Matter-Antimatter Power Generation:
This is one of the best scientific features of Star Trek. The mixing of 
matter and antimatter is almost certainly the most efficient kind of power 
source that a starship could use, and the way it's described is reasonably 
correct -- the antimatter (frozen anti-hydrogen) is handled with magneti c 
fields, and never allowed to touch normal matter, or KA-BOOM! This much is 
real physics. Let's not bother about the dilithium crystals part . . . 
sorry, but that's just imaginary.



The correct answer would be...none.  But the sci-fi answer would be...42.





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Scotti" <jscotti@pirl.lpl.Arizona.EDU>
To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] RE: Vehicle of choice


> The engineers on Titanic were amonst the many heroes that were lost that
> night - they stayed at their stations and kept the electricity on almost
> until the end, preventing panic and allowing as many to evacuate the ship 
> who
> did before it went down.
>
> What I'm wondering is how many gallons of dilithium it took for the
> Enterprise to travel a lightyear?
>
> Jim.
>
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Brian Casteel wrote:
>
>> And from the useless trivia department:
>>
>> Why do Engineer Officers wear gold stripes with purple?
>> When the Titanic sank, all engineers went down with the ship. King George 
>> V
>> decreed that the Royal Purple will be worn from that date on.
>
> Jim Scotti
> Lunar & Planetary Laboratory
> University of Arizona
> Tucson, AZ 85721 USA                 http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/
>
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