


"There is hope."


I. From Fiction to Feasible



Warp spaceship





II. Moving Towards the Stars



Kepler Exoplanet







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RE: Seems like fantasy
By Azethoth on 9/18/2012 1:46:03 PM , Rating: 4
That's what R&D is for. Magic box that talks long distance was beyond practicality just 150 years ago or so.

RE: Seems like fantasy
By Dorkyman on 9/18/2012 3:15:51 PM , Rating: 2
What a crock. I can say "Shazaam!" over a piece of lead but that won't make it turn into gold, no matter how hard I imagine it to be true.

Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and reality, but in reality, there is."

RE: Seems like fantasy
By geddarkstorm on 9/18/2012 3:50:49 PM , Rating: 5
Bombard that lead with the right combination of neutrons/alpha particles and you can. See, it's perfectly possible to turn lead into gold, it just takes the right -method-, which "Shazaam!" isn't, but which the point of science is all about finding out.

RE: Seems like fantasy
By Souka on 9/18/2012 7:36:33 PM , Rating: 1
feasable != likely to ever work.

If I point my laser pointer at the sky, it's "feasable" aliens will detect my signal and attack our planet.... feasable...

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RE: Seems like fantasy
By Natch on 9/19/2012 8:03:34 AM , Rating: 2
Perhaps they should try the Bugs Bunny method, of using "Hocus-cadabra" and "Abraca-pocus"?? ;)

The problem with changing lead is that it's a very stable atom (highest non-radioactive, in fact). Much easier to change a radioactive substance by subjecting it to a neutron flux (which is how U-238 is turned into Pu-239).

The trick would be finding the radioactive substance that would decay into gold....

RE: Seems like fantasy
By StevoLincolnite on 9/18/2012 3:57:35 PM , Rating: 5

Should drop you back in time a few centuries into the past; and see what people think of your magical electrical vehicles that have no hidden horses, cordless telecommunication devices, advanced medicines, space flight etc'.

You would probably be burned at the stake for "witchcraft" because it would all be imaginary and impossible in peoples minds.

Just remember without great ideas and research and development we would not have anything we have today.

RE: Seems like fantasy
By DigitalFreak on 9/18/2012 6:29:40 PM , Rating: 2

I vote for this.

RE: Seems like fantasy
By TSS on 9/18/2012 6:39:44 PM , Rating: 2
A few centuries ago?

Go back just 1 century and people will tell you that if you go faster then 60 mph, it'll kill you.

...Go back 10 years and tell a younger me that in the future, a decendant of Geocities will have 900 million users worldwide, and i will laugh in your face and call you a crazy person. Yet here we are.

RE: Seems like fantasy
By Samus on 9/18/2012 7:50:50 PM , Rating: 1
You naysayers are the same people who think Armstrong walked on a staged set instead of the moon...

Christ, use your imagination a little bit.

RE: Seems like fantasy
By gwem557 on 9/18/2012 4:55:49 PM , Rating: 2
Wow...spend a little time with google. Not only CAN lead be turned into gold, it HAS been turned into gold.

Thank god curious individuals like Einstein, Pasteur, Bell, and the Wright brothers never had your attitude towards the unknown.

RE: Seems like fantasy
By Dorkyman on 9/18/12, Rating: -1
RE: Seems like fantasy
By gladiatorua on 9/18/2012 6:33:44 PM , Rating: 3
No, you miss the point.
At some point there was no clear definition of warp drive. Science made a definition. Next there were N problems to solve so that this warp drive could be built. One of them was enormous energy requirement. Now this problem is solved. N-1 problems left.
One step closer.
No "Shazaams".
One of the way science works.

RE: Seems like fantasy
By dark matter on 9/19/2012 3:13:14 AM , Rating: 2
If you said "Abracadabra" it would.

You're simply using the wrong word.

What a douche.

RE: Seems like fantasy
By teldar on 9/19/2012 8:18:25 AM , Rating: 1
You are obviously a buffoon trying to cover your self because you can't about you said something stupid.
Either that or you believe we know the sum totality of all physics and sciences and all their applications and that there will never be another scientific breakthrough. In which case, just Wow, I'd hate to be you with your limited and pathetic world view.

RE: Seems like fantasy
By Reclaimer77 on 9/19/2012 11:09:06 AM , Rating: 2
You have no point. You're being a closed minded fucktard.

If everyone thought like you, we would be banging rocks together still.

RE: Seems like fantasy
By dark matter on 9/19/2012 3:14:15 AM , Rating: 1
Of course saying a word will not make things happen.

Do you think yourself a God or something.

What a twat.

RE: Seems like fantasy
By RevenTyler on 9/19/2012 3:11:26 PM , Rating: 3
Of course saying a word will not make things happen.

"Computer, make me a sandwich."

*beep whir beep* "Access denied."

"Sudo make me a sandwich."

*beep whir beep* "Access granted."

Do you think yourself a God or something.


RE: Seems like fantasy
By vol7ron on 9/21/2012 5:11:36 PM , Rating: 2
That's only what The Doctor would have you believe - don't want the Daleks to start taking us out

