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Originally Posted by Comrade Pants
Watch Star Trek, god dammit.
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wut??
Pants... I didn't peg you for a Star Trek fan.
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Originally Posted by Rather Dashing
You overestimate the science of Star Trek.
...seriously, most of it is just made up words for things that don't actually mean anything more than "Plot Convenience Ray".
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umm... your point being?
Obviously, the idea of mixing matter with significantly obtainable amounts of antimatter in a controlled environment, and using a variant of lithium in crystalline form to control the explosive reaction is... preposterous at best.
Further, the fact that Trek's ability to travel or communicate with others at FTL speeds is completely dependent on the existence of "subspace" (otherwise known as "hyperspace" in other sci-fi related franchises) makes Trek's theories on the application of warp travel all the more suspect.
However, some of what they say isn't entirely nonsensical--such as the idea that if one could (theoretically) create a field around oneself such that their mass relative to surrounding space was nonexistent, then one would require very little thrust to travel extremely fast.
But again, it's only a TV show.