Star Trek

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Microsoft’s Illumi-Room Is Baby-Step To Holodeck

There’s really not much to talk about here with a bunch of words. They’ll just get in the way of you pressing play and smiling like a little kid as your brain sort of automatically speculates on the possibilities of this in peoples’ homes.

Alternate Reality / Awesome / Experiment

Five Characters that Must Be Offered at New Sci Fi Brothel

A new brothel is set to open in 2012 offering patrons the ability to make deep contact with Science Fiction beauties. It is the brainchild of Dennis Hof, the owner of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, most prominently featured in the HBO series Cat

Star Trek / Star Wars

Futurism: Why Atom Lasers are Awesome

Technological advancement moves in strange ways. It’s often the technologies that come from just outside our mainstream field of vision that change things the most radically. The properties of semiconductors were well known decades before a

Andrew Mayne / Lasers / Science

Making Star Trek Possible: Warp speed without the warp drive

A five-part series that tries to explain how to make the science of Star Trek real… Probably the most fascinating idea that Star Trek popularized was the idea of a warp drive. This was a concept from golden age sci-fi that went mainstream v

Astronomy / Feature stories / Higher Dimensions

Making Star Trek Possible: The Humanoid Problem

A five-part series that tries to explain how to make the science of Star Trek real… In an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation called the “The Chase” a long running problem in Star Trek was finally solved – Why do all the aliens in Star

Aliens / Creationism / Feature stories

Making Star Trek Possible: Practical Time Travel

A five-part series that tries to explain how to make the science of Star Trek real… Time Travel stories generally suck. There are some noteworthy exceptions – specifically stories that deal with the problems of time travel and not just time

Feature stories / Higher Dimensions / movies

Making Star Trek Possible: Mind melding and ESP

A five-part series that tries to explain how to make the science of Star Trek real… An important part of the Star Trek mythos is the idea of mind-to-mind contact. Spock uses this to probe other people’s minds and even transplant his entire

Aliens / ESP / Feature stories

Making Star Trek Possible: 5 methods for non-quantum teleportation

A five-part series that tries to explain how to make the science of Star Trek real… The transporters in Star Trek are an exciting concept. Recent developments in quantum physics have made the possibility of teleporting matter a theoretical

Feature stories / movies / Science