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Click on the link in the post just previous to yours and you'll find out. :rolleyes:

Never heard it called an arc before. Now I understand what everyone has been talking about with the Vulcan ARC. Apparently my brain isn't firing on all cylinders lately, thanks.

Dr. Harold Kaufman designed and built the first broad-beam electron-bombardment ion engine in 1959. If you're interested you can check it out for yourself at the NASA website. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/fs08grc.html

Ok, it took me awhile but I'm really getting into Enterprise now. However, I'm annoyed at how many episodes are continued!! Back in the days of TNG they usually only had a continued episode for the season finallie (sp). I do like the extended plot lines, but sometimes it gets on my nerves not being able to watch the WHOLE story at one sitting. I have to wait till the next part comes out, and then I usually will want to watch the first half once again before watching the (hopefully) ending! Grrr!

This is a fantastic site and I feel gilty for not donating cash money, but right now I'm just not able to do so. So I do my very best at seeding and distributing torrents. I hope that all the rest of you that are unable to contribute financially are making the effort to contribute though bandwidth and seeding. To all that work to make this site so great, I for one appreciate it, and I know that many, MANY others due to! Thank you to all administators, file converters, fans, seeds, and others that do their part to make this THE BEST TREK SITE ON THE WEB! And a very special thanks go out to NiteShdw for the countless hours that you have contributed to help all of us poor Ttrekies and newbies to torrent downloading. You are the ones that make the World Wide Web go around!

Answer Cosmic radiation is a collection of many different types of radiation from many different types of sources. When people speak simply of 'cosmic radiation' they are usually referring specifically to the cosmic microwave background radiation. This consists of very, very low energy photons (energy of about 2.78 Kelvin) whose spectrum is peaked in the microwave region and which are remnants from the time when the universe was only about 200,000 years old. There are also very old remnant neutrinos in the cosmic radiation. Neutrinos pass through just about everything with no effect so they are harmless. The photons are too low in energy to be dangerous. On top of these there are higher energy particles that are being created constantly by all luminous objects in the universe. Photons of all different energies/wavelengths are being created by our sun, other stars, quasi-stellar objects, black-hole accretion disks, gamma-ray bursts and so on. These objects also produce high-energy massive particles such as electrons, muons, protons and anti-protons. These higher energy particles are potentially dangerous, but most of these particles never make it to the earth. They are deflected by magnetic fields between us and the source, or they interact with other particles, or they decay in flight. The particles that do make it to the earth interact with our atmosphere, which acts as a 'radiation shield.' The high-energy cosmic rays bombard us all the time, but they interact quickly, producing particles of much lower energy which impact the earth harmlessly. If this was dangerous to us, we wouldn't be here to discuss these things! Some particles, like neutrinos and high energy muons, are passing through us all the time, but they interact so weakly that they have no effect on our bodies. Of course, if we were in space without the protection of our atmosphere then we would need some other type of shielding from the radiation (spacesuits and protective covering on our spacecrafts). The radiation to worry about, of course, is the 'cosmic' radiation produced by our sun. There is only one type of cosmic radiation known to adversely affect us and that's UV radiation from our sun, which causes skin cancer in millions of people every year.. Again, our atmosphere serves as a shield, but ultraviolet photons do make it through -- and without that protective ozone layer which blocks these photons we're all going to need a lot more sunscreen! Answered by: Brent Nelson, M.A. Physics, Ph.D. Student, UC Berkeley

Elderbear, those are some incredible photo's of the Aurora! Too bad I was on the wrong continent that night!

I'm sure like a lot of you, I enjoy reading the forum on a daily basis. However, every now and then I get a little "disgruntled". (Not quite as bad as a postal worker though!) Several times I have started a reply to something that didn't sit right with me, but luckily have cooled down and deleted it before it's actually posted. I'm sure that this has probably happened to others out there. (If not then you are all amazingly understanding, accepting and patient people!) Anyway, my thought for the day is - > "To all of you who have thought about flying off the handle, but stopped yourself in time and cooled off, give yourselves a pat on the back! You deserve it!" There's a lot of help and respect on this site so thanks to everyone who makes a contribution, either by helping others, sharing files, or even by just keeping quiet. ;)

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Elderbear, if you ever get another trip to HAARP I'll definitely accept the tour. PM me if you're ever in Alaska or Wyoming, as I divide my time between the two.

Sounds like a pretty good idea! Anything that has the Borg and species 8472 would have to be pretty action packed! "Species 8472 doesn't exactly roll off the tounge the way "Borg" does. They might have to aquire a new name for the movie...IMHO. Either way it's a hell of a lot better idea than some NEW crew. I, for one, always take a while to adjust to a new Star Trek series and crew.

I wouldn't mind seeing another site with fantasy subjects, but I do not think that they should be integrated into this site. I would hate to see the quality of this site compromised by too much content.

Thanks Elderbear, that's quite the interesting site. Being from Alaska the Aurora is visable on many nights here in the winter, and is quite spectacular especially the further north you are. I have several friends working at the University of Alaska Fairbanks that do a lot of research on the Northern Lights working out at Poker Flats. (Only University owned scientific rocket launching facility) If you're interested take a look at that site. http://www.pfrr.alaska.edu/

I know that they messed with the timeline, but if the current enterprise looked more "basic" than the original, I don't think I'd be watching. Paper mache and string are no match for the CG of today.

I'd like to see something along the lines of another DS9. DS10 perhaps? Another station is new location with differant aliens etc. Throw in a Starship, based at this station so that you can have more variety in the plot lines / episodes. More ideas? Make it a Federation Starship based at an alien station or vice-versa. A Federation station based at what was thought to be a stable wormhole that collapses after season one trapping all the visiting alien races that now have no way to get home (Voyager) and have to decide to travel the long way, or integrate into this new world. Why not?

Broad spectrum - Big and Rich, Papa Roach, Disturbed, Cake, Neil Diamond, Chris Ledoux, The Bloodhound Gang, etc. I'm not a rap fan, but I did enjoy D.J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince back in the day.

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