An attempt to create an interesting thread everyone can add to.

What have you seen in a Sci-Fi film that you would like to see in reality ? and what do you think will actually become a reality ?

I think the memory crystals they use in Star Trek (and other programs) will become a reality, I think IBM have almost got one to work now.

colonisation of mars
computers that you can talk too and talk back
cars that drive themselves

Am I the only one who would use a holodeck for rude things ?

Originally posted by nick2
Am I the only one who would use a holodeck for rude things ?
Of course not :blush:

I'm sure we could probably create a 'holodeck' now, or at least a damn good virtual reality substitute.

I think the transporters wll become reality. Being able to be beemed from one place to another.

Altough I wouldnt want to be the 1st person to test it out :o

Originally posted by spyro2000
I think the transporters wll become reality. Being able to be beemed from one place to another.

Altough I wouldnt want to be the 1st person to test it out :o

Jeff Goldblum put me off the idea of transporters.

Originally posted by nick2
Jeff Goldblum put me off the idea of transporters.

Me too...apparently he was 5'8" before the 'experiments'. Still not sure why they would use an actor to test the device. :confused:

You can imagine the kinds of accidents that would happen if Railtrack were in charge of the transporter system, half of you would turn-up in Leeds the other half in London.

star ships like on star trek, warp drive technology..
You would not see me for dust if you could travel space like that, not like our current tinpot space technology :hihi:.
I often wonder if there are more intellegent beings 'out there' laughing at our attempts at space exploration.

Although I'd love to beleave that the above startrek tech will come to be, it's unlikely I think!

An awful lot of the Star Trek techy stuff is based on real theoretical science, so who knows!!!
I'd like to see a truly re-usable surface to orbit craft but whilst we still rely on rockets that's not going to happen.
Doubt we'll ever have one but a time machine would be nice if only to go back and tell myself not to do some of the foolish things that I have done, but then that would change the present me and I wouldn't have to go back to tell myself not to be a fool. Is this a paradox?

well yeah, a re-usable space craft, But a transporter?

Originally posted by Trekker
well yeah, a re-usable space craft, But a transporter?

why not? I think its possible. I doubt it would be in our lifetime, but I reckon it could happen

The majority of the technology and science mentioned in Star Trek (particuarly the later series) is based in fact - the potential is there for a lot of it to become real...

Phasers, transporters, warp drive, anti-matter technology, holodecks, photon-based explosives you name it.

(crosses fingers and hopes for warp drive to be invented in the next 5 years!)

Originally posted by spyro2000
why not? I think its possible. I doubt it would be in our lifetime, but I reckon it could happen

unlike most of the startech stuff the transporter isn't even based on theoretical science.

I think that's one of the least likely sci-fi things to ever be made.
I'd predict faster than light travel to be more likely than transportation.

I wonder if anyone told clarkson that he was wrong when he imagined the communications satellite.

I'm sure like me you've seen the complcations that could happen when putting a human through a transporter, and that's only on startrek..

Apparently warp speed would not be 'too' hard to accomplish. Stopping the G-force ripping you apart atom by atom would be the hard part. Creating a 'bubble' around humans is the stumbling block :(

The self-fullfillment trouser attachment.
'Never have to buy flowers to get that 'special' attention you deserve. Now you can have enjoyment even as you travel on public transport!'

We might have to wait a few years. Phrases like, 'oh my god I'm gunna blow' may not be welcome on the london transport system for many years to come. (no pun intended):gag:

All this talk about sci fi stuff got me thinking??. if time travel is possible how come we ant been visited from the future??. Is time travel only a one way trip back in to the past. Acording to the einsteine theory time tavel is possible both ways, if so it dosnt work because wev had no one coming from the future???. Bit of a mind blower but thats what happens when you mess with the speed of light ,:heyhey:

Originally posted by vidster
Apparently warp speed would not be 'too' hard to accomplish. Stopping the G-force ripping you apart atom by atom would be the hard part. Creating a 'bubble' around humans is the stumbling block :(

the warp drive works by warping the slope of space time.
There would be no discerible acceleration if you were within the area as technically you do not accelerate, you slide down the slope of space time.

Originally posted by brooksy
All this talk about sci fi stuff got me thinking??. if time travel is possible how come we ant been visited from the future??. Is time travel only a one way trip back in to the past. Acording to the einsteine theory time tavel is possible both ways, if so it dosnt work because wev had no one coming from the future???. Bit of a mind blower but thats what happens when you mess with the speed of light ,:heyhey:

quantum time travel has already been observed in the lab.
There's nothing to suggest that it could be scaled up to anything beyond the quantum level though.

Warp speed is a tv novelty??, its all relative to travelling at the speed of light. Ie warp 1 to warp 4.

Originally posted by Cyclone
the warp drive works by warping the slope of space time.
There would be no discerible acceleration if you were within the area as technically you do not accelerate, you slide down the slope of space time.

The program i watched must have been wrong then :?

I hope for Jet-packs, hovver-bikes, jaunting-belts and the Star-gate phenomenon to become reality.
One of the problems with todays society, is that we were promised these things by Raymond Baxter and crew in the seventies by the year 2000, now we're feeling a bit miffed!

I just want a replicator. That would be pretty cool.

Transporter does not appeal, as they may be able to create a neq copy of you, but it's just a copy and the origional would be destroyed.

Originally posted by brooksy
All this talk about sci fi stuff got me thinking??. if time travel is possible how come we ant been visited from the future??. Is time travel only a one way trip back in to the past. Acording to the einsteine theory time tavel is possible both ways, if so it dosnt work because wev had no one coming from the future???. Bit of a mind blower but thats what happens when you mess with the speed of light ,:heyhey:

Who's to say we haven't? If someone were to come back in time to the present they would have to be very careful not to cause a paradox or screw anything up, so they definately wouldnt want to do anything that would make us (those who live in this time) aware of them.

Yes pal but according to steven hawkings a goverment from the future would have organised a trip back in time to explain the future set up. Why would they not do this, theyd understand the paradox theory and overcome it.Bear in mind it could be a billion yearsin the future???:thumbsup:

I do have a time-machine, but it only works in six minute loops and consequently I only use it when I'm five minutes late....

On the subject of time travel, I watched a programme about it a while back. They said that our computer technology is getting so good now that we could almost run a simulation of our own history, and travel back in time through virtual reality. The trouble with this theory is that if we ever do it, it becomes almost a certainty that we are merely a simulation of our future selves.

Originally posted by miniminch
The self-fullfillment trouser attachment.
'Never have to buy flowers to get that 'special' attention you deserve. Now you can have enjoyment even as you travel on public transport!'


..... or even 'as you travel on pubic transport'! :gag:
Sorry - couldn't resist the terrible pun :cool:

StarSparkle

The paradoxes may not be an issue if M-Theory turns out to be true.

Also you can only travel back in time as far as the day the first time machine was made remember. Which is why people have not visited us. Michu Kaku an M-Theorist has a greta book out at the moment about these things.

I actually invented a time machine a few years ago. It has a few problems - it will only travel forwards and in real time! (It's a chair with a clock on it) but it does really work;)

You cant go back in time and invent a time machine because the science didnt and dosnt exist????:gag: :gag:

bionic humans. very nearly a commercial reality. Already nerve impulse driven prosthetic limbs give amputees a controllable, useful arm or leg.

bionic eyes, too, with the ability to see into the near infrared, as well as detecting other invisible radiation. Using a sterilised coral eye, and optic nerve stimulus (both tried and tested technology) one eye could be replaced with a bionic version. The eye muscles will happily attach themselves to the coral substrate, so that the eye will move in union with the other.

You can bet that the miltary grade bionics will already be a whole lot better.

transporters, ftl travel, replicators, holodecks - not in our lifetimes or that of our grandchildren, and probably not at all.

In fact - Transporters? Fuggedaboudit.

warp drives are all very well, but pale in comparison to the performance gains of the improbability drive. And they are about as likely as each other - A probability of 2.7E192 to 1 and falling, slowly. I won't even mention bistromathics.

rigt then:gag: :gag:

actually yeah, cybernetics could see a lot of growth in the next 50 years, a lot of technologies are just in the early stages of development.

and computing will probably change to be nearly unrecognisable in 50 years. Probably to the point where you it's ubiquitous and the idea of having a computer at a desk is a hard idea to explain to a teenager in 2050.

Some interesting things going on with Quantum computing that will make huge differences in the next decade. Also going to help with communication and cryptography.

The problems with creating a replicators and transporters (we have actually transported photons, with quantum entanglement) are mainly due to computing power.

They talk about the tree or five types of civilizations, right now we have a way to go to make type 1. Type 1 has mastered the laws of thermodynamics. When we reach this level (some suggest maybe even in 100 years) it's very likely we will have mastered Quantum entanglement and quantum computing, I have high hopes for replicators in the next 100 years.

At the current rate, we all may be living to 100-150 years old. So you never know Poly it's not beyond the realms of science possibility that we, or our children will whiteness a rudimentary form of transportation or replication. Not humans, or even anything living, but possibly uncomplex things.

I say that, but i have been waiting for an all in one phone, PDA, MP3 player, email/web device with a hard drive we have had the technology for years, but i am still waiting (although the wait is almost over).

I made a bet 5 years ago that we would have a cure for cancer in 10 years. I am still confident I will make that bet, I think we are close now.

Daleks - deffinately Daleks! :suspect:

And sliding doors like on the Enterprise that go 'schumm' & open as you approach! :clap:

Originally posted by Cyclone
actually yeah, cybernetics could see a lot of growth in the next 50 years, a lot of technologies are just in the early stages of development.

and computing will probably change to be nearly unrecognisable in 50 years. Probably to the point where you it's ubiquitous and the idea of having a computer at a desk is a hard idea to explain to a teenager in 2050.
We will probably be talking to computers within the next 10 years or so, and you would probably be able to keep a relatively simple conversation going.

Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
And sliding doors like on the Enterprise that go 'schumm' & open as you approach! :clap:
We have them now!

Originally posted by Sidla
We have them now!

:rolleyes: D'oh!







:hihi:

An anti gravity mat placed under any object. Activate the mat and the object floats - sufficient to lift into space even...
Nah.

not sure what would become real, but has anyone else noticed that films like 2001, and things designed in the 60's (golf ball tellies, blow up chairs, chrome furniture etc.) still look modern?

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
I won't even mention bistromathics.

The study of gravy is indeed an under utilized path.

But can you imagine where we'd be today if religion hadn't got in the way of scientific progress in the dark ages.....

Do you think that what we think we know now is the actual fact of how things work/exist? In reality nothing is known for sure, there's so much to come that we haven't even started to think about, that it doesn't even bear thinking about......

Hopefully when Japan make the most powerful computer ever (finished 2011 @ 72x what is around now), we will find out what went bang!

No idea what it has to do with this thread though :?

If I remember correctly the Star Trek techies have been rather vague as to how a warp drive actually works, warp one though is not the speed of light and so on [info gleaned from a serious program about could we ever travel faster than light]
The transporter has one big problem the reassembled object or person would have to have all their atoms in the exact same places or it'd get messy. It's called the Heisenberg principle and Star Trek get's round this rather big problem by mentioning the Heisenberg compensator [which is Sci-Fi]
I can also remember a program that tried to explain how the medical tricorder would work but again the exact specifics are a bit vague but it does look good doesn't it?

I believe warp speed is supposed to be exponential, with warp one being just a little faster than light and warp 10 being infinately fast (or at least an unobtainable speed).

Originally posted by tslogf74
I believe warp speed is supposed to be exponential, with warp one being just a little faster than light and warp 10 being infinately fast (or at least an unobtainable speed).

Liutenant Tom Paris in Voyager actually managed Warp 10 in one episode..

Far future tech aside I would love to see an orbital lift project being completed in my lifetime. An immensly strong but flexible tower built around a cable anchored to earth with a platform at the other end in geosynchronus orbit above the anchor point. You can then attach a lift to the cable and voile a trip out the gravity well for the price of the electricity it takes to run the lift. Apparently some sceintists in America had fabricated a material that would do it by rearranging the atoms in carbon. It'll never happen because it requires a huge amount of co-operation between nations but thats our key to the stars.

I thought Tom Parris exceeded warp 10, but in either a Star Trek novel or mentioned in one of the TV shows they mention 'transwarp' which was very fast indeed.
Warp speeds cannot be classed as the speed of light, twice the speed of light, three times the speed of light and so on otherwise it'd take them years to get very far even at warp 8, 8 times faster than the speed of light it'd take six months to get to our nearest star Alpha Centauri. [I think I've got the maths correct]

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
bionic humans. very nearly a commercial reality. Already nerve impulse driven prosthetic limbs give amputees a controllable, useful arm or leg.


True, however the designers have had some difficulty getting the arm to serve canapés and deal a deck of cards without the amputee looking like a complete klutz! The makers of the arms have recommended that the recipient of the prosthetics nether host dinner parties nor open a casino.

In recent years, science has suffered a variety of setbacks in the pursuit of futuristic betterment. You may remember a while back, scientists managed to grow a human ear on a mouse’s back. Sadly, this experiment failed; when the mouse found he had difficulties dating and later went on to commit suicide when he heard friends bitching about him in a hole five miles from his own. It would appear that the uses of a massive back-ear are few and far between.

I’m afraid teleporting is a reality also. I once entered a building whereupon I discovered a wardrobe with a large lit interior. When I pressed one of the magic number buttons that were glowing in there, the doors shut and shortly reopened. To my utter astonishment I was in a different place. And that was the last time I went into Debenhams.

The notion of progress is a fiction and entirely earthbound until we can change dimensions. Then you’ll be shocked!

Originally posted by purelygold82
Far future tech aside I would love to see an orbital lift project being completed in my lifetime. An immensly strong but flexible tower built around a cable anchored to earth with a platform at the other end in geosynchronus orbit above the anchor point. You can then attach a lift to the cable and voile a trip out the gravity well for the price of the electricity it takes to run the lift. Apparently some sceintists in America had fabricated a material that would do it by rearranging the atoms in carbon. It'll never happen because it requires a huge amount of co-operation between nations but thats our key to the stars.

carbon strings.
The challenge is growing them long enough, and finding someway to make them into a cable. If a continous one could be grown that would be ideal.

So far they haven't actually achieved the target strength, it's theoretically possible and they're getting closer.
I don't think it would require an unprecendented level of cooperation, nothing more than the ISS.

The theory is relatively simple, send up a seed craft into the correct orbit, it starts to spin out a cable in both directions. When the cable is reaches the ground anchor it. Attach smaller seeders that crawl up and down the cable depositing more strands.
Find a large rock as the counterbalance and maneuovre it into place (means the counterbalance doesn't have to be as long as the lift itself).
Continue for ages.

When it's thick enough, attach power cables, lift machinery etc...

Enjoy.

Originally posted by WallBuilder
The transporter has one big problem the reassembled object or person would have to have all their atoms in the exact same places or it'd get messy. It's called the Heisenberg principle and Star Trek get's round this rather big problem by mentioning the Heisenberg compensator [which is Sci-Fi]


I think I saw that too, the idea (in Star Trek) is that the transporter turns your matter into energy, then "beams" it somewhere and converts it back from energy to matter, when you consider how much energy you get when you convert a lump of plutonium into energy in an atom bomb you can imagine how much emergy you would get from converting a person into energy, it would be uncontrollable.

Originally posted by WallBuilder
I thought Tom Parris exceeded warp 10, but in either a Star Trek novel or mentioned in one of the TV shows they mention 'transwarp' which was very fast indeed.
No, you cannot exceed warp 10, which is infinite velocity. Infinite velocity is an interesting concept actually, wonder if such a thing exsists?

Transwarp drives worked by bending the fabric of space-time IIRC.

Originally posted by Sidla
No, you cannot exceed warp 10, which is infinite velocity. Infinite velocity is an interesting concept actually, wonder if such a thing exsists?


If you can catch Naz - ask him :hihi:

Originally posted by Trekker
I'm sure like me you've seen the complcations that could happen when putting a human through a transporter, and that's only on startrek..

I'm thinking Galaxy Quest right now...


"Everything's fine."
"But the animal is inside out..."

*pig-lizard explodes*

"...and it exploded"

:)