I am sitting here at home, with a suitable amount of lubricration, thinking why am at home? I could be some where else. I am a Star Trek junkie. I just want to know whenever all those sparks and crap occur, why they didn't go to Super Cheap Auto and put in fuses that would have cost a couple of dollars and stopped all that sparking?
And also if anyone can answer where this quote comes from, science fiction movie, "Gort, Klatu nicto baravda!" It might not be exact but Claude Raines did it with distinction!
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And Klaatu was the visitor. Sometime while he was on Earth he formed a band and had a song "Hanus of Uranus" but you'd have to listen to it through a mirror to understand the lyrics...........................
I still haven't got an answer to the original questin about the fuse! But I have to admit, the sparks were always good!
I think most of us on the forum know the answer to your question:
Anyone who has been involved with Star Ships will tell you.
Star ships dont have wires as we know them.
What we see as wires, is a flexible rhenium diboride enriched coloured alloy glass.
The current that flows through these is not really electricity.
Using plasma combined with 31658000000417 extra neutrons (at ratio of 2pts/zill) and about a 3 handfulls of electron neutrinos, this mixture (if done properly)creates a huge amount of pure energy.
The star ships dont have normal fuses to control this. From memory, the only way to usually control these "sparks" is by using crystalised Francium.
When something does goes wrong, as we see on the show, it only appears to look like electricity and the sparks fly.
Because Francium is rare and damm expensive, the producers of the show had the stars use fire extinguishers instead.
Super Cheap fuses would not stand a chance against this power output.
The Jaycar ones, possibly ???. But I would not recommend this for a star ship. Especially for the Enterprise.
Hope this has answered your question.
(edited due to having the amount of Neutrons wrong)
-- Edited by DandS on Thursday 17th of January 2013 01:42:04 AM
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I think the original was far better than the remake.
Mostly they are, I can only think of one movie where the remake was as good as the original, Amityville Horror and don't get me started on the sequels, spin offs etc
And the Gone in 60 Seconds remake completely missed the joke and punch line at the end of the orginal, which completely made the movie.
But in the olden days they had to used skilful directing, acting, photography and a good original story, not just stand some second rate, overpaid actors in front of a green screen and do the rest with a computer and then hope the public buys the publicity hype, then if it flop release 10 different directors cuts, unrated and special editions on DVD.
DandS, thanks for that and I still have to pint out I still like the sparks.
Also, this could going for ages with our memories playing tricks on us but doesn't Sottie actualy say,
"Captain, she'll nae take it, the Di-Lithium crystals will crack!"
And too all those out, Captian Kirk never said Scott me up Beamie and I don't think cruising around Uranus looking for Klingons would actually be a nice job!
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