Going Star Trek ?

[D33]

Alongside a few creations / theories that Nasa have come up with, based originally on Star Trek entertainment creations does anyone feel we're actually going more Star Trek?

Take the PDA for example, the main reason that that I've created this thread. The PDA is our modern day basic equivalent of the Star Trek Tricorder. Infact if you had an LCARS PDA OS Shell for the interface you'd nearly be there.

For anyone who owns Star Trek : Elite Force 2 check out the Tricorder in that and visually compare to a top of the range PDA.

:bounce:

 

[thehunter1320]

D33, no offense, you and NASA are looking WAY WAY WAY to much into this topic

 

[D33]

NASA is the only unreliable thing, they're too underfunded.

 

[The Dark Elf]

well if we are going down the Trek route. it better end at fashion, I can live with the no wars, the cool jobs for all, the not needing money to get cool stuff, the holodecks. But you are sooo not getting my fat ass in one of those lycra uniforms, no sir-ee bob

 

[D33]

lmao aye

 

[WARLORD]

mmh girls look good in thoses tight uniforms ^^

 

[The Mullinator]

I want something like the holodeck. Think of the things you could do with those...

Anyway, ya we are definatly moving more in that direction. There are currently experiments that involve destroying atomic particles in one area and then reconstructing them exactly the same in another location. Kind of like an extremely basic transporter.

There are alot of theories floating around (which NASA has no money to fund) that involve traveling at speeds faster than light.

Finally Boeing and the US military is doing research into anti-gravity technology. Very trekky like even if the only thing gravity is ever used for in the show's are to keep everyone on the floor.

Seems we are slowly moving into the trek world... YAY!

 

[nw909]

But there's probably lots of experiments that we don't know about, hell we could have way more technology than we imagine.

 

[The Dark Elf]

Originally posted by nw909
But there's probably lots of experiments that we don't know about, hell we could have way more technology than we imagine.

betcha ass they haven't worked out what sunny delight is made of yet

 

[Solidarnosi]

Originally posted by The Mullinator

Finally Boeing and the US military is doing research into anti-gravity technology. Very trekky like even if the only thing gravity is ever used for in the show's are to keep everyone on the floor.

Good point, Mull. Being able to control gravity would be such a huge, major deal - keeping people's feet on the floor without centripedal force would be the easiest use of such a technology! Imagine the devastating weapons that could be built - ones that ripped worlds apart by simply negating gravity for one global instant. Not to mention all the useful devices that could be built - who needs a teleporter to get you to space? Just use an anti-grav lift to shoot yourself/stuff up there to the waiting ship.

A corollary device, in my opinion, is somehow negating conservation of motion, to enable a ship to make 90 degree angle turns on a dime without splatting everyone & everything on to one side of the ship. Now that's a tough one....

 

[Dedalus]

i always said Gene Roddenberry was a genius but no-one listened to me.

whoa Solidarnosi, slow down. the anti-grav stuff is fine, but what this world needs less of is weapons. it would be 'cool' to imagine something like that but hey, let's not think like warmongerers. there's some pretty fascinating things that NASA are doing, or have the potential to do though. if only Mr Bush would redirect money from his army and pump it into stuff like schools, getting public healthcare and funding stuff like NASA are doing.

D33, i've seen those PDAs they're mondo-coolio. even mobile phones are starting to behave and work like a Star Trek type device.

 

[Brian Damage]

Check this out, antigravity fans:

www.americanantigravity.com

 

[[Matt]]

Originally posted by The Mullinator
I want something like the holodeck. Think of the things you could do with those...

(.Y.)

:naughty:

 

[Solidarnosi]

I agree with you totally, Dedalus. However, I honestly believe, really, that one day this world will suddenly go *BOOM* because some scientist finally unlocks the secret of disabling/changing/whatever some fundamental law of nature (such as gravity, or magnetic attraction, or antimatter funneling from a wormhole, whatever) and without even knowing that he's fooling around with the wrong things, he will destroy the planet. It might be in 500,000 years, and maybe we'll be colonized around, but then again....

As for monies going to war instead of the betterment of mankind, we have only ourselves to blame. *We* as a populace accept someone such as Bush who was so obviously a warmongering bast@rd, I mean what the heck do we expect here?

In any case, I've always been a daydreamer + a lover of hard-sci-fi novels & short stories (think Greg Bear or Larry Niven), and could sit around all day thinking of wondrous gadgets that would change life into paradise for every single living creature, man and otherwise. If only we could all just get along....

 

[Dedalus]

Greg Bear = genius

 

[ray_MAN]

Originally posted by |MaTT|
(.Y.)

:naughty:

You nasty man!
:naughty:

 

[Wildhound]

I honestly believe, really, that one day this world will suddenly go *BOOM* because some scientist finally unlocks the secret of disabling/changing/whatever some fundamental law of nature (such as gravity, or magnetic attraction, or antimatter funneling from a wormhole, whatever) and without even knowing that he's fooling around with the wrong things, he will destroy the planet.

When the Americans tested the first atom bomb in 1945, some scientists believed the test would set the atmosphere on fire or start a catastrophic chain reaction in the hydrogen locked up in the oceans. But they went ahead and did it on that well-known principle of modern physics: 'What the hell, let's give it a whirl.

It is the 'What the hell, let's give it a whirl' principle that lies behind this risk to the planet in the near future: a 'phase transition in the cosmic vacuum energy' brought about by high-energy physics experiments. This, perhaps, is the ultimate end-of-everything scenario. And it would be all our own work.

Particle colliders have so far been vast, circular underground tunnels that accelerate particles almost to the speed of light and then smash them into other particles. The objects that are being studied are so minuscule that you may not imagine they represent much of a threat. But they do. Recently, serious reports suggested that the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Long Island might create a tiny black hole that would slowly suck all the Earth's matter into itself. There was also the possibility that they might generate another Big Bang, thus destroying our present universe.

New particle colliders need only be about 12ft long and may be capable of producing energy levels almost unprecedented in the universe; if you imagine the energy released by two aircraft colliding, compressed into the space of a subatomic particle, you may get the picture. The early universe was just a mass of energy fields known as a virtual vacuum. This was highly unstable, and at some point it flipped over into the more stable vacuum of the universe we know. But even our universe may not be that stable. Energy levels created by new colliders may flip it once again. A bubble would spread out from that 12ft collider that would engulf us, the galaxy and then the entire universe.

 

[WARLORD]

i thought they already created a tiny black hole for a small amount of time?

 

[WARLORD]

http://www.americanantigravity.com/lifter4.html

ah! lifter! do they know how it fly now? is it really antigrav?

 

[nw909]

how does lifter work?

it just looks like a triangle wrapped tin foil going up and hitting the ground and going up again.

 

[WARLORD]

the video is just bad but normally it hover in the air
i can't explain how to make one in english :/

 

[The Dark Elf]

Is it a joke site? that antigrav one? I mean, one of the clips had something that basically looked like a halogeon lamp and some CG effect over it, not to mention the sound effect was from the 50's version of war of the worlds

i dunno, just seems weird to me I suppose.

 

[nw909]

I don't see how it works, its a triangle with sticks and string on the top...

 

[The Terminator]

I dont understand what lifter is. Can anyone explain?

 

[FictiousWill]

Gosh.

"lifter", eh?

...

Well I'm stumped. Any ideas as to what it does guys?

 

[Brian Damage]

The lifter uses a currently unidentified electrogravitic effect. I think.

There was some scientist dude a while ago that came up with the idea that highly charged objects generated larger gravity fields than normal. Different charges (Ie: positive and negative) produced either attractive or repulsive effects on nearby objects.

And, no , the site isn't a joke. See the article on Podkletnov(SP?)? He, for one, has been in New Scientist and Scientific American, and has been approached by NASA.

I wanna make my own flying saucer!