Ever not been able to stop?

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hmm

well how odd how a thread that started about not being able to stop has changed into startreck, and warp speed.

anyways, i have a startreck question, little offtopic, somtimes they show the Enterprise form a 3rd person view, (not sure if thats right, well the view that you see Laura Croft in Tomb Raider, what ever view that is) but anyways how do they do that? in the show do they drop a camcorder, thingy, . Anyways way offtopic so ill stop now.

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RE: Ever not been able to stop?

> if the speed of light is slowing down then maybe the enterprise was
> traveling faster then the speed of light right then, but when
> the light from the star was let off, it was going faster then the
> enterprise. so in theory, they would be going faster than the
> speed of light but old light could still catch up. what do you think?

Are you trying to explain the bad science that presents stars flowing by out
the windows and main viewer?

Or are you just talking about how old light goes faster than new light.
Uh…

JF

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RE: Ever not been able to stop?

> anyways, i have a startreck question, little offtopic, somtimes they
> show the Enterprise form a 3rd person view, (not sure if
> thats right, well the view that you see Laura Croft in Tomb Raider,
> what ever view that is)

You mean, like, from the outside?

> in the show do they drop a camcorder, thingy, .

In television production they don’t usually use camcorders.

Your question could go one of two ways:

  1. How do they show the Enterprise from outside? In the old days, the model
    was mounted on a stick, and generally the camera was moved past it. The
    model was filmed against a blue screen background, and the starscape matted
    in later. You do about 8 different angles and movements, and use them over
    and over for the rest of the series’ run.

That was the old days. I think all of the Star Trek, starting with Voyager,
is done virtual. There are no models, and it’s all done in the computer.
Hopefully they can then do more than the same 8 shots.

  1. Or, you are asking how they can switch on a viewer, in the show, and see
    a view of the ship from the outside. This is done all the time, not just in
    science fiction, but in all sorts of fiction. How about the stationary
    security camera that pans and zooms to follow the subject? The producers are
    either not thinking, or assuming you won’t be.

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> anyways, i have a startreck question, little offtopic, somtimes they
> show the Enterprise form a 3rd person view, (not sure if
> thats right, well the view that you see Laura Croft in Tomb Raider,
> what ever view that is)

With spaceships that fast of course they can do all this neat stuff! Those guys in that ship are pretty darn smart.

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hmm

well icant explain what i mean, som im not gona try

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The reason they can see stuff, although they are going faster than light, is that the light has already been there, and is expanding further, keeping the space that it has already lit, lit.

No more Star Trek. Not this close to May 16th, anyways :slight_smile: