Engineer dude has a plan to build the Starship Enterprise in 20 years. Let’s...
I had to try about a dozen times, but I finally got through to the Build the Enterprise web site. The server is a bit overwhelmed. Run by an engineer who styles himself BTE-Dan, the plan is to build...
View ArticleNot quite a Trek replicator, but print-your-own-pizza is coming
One of the coolest technologies in “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” was the replicator. I mean, who hasn’t wanted to turn to their microwave and bark out “Tea, Earl Grey, Hot!” From a science...
View ArticleIs asking the public to fork over $1 million for a private space telescope...
Amid much fanfare — Data from “Star Trek” will appear there, after all — the asteroid mining company Planetary Resources announced a plan to raise $1 million from the public to build a space telescope....
View ArticleWhat science inspired Lt. Commander Data? Frying doodle bugs on Houston...
I was recently listening to a podcast of StarTalk radio in which Neil DeGrasse Tyson interviewed Brent Spiner (Data, from Star Trek: The Next Generation) and LeVar Burton (Geordi La Forge) Amidst this...
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