Things Enterprise can use from other Trek series

[Michiel]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Cats are the source of the space time continuüm, you didn't know?

Actually, it's from the "All good things..." fiver.

[quoteost_uid0]Past Data: I do not understand, sir. How do we create a static warp shell?
Picard: Just call up whoever's our chief engineer this week and tell him to rub some cats against the warp core.
Yar: Sir, this is too dangerous! We'll be destroyed! We've obeyed the rest of your senile orders, but this is too --
Picard: Do I have to get out my dramatic pep talk and beat you with it?
Yar: ....No, sir. I'm sorry.
Past Worf: That settles it: I do like him.

Picard: Static warp shell.
Data: H--
Picard: Cats.
Data: Ah.[/quoteost_uid0][/colorost_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Ah yes, I really should catch up on the fivers I haven't read yet.

*Walks off in shame*[/colorost_uid0]

[mudshark]

[quoteost_uid0="Nan"][color=#000000ost_uid0]Except for that weird accelerated light thing. That's WEIRD.[/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000000ost_uid0]Which? The CERN experiment?[/colorost_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Particle accelerators are just the best. Better than tokamak reactors even.[/colorost_uid0]

[taya17]

[quoteost_uid0="PointyHairedJedi"][color=#000000ost_uid0]Better than tokamak reactors even.[/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000000ost_uid0]These are the donut-shaped things they use to create plasma, am I right?[/colorost_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0="Guest"]Which? The CERN experiment?[/quoteost_uid0]
The sped-up beam of light experiment. The one where the beam of light was sent through a supercooled gas chamber. There was some kind of causality violation because it somehow arrived on the other side before it entered.

Thus, [iost_uid0]weird[/iost_uid0].[/colorost_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Now, I know they [iost_uid0]have[/iost_uid0] "slowed" light down to a fraction of its usual velocity in gas chambers (I use quotation marks because they put tiny stop signs on each atom, making the light stop for a fraction of a second at each one. --Of course, if they'd used St. Louis light, I would use the word "slowed" without reservation, because the light would have just coasted through each and every single sign at a minimum of 10 mph :eyeroll:...)[/colorost_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Brought it to a stop in one experiment, but I dunno if that was CERN.[/colorost_uid0]

[mudshark]

[quoteost_uid0="Nan"][color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0="Guest"]Which? The CERN experiment?[/quoteost_uid0]
The sped-up beam of light experiment. The one where the beam of light was sent through a supercooled gas chamber. There was some kind of causality violation because it somehow arrived on the other side before it entered.

Thus, [iost_uid0]weird[/iost_uid0].[/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000000ost_uid0]That's the one I was thinking of.
(Thought it was some guys from CERN that did that, but I could be wrong.)

And yes, weird. Has anyone put forth an explanation for that one yet? I recall the original announcement, but haven't seen much since.[/colorost_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Only the Variable Speed of Light (VSL) theory. But that's fairly new.[/colorost_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Not in the Discworld it aint.[/colorost_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]New Five-Minute Fora!

There's A Pratchett Reference In Every Thread.

[/colorost_uid0]

[Zeke]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]And as an added bonus, Zeke will miss 90% of them.[/colorost_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]You'll come around some-day, Zeke.[/colorost_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]if sending a message back in time only causes a split in the timeline for the different choices, then what would be the point? it wouldn't change anything in that timeline, and if the change advised in the message is possible, wouldn't that split have already occured?[/colorost_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Whoa, I guess I missed a page![/colorost_uid0]

[NeoMatrix]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]You remember that Voyager episode where they sent a message back in time to save Voyager from an icy grave.[/colorost_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Another one of them lame reset button episodes. :sighs sadly:[/colorost_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]D'you think you could shorten the link in your sig a teeny bit taya? Only it's kinda annoying.[/colorost_uid0]

[Michiel]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Heh, only with a teeny little resolution. But yeah, it is annoying.[/colorost_uid0]