So...the Enterprise runs on fire?

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So...the Enterprise runs on fire?

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That's basically what plasma is, right? In a highly simplified sense.


I was just thinking about what the "Electro Plasma System/EPS" actually is and its basically a bunch of pipes for shuffling around plasma right?


So starships don't run on electricity but basically fire directly?
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LaughingCheese wrote:So starships don't run on electricity but basically fire directly?
More on hot air than fire, but essentially yes.
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That is how it ends... according to Kosh...
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I guess that kinda explains all the explosions....
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Ionized hot air, but essentially yes.
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I thought it was Helium and Deuterium instead of air.
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Tholian_Avenger wrote:I thought it was Helium and Deuterium instead of air.
The warp core uses deuterium and antideuterium as reactants, but the power distribution network uses plasma as a medium. Aka ionised gas - hot air.
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Did any of the shows ever state it was chemically atmospheric air in a plasma state? I apologize for this is nitpickery.
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Tholian_Avenger wrote:Did any of the shows ever state it was chemically atmospheric air in a plasma state? I apologize for this is nitpickery.
They said "plasma" plenty of times. Ergo, it was either the liquid component of blood or ionized gas. I could be wrong, but I suspect that the show referenced the latter. Probably not air - I'd guess it was an elemental gas or a simple compound. I'm not even sure you could make a plasma out of a multi-compound mixture like air.
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Unless its something completely different that for one reason or another they decided to call plasma :?
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I just asked a chemist, she told me to go catch lightening in glass jar and let her know what I find.
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Tholian_Avenger wrote:I just asked a chemist, she told me to go catch lightening in glass jar and let her know what I find.

Aside from a charred hand? ;)
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RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:And one of those comical 'singed' expressions of your hair blown back and dark smudging on your face? :lol:
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