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USS Enterprise Finally Flies
apetime writes "Found on Slashdot Japan: Model builder Kaname of Kumamoto, Japan has built a flying radio controlled model of the original Star Trek's USS Enterprise. (Scroll to the bottom of the page for a video. Or go here for an mpeg, and here for a WMV.) The ship measures from 75 cm, and only weighs 16 grams. It's a wobbly flight, but makes you think what else in Star Trek might work if it were tried."
But now the question is, if you transported inside of it, would you shrink?
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I may be wrong, but I don't remember the original enterprise having a propellor. The article indicates that technology from that show may work in real life, but it's using old technology. cool to watch, but only for a slow friday night.
..."Quantum Torpedos".
A local radio-controlled airplane hobbiest announced today that he has built a working model of (cue tympanis ... Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum) MEGA MAID.
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It's a wobbly flight, but makes you think what else in Star Trek might work if it were tried.
Actually, no, It doesn't.
I don't care how much it costs, I have to get one! I need to learn Japanese REAL fast.
Every time you call tech support, a little kitten dies.
.....just with wires.
You should see my model Borg cube...
With the right size engine, you can make anything fly. This isn't a demonstration of how well the "Enterprise" could fly. It's a demonstration of how you can make even a brick fly with the right thrust to weight ratio.
I like Star Trek as well as the next geek, but this is just plain silly.
Now, where can I get one???
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That's what I thought at first, too. I'm not really a Trekkie, though I must've absorbed the movies and most of TOS and TNG from TV ... which triggers memories from TOS where the Enterprise was seen flying around in the upper atmosphere on at least one episode (e.g., where the crew snaps back to Earth of the 60's and are picked up on radar; jets are scrambled, etc.).
So, silly as this experiment is, I think there's some evidence that the Enterprise may have been designed to fly around in more than just the vaccuum of space. After all, I saw it on the TV. And TV never lies.
Doesn't the saucer portion disconnect for atmospheric flight?
Still way cool though.
Sigs? We don't need no stinking sigs!
If only there were something like a communicator. That would be cool. A handheld walkie talkie-like thing only able to talk to almost anybody on the planet. It could maybe even open up like a clam. Sigh. I guess it will never be.
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There's something here even more amazing than a flying enterprise. They've got a server hosting 4 Mb video files on slashdot's frontpage, and it hasn't crashed yet!
what sig?
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Could big outer space computers be composed of diodes, triodes, and pentodes, without the glass envelopes?
I'm not sure about computers, but it would make for some wicked guitar amplifiers... The Darkness would approve...
this reminds me of a skit eddie izzard did. Kirk: "Scotty, we need warp 9 in 5 seconds or we're all dead!" Scotty: "I can give you 30mph in a week or two, captain..."
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Wake me up when they make a flying Battlestar Galactica.
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I did, I just forget where I set it down
Famous last words.
I don't get these trekkies wasting so much time worshipping a mediocre series
Yeah, they're almost as bad as the 1U53R2 bashing trekkies on a site that's labelled "news for nerds"...talk about pathetic!
You can't take the sky from me...
space contais lots of plasma.
Yeah, that's from all those Red Shirts bleeding to death under Kirk's watch...
You can't take the sky from me...
Reports have been surfacing all over the net that a flying spacecraft was seen in the vicinity of Japan... news at 11...
Damn good thing they didn't fly this thing near Area 51 or we might have been misled to believe a lone motorcyclist spotted it.
Feed my eyes...
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is it real flying if it is not a function of lift versus gravity? You can't have lift in the vacum
You missed the episodes with 7 of 9... plenty of lift going on there.
In fact, quantum physics tells us there even if you wanted, you could not create a perfect vacuum as virtual particles would pop up.
Actually, I have a vaccuum in my closet, and it works perfectly. It only seems to deal with the real particles though, not the virtual ones. I'm not much interested in removing the virtual ones anyway.
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
I mean, I knew that CVN-65 was a tad over-powered with its 8 fission reactors, but they actually got the USS Enterprise to lift out of the water? Dear God!