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   From: bthorn64@suddenlink.net   
      
   On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 02:22:06 -0700, Tim Bruening   
    wrote:   
      
   >Blink Of An Eye Spoiler Nits Below:   
      
   >In this episode, Voyager is in synchronous orbit about a planet that   
   >rotates 58 times a minute.  Why don't the stars move in Voyager's   
   >windows?   
      
   Effects error.   
      
   >Why do the graphics show Voyager moving opposite the planet's   
   >spin?   
      
   The backward-spinning hubcap/propellor optical illusion.   
      
   >According to Voyager's sensors, the seasons are only a few seconds long   
   >(a few days long in the planet's hyper accelerated time frame).  How is   
   >this possible without the planet being so close to its sun that it and   
   >Voyager would roast?   
      
   Seasons are due to Earth's inclination to the plane of the ecliptic,   
   not distance from the sun.   
      
   >At least one fan has suggested that the planet could be wobbling on its   
   >axis like Earth does, but I didn't see any moons to cause such a wobble.   
      
   Earth's moon stabilizes Earth's wobble, it does not cause it.   
      
   >When two native astronauts pay a visit, the female astronaut feels   
   >Torres' hand and says that it feels warm.  Since time was passing far   
   >more slowly for Torres than for the astronauts, I believe that the   
   >female astronaut shouldn't have felt any heat passing from Torres' hand   
   >to hers, so Torres' hand should have felt cold.   
      
   For 1/100th of a second perhaps.   
      
   >How could the astronauts walk?  Shouldn't Voyager's gravity feel very   
   >weak to the astronauts (at^2/2, with t = 1/86,400th of a second, and a =   
   >9.8m/sec^2)?   
      
   No. Gravity is not caused by a world's rotation, it is caused by mass.   
   Katana was close enough in mass to Earth that there wouldn't have been   
   a major difference to the astronauts boarding Voyager.   
      
   >A few native minutes after the astronauts visit Engineering, they visit   
   >the Bridge (15 decks up IIRC).  How did they climb 15 decks so quickly?   
      
   Typical time compression for TV shows.   
      
   >After the natives bombard Voyager for a few minutes, the male astronaut   
   >Katana returns (the female being dead).  He persuades his people to stop   
   >firing on Voyager and tow Voyager out of orbit.  The tug ships arrive   
   >about 1.5 years after Katana's return.  Why didn't the natives send the   
   >following message to Voyager: "Stand By To Be Towed"?   
      
   Voyager would not have detected the signal unless it was slowed down   
   enormously, and the Katanans may not have known what frequency to use,   
   assuming frequencies mean anything at all to a hyper-accellerated   
   world.   
      
   >Katana visits for a few minutes after the towing of Voyager.  Why   
   >doesn't Janeway ask him to ask the native scientists for help in getting   
   >Voyager home?  I am certain that Voyager could afford to wait in high   
   >orbit a few more days for the hyper fast natives to develop a hyper fast   
   >drive to get Voyager home, and give the natives information about   
   >displacement waves, wormholes, transwarp conduits, quantum slipstreams,   
   >and coaxial warps to help them.   
      
   Voyager's presense had caused enormous disruption on the planet, was   
   was looked upon as a miracle in the night and all that. Janeway   
   rightly decided to count her blessings that the Katanans didn't blow   
   Voyager to smithereens, nevermind ask them to perfect a quantum   
   slipstream drive for her.   
      
   Brian   
      
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