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    How Do You Avoid Hitting Stars at Warp 5? A Pulsar Positioning System
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    05/28/09

    In reply to How Do You Avoid Hitting Stars at Warp 5? A Pulsar Positioning System
    Well they could also invent the Queller Drive.

    Just don't live on anything planets that it passes by.
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    05/28/09

    @dOk: ow nasty....
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    05/28/09

    In reply to How Do You Avoid Hitting Stars at Warp 5? A Pulsar Positioning System
    so he read the Star Trek TNG Technical Manual that mentions this very idea as part of the Federations Nav Systems?
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    Image of Sicpup Sicpup
    05/28/09

    In reply to How Do You Avoid Hitting Stars at Warp 5? A Pulsar Positioning System
    Nah... this is all too simple- everyone keeps talking about warp speed, etc- they keep forgetting about inertia.


    A jump to light-speed without dampening same will result in a people flavored smear on the bulkhead.


    Ooopsie

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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    05/28/09

    @Sicpup: bring nachos.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/27/09

    In reply to How Do You Avoid Hitting Stars at Warp 5? A Pulsar Positioning System
    You always do this; you always decide to check the star charts over and over again while you go the wrong way, now we're millions of parsecs off course. Couldn't we have just ASKED that nice Centaurian freighter where Alpha Prime is?


    I'm sorry, Dave, but I have difficulty believing that I could have possibly made a navigational error. My star charts are 100% accurate.


    You fucker. It's upside down!


    .........


    Why don't you take a pod outside and check my viewing equipment

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    Image of CoHPhasor CoHPhasor
    05/27/09

    In reply to How Do You Avoid Hitting Stars at Warp 5? A Pulsar Positioning System
    That is AMAZING!

    It really works!

    I double-checked, and I'm *actually* in my chair in front of my computer!! o.O


    btw, That discovery really is sweet stuff.

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    Image of zsakul2 zsakul2
    05/28/09

    @CoHPhasor: Grrr.... Somewhere in my history on here or maybe it was msn about a week ago i asked everyone.. What do you think would happen if you went into hyperdrive and a comet gets in the way.. At those speeds can you even turn?
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    Image of psychiccheese psychiccheese
    05/28/09

    @zsakul2: you could always use the emergency brake...
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    05/28/09

    @psychiccheese: Just make sure to buckle your seatbelt when you're using the emergency brake at LUDICROUS speed.
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    05/28/09

    @e2drummer: You never want to go plaid.
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