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February 21

Size of Terratin City (Star Trek:TAS-The Terratin Incident - epi 1x11)

Can someone help me with this question. I am trying to work out the size of the Terratin city (a)in its original size and (b)if it where to be scaled up to 'normal' size. I noticed that when the Terratin city was beamed up to the Enterprise near the end of the episode, the city covered the part of the transporter that a single person would stand (sorry don't know the correct name). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.254.146.140 (talk) 13:26, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Not sure how much this will help, but here's the Memory Alpha article for that episode. It just says the humans were shrunk down to one sixteenth of an inch, so I'm guessing the shrinkage ratio was normal human size:1/16 inch, whatever that makes. TomorrowTime (talk) 20:43, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

That doesn't seem to match with an entire city fitting on one transporter pad. For normal sized humans, a city is maybe 10 miles across, so if they are 1/16th inch tall, which is about 1/1000 normal height, this would make a city 10/1000 or 0.01 miles across, which is about 53 feet wide. But it's no surprise they didn't worry about all the sizes being consistent (or perhaps this is a tiny city with, say, 400 residents, rather than a city). In this case I'd just guesstimate the width from how much of the transporter pad it covered. Is it 1 foot across, maybe ? StuRat (talk) 21:57, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

In all Kandor, I really don't care. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:37, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Perhaps it was only a small town, but my question would be how do the lungs of the tiny residents work when the O2 they want to breathe is 1000 larger then expected (presumably their red blood cells also shrank 1000x)? Googlemeister (talk) 21:14, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

They apparently possessed a technology capable of shrinking people to that size, so they can also use that to shrink the molecules in air, water, and their food, presumably. But, of course, such advanced technology (if such a profound change in the nature of atoms is even possible) implies that they would have no trouble handling a volcano or two and wouldn't need the Enterprise to rescue them. StuRat (talk) 00:20, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Blonde Lady in Halifax TV Advert. Think its Halifax anyway

On UK TV the Halifax, I believe, show an advert with two Ladies sitting behind a 'mixing' desk with headphones on. A man brings them a cup of tea each on which the 'joke' is the blonde lady then spills the cuppa and they both laugh.

I've seen it so many times and the blonde lady looks very familiar to me, so I'm asking does anybody know who she is?

Please help as I'm going crazy —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.159.245.81 (talk) 14:37, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Halifax have a policy of using its employees in their adverts (which is how we got the execrable Howard), so she's not likely to be an actress. --TammyMoet (talk) 15:20, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Her name is Sarah Applewood and she is apparently an actress. According to her website she has appeared mostly in stage work and minor television roles. Her CV lists her role in the ad under girl drops mug. TheRetroGuy (talk) 15:40, 21 February 2011 (UTC)