I could swear I've seen this somewhere else

by Diane


— some episode or other. But then, after being involved with Trek for so long in one way or another, I might just be hallucinating. Anyway, via Slashdot: The Laser Diagnostics lab at the Physics Department of the University of Queensland has a page about how they took the Enterprise and put her in their X2 Super-Orbital Expansion Tube to see how she would stand up to the kind of accelerations that a spaceplane would have to deal with in the high upper atmosphere. (And yes, they know that she’s not intended for that kind of work.) She did pretty well, apparently…

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