I can suggest for now that you hold off these questions until after the episode
airs, so I can discuss them more openly.


jms

>Trav1701 (trav1701@aol.com) wrote:
>: In article <tHlQ00O5IMlW091yn@teleport.com>, larryc@teleport.com (Larry
>: Caldwell) writes:

>: >Yup. Gotta be the dumbest line ever voiced on B5. I guess Sheridan's
>: >lasers musta run out of bullets, so there's nothing for it but to stoke
>: >the boilers and send her to the bottom. Ew, ik, retch, gag.

As long as I'm being cranky (it's 4:30 a.m. and I'm entitled)...I see you based
this reaction off the teaser.

Y'know, you might actually want to see the episode, and put this in context,
before calling it "the dumbest line ever voiced in B5" and making fun of
"running out of bullets."

Spoiler info....






THEY KICKED THE SHIT OUT OF THE SHIP AND BLASTED IT WITH MISSILES AND THE ONLY
THING HOLDING IT TOGETHER WAS BALING WIRE AND SPIT.

Now...next time...maybe you'll wait and actually *see* the thing before you
judge something?

Or am I expecting too much?

Y'know...Morgan and Wong from X-Files used to be on the nets a lot, and they
got out because they were driven to despair by the casual, callous cruelties
of people who judge harshly and without any kind of information...Mira was on
for a while, and isn't on anymore, because she says people are just casually
cruel, they bitch about things that aren't even true half the time.

I know a lot of others, actors and producers, who just don't want to put up
with this crap.

Some days, I don't blame them. Some days, I think I'd like to join them.



jms

>Same with "ramming speed". There simply isn't one speed that's better
>for ramming than other speeds.
>But just asking for "ramming speed" is Just Plain Silly.
>It can be retconned, it can be foregiven, but it's Just Plain Silly.

(he taps his foot as yet another expert lurches into the field)

You are in a space ship, in a vacuum, heading toward target X. You understand
that it takes time to transfer energy and movement toward another plane, so
you go at X-speed toward that object if you want the option of applying
thrusters and angling away from the object before you slam into it.

If, on the other hand, you *want* to hit the object, and you have no interest
in holding back your thrusters to allow you to diverge from the target in the
amount of space remaining between you and it, you proceed at Y speed, with
your thrusters putting out their maximum amount of fuel.

Y = ramming speed.


jms