Phasers as a torpedo defense

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Damned mathmaticians :? :mrgreen:

You guys do realize of course, that there is NO WAY the writers of FX people EVER gave this much thought to the battle scenes, right?
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And that's why they consistantly give us stuff to complain about. :wink:
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I wonder.....if they DID take the time to get everything up to speed...............what the hell WOULD we be talking about most of the time????
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Mark wrote:I wonder.....if they DID take the time to get everything up to speed...............what the hell WOULD we be talking about most of the time????
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Sionnach Glic wrote:IIRC, surface area is 4pir2.
What he meant was that if you double the distance from an explosion, you only experience 1/4 the destructive energy.

I.e. if a ship 1 meter away from an explosion experienced 100 megatons of explosive energy, then a ship 2 meters away would experience 25 megatons of explosive energy.
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Ah, right.
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I would agree that there are a few main emitters that fire the high power phaser which would be for "real" battle, and then additionally a bunch of smaller emitters that could only fire shorter, much lower power shots for defense such as shooting down torps? Just like battleships in WW2 had: a few main guns for ship/ship ship/land firing, plus tons of machine guns to shot at torps and close planes.
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If so (and you're right, there is no reason there shouldn't be the 'Trek equivalent of the difference between 16-inchers and 20mm mounts) then this is another POD of the Abrams-verse. I don't recall seeing anything that is specifically made as a PD gun on a 'Trek ship in the original uni, rather than just using a ships mains guns in that role.
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sunnyside wrote:
Tyyr wrote:(4/3)r^3 actually.
That would be the volume of a sphere, not the surface area.
No, that would be (4/3)PiR^3.
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alexmann wrote:
sunnyside wrote:
Tyyr wrote:(4/3)r^3 actually.
That would be the volume of a sphere, not the surface area.
No, that would be (4/3)PiR^3.
I think it was the cubing of the formula. That would be a volume not area. No big deal though.
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Yeah, what I meant was that (4/3)r^3 isn't the volume.
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