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Originally Posted by Noclevername
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Originally Posted by Jeff Root
An episode of Star Trek TNG had a spacecraft in what was
apparently a stationary orbit over the north pole, which just
about turned me inside out.
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Star Trek has anti-gravity, don't forget. So it need not be in orbit at all. |
"Standard orbit, Mr. Sulu."
Heard at least thirty times over the "five-year mission" of the USS
Enterprise, I think.
It is rather surprising how quickly the orbit "decayed" when the engines
conked out, considering they always appeared to be in orbits several
thousand miles up.
-- Jeff, in Minneapolis
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