Romulus' Star / Supernova

[RobertoRoss]

RobertoRoss,

That doesn't make any sense...

Well it does to me, try reading it again and if that doesnt work, I suggest you give up

 

[Tarek71]

I was able to sit through the Earth being "stolen" on Doctor Who, so I have a high tolerance for absolutely incredible things in sci-fantasy. This is just another one of those times when you just shrug. But, they just didnt ever have to put this in the script to begin with.

You have to let writers in space scifi take liberties. Certainly with FTL they have to. BUt I think they should keep the mind-numbing nonsense to a minimum if possible. Like the "crack in the event horizon", I am just going to say that what was said in the movie did not happen. Not even in an "in-story" sense. Spock and Nero were delusional and no such supernova occured in the Prime timeline.

 

[CuttingEdge100]

RobertoRoss,

Look, black holes decay. If you shot a black-hole into a star that swallowed up the whole star, it would have the mass of whatever the singularity was before it engulfed the star and the star.

It would be quite massive and take awhile to decay. The only way around it would be if you had some way to make the black-hole suddenly decay all at once.

However if you did that you'd produce a gigantic amount of energy. Think of it this way a paperclip of anti-matter and a clip of matter annihilated would produce around 45 to 90 kilotons of energy if I recall correctly.

Do you have any idea how much energy a star's mass would liberate if turned into energy at once? You'd probably blow the whole damn galaxy up, or at least irradiate everything totally. You would not want to produce such a black-hole that would flash into energy...


CuttingEdge100

 

[Silversmok3]

I'm rejecting Countdowns explaination of things,as its details don't quite jive with the movie,but that's a different discussion.


I'd imagine Spock or no Spock the Romulan government wouldn't put all their eggs in one basket by trusting Spock to save them.

Since in the 24th century they can manipulate singularity drives,I'd agree with the idea of the Romulan Fleet trying an idea that backfires.

And Neros beef with Spock is that in exchange for helping Spock get the raw material for the red matter,Spock promised to save Romulus.Spock failed to do that.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

RobertoRoss,

Look, black holes decay. If you shot a black-hole into a star that swallowed up the whole star, it would have the mass of whatever the singularity was before it engulfed the star and the star.

It would be quite massive and take awhile to decay. The only way around it would be if you had some way to make the black-hole suddenly decay all at once.

However if you did that you'd produce a gigantic amount of energy. Think of it this way a paperclip of anti-matter and a clip of matter annihilated would produce around 45 to 90 kilotons of energy if I recall correctly.

Do you have any idea how much energy a star's mass would liberate if turned into energy at once? You'd probably blow the whole damn galaxy up, or at least irradiate everything totally. You would not want to produce such a black-hole that would flash into energy...


CuttingEdge100

I think you just described why the Hobus Nova was threat to the whole galaxy.

 

[CuttingEdge100]

Thingol,

When a star goes nova or supernova the whole star doesn't turn to energy...

 

[Silversmok3]

Thingol,

When a star goes nova or supernova the whole star doesn't turn to energy...

True.But at the same time,we don't know everything about the universe.Maybe there is a kind of supernovae that only blows once every billion years that has that kind of destructive potential.

 

[CuttingEdge100]

Silversmok3,

True.But at the same time,we don't know everything about the universe.Maybe there is a kind of supernovae that only blows once every billion years that has that kind of destructive potential.

That's really reaching I think...


CuttingEdge100