Standing Ovation
Well said SPOOFE.
I think replicators will come to be. Nanotechnology is being heavily researched and invested in. The holy-grail of Nanotech (after the self-assemblers) is being able to manufacture things at the atomic level. The goal is to be able to just enter the structure into a computer and the software then instructs millions of nanobots to build it one atom at a time.
Amazing? Yes. Impossible? I don’t think so. They are constantly making advancements in this field, and I believe they will achieve their goals if we don’t all blow each other up in the next 200 years.
DaLovin’ Dj
Are the Star Trek Tech Journals considered cannon? If so, then can some Star Trek fan PLEASE explain how the communicators work? According to the Tech Journal, the communicators on ST:TNG do not require a tap to activate them; that is simply a habit. However, Data consistently taps his, and he is an android. He has no habits.
No, but he emulates human habits in his attempts to seem more human. Habits like blinking.
DaLovin’ Dj
Heh. An army of AT-ATs versus a Bolo. Maybe they could pull it off then.
You gotta respect a war machine that can sit dormant buried deeply in solid concrete for decades, then reactivate itself and rip its way free, all the while on about one-quarter emergency reserve power only. An AT-AT would most likely just trip and fall on one of the cast-aside slabs of concrete, and then of course explode.
Isn’t what you are describing the “Picard Maneuver”?
Nope, Paramount, as SPOOFE has stated, says they are not even official anymore.
But it would seem that the computer is so smart, that it knows where you are needing to use the ComSystem just by speaking.
By why wouldn’t it be? The writers are so smart themselves. Heck, they did predict desktop computers and cell phones after all. :rolleyes:
Not really. The Picard Maneuver, as it is known, is a quick hop into and out of warp to arrive right in front of the enemy.
From the enemy’s point of view, the attacking ship appears in two places at once causing much confusion and catching them off guard.
Uhh… Light sabers are cool…
Heres a persona explanation as to the difference between
Warp and Hyperdrive…
With warp drive, a ship distorts the space around the ship.
Length, width, depth, time = 4dimentional spacetime
This is gravity.
Add a fifth Dimension and you get Electromagnetism.
Add a sixth and Seventh D and you get the Weak nuclear force
11D gives the Strong Nuclear force.
Due to relativity, the speed of light can’t be achieved…
the faster you go thru space, the more mass you gain.
At c your mass is infinite.
So…
you go DOWN to the negative dimensions BELOW spacetime…
literally, Sub-Space.
Such a field projected around a ship as a bubble creates
a spatial discontinuity, which removes said ship from relativistic effects, such as length foreshortening, mass accrual, and time dialation.
Projecting multiple warp fields, like the layers of an onion, multiplies the trans-relativistic effect, allowing for velocities exceeding lightspeed.
Hyperspace, on the other hand, converts the ship into a giant amalgamated tachyon, a theoretical particle which can only go at speeds faster than light.
Think of the universe existing as two realms of velocity
Normal matter exists between Absolute Stop and Light Speed.
Tachyons exist between Lightspeed and infinite speed
Whichever velocity you’re going sublight becomes a Mirror
Velocity in Hyperspace.
Granted. But it’s still more than Lucas ever attempted.
I wouldn’t dream of it. (You don’t know me very well, do you?)
Roddenberry decided to use transporters because he needed a quick, low-budget means of getting his characters from the ship to a planet and back again. A simple optical dissolve combined with footage of aluminum dust filmed in yellow light accompanied by a whiny sound effect accomplished this nicely. (Later, when he was sure his show would be around for more than a few episodes, Roddenberry brought in shuttlecraft.)
Replicators work like transporters do. If you have one, you will have the other. The fact that they incorporate a device called a “Heisenberg compensator” shows that the writers do know about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and they postulated a device that would defeat it. It’s no different from postulating a “warp drive” to explain how the ship can fly faster than light. (And Roddenberry discovered that only a matter-antimatter reactor could generate enough power for a “warp-drive,” so he put that into hsi scripts. But Lucas has never bothered to tell us what powers a hyperdrive.) Anyway, without these gadgets, there would be no stories.
Look at it this way: The writers are saying, “If we had FTL ships and transporters, these stories are what MIGHT happen.”
Time that works in reverse of real time, what else? 
Oh, so fan websites are also canon?
Say what? It shows the writers had heard of the Uncertainty Principle. It doesn’t show that they had a clue what it meant. You can’t defeat the UP. It’s a fundamental statement about quantum reality (basically: it is impossible to simultaneously determine both the position and the momentum of a particle). I don’t know what “compensating” for it is supposed to mean.
But in any case, it’s pure technobabble. Utterly meaningless. And in no way “scientific”.
Who said they were? Not I.
You asked how the MF’s HDrive was supposed to work. This is just one guys possible explanation by means of applied science.
Lucas has never felt a need to go explaning how the technology works. In the SW Universe, the technilogy works and ‘get on with the show’.
It’s the fans that have been the ones who surmise the mechanics behing them.
I believe there is a SW Essential Guide to Ships and Space Craft.
Spoofe-can I bear your child?
I’ve got it (the actual title is Star Wars The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels). It sucks. There are three things I use to gauge the acuraccy of a reference. The plan/elevation of the Rebel blockade runner, The size of the SSD, and the size of the DS2. West End Games got them all wrong. So did the SWTEGtVaV. Not surprising considering the author is a line editor for WEG. A lot of SW reference material just recycles WEG information despite the fact that it contradicts on-screen evidence. Hopefully the new WotC version of the role-playing game will have a better research group.
For a mind numbingly indepth look at the three issues I recomend the following pages.
http://www.synicon.com.au/sw/br/tantive.htm
http://www.theforce.net/swtc/ssd.html
http://www.theforce.net/swtc/ds.html
Funny, I thought the Picard maneuver was the inevitable straightening of that awfully uncomfortable tunic every time he stood up.
I have to state that I dont really give a crap one way or the other but there is one scene from stng that sticks in my mind that could be relevant here.
Warf “captain they are arming (scornful pause) Lasers”
Riker"lasers? those wont even penatrate our navagational shields"
note the navagational shields dont evn stop the transporter beams.
arent the sw ships just fireing big lasers?
Although they call them lasers, it is obvious that is not what they are. The main evidence is presented in the movies, for all those ST fans who won’t admit to books being canon. The blasts from all the weapons go much slower than the speed of light. Lasers are light, therefore the SW universe does not use lasers as we think of them.
I don’t know the actual technical specs of what they really are, but I know the use ‘spin-sealed turbina gas’. The more appriopriate term is blaster, not laser.
(plus, we still got ion cannons which will knock out all the ST universes shields, and warp drive, and everything else.)
Textbook example of a typical SW whine. “I know they are called lasers, but really, they’re not.” Pathetic.