Polarized Hull Armor

The Hunter · **Sun Sep 08, 2002 3:45 pm Polarized Hull Armor**

Hey does anyone know what the heck polarized hull armor is. In Enterprise Archer says Polarize the hull armor what is it?

Tremiles · **Sun Sep 08, 2002 4:38 pm**

it is exatly what it sounds like. polorised metle.

You run energy thrue the mettle so the phaser energy is obsorbed by the hull better.

PrankishSmart · **Mon Sep 09, 2002 7:04 am**

i have not been able to grasp some on the older ENT tech yet sorry, but i think its sort of magnatized to deflect weapons fire

Borg771 · Commodore Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 1706

yeah Its like polarized metal. You know... Like polarized water. I donty know whats so good about it though. Lol

The Hunter · **Mon Sep 09, 2002 5:32 pm**

compared t shields its more like peices of paprer covering the hull LOL

Bugger Boy · **Tue Sep 10, 2002 3:19 pm**

Hehe, a paper starship..hehe...

*Looks around, pauses, thinks twice and walks away*

Borg771 · Commodore Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 1706

Lol. paper ships would be cool. haha!

Zeke Zabertini · Captain Joined: 13 Sep 2002 Posts: 4832

by giving the outer hull a magnetic charge, The metal is strengthened.

The Hunter · **Tue Sep 17, 2002 6:40 pm**

ah undertsand everything perfectly now but im serious they6 make a ship out of paper and like a giant pair of romulan scissors swoops in and umm well you know LOL

Borg771 · Commodore Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 1706

The hull being magnatized makes it stronger?? coolio!

admiral · **Sat Sep 28, 2002 7:15 am**

sounds cool

The Hunter · **Sat Sep 28, 2002 7:17 am**

JimH · **Mon Sep 30, 2002 7:33 am**

More technically:

The hull is given an electric charge, to neutralise any energy weapons (which must also be positive or negative), and to align the atoms in the hull with one another, which makes it a LOT stronger, as there's more forces holding it together.

The prob with energy weapons is that you can't be sure whether they're +ve or -ve, but this doesn't really matter - if they are the same sign as the hull, they'll reinforce the plating. If opposite, they'll cancel each other out; this would eventually wear down the plating because you can't put infinite energy into keeping the hull polarised.

The Hunter · **Sun Oct 06, 2002 7:26 am**

Lindley · **Sat Oct 12, 2002 3:15 pm**

They actually do this a bit today. If they polarize the body of a tank, it makes it stronger.

One of Many · **Mon Nov 11, 2002 6:09 pm re**

In the next 50 years when they complete the research in to the antimatter powered star ship (and believe me, they are getting close), they will probably use polarisation to protect the ships hull from small rocks etc.

However, I doubt deflector control will be possible for at least 500 years, it is just too advanced.

Oompsty · Vice Admiral Joined: 13 Oct 2002 Posts: 6613 Location: LA

^Shields like the ones on Startrek aren't that far away from being developed.

8472 · **Thu Nov 28, 2002 7:25 pm**

I disagree making shields is only a theory and polmyrazing the hull of something is possible but can't do it on a tank because the generator used to make it possible is probbably big as the tank.

Tremiles · **Fri Nov 29, 2002 12:33 am**

Actualy we could do it to a tank but polerising the hull of a tank would do nothing to stop an armor percing bulet.

Captain Matt UssVoyager · **Mon Jan 06, 2003 11:54 am Polarized Hull Armor**

I think it is like a type of forsefild or like magnatesing the hull

Hitomi · **Tue Jan 07, 2003 10:58 am Re: Polarized Hull Armor**

Los · **Thu Jan 09, 2003 3:05 am**

If you stick a battery on it, depending on what side its on, you'll charge it or fry it.

chakotay1 · **Sun Feb 16, 2003 7:48 pm**

even though they polerize the hull it don't make the hull that much stronger they can still only with stand a few shots

excel55 · **Thu Feb 27, 2003 7:45 pm**

its a sheild that protects it from some fire. Not the advance type you see in TNG.