Star Trek real life is possible now...

Sonic74205 · **Wed Feb 04, 2004 2:27 pm**

also there going to build a real starship, not a space shuttle like what already exists but a real space ship, i think they start building nect year and it is schedualed to be finished in 25 years, its being built in space and its apparently going to travel to mars and use people to investigate (apparently) thats supposed to be its first mission!

IntrepedII · Captain Joined: 21 Jun 2002 Posts: 1476 Location: Belgium

do you have a confirmed source for this?, or is it the result of yer overactive imagination

webtaz99 · **Fri Feb 06, 2004 6:10 pm Existing ST tech**

By all means, fill us in. Who has phasers, shields and regenerative engines?

Sonic74205 · **Sun Feb 08, 2004 9:01 am**

sorry i meant lazers not phasers lol

i read on the net when i was doing some resarch for school about the shield its apparently top priority at the moment. they are first going to be used on european tankers... they say that they weigh about 60tons cuz of the armour plating they have to have but with shields instead it will wiegh just 20tons!!! and the lazers...well there is a prototype military machine with a lazer on it and of course its american, i think its still in the test stages and there are the type of lazers that can fix ur eyes. i think www.space.com tells u a little a bout the space ship thats being built it should be ready to be launched in 2024 with the new propultion technology and a manned crew, its first stop is the moon as sort of a test run and then its heading to mars. my friend said told me that she found out cuz they was talkin about it in one of the news channels or something i dunno. oh and theres also a probe with this same propulsion technology.

Sonic74205 · **Sun Feb 08, 2004 9:02 am**

the regenerative engins are solar powered and one has the power (on earth) to meve a peice of paper, thats all but it works better in space.

thanley · **Tue Mar 16, 2004 2:56 pm**

Theory of relativity puts faster than light speed as impossible. But since no one has even come to approaching light speed, no one knows. If the energy can be produced to propell something then theoretically, you can go at any speed at all.

To safely hit light speed, you need a controlled matter-antimatter reaction. To date, enough antimatter has been produced to only boil a kettle.

If such an element as yet undiscovered such as dilithium is discovered, then maybe enough antimatter can be produced to propell a ship faster than light.

Star trek puts it accross that subspace makes faster than light travel possible as Einsteins theory of relativity does not hold.

It is conceivable that such a plane exists in the universe.

So maybe in about 100 years time, FTL travel may be possible.

Puck · The Texan Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Posts: 5596

tisk tisk....yal are so silly, me and my buddy across the street have already started workin on this idea

Sonic74205 · **Thu Mar 18, 2004 2:34 pm**

i spose in away i am lucky!

cuz of my age i would still be alive (hopefully) when zehram cocrane makes his first warp flight... i dont think that will happen then but i would like to see where technology has taken us in that time

Dax Orien · **Tue Mar 23, 2004 8:35 am**

1. The ship would need to be created in space. There is just no way that we are going to be able to fly a ship that big out into space.
2. It would be a living environment sort of deal where everyone lives on the ship.
3. If it needs to go to the nearest star, then it will take many many generations so in effect you would be gone while your offspring carries out the dream. Though the point of that elludes me.
4. Too many people would sabotage the ship before it even gets out into the farthest reaches of our galaxy and thus we wouldn't get anywhere.
5. Who'd be in charge of the whole thing? America? Ha!
(additions to this list will be made once I think of more things, or you out there can add to the list)

Monkey · **Wed Mar 31, 2004 7:24 am**

it won't happen earth ain't cool enuff

Birdy · Socialist Joined: 20 Sep 2004 Posts: 13502 Location: Here.

another suggestion: put some pregnant women on the ship, so you would have someone to fly the ship in 30 years..

starnova · **Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:21 pm**

what about swtichinhg to a solar sail?
it would save money on fuel.

Ziyal · Captain Joined: 04 Dec 2002 Posts: 848 Location: Alaska :D

i think star trek influences technology today...look at cellphones

look strikingly similar to old school communicators

starnova · **Wed Sep 22, 2004 12:58 am**

but communicators are smaller and look cooler.