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To: SkyDancer

If a stationary target is moving then so is the shooter.


Spock Prime : You are, in fact, the Mr. Scott who postulated the theory of transwarp beaming?

Scotty : That’s what I’m talking about! How do you think I wound up here? Had a little debate with my instructor on relativistic physics and how it pertains to subspace travel. He seemed to think that the range of transporting something like a... like a grapefruit was limited to about 100 miles. I told him that I could not only beam a grapefruit from one planet to the adjacent planet in the same system - which is easy, by the way - I could do it with a life form. So, I tested it out on Admiral Archer’s prized beagle.

James T. Kirk : Wait, I know that dog. What happened to it?

Scotty : I’ll tell you when it reappears. Ahem. I don’t know, I do feel guilty about that.

Scotty : Except, the thing is, even if I believed you, right, where you’re from, what I’ve done - which I don’t, by the way - you’re still talking about beaming aboard the Enterprise while she’s traveling faster than light, without a proper receiving pad.

Scotty : [to Keenser] Get off there! It’s not a climbing frame!

Scotty : [back to Spock Prime] The notion of transwarp beaming is like trying to hit a bullet with a smaller bullet whilst wearing a blindfold, riding a horse.

[Spock writes on a paper]

Scotty : What’s that?

Spock Prime : Your equation for achieving transwarp beaming.

Scotty : [to himself] He’s out of it

Scotty : [reads the equation] Imagine that! It never occurred to me to think of SPACE as the thing that was moving!


Interesting parallel, don’t you think?


35 posted on 12/02/2019 6:47:03 AM PST by Home-of-the-lazy-dog ("Leftists will stand before you and cut off their own head just to prove that they'll do it!")
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To: Home-of-the-lazy-dog

Hmmm ... space moves? Stuff in it does like if you’re trying to shoot antelope on the moon from your front porch.


47 posted on 12/02/2019 7:18:22 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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