US Patent #6,528,948
http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog/week09/OG/html/1268-1/US06528948-20030304.html
From the Brookhaven National Lab:
http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/2...lpr052803.html
Air molecules are small and light enough to be bounced back by the flying nuclei, but any decent solid or liquid would pass right through and quench the plasma around it.
Cool stuff.
Well, hot actually...
But aside from that, they had artificial gravity, which could easily be adjusted to hold air in. (tilt 90 degrees, crank up the gradient near the wall)
Reverse the polarity
, really crank up the juice, and it would sap a little bit of energy from incoming weapons fire, like the existing components do. IIRC the minbari already have a custom component that does just that.
[ July 14, 2003, 02:39: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]