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Nubby News Network: Scientists say that Kirk & Spock would be dead if they used Warp Drive.... -- (link)

Posted by Remlik (aka remlik) Feb 17 '10, 13:32

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link (scifiwire.com)

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I got a T.A.R.D.I.S. I don't care use warp drive :) -- nm - the Doctor Feb 17, 13:40 1
- show off -- nm - Mickey Feb 17, 13:44
"That's what that huge deflector shield dish is for! It's as if the author of that article never actually watched any StarTrek. Or read any of the - zork Feb 17, 13:38
based on Earth's current scientific knowledge. remember, at one time, everyone thought our planet was flet :) -- nm - peglegpete Feb 17, 13:38 20
- not to get all egghead, but this isn't true. -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 13:41 18
  - Well, I bet they did at ONE time. Just not at Galileo or Christopher Columbus time. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 17, 13:43 13
    - Just those Glen Beckius followers. But they'd believe anything. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 17, 13:46
    - I bet most people just didn't know, or have an opinion -- nm - Roger More Feb 17, 13:45 11
      - It think it would have an underlying assumption, not consciously thought about, if you go back far enough. -- nm - mara Feb 17, 13:50 9
        
        I'm not sure. People who used boats to sail over the horizon would probably have assumed the world was round, for example - Roger More Feb 17, 13:59 8
        
        If you go back far enough people didn't sail over the horizon. -- nm - Ender Feb 17, 14:02 7
        
        Then the IM comes into play. -- nm - Roger More Feb 17, 14:07
        
        Exactly. I wonder if people are so caught up in debunking the medieval flat earth myth that they're not taking a long enough view. -- nm - mara Feb 17, 14:07 5
        
        I'm not sure you can ever say "if you go back far enough, everyone had the same perspective". Humans have had different languages for as long as - Roger More Feb 17, 14:17 3
        
        You go back far enough and there was only one human. -- nm - Ender Feb 17, 14:21 2
        
        When human language was first developed, its speakers wouldn't have been considered human. Monkeys have language -- nm - Roger More Feb 17, 14:30 1
        
        That doesn't matter. At one point there had to be only one human, and tautologically all humans must have believed the same thing. -- nm - Ender Feb 17, 14:37
        
        Yeah, we also totally need to debunk that whole galileo/earth-orbits-the-sun thing, too -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 14:10
      - "You 'eer what 'ee said, Basil? 'Ee says the world is round 'ee does!" *dies of cholera* -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 13:47
  - ok. some of the people thought earth was flat :) -- nm - peglegpete Feb 17, 13:42 3
    - The rest thought it was held on Hercules' back. *NM* - Ender Feb 17, 13:43 1
      - Atlas. Hercules only held it for a little while. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 13:44
    - very few. -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 13:42
- flat -- nm - peglegpete Feb 17, 13:38
That's what the deflector screen's for! -- nm - Ender Feb 17, 13:37
Hmm. OK ... so he applied current theories to a fictional device that hasn't been invented yet, and came up with a number. - Beryllium Feb 17, 13:36
this is why you have shields, duh -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 13:36
hehe the nerd responses are better than the article -- nm - sycor Feb 17, 13:36 3
- I know! -- nm - Remlik Feb 17, 13:41
- "This so-called "scientist" is nothing more than a charlton buffoon with a Babylon 5 box set." - poochinski Feb 17, 13:39 1
  - "How can we take anyone seriously who doesn't know that the Borg don't use a cloaking devise?" -- nm - Roger More Feb 17, 13:43
I assume this is "smushed to the back of the space ship" typical stuff? :) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 13:33 1
- ooh, this is a novel take on things. Nice. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 13:35
yeah, Romulan scientists from the future who want Kirk & Spock to *think* that -- nm - poochinski Feb 17, 13:32

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