You know, the evolution of technology is just awesome. So check this out, today I learned that the Air Force successfully tested a lethal oxygen-iodine high-powered laser in flight at a range of 9 miles, and although they won't give out the specs on the laser, they do say that it is 25 times more powerful than any other laser ever built. Boeing reps had this to say:
"We have demonstrated that an airborne system can fire a high-power laser in flight and deliver laser beam energy to a ground target," says Boeing's Gary Fitzmire, in a statement. The airborne laser's "ultra-precision engagement capability will dramatically reduce collateral damage."
Awesome. And with the ground breaking ceremony today for Virgin Atlantics space port in New Mexico we're getting closer and closer to:
(http://harryallen.info/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/screen138.jpg)
Now come on, be honest, how many of you by this point have an urge to go "pew pew" out loud?! LOL!!!
< geek >
sweeeeeeet
< /geek >
How long till the video of the testing hits youtube? I wanna see that in action!
Quote from: teddy037.2 on June 19, 2009, 09:19:27 AM
< geek >
sweeeeeeet
< /geek >
Don't kid yourself, you can never truly turn your geek off.
Hmmm... Wonder how much dps the laser does. I mean, does it burn through 1/4 steel in 1/2 a second?
Quote from: Exar Kun on June 19, 2009, 09:24:30 AM
How long till the video of the testing hits youtube? I wanna see that in action!
Don't kid yourself, you can never truly turn your geek off.
do you see the slash?
/ means off, baby! OOOFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!
;D
Quote from: teddy037.2 on June 19, 2009, 09:32:52 AM
do you see the slash?
/ means off, baby! OOOFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!
;D
[laugh] It's never completely off!!!
i wonder how close to the star trek saucer shape you can really get. id inmagine those warp nacells would collapse on it slef!
Quote from: teddy037.2 on June 19, 2009, 09:32:52 AM
do you see the slash?
/ means off, baby! OOOFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!
;D
The fact that you're saying your geekiness is off based on a derivative of an HTML tag only proves that it isn't off.
[laugh]
A.ducH.duc FTW
Quote from: He Man on June 19, 2009, 12:31:23 PM
i wonder how close to the star trek saucer shape you can really get. id inmagine those warp nacells would collapse on it slef!
Actually, the stresses in a warp field would really be minimal...as long as there is no matter in your flight path...
Quote from: ZLTFUL on June 19, 2009, 01:00:44 PM
Actually, the stresses in a warp field would really be minimal...as long as there is no matter in your flight path...
I love that we know so much but can actually do so little.....we should ask Chuck Norris what he thinks.
[cheeky]
Quote from: ZLTFUL on June 19, 2009, 01:00:44 PM
Actually, the stresses in a warp field would really be minimal...as long as there is no matter in your flight path...
Im talking about building the thing on earth as depicted in the picture. in space any shape would suffic, its a pretty much a vaccum up there.
how it would lift off and not snap the nacells as it launches up is a problem far beyond my inmagination. the first star trek ships didnt have hull integrity shields, just reinforced armor.
Isnt that the same laser they had in Real Genius?
Quote from: A.duc.H.duc. on June 19, 2009, 12:42:04 PM
The fact that you're saying your geekiness is off based on a derivative of an HTML tag only proves that it isn't off.
oh, you hush.
Quote from: He Man on June 19, 2009, 01:26:11 PM
Im talking about building the thing on earth as depicted in the picture. in space any shape would suffic, its a pretty much a vaccum up there.
how it would lift off and not snap the nacells as it launches up is a problem far beyond my inmagination. the first star trek ships didnt have hull integrity shields, just reinforced armor.
That's a good point. The thing would collapse as soon as they took the scaffolding off.
I'd always imagined they were built in space... but then what about Star Trek is realistic? [laugh]
Quote from: Holden on June 19, 2009, 02:14:45 PM
...but then what about Star Trek is realistic? [laugh]
slidey doors
ummm....
class M planets
that's all I got.
It is pretty widely known that especially with the Next Gen series that most of the technology and science was based on science fact rather than science fiction.
Quote from: JEFF_H on June 19, 2009, 01:45:31 PM
Isnt that the same laser they had in Real Genius?
My thoughts exactly [popcorn]
(http://zoom.cnews.ru/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/real-genius-laser.jpg)
Quote from: teddy037.2 on June 19, 2009, 02:18:30 PMclass M planets
Come on, all the planets they ever beamed onto happened to have a gravity level, magnetic field, and atmospheric composition (even weather usually) exactly like Earth's. [laugh]
Quote from: teddy037.2 on June 19, 2009, 02:18:30 PM
slidey doors
ummm....
class M planets
that's all I got.
little hand held computers
little handheld communicators
talking super computers
blue tooth like ear buds
....
I haven't seen the new trek flick, but I'd assume rather than primitive rockets, they would employ a ribbon/space elevator to get vessels out of earth's gravitational pull.
(or build them IN SPACE, which makes more sense)
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[coffee]
Quote from: redxblack on June 19, 2009, 04:56:11 PM
I haven't seen the new trek flick, but I'd assume rather than primitive rockets, they would employ a ribbon/space elevator to get vessels out of earth's gravitational pull.
(or build them IN SPACE, which makes more sense)
Finally a plausible solution, yet again thanks to Sir Arthur C Clarke. [coffee]
I hope I get to see a space elevator built someday soon.
Quote from: Rufus120 on June 20, 2009, 12:00:55 AM
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[coffee]
LMAO
Quote from: Rufus120 on June 20, 2009, 12:00:55 AM
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[coffee]
I should send this to my programmer buddies...
if it doesn't say something clever, I shall be very, very sad
Quote from: teddy037.2 on June 20, 2009, 09:56:14 PM
I should send this to my programmer buddies...
if it doesn't say something clever, I shall be very, very sad
It's not really that clever at all. Sorry to disappoint, but I couldn't think of anything that funny at the time. It's rather easy to figure out what it does say thou.
Edit-I think technically it should be in one long line but that looked funny so I made it into more of a paragraph.
Quote from: Rufus120 on June 20, 2009, 11:23:50 PM
It's not really that clever at all. Sorry to disappoint, but I couldn't think of anything that funny at the time. It's rather easy to figure out what it does say thou.
Edit-I think technically it should be in one long line but that looked funny so I made it into more of a paragraph.
[laugh] it's ok, boss [beer]
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;)
Adam
Quote from: DrDesmosedici on June 21, 2009, 12:32:28 PM
01000100 01110101 01100011 01100001 01110100 01101001 00100000 01101101 01100101 01100001 01101110 01110011 00100000 00100010 01001001 00100000 01100001 01101101 00100000 01100010 01100101 01110100 01110100 01100101 01110010 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01101110 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100010 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01101001 01110100 01100001 01101100 01101001 01100001 01101110 00100001
;)
Adam
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Lol, and I'm not even that big of a dork
Quote from: Rufus120 on June 21, 2009, 02:55:35 PM
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Lol, and I'm not even that big of a dork
Actually...
you are. ;) [cheeky]
How about
10001110101
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Oh, and
28 2e 29 28 2e 29
I don't even know you people anymore.
What?!
I said 28 2e 29 28 2e 29.
You're making my IQ's hurt
Quote from: Holden on June 19, 2009, 02:14:45 PM
but then what about Star Trek is realistic? [laugh]
;D
http://news.thomasnet.com/IMT/archives/2009/05/real-life-star-trek-technology-devices-gadgets.html (http://news.thomasnet.com/IMT/archives/2009/05/real-life-star-trek-technology-devices-gadgets.html)
8008135
obbovrf
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01100010 01101111 01101111 01100010 01101001 01100101 01110011
-... --- --- -... .. . ...
xrrxc.o
b2Jib3ZyZg==
boobies
I'm the (a) weiner! :P
Quote from: Obsessed? on June 22, 2009, 05:23:36 AM
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Oh, and
28 2e 29 28 2e 29
Sooo, binary is for the chess team's JV squad uh? Well....
SoH taH wa' vo' chaH poH legh chay' SoH vam wa' pa'
Edit-Technically this isn't a exact translation due to the fact that some of the words in the english language aren't part of this nerd language.
The balls is in your court sir..... 8) [coffee]
and yes
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