http://www.stardestroyer.net/wiki/index.php?title=Mass_lightening&feed=atom&action=historyMass lightening - Revision history2024-03-28T17:02:36ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.36.2http://www.stardestroyer.net/wiki/index.php?title=Mass_lightening&diff=28157&oldid=prevTed C: /* Star Trek */2022-08-22T14:10:02Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Star Trek</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">For </del>''Star Wars'' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">specifically mentioned </del>examples are not readily found, but if the "Starships of the Galaxy" supplement's relation with repulsorlift technology is correct, then Luke's description of antigravity and repulsorlift in the ''[[Star Wars: A New Hope]]'' novelization would be a possible example.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In </ins>''Star Wars''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, specific </ins>examples <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of mass lightening </ins>are not readily found, but if the "Starships of the Galaxy" supplement's relation with repulsorlift technology is correct, then Luke's description of antigravity and repulsorlift in the ''[[Star Wars: A New Hope]]'' novelization would be a possible example.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Ted Chttp://www.stardestroyer.net/wiki/index.php?title=Mass_lightening&diff=21171&oldid=prevTed C: /* Mass Reduction Examples */2012-05-09T14:06:25Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Mass Reduction Examples</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* In [[TNG]] "Deja Q", the [[Enterprise-D]] used its warp nacelles to generate a subspace field that reduced the mass of a moon from an estimated 6.5E13 kg to just 2.5E9 kg, reducing its mass by a factor of about 26,000.<ref>[http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Database/Query-ST.php?Series=&Category=&EpName=Deja+Q&Keywords=&Quotes=&Analysis=&Submit=Submit "Deja Q" in canon database]</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* In [[TNG]] "Deja Q", the [[Enterprise-D]] used its warp nacelles to generate a subspace field that reduced the mass of a moon from an estimated 6.5E13 kg to just 2.5E9 kg, reducing its mass by a factor of about 26,000.<ref>[http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Database/Query-ST.php?Series=&Category=&EpName=Deja+Q&Keywords=&Quotes=&Analysis=&Submit=Submit "Deja Q" in canon database]</ref></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* In [[DS9]] "Emissary", the station generated a subspace field from its deflector shield emitters that reduced its mass enough <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that </del>it <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">could </del>complete a 160 million km trip that would normally take approximately two months in less than a day. This would require reducing the station's mass by a factor of at least 4,000.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* In [[DS9]] "Emissary", the station generated a subspace field from its deflector shield emitters that reduced its mass enough <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for </ins>it <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to </ins>complete a 160 million km trip that would normally take approximately two months in less than a day. This would require reducing the station's mass by a factor of at least 4,000.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mass lightening technology is fictional, and its fictional principles have never been clearly explained in any Star Trek series or movie. A <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2007 Expanded Universe supplement "</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">===Star Trek===</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Starships </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Galaxy" explains how it works </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Star Wars:</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mass lightening technology is fictional, and its fictional principles have never been clearly explained in any Star Trek series or movie. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The technology is known to involve [[subspace]] field effects, so a common hypothesis is that the technology somehow shifts the ship's mass from normal space to subspace, where it has no inertia. </ins>A <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rather small amount </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">thrust is sufficient to rapidly accelerate </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mass that remains </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">normal space.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The technology is known to involve [[subspace]] field effects, so a common hypothesis is that the technology somehow shifts the ship's mass from normal space to subspace, where it has no inertia. </del> A <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rather small amount </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">thrust is sufficient to rapidly accelerate </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mass that remains </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">normal space.</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">===Star Wars===</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> A <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2007 Expanded Universe supplement "Starships </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Galaxy" explains how it works </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Star Wars:</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A consequence </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">using </del>mass <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lightening technology is that Star Trek ships </del>are <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">highly susceptible to subspace phenomena</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">like </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">subspace shockwave from the [[Praxis]] explosion<ref></del>''<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country]]</del>''<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ref></del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"''Starships also have ion drives capable of incredible acceleration (thousands of times the force of gravity) due to a '''combination </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">exceptional thrust and manipulation of the starship's </ins>mass <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">relative to its exhaust'''. In addition, repulsorlift drives </ins>are <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">preferred for delicate maneuvering during takeoff and landing. In fact</ins>, the '''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mass manipulation that makes ion drives so efficient in deep space is markedly less efficient in atmosphere</ins>'<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'', so almost all starships use both drives in conjunction during atmospheric flight, particularly when near the surface of a planet</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''"</ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Ted Chttp://www.stardestroyer.net/wiki/index.php?title=Mass_lightening&diff=21162&oldid=prevMike at 20:22, 8 May 20122012-05-08T20:22:31Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Mass lightening''' is a technology used by many races in [[Star Trek]]. The effect of this technology is to reduce the effective mass and inertia of a large object like a [[starship]] so it can be accelerated quickly with a relatively small amount of thrust.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Mass lightening''' is a technology used by many races in [[Star Trek]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and may be a common technology in [[Star Wars]] as well</ins>. The effect of this technology is to reduce the effective mass and inertia of a large object like a [[starship]] so it can be accelerated quickly with a relatively small amount of thrust.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mass lightening technology is fictional, and its fictional principles have never been clearly explained in any Star Trek series or movie.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mass lightening technology is fictional, and its fictional principles have never been clearly explained in any Star Trek series or movie. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A 2007 Expanded Universe supplement "</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The technology is known to involve [[subspace]] field effects, so a common hypothesis is that the technology somehow shifts the ship's mass from normal space to subspace, where it has no inertia. A rather small amount of thrust is sufficient to rapidly accelerate the mass that remains in normal space.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The technology is known to involve [[subspace]] field effects, so a common hypothesis is that the technology somehow shifts the ship's mass from normal space to subspace, where it has no inertia. A rather small amount of thrust is sufficient to rapidly accelerate the mass that remains in normal space.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>How much the mass lightening system normally reduces the starship's mass isn't known, but the subspace fields have been used to reduce the mass of other objects on at least two occasions.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>How much the mass lightening system normally reduces the starship's mass isn't known, but the subspace fields have been used to reduce the mass of other objects on at least two occasions.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* In [[TNG]] "Deja Q", the [[Enterprise-D]] used its warp nacelles to generate a subspace field that reduced the mass of a moon from an estimated 6.5E13 kg to just 2.5E9 kg, reducing its mass by a factor of about 26,000.<ref>[http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Database/Query-ST.php?Series=&Category=&EpName=Deja+Q&Keywords=&Quotes=&Analysis=&Submit=Submit "Deja Q" in canon database]</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* In [[TNG]] "Deja Q", the [[Enterprise-D]] used its warp nacelles to generate a subspace field that reduced the mass of a moon from an estimated 6.5E13 kg to just 2.5E9 kg, reducing its mass by a factor of about 26,000.<ref>[http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Database/Query-ST.php?Series=&Category=&EpName=Deja+Q&Keywords=&Quotes=&Analysis=&Submit=Submit "Deja Q" in canon database]</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* For Star Wars specifically mentioned examples are not readily found, but if the "Starships of the Galaxy" supplement's relation with repulsorlift technology is correct, then Luke's description of antigravity and repulsorlift in the Star Wars: A New Hope novelization would be a possible example.</ins></div></td></tr>
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