• Tattorack@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Yeah; somehow converting the plasma directly into electricity at a 1:1 ratio using… Uh… Dilithium or something.

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        8 hours ago

        What if we add some nutrinos? And then reverse the polarity? And maybe some antimatter?

        Wait, was dilithium just the media Star Trek used to go from reacting matter with antimatter, producing heat, causing the dilithium steam to expand, spinning a magnet inside a coil somewhere behind one of those access panels? Was antimatter just fancy futuristic coal powering the Enterprise’s steam engine!?

        Edit: phew No, it’s not just a fancy space steam engine. It is pure fantasy; the dilithium crystal matix regulates antimatter (impossible for any matter to do so) and interacts with subspace (no evidence such a thing even exists), but it’s not spinning any magnets.