Transporter issue

[Mark]

Hmm, good point

[Captain Picard's Hair]

Momentum itself is not energy, but anything which has momentum, since it is moving, must have kinetic energy also. These two physical quantities are both properties of moving bodies, which can be used by largely complimentary sets of equations/methods to solve problems.

As to the fundamental problem of whether kinetic energy is transported, we can tell that it must be due to the fact that living animals are still alive after transport. Taking a step even further back in abstraction, the fact that a body of any form, living or not, retains its heat energy in transport (i.e., the minute motion of its constituent particles) is a signal that all energy is conserved by the transport process, in accordance with the most fundamental laws of real physics. You don't see Kirk say "Beam me up, Scotty," only to appear on the transporter pad as a dead rock at thermodynamic absolute zero, don't you? (never mind that the phrase was never actually uttered...)

[Teaos]

Huh interesting.

[Lt. Staplic]

yay physics

I know this is completely off topic, but that seems to fit here:
I'm watchng TNG, and they Captains log just said they were in a Xindi system!
so much for noncannon species in ENT!

[Mark]

Huh? Which episdoe are you watching?

[Lt. Staplic]

I think it was the one were the Ferangi return the Stargazer to torture Picard for killing the one guys son.

They met in a Xindi system, and the Stargazer was towed to Starbase Xindi 5 epsilon (or Xindi somthing.)

[Mark]

Interesting. I remember hearing that system name now...........I wonder, if that's where the Xindi "homeworld" is now? Or the original system is used to be in before it was destroyed..........

[Lt. Staplic]

I wonder if its the system near the Xindi council from ENT...or is that what your talking about?

For all we know all the former Delphic expance systems could be Xindi: 1, 2, 3...

[Mark]

Or at least in that general region of space.

[Teaos]

Probably just a coincidence.

[Lt. Staplic]

either that or the ENT writers heard him say that and created a species to fit the system

Either way the Xindi just became cannon.

[Sionnach Glic]

They were always canon in the first place.

And the problem wasn't that their homeworld had never been seen/mentioned, but that such a powerful faction seemed to completely disappear.

[Mikey]

Especially after it was indicated that they would become UFP members.

As to the bullet trasport - if you transport it into the victim's body, you lose the trauma of the impact, which would complement the actual explosivs damage.

[Tsukiyumi]

Like I said, if you're going to try beaming things inside of people, it'd be just as easy (and cheaper) to beam parts of them out. Let's see how much of a threat an adversary is when you beam his spine out.

[Teaos]

Thats a cowards way to fight you spineless bastard!