Indeed, glad others are noticing this. I know that being a scientist just confuses me, but seeing the wrong notation for buckyballs (C60; can't see how to do a subscript here) blew my brain over just how ridiculously short-lived a Carbon-60 isotope would be...
Sadly, the popular press has used C-60 before, it's hardly a unique occurrence. You'll have to learn to live with it.
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There?s a region a full astronomical unit in size that our sensors can?t map.
Guys, you know what an AU is? its the middle distance from the earth to the sun. Thats like nothing compared to the sizes of a galaxy. So its a bit strange to say, wow, there is a FULL AU that our sensors cant read. I bet there are billions of AU the federation cant scan.^^
If McCoy can see off the Ent-D at the age of 127, Barclay can chime in on readings at the age of 80 or so (he's shown as roughly middle aged by todays standards 40 years prior to STO).
I don't rightly remember, but I believe the MIDAS Array is similar to a subspace telescope. Since subspace is a separate dimension, it means the Array can transmit and receive in a fraction of the time sub-light comms could.
yeah, no doubt. no discussion about identifying warp signatures and other subspace interferances over vast distances, but to identify the material something is made off?
that seems very far fetched imo
what i guess is, that the fellow who wrote it, just needed the MIDAS to be able to do that, so he/she wrote it. I mean this is delta quadrant trek science, doesn't need to be canon or based on real science just as the writers of voyager didn't care most of the time (warp 10 barrier ).
on a related note: the first pic i saw of the inside of the sphere, the surface was shaped wrong...something like a dome under a bigger dome...in other words cryptic's dyson sphere is a planet where the space surrounding it has the same texture as the planet.
Guys, you know what an AU is? its the middle distance from the earth to the sun. Thats like nothing compared to the sizes of a galaxy. So its a bit strange to say, wow, there is a FULL AU that our sensors cant read. I bet there are billions of AU the federation cant scan.^^
But they can usually tell why, or pick up some radiation. An area which is literally blank? A planet-sized area, maybe, but a full AU? Not likely.
Guys, you know what an AU is? its the middle distance from the earth to the sun. Thats like nothing compared to the sizes of a galaxy. So its a bit strange to say, wow, there is a FULL AU that our sensors cant read. I bet there are billions of AU the federation cant scan.^^
I assume, much like in Relics, the sphere doesn't really register on sensors as your zooming around space. If it wasn't for the ship distress call the Ent D would have flown right past that Dyson Sphere.
STO is about my Liberated Borg Federation Captain with his Breen 1st Officer, Jem'Hadar Tactical Officer, Liberated Borg Engineering Officer, Android Ops Officer, Photonic Science Officer, Gorn Science Officer, and Reman Medical Officer jumping into their Jem'Hadar Carrier and flying off to do missions for the new Romulan Empire. But for some players allowing a T5 Connie to be used breaks the canon in the game.
I believe stirling191 covered the correct notation thoroughly, but I would further suggest you search for "carbon-13" and see that it is indeed the notation for isotopes, not for molecular structure.
In the absence of subscript formatting "C-60" is still valid.
Ok if the upcoming FE is the bridge between rom rep missions and the new season.... We all know iconian tech will get us there in that mission and, season 8 it must be a gate way or some like. Also its interesting that on tribble in the transwarp tab, the fleet spire is there ( it says delta quadrant ).
I genuinely take issue with the Barclay shown in TNG being 26.
Dwight Shultz is 66 currently (He was 43 in 1990). The alternate reality in the Voyager episode "Endgame" took place in 2404, five years before what would be the present time in STO, and he was still in active service there and somewhat aged.
Dwight Shultz is 66 currently (He was 43 in 1990). The alternate reality in the Voyager episode "Endgame" took place in 2404, five years before what would be the present time in STO, and he was still in active service there and somewhat aged.
In the absence of subscript formatting "C-60" is still valid.
Not at all. C60 is the non sub way of writing a molecule with 60 carbon atoms. Just like O2, N2, H2O are the non sub ways of saying Oxygen, Nitrogen and water. You don't write the empirical formulae as O-2, N-2, or H-2O-1
Carbon-60/C-60 is how you describe a Carbon isotope with an atomic mass of 60. Just like Uranium-232/U-232 is how you describe a Uranium isotope with an atomic mass of 232.
I honestly don't see how I can make it any plainer than that.
Three years travel distance? Spool up the plot drive and prepare for ludicrous speed!
I hereby claim patent on the "Hyper Quantum Transwarp" Transporter beam technology (and all derivatives) that enable instantaneous transportation from, say, the Alpha quadrant to the Delta quadrant.
As all the star navies (Starfleet, KDF, RR) have billions of available starships produced every microsecond, we can take 1/4 of these fleets, refit them with H-Q-T systems, and when a crew wants / needs to operate in the Delta quadrant they can just "beam" their entire crew over in a fraction of a second.
Remember, we're transwarping from the far points of the galaxy to Gamma Orisonis in microseconds through the "Queue-Transwarp" system, this is just a logical extension of the range... :P
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now... question.. Will it take three years to reach this dyson sphere... and can I transwarp back once i'm there?
Erm, wasn't season 8 supposed to show what was happening with the Iconian gate on New Romulus and a now a locale thousands of light years away... could it be a connection :rolleyes:
Barclay gets referenced (Well, he would be the resident expert on long-range trans-Quadrant communications since the Pathfinder Project would've failed without him, really... and he was on the Enterprise-D in 2369 when they discovered the Sphere...), the sphere from "Relics" is semi-officially named the "Jenolan Sphere"...
Though Voyager was 70,000 lightyears from Federation space and its voyage would be 70 years, that's a thousand light-years a year... if the Callisto is 30,000 light years away and only has three years left on their mission, how did they get to the Delta Quad and how are they getting back?
Ignoring the fact that the 70,000 light years years = 70 years travel is highly inconsistent within Star Trek as it is....
Anyhow, we have Sliptstream and TransWarp now available to us that Voyager didn't. In the episode where Voyager experimented with slip stream they crashed just inside the beta quadrant within a short time of entering slipstream.
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OKAY WE ARE GETTING A DYSON SHELL! (I don't think Cryptic will but in a sphere, much as fun as it could be).
I hope STO get's better ...
You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.
Sadly, the popular press has used C-60 before, it's hardly a unique occurrence. You'll have to learn to live with it.
Guys, you know what an AU is? its the middle distance from the earth to the sun. Thats like nothing compared to the sizes of a galaxy. So its a bit strange to say, wow, there is a FULL AU that our sensors cant read. I bet there are billions of AU the federation cant scan.^^
Born in 2340. That makes him 69 years old in 2409.
If McCoy can see off the Ent-D at the age of 127, Barclay can chime in on readings at the age of 80 or so (he's shown as roughly middle aged by todays standards 40 years prior to STO).
yeah, no doubt. no discussion about identifying warp signatures and other subspace interferances over vast distances, but to identify the material something is made off?
that seems very far fetched imo
what i guess is, that the fellow who wrote it, just needed the MIDAS to be able to do that, so he/she wrote it. I mean this is delta quadrant trek science, doesn't need to be canon or based on real science just as the writers of voyager didn't care most of the time (warp 10 barrier
on a related note: the first pic i saw of the inside of the sphere, the surface was shaped wrong...something like a dome under a bigger dome...in other words cryptic's dyson sphere is a planet where the space surrounding it has the same texture as the planet.
But they can usually tell why, or pick up some radiation. An area which is literally blank? A planet-sized area, maybe, but a full AU? Not likely.
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I genuinely take issue with the Barclay shown in TNG being 26.
In the absence of subscript formatting "C-60" is still valid.
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Somebody is paying attention to the little details.
Dwight Shultz is 66 currently (He was 43 in 1990). The alternate reality in the Voyager episode "Endgame" took place in 2404, five years before what would be the present time in STO, and he was still in active service there and somewhat aged.
Given the make-up artists in TNG, I think he could pass for 26.
Omega was already hinted at in the LoR mission on the deactivated Borg Cube.
Murdock be crazy
In LoR there already was a reference to Omega. In Sleepers there was a hint at Omega and its connection to the Iconians.
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Not at all. C60 is the non sub way of writing a molecule with 60 carbon atoms. Just like O2, N2, H2O are the non sub ways of saying Oxygen, Nitrogen and water. You don't write the empirical formulae as O-2, N-2, or H-2O-1
Carbon-60/C-60 is how you describe a Carbon isotope with an atomic mass of 60. Just like Uranium-232/U-232 is how you describe a Uranium isotope with an atomic mass of 232.
I honestly don't see how I can make it any plainer than that.
Nah they used the spice to travel without moving
Then the crew got ahold of the spice everyone got high
now its a three year journey back using their new handwavion warp core :eek:
And Cryptic is to cheap to EVER allow us to go to ..Plaid
I hereby claim patent on the "Hyper Quantum Transwarp" Transporter beam technology (and all derivatives) that enable instantaneous transportation from, say, the Alpha quadrant to the Delta quadrant.
As all the star navies (Starfleet, KDF, RR) have billions of available starships produced every microsecond, we can take 1/4 of these fleets, refit them with H-Q-T systems, and when a crew wants / needs to operate in the Delta quadrant they can just "beam" their entire crew over in a fraction of a second.
Remember, we're transwarping from the far points of the galaxy to Gamma Orisonis in microseconds through the "Queue-Transwarp" system, this is just a logical extension of the range... :P
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Erm, wasn't season 8 supposed to show what was happening with the Iconian gate on New Romulus and a now a locale thousands of light years away... could it be a connection :rolleyes:
Don't forget, there's a ship sized Iconian Gate, built into an asteroid in the Brea system.
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only if it travels @ light speed. it doesnt
Ignoring the fact that the 70,000 light years years = 70 years travel is highly inconsistent within Star Trek as it is....
Anyhow, we have Sliptstream and TransWarp now available to us that Voyager didn't. In the episode where Voyager experimented with slip stream they crashed just inside the beta quadrant within a short time of entering slipstream.