> -- Ken from Chicago   
   >>>   
   >>The TOS ship is NOT in geosync.  Transporter range is well below it.   
   >   
   > Ha! It's iffy on TNG and beyond too - 40,000km is what memory alpha says.   
   > So much for that fanwank.   
   >   
   > On the other hand, TOS era ships are so overpowered that you wonder why   
   > they bother going into orbit at all - they could just hang there in the   
   > same way that bricks don't. *   
   > --   
   > * PV   something like badgers--something like lizards--and something   
   >       like corkscrews.   
      
   But they hadn't planned it out then. The tech and science of TOS was, er,   
   um, indistinguishible from um, mmmm-, er mmmmmmaaaaa-, ...   
   mmaaaaaaaaaaaagggg-, mmmmaaaaaaaaggggg   
   ick.  There. I said it, loud for all the world to here.   
      
   -- Ken from Chicago (who said it because it would be prudent at this   
   juncture, and read my lips, new taxes)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)