T'Aniz Jozef

:) Welcome, Holden ! Hope you have lots of fun here! And seeing Trek for the first time...that's so great! :lol: See ya in the simms! :wub: And if you, or anyone else is interested, even as I type this our Rover is making its way onto the Red Planet! The European Space Agency's Beagle2 still hasn't barked a reply. :wub: But the Rover (named Spirit) is making its entry through the atmosphere right now. This article explains more, and I have a quote from it. This is really exploring where none have managed to go before. I hope we manage to land our little Rover safely! :) Rover Spirit Landing On Mars

:wub: The Republic! All the Way! :wub: Where else could you have a Caitian Admiral commanding officer? 'Way cool!! And speaking of votes...it may interest y'all to know that all 4 completed Star Trek series are in the TOP 100 EVER TV SHOWS. Enterprise is, of course, still in progress, so not eligible for that distinction...yet. And...and...and...and the original Star Trek with Captain Kirk is the 3rd most popular TV show ever!! No kidding! Please check out this link: :lol: Top 100 TV Shows

:P Merci! :) This is unprecedented! :( I have just received another transmission via subspace over my shuttlecraft communications. :) And it's from the "Scarey Kittens" planet! :) They wish to ... ah ... advise .... Terrans and our allies on ... keeping of .... jeepers, :( my universal translator is skipping all around... ;) Let me just forward the message to you, as I rush to Starfleet HQ with this further communique. :P Translate the message at your own ... risk! :o Rules for Strays :)

Thank You, PittyKitty !! The second part of this message applies to the next few hours, so I'm bumping it back up for all. A Happy New Year to each and every one! And, if you have been following the European Space Agency's Beagle 2, or rather the search for the Beagle, you might enjoy this website. It's the official newsreport site for Beagle 2 reports. Right now: Still no word. Is the little Beagle lost in space? Or, rather, lost on Mars? Check this site for constantly updated reports: Beagle 2 News Updates This is Ensign Jozef, reporting from her shuttlecraft, zooming to Starfleet HQ. Roger, over and out!...... And, Happy New Year !!

Eh? What's that you say? ;) Dunno. Gotta turn up my hearing aid... :) :( :) :) And here's a transmission I picked up while glideing around in my shuttlecraft. Apparently the personification of an old year ending. So...as the year 2003 wanes, I send on to you the image I received. This, too, I'm rushing back to Starfleet HQ, for further analysis! Good bye 2003! The End of 2003 !

Only one resolution: Be Kinder ;) And for all my cyberspace friends here: I wish you a happy and joyous New Year: Happy New Year to ALL !! And live long and prosper! :(

:) Number One Reason! :) And creative. And interesting. And I've met a lot of really cool people. Ones I really like. :) And have missed during my "shuttlecraft hiatus." :( I look forward to zooming in cyberspace with y'all once the holidays release their grip on me! Oh...I did pick up another transmission on a rare subspace frequency. I actually think the frequency is from the twenty-first century in Earth, for the customs are...barbaric...by our ever so enlightened standards. I am so glad our food is mostly replicated! We avoid such difficulties. And for our feline Starfleet officers, I suggest skipping this boradcast. PittyKitty, and Caitian Admiral BluRox, this would definately be too distrubing for you! ;) I'm rushing this time transmission for further analysis to Starfleet's temporal anomalies department at HQ. If you ever time travel to the 21st centruy, think twice about ordering Chinese take out: http://starterupsteve.servepics.com:60000/swf/chowmein.html

:( Calendars! :) Why do I want to chart myself growing older? ;) Not a helpful gift...let the days glide by! :) But I have to file another shuttlecraft report. While cruising near the Wormhole, I don't know, I may have picked up a strange transmission from the Gamma quadrant. Seems there's an odd looking race of felines out there, not Caitian. And nothing like our sweet PittyKitty. Some of them seem friendly, and some, I just don't know! I'm rushing this report to Starfleet HQ, at the highest warp my little shuttlecraft will go. See for yourselves: The Friendly Feline Species The Not-So-Friendly Ones !

;) I'm a little worried about my vote...I voted "going to New York City." But actually, I live in New York City. :( Ah...should I have voted: "staying home" ?? :) Anyways, I'm cooking a big dinner for folks. Then at midnight we'll open the windows and yell out "Happy New Year," and bang pots and pans with spoons. Old city tradition! :P Go to Times Square? Naw...that's for tourists!! :) But I have another shuttlecraft report to file. :) A Vulcan trader gave me this hologram, and I am shocked that long ago the Borg reached a galaxy far, far away! I believe Starfleet needs to be alerted of this new species added to the Borg collective: :) Yoda of Borg

:( Hey, it's good to have coal! :) At least I got something! ;) :) And peace...joy...happiness...love... :) And glad to know y'all too! :) However, I've gotta report to you...I was scouting around in my shuttle in the Kavis Alpha Sector, right near where those nannites were granted colonization rights on planet Kavis Alpha IV, and I picked up a rogue transmission from some earth-like planet an indeterminate distance away. I'm rushing it back to Starfleet Headquarters. This is too sensitive to send by subspace. Maybe a nearby starship can take this straight to HQ. I know the Prime Directive says we mustn't interfer, but it is important to track the progress of this. The impact upon the earth's similar species could be tremendous. Here's the transmission (just click on it): Bovine Revolt

Sleeping is what Santa is doing now, too ... ... however... Authorities tracked his annual flight and have the data available for all Starfleet personnel to view. Likewise, under the "freedom of information act," classified files have been opened proving the persistence of such flights on an annual basis throughout half a century or better. It is recommended that all intelligence officers review the data available at: NORAD Tracks the Santa-Flying-Object (SFO) It is confirmed that further flights are expected, annually, in the future. Hope y'all got your hearts' desires today. Peace and long life! And peace and goodwill to all! ;) Merry Christmas :(

It's kinda like: What won't I be doing? Cooking, church, hostessing family and friends, gift exchanging...the whole nine yards. One word for it: BUSY. ;) OH! One more thing I'll be doing: :( Wishing you all : :) MERRY CHRISTMAS !!! And for my Christmas card to y'all, please enjoy: Merry Christmas ALL!! Merry Christmas to my Feline-type pals: The Caitian Admiral, and PittyKitty !!

:) Thank You, One and All !! I disappeared, from cyberspace itself !!, as I had to replace my moniter. Fortunately, my warranty was still effective. Now, I am "hooked up" again!! I thank you kindly for all your greetings! ;) Right after the Christmas vacation break, I'll be back with you all, soaring through cyberspace in your fine Trek fashion. Consider me still on "shore leave," but already yearning to get back into space...that final frontier. LOVE to you all!! :(

A resounding YES !! Agree with all you said, Tino. Just wanna add my main reason: 'cause it's fun !!

Ah, Nem...what profit margin were the prophets forecasting about that? :)

Peace and Long Life ! Happy Thanksgiving To All !! I'll be cooking, serving, helping, and washing dishes, all thankfully! Live Long and Prosper ! Fried Thanksgiving Turkey?? Learn something new every day! (Seriously, sounds yummy!)

All subjects are fair game here? Well....then... Thought a little look at the solar system might be interesting, since we spend so much time aboard starships! :) Now, I was so rusty with this that it challenged my dim brain to read it. I bet the high schoolers will hop, skip, and jump through this. But for adults who don't work in this field, and who aren't amateur astronmers...tell me honestly, how much of this do YOU remember? Me? Precious little! B) So, submitted for your approval: The Solar System An Overview of the Solar System -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Basics The solar system consists of the Sun; the nine planets, more than 130 satellites of the planets, a large number of small bodies (the comets and asteroids), and the interplanetary medium. (There are probably also many more planetary satellites that have not yet been discovered.) The inner solar system contains the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. The planets of the outer solar system are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The orbits of the planets are ellipses with the Sun at one focus, though all except Mercury and Pluto are very nearly circular. The orbits of the planets are all more or less in the same plane (called the ecliptic and defined by the plane of the Earth's orbit). The ecliptic is inclined only 7 degrees from the plane of the Sun's equator. Pluto's orbit deviates the most from the plane of the ecliptic with an inclination of 17 degrees. The above diagrams show the relative sizes of the orbits of the nine planets from a perspective somewhat above the ecliptic (hence their non-circular appearance). They all orbit in the same direction (counter-clockwise looking down from above the Sun's north pole); all but Venus, Uranus and Pluto also rotate in that same sense. One way to help visualize the relative sizes in the solar system is to imagine a model in which it is reduced in size by a factor of a billion (1e9). Then the Earth is about 1.3 cm in diameter (the size of a grape). The Moon orbits about a foot away. The Sun is 1.5 meters in diameter (about the height of a man) and 150 meters (about a city block) from the Earth. Jupiter is 15 cm in diameter (the size of a large grapefruit) and 5 blocks away from the Sun. Saturn (the size of an orange) is 10 blocks away; Uranus and Neptune (lemons) are 20 and 30 blocks away. A human on this scale is the size of an atom; the nearest star would be over 40000 km away. Not shown in the above illustrations are the numerous smaller bodies that inhabit the solar system: the satellites of the planets; the large number of asteroids (small rocky bodies) orbiting the Sun, mostly between Mars and Jupiter but also elsewhere; and the comets (small icy bodies) which come and go from the inner parts of the solar system in highly elongated orbits and at random orientations to the ecliptic. With a few exceptions, the planetary satellites orbit in the same sense as the planets and approximately in the plane of the ecliptic but this is not generally true for comets and asteroids. ============================== This is from the site: httpThe Nine Planets The illustrations mentioned above are found here, and they are so-o-o-o-o beautiful ! :)

Computer, end program," and with those words the desert rocks, sand, and blazing red sun disintegrated into the square grid plane of the holodeck. T'Aniz threw the towel along her neck, and exited from her workout. As she walked towards the turbolift, she kept folding and unfolding her hands. They ached from the weight of the lirpa. The TL arrivied and she stepped in, ordering, "Deck 7, Crew Quarters." It's not that she wanted to learn all the alien weapons in the galaxy. But there were plenty of programs to study if she started that quest. She wanted to know the weapons of her ancestors. And the lirpa was distinguished as the fighting weapon if a Vulcan bride to be chose "The Challenge." Clumsey old thing, she thought, still, highly lethal. For a contest, a most logical weapon that tests both skill and stamina. She'd practice with it for the rest of the month. It did give her a sense of being Vulcan to swing that lethal cutting edge. The same one her forebears used to battle for brides in the thin Vulcan atmosphere, under the red hot Vulcan son. Now, the nerve pinch...if only I could learn that !! Then again, I'm HalfVulcan, and not all HalfVulcans have inherited the ability, she thought. Suddenly she remembered, and said aloud, "Turbolift, change direction. Go to Cargo Bay Two." "Changing direction for cargo bay two." the lifeless voice intoned. The turtle! It should be there! It was really great of Lt. Seiben, the assistant helmsman, to get the transaction arranged. It didn't cost half as much as she'd expected either. She'd already paid him by computer, and had a small sum left of her savings. Of course, she'd chosen a simple turtle, no fancy breed, just a common one. But that was all she needed. The Surak Society of Vulcan Philosophical Studies recommended that all new members obtain either a turtle, a sea anenome, or a Venus Fly Trap plant. Each choice provided metaphorical lessons to meditate upon. She preferred something with legs...so turtle it was. The Turbolift doors opened, and she hurried to the Cargo Bay. Once there, she asked a young woman, "Crewman, were's the area for personal shipments?" The crewman pointed to a smaller room. T'Aniz hurried in that direction, aware that this was going to change the nature of her life on ship. An exciting moment! Ah...no...not exciting...that's not logical...a moment of significance...there we go...that's logical. Significance. The crate was marked with her name, and had been beamed in just an hour ago. She took out her ultra-Swiss-utility set, ordered "knife," and with the utility blade undid the small crate's ropes. And she opened it. And gasped. Inside, a small, green turtle stuck its head up in a wondering look, then quickly pulled its head, tail, and all four limbs into its shell. And it just sat there, looking for all the world like a green rock. She laughed. It was so darling. A laughing Vulcan? her thoughts chided her, but she ignored that voice. This is a smart little being! she thought. It knows I'm too big to resist...so it's going to try to fool me...Okay turtle...you and I are going to get along. I think you have sometings you can teach me. Gently, she picked up the turtle to examine it. Somehow, she had the feeling it was terrified at being handled. So she replaced it in the crate and put the lid back on. Carrying the small crate, she walked straight to the turbolift. Her "Beta Shift" counterpart from the security division also stood at the lift, waiting. "Ensign Molotov," she nodded her head in recognition. The ensign is probably doing her rounds now, she thought. "Ensign Jozef," the young security officer replied in return, eyeing the crate. I'd better explain to her, T'Aniz realized. "It's my special shipment, that pet the Commander okayed. A small common turtle," she said with formal Vulcan detachment. The ensign studied her. Then finally replied, "A turtle? As a pet?" T'Aniz heard the incredulity in the ensign's voice. She probably thinks it's some kind of weird Vulcan practice. ...And she's probably right. T'Aniz decided to try another tactic. After all, her culture was Terran. She was raised on Earth by Human foster parents. "Yes. It's small, but intelligent. And won't make demands to interfer with our busy schedule. They're keeping us ensigns busy aren't they?" she said with a smile. The ensign relaxed too. Human friendliness is definately more socially acceptable than Vulcan formality T'Aniz reflected. Then the ensign turned and asked, "Intelligent. How can a turtle be...intelligent?" "It's shown me reactions beyond fight or flight," T'Aniz replied, paraphraseing her Philosophy of Surak text PADD. "It uses passiveness as strength and withdrawal as a tactic. Its nonviolence is part of its survival skills. It has already made me question my own impulses to fight, no matter what the odds. " The turbolift arrived and Ensign Jozef and Ensign Molotov entered. "Deck seven, quarters," Ensign Molotov ordered the TL. Then she smiled back at T'Aniz. "Well, if it's making you question your self," she said, "why don't you name it Socrates? That is...if you haven't already named it." A twinkle lit the ensign's eyes. T'Aniz nearly laughed out loud. "That's exactly what I'll do, Ensign. Socrates he is! Socrates the turtle," she responded. And the turbolift continued its way to Deck Seven.

:D Please forgive me if this is not in keeping with STSF's mode of using the Boards. But the recent spate of solar storms sounds like something right out of Star Trek: ANY SERIES. This somewhat lengthy quote is from the website: www.space.com . It really got me thinking...the fires in California make us a national village...and the solar flare storms make us a global village. Playing these simms has made me seek expanding my knowledge of astronomy and related sciences...can't go saying gobble-de-gook forever! If anyone knows another good site for learning about the sciences we simm, I'd sure love to hear about it!! Anyway....here's the long quote: World Series of solar storms The salvo Thursday was generated by an X10 solar flare. In this classification scheme, all X-flares are "major," and the associated number ranks severity. An X17 flare on Oct. 28 fueled the strongest storm of the series and was among the four most powerful to hit Earth in recorded history. Both storms reached G5, the highest level possible on a scale of geomagnetic activity. None of the events this month achieved the power of the granddaddy of all space storms, an 1859 space hurricane that experts say was at least three times as intense as the X17 of Oct. 28. Nonetheless, the activity surprised solar physicists, largely because they'd never seen two flares of such magnitude strike back-to-back. Both flares also generated strong surges of protons, which arrived after the initial radiation, forcing residents of the International Space Station to retreat to the most well-protected module of the orbiting outpost several times during the week. Each flare then hurled coronal mass ejections, or clouds of charged particles, at Earth. Not all flares generate all three events with such force. The CMEs each took about 19 hours to reach Earth, much less time than the typical two days required for a storm to traverse the 93 million miles. "Two such powerful flares, with a proton event, and very fast coronal mass ejections and both directly [aimed] towards the Earth in two days, is very rare," Brekke said. "I have never heard of this before." In addition, four earlier outbursts, beginning Oct. 22, gained minimal X-class rankings, still more severe than most other solar activity during the past several months. The Sun's surface remains volatile, and this remarkable October series could yet go to a seventh game, forecasters warn. Again, I apologize in advance if this is NOT what we do with the Boards. But this ...historic...solar flare series has fascinated me. Please share whatever other sites you have found useful for learning the Star Trek sciences, as they apply in RL for us.... :rolleyes:

"Do no harm." That is the most important ethical principle in medicine. Now, and in all the other Star Trek shows we've seen. So, when McCoy releives his father from suffering in a terminal illness...the decision is a wrenching one to make. (Not to mention the aftermath: a cure found, after the father dies.) So, did Dr. Phlox violate that ethic? Clearly what was living was going to have its life ended because of the procedure he performed. Was that a violation? And if it was a violation, did circumstances warrent it? Would McCoy or Crusher or Bashir or the EMH of Voyager have done the same thing? Would a doctor from our own time have done the same thing? :D I don't have answers. B) I THINK it's a violation. :) I THINK he took a life. B) I am GLAD Tripp is going to live. :) I am in self contradiction!! B) But I do know that this episode raised some important and serious questions. B) And isn't that what good Star Trek does??? :) I guess I'll leave Dr. Phlox to be judged by a jury of his peers...a medical review board of his century. B) And I'll sit back and enjoy pondering the issues the episode raised. B) I voted the 2nd choice. A really, really good show. B)

Your wish is my command! This is from the same website I quoted above. The Nine Planets (use the hyperlink that follows the "Solar System" quotation). Mmmm...Do you think Commissioner Bele came from here? ....naw....naw... =================================== Charon Charon ( "KAIR en" ) is Pluto's only known satellite: orbit: 19,640 km from Pluto diameter: 1172 km mass: 1.90e21 kg Charon is named for the mythological figure who ferried the dead across the River Acheron into Hades (the underworld). (Though officially named for the mythological figure, Charon's discoverer was also naming it in honor of his wife, Charlene. Thus, those in the know pronounce it with the first syllable sounding like 'shard' ("SHAHR en"). Charon was discovered in 1978 by Jim Christy. Prior to that it was thought that Pluto was much larger since the images of Charon and Pluto were blurred together. Charon is unusual in that it is the largest moon with respect to its primary planet in the Solar System (a distinction once held by Earth's Moon). Some prefer to think of Pluto/Charon as a double planet rather than a planet and a moon. Charon's radius is not well known. JPL's value of 586 has an error margin of +/-13, more than two percent. Its mass and density are also poorly known. Pluto and Charon are also unique in that not only does Charon rotate synchronously but Pluto does, too: they both keep the same face toward one another. (This makes the phases of Charon as seen from Pluto very interesting.) Charon's composition is unknown, but its low density (about 2 gm/cm3) indicates that it may be similar to Saturn's icy moons (i.e. Rhea). Its surface seems to be covered with water ice. Interestingly, this is quite different from Pluto. Unlike Pluto, Charon does not have large albedo features, though it may have smaller ones that have not been resolved. It has been proposed that Charon was formed by a giant impact similar to the one that formed Earth's Moon. It is doubtful that Charon has a significant atmosphere. :)

TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE: SUNDAY 11/23 Live WEBCAST !! (4:00 pm East Coast Time) There will be a total eclipse of the sun this Sunday. While the eclipse will be visible only in Antarctia, it will also be visible on the web! This is actually a good deal, as looking straight at an eclipse can destroy one's vision. (It burns the retina? Any ship doctors here know??) Link to Live-Eclipse.org for the live webcast (use the hyperlink). The article below (edited mercilessly by me :) ) is from www.space.com ============================== Live Webcast of Sunday's Solar Eclipse By SPACE.com Staff posted: 07:00 am ET 21 November 2003 A total solar eclipse visible only from Antarctica Sunday will be webcast live by a nonprofit Japanese organization called Live! Universe. Pictures of the eclipse will be available on SPACE.com by Monday morning, assuming all goes well with a separate airborne expedition of astronomers and eclipse fanatics. A partial eclipse will be visible from Australia and New Zealand. But the total eclipse will be seen in person -- weather permitting -- by only a handful of venturesome explorers, self-avowed eclipse fanatics. Meanwhile, armchair astronomers around the world can watch the webcast, if all goes well. It is the first attempted observation of a total solar eclipse from the Antarctic since human beings set up a base there, the organization said in a statement released this week. It is also the first attempt to webcast a total solar eclipse from the Antarctic. The webcast begins at 4 p.m. ET (2100 UT) on Sunday, Nov. 23. In Japan, that corresponds to 6 a.m. local time on Nov. 24. The web site, at http://www.live-eclipse.org/ , includes reports from the observation party, a travel journal, and information about the eclipse. On eclipse day, the site will also list the temperature, illuminance and barometric pressure information from the scene. A visual simulation of the Moon's shadow, as seen from above the Antarctic, will allow site visitors to see how big and how fast the lunar shadow moves across Earth. Solar eclipses are caused when the Moon is directly between Earth and the Sun. A second observation party led by Live! Universe will take images of the total solar eclipse from an airplane (airborne astrophotography) and add the images to the website a few hours later. ============ end of report / hailing frequencies closed ===== :)

Happy Birthday Alces alces* !! :) And thanks for all those great "Tips from the Moose." B) * Alces alces a ruminant mammel with humped shoulders, long legs, and broadly palmated antlers that is the largest existing member of the deer family and inhabits forested areas of Canada, the northern U.S., Europe, and Asia. B) moos of Algonquin origin, 1603 :)

Just saw the chat interview. ::goes to make 3 pots of coffee to wake up:: :ph34r:

Welcome !! :ph34r: