Design of exploding control panels

Got it! ;-) (no problem on the arithmetic; all I asked for was the conversion factor anyway. ;-)

Thanks! Rich

Sorry, I'm only reporting what I saw on my own military records.

Cheers! Rich

More complex than that. What we see is the idealized version of transporter technology.

In real Star Trek Life a person stands on the pad and is scanned. An identical replica is created at the beam-to point, and upon confirmation of safe arrival the originals are taken off the pad and shot before being dumped into the recycle plants. Of course, only the engineers know of this because the people who beamed down have no memory of what happened to their originals.

I expect scifi watchers would not like the real sort of blowup that might happen where there's not a lot of jumping, but a great deal of faces on fire screaming.

" snipped-for-privacy@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

kinda dumb to route all that energy through a control panel. Obviously,Enterprise was not designed with battle damage repairs in mind.

Not to mention any shock wave from vaporized material. Or ablation from backscattered radiation Or EMP hitting your metal fillings

It was 'designed' to entertain the viewers. People would have been bored shitless if nothing ever caused the Captain and the crew a problem.

"Scattering a man's atoms all over the universe is no way to travel"

Well, at least you don't get groped and have to take off your shoes.

Until Starfleet has it's own version of the TSA, to screen you before you can blow up a transporter. ;-)

I seem to recall there were some episodes where the transporter automatically detects and disables "unauthorized" weapons, somehow? :-)

On the contrary, it was designed exceedingly well. All the repairs were done just in the nick of time. Nothing wasted. ;-)

Or they walked on, from the space dock.

What do you think the computers are doing while the transporter has all your atoms scattered about?

Hopefully not executing data due to a buffer overflow :-)

I'd rather be out on a space platform with five lovely ladies, drinking champagne like in "Our Man Flynt". I guess getting back down is a different 'trek'.

Or on a Planet called Tralfamador.

You think Starfleet uses Windows?

" snipped-for-privacy@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

transporters seem to ignore phasers,disruptors and other weapons that people brought aboard Enterprise. Note in the Star Trek 3 movie,when the Klingon prize crew beams aboard Enterprise,they don't get "disarmed" by the transporter. If it had that capability,it would make a great security tool. So,instead, Kirk has -his- crew beam off the ship and the self-destruct blows up the Enterprise,taking the Klingon prize crew with it.

And they didn't need $5 million dollars worth of test equipment, either. :)

It is supposed to filter out all known biological hazards, but I was talking about someone trying to destroy a transporter.

Or that they would put up with another 'Harry Mudd'?