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Fascinating technology. I always thought the impulse engine was just a clever piston doodad that transfers momentum from an artificial gravity pocket 😃
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Impulse engine
An impulse engine or impulse drive was a common propulsion system used on starships used to create impulse power in order to achieve impulse speeds. In Federation starships, the impulse drive was essentially an augmented fusion rocket, usually consisting of one or more fusion reactors, a driver coil assembly, and a vectored thrust nozzle to direct the plasma exhaust. The fusion reaction generated a highly energized plasma. This plasma, ("electro-plasma") could be employed for propulsion, or...

Some of you probably remember WAIS. An Internet search engine from the Gopher era (more specific: a search protocol). TIL: Thinking Machines (those with the massive red blinkenlights servers) were the main driver and developer of WAIS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_information…