Killed Kirk.
Made Picard cry for Christmas.
Posted on 02/13/2014 9:00:18 PM PST by 12th_Monkey
A strange ribbon of energy and particles at the edge of the solar system first spotted by a NASA spacecraft appears to serve as a sort of "roadmap in the sky" for the interstellar magnetic field, scientists say.
By comparing ground-based studies and in-space observations of solar system's mysterious energy ribbon, which was first discovered by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) in 2009, scientists are learning more details about the conditions at the solar system's edge. The study also sheds light into the sun's environment protects the solar system from high-energy cosmic rays.
The ribbon is roughly perpendicular to the interstellar magnetic field while cosmic rays stream, on average, along the interstellar magnetic field. (The particles themselves are created from interactions between the solar wind and interstellar matter.)
In the longer term, Schwadron said work like this will help scientists better understand more about the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space. This is a region that only one mission — NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft — has reached so far, and scientists know little about what that environment is like.
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they covered this in a star trek episode decades ago
Yes, the energy ribbon that took Kirk
Killed Kirk.
Made Picard cry for Christmas.
It Ruined Everything, not just Start Trek Movies, but Everything!
What about Manos: Hands of Fate or Thelma and Louise?
The second.
If we do, we won't know what time it is. But if we know the time, we won't know if we do.
So, what time is it?
It Ruined Everything, not just Start Trek Movies, but Everything!
The red letter media and SFdebris review of generations is must see.
The Kurlan naiskos in 2371, seconds before Picard discards it among the rubble
And they put it on the set without remember it's significance of the episode it was in.
Depends on if time is relevant. In most equations, our known knowledge says, time is not important.
Except they didn’t ruin a whole franchise’s line of movies :/
If you really look at was is said, nothing makes sense and nothing can be proven. It is all assumption, unprovable by experimentation and not in the realm of pure science, but it makes for good copy for the low information crowd. Go back to your TV and please do not think, that capacity was lost long ago.
” You know what they did? They found that prop in the prop department and said “Hey Picard had this didn’t he?”
And they put it on the set without remember it’s significance of the episode it was in. “
My explanation, After the episode the Chase picard gave it to the university and had them scan it and make a replicated replica of it out of epoxy or something and put THAT in his ready room.
It would make no sense to have the actual artifact on a starship that literally blew up more than once a season..
True!
Braga is nowhere NEAR that clever.
He'd have Amelia Earhart on an Alien Planet out in the Delta Quadrant and then write her off after one episode.
Oh Wait......
They are just an illusion created by The Man.
But at the scale of electrons quantum physics effects manifest, and the Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle invokes spacetime issues.
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