Science Fiction

Thanks, fleeb for reminding me to check out the Dalai Lama's book on happiness.

Tue Jul 06 2010 15:52:01 EDT from Ford II @ Uncensored

Science Friction. Run with it.

And after Hollywood has had a try at it it is then referred to (in the past tense) as Science Frakked

(Sorry - just couldn't hold it any longer)

-- 
TheOneLaw

scifi? or reality in a not to distant future?

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:ACCs-GcjXBAJ:www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/files/Rossi-Focardi_paper.pdf+journal-of-nuclear-physics.com&hl=de&gl=de&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShiKGUpoXJD2nbMdrwHncJ3MJBIqyGli0IpOsm-LVLV-5bTZYMp019xQA8XxJBOGF5wzTACbYqtMMfa1QbvjgCf8eMi0FlXKDrvf7eehvOINxjfMpNreM6DN-A2D2_PP6uURHg3&sig=AHIEtbRLo9tB1Og2q3E04xJxZIw8OnqjtQ

Mon Jan 24 2011 05:33:49 AM EST from dothebart @ Uncensored

scifi? or reality in a not to distant future?

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:ACCs-GcjXBAJ:www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/files/Rossi-Focardi_paper.pdf+journal-of-nuclear-physics.com&hl=de&gl=de&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShiKGUpoXJD2nbMdrwHncJ3MJBIqyGli0IpOsm-LVLV-5bTZYMp019xQA8XxJBOGF5wzTACbYqtMMfa1QbvjgCf8eMi0FlXKDrvf7eehvOINxjfMpNreM6DN-A2D2_PP6uURHg3&sig=AHIEtbRLo9tB1Og2q3E04xJxZIw8OnqjtQ

best line in the paper:  "Proton capture by Nickel nuclei obviously requires the overcoming of an
electrostatic potential barrier which opposes the process."

Of course it's obvious!!

BTW, they are talking about energy from nuclear fusion at temperatures similar to a bonfire, 727C.   see this:  http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=convert+1000K+to+celsius

Not as good as cold fusion ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion ) 30C, but still much better than current attempts .  Magnetic confinement fusion requires tempteratures of 10's of millions of degrees to form a plasma.

Also...there is some doubt about the validity of the paper..... http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/24/italian-scientists-claim-cold-fusion-breakthrough/

It was rejected by several peer review journals.  It was published online at a site founded by the authors.  So don't get your hopes up.

hmno, I just heard that somewhen in the 60'ies they imagined to use nukes to create oil tanks under the earth with not much work..

just make the nuke melt the stone, wait some years, fill your oil inside, done.

TNG is definately my least favorite trek series (even Voyager was vastly superior, IMHO). In my mind, the only way it got through the first couple dreadful season was because it had the trek name. The middle seasons weren't bad, and the last couple they ran out of steam (Data almost invaribly saved the day).

However, TNG did change how sci-fi was portrayed on television. Television Sci-fi is much more character driven, and carried by the ensemble, then in shows prior. The term "character growth" didn't apply in the original Trek, or pretty much any sci-fi show prior to TNG (even where the emphasis was on charcters because of the total lack of budget, like in Blakes 7), and because of it, allowed television-based science fiction to gain a larger audience than it had before.

I thought Babylon 5 drove the character development, and Star Trek, DS9 had to do much the same to keep from being obsoleted.

That may be, but I still preferred Babylon 5 for their amazing 5 year story line.  The other wasn't so bad, either, but I really, really liked Babylon 5.  I think Star Trek had too much baggage to endure to do what Babylon 5 could do.

Bruce Boxleitner didn't hurt, either....

What came first - the Trill or the Go'uld?