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USS Enterprise Finally Flies

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the arm-photon-torpedoes dept.

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."

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  1. movie mirror links... by AmigaAvenger · · Score: 4, Informative
    posted links to movies on the main page of slashdot, do the editors have no heart!?!?!

    Here is my local mirror on a server that won't be ./'ed...

    mpg format
    wmv format

  2. /..jp? by trs9000 · · Score: 4, Informative

    slashdot japan?!
    what?!
    you mean to tell me ive been reading this all this time and i couldve been the uber1337 version from the land of the rising sun?!

    sezu-sai....
    time to go learn japanese.....

  3. Re:big, fat clue: by Surazal · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't think space is a true vacume. It is just considered one in relation to earths atmosphere. Anyways how do solar sails work? I think with the differences in gravitiy there might be enough friction material in space for this to work to some degree.

    Space ships don't fly with "lift". There's barely any gravity to lift from even taking into account the miniscule amount of gas in space. In fact, the design of the Enterprise was chosen by Roddenberry precisely because it *wasn't* aerodynamic (as a respose to all the space shows and books that depicted space ships as being such). A mile-wide cube would have also sufficed (*ahem*).

    Also, a solar sail would look nothing like the Enterprise. It would look like, er, a sail. A BIG one at that; bigger than the aforementioned mile-wide cube.

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  4. Re:If only there were . . . by Shivantrill · · Score: 4, Informative
    We used to have them as children. When the original series was first run, some toy company made walkie talkies to look like communicators.
    They didn't have much range but they were pretty cool.

    Also, I read somewhere... probably here, about a company that created a wearable one like in TNG as a cummunication device. The company has sold them to hospitals. See an article here http://www.forbes.com/technology/2004/03/16/cx_ah_ 0316chips.html --- Let's see what our moderators score this one as :P

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