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[edit] Did Alien reference inertial damping before Star Trek?

It seems all references to inertial damping began in Star Trek with The Next Generation. Was the idea ever mentioned in the original series? I ask because Mother's "Overmonitoring Address Matrix" in Alien has an option for "INERTIAL DAMP", and then later Dallas warns that "intertial damping's going off... Hold on, people! There's going to be a little bump!" [Note that the Hill & Giler draft used "tractor beams."] It would mean a pop-culture reference came almost a decade before Star Trek, but goes unmentioned on this page. Deadnancy 13:43, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Contempory compensators

It seems to me that whoever wrote the section on 'contempory compensators' had little knowledge of even basic physics. The author's claim that "inertia is nothing more than energy" is entirely false -- inertia and energy are two entirely different things. I suggest the section be deleted. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.20.223.109 (talk) 23:07, 9 December 2006 (UTC).

I noticed the same thing, and also, the claims that a car accelerating for 4 seconds "experiences four seconds of inertia" is patently false. Inertia is a property of mass, and is not "experienced" per se. Those two sections need some major editing, but I do not feel qualified to perform them. 206.53.24.182 02:01, 2 March 2007 (UTC)