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lionhead
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 Mon Jul 24, 2006 3:10 pm |
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| 5thhouse wrote: | The way I see it there are several major barriers:
a) humans will have destoryed ourselves by then guessing by the current state of affairs.
By what affairs would that be huh? the treath of war again? Hasn't stopped us before, in fact. War rapidly increases technological progress.
b) warp drive as portrayed in ST defys the laws of physics. The only way with what we know now to achieve such a thing would be something along the lines of a subspace conduit, as the rules of noramal space are not the same in subspace.
warp drive goes outsie of space-time(as you said, Sub-space), so no breaking Phsysics there.
As for where we did get so far we have the technology for a matter/antimatter engine but it is so inefficeint that it is beyond impractical. We have a varient on the hypospray. We can 'transport' sub-atomic particles. |
The first airplane wasn't very practical or efficient either.
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5thhouse
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| Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:31 pm |
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Okay, I'm not going to turn this into a political debate, but no, that's not what I meant.
And the current use of matter/anti-matter is so inefficient that you loose over 1000 times more energy making antimatter than is produced by the reaction therefrom...and even so the reaction isn't all that powerfull. Any nuclear reaction is far more powerful, and efficient. That is why the scientific community generally accepts that matter/anti-matter is not a means of propelling anything. This isn't even the same legue of impracticality of airplanes. Airplanes where at least feasably practical.
Warp dive doesn't go completely ouside of normal space. In order for the laws of physics to be maintained a conduit of subspace would have to be established, warp drive doesn't do that.
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ebad6701
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| Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:37 am |
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I think that it will be something like that one episode where Voyager meets the Star Fleet Time Ship.
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deltaflyer3
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i think most everybody will be assimilated
and there will be a small inter speceis group fighting to stay out of the collective
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