I generated the two fractals to compare them to see exactly why I liked the first one. I didn't want it to be simply because I saw that one first. I liked the part of the first one because of the rainbow colors in the lower half. But if I rotate the color pallete on the second one I can come up with some very pleasing variations on that one too. I finally decided its because, on the first one, the top part looks like trees. There must be something pleasing about tree like fractals, they get the higher ratings and higher numbers of url hits. In one explanation of StarTrek I read it was explained that the drive was able to create extremely high levels of magnetism. Like on the surface of an ethernet cable, space is warped a bit, in ST they were able to warp space big time around those two funny things that look like rockets. Gene Roddenbery originally made those look like chemical rockets. I saw him back in 1976 at an ST convention and he admitted that originally they didn't even try to explain how it was done and made them look like something believable for the time. Anyway, the idea (that they seem to have applied as a patch) is that since space is infinitely malleable, and that they had enough energy (cough... cough...) to warp a bubble of space around the Entreprise, that bubble could move FTL because space is allowed to do that. But what would make it move? Well, thats part of the function of the two funny things (ok, now they call them "nacelles"). Part of them is built with material that doesn't warp along with space so they can ride on the "wake" that is produced between normal space and the warp space bubble. Got that? I like the method they came up with in Gateway, by Frederik Pohl. In that story they discover a stash of space ships in a cave beneath the surface of Venus but they don't know how they work. They do know that when they turn them on they go away at FTL speed. Some of the return, others don't. You get to ride one based on a lottery system. But I don't want to ruin the story for all you that haven't read it. Shall I tell you how they worked when they found out? Its a rather interesting idea, not possible, at present, but an interesting concept. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.6.0 - Release Date: 3/2/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.6.0 - Release Date: 3/2/2005