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This is the amazing design for NASA’s Star Trek-style space ship, the IXS Enterprise
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Posted on 06/11/2014 7:23:13 PM PDT by Dallas59

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To: usconservative

Thank you!


41 posted on 06/11/2014 7:56:33 PM PDT by BreezyDog
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To: yarddog

Not ever gonna happen..... warp speed is not possible. Not ever.


42 posted on 06/11/2014 7:56:49 PM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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Never say never. What is needed is a breakthrough that surpasses conventional physics. Whether or not that is feasible at this point in time is debatable, and likely not possible, but that does not preclude the possibility that such a breakthrough could happen.

To say “Not Ever” is defeatist, IMO.


43 posted on 06/11/2014 8:02:00 PM PDT by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: Pox

I hear you.... Its more like realist to me. But one man’s defeat is another man’s reality :)


44 posted on 06/11/2014 8:03:39 PM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: yarddog
To me the most amazing thing about the moon landing was that we could watch it happening on TV.

Yep, that was really cool. I think I was 6 or 7 when we first landed on the moon. I remember watching it on a black and white TV with rabbit ears. Reception wasn't that great (by today's standards) but good enough to watch.

When you consider there's more 10x-100x more technology in a smartphone than we used to put a man on the moon, it was really an incredible accomplishment. Those guys were really risking their lives, nothing was guaranteed -- they went knowing it was within the realm of possibility that they might not make it back.

And yet they went, and they came back. As I think about it, it's almost like yesterday I was sitting on the floor in front of the TV with my sister and my parents watching on the TV, waiting for the delay in communications to pass to hear what was said next.

That was an incredible time in our history. Even with all the technology we have today, it feels like innovation is dead. Getting to the moon was a quantum leap in technology. So were PC's when they were first invented. Everything else since then has been nothing more than newer/faster iterations of technology that already existed.

I hope we're on the verge of the next quantum leap in technology ...

45 posted on 06/11/2014 8:03:43 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: BreezyDog
Thank you!

You're welcome! (now what'd I do to merit the thank you?)

46 posted on 06/11/2014 8:05:17 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Dallas59

It’s a beautiful rendering. Very professional and realistic. That’s about as close to reality as it’ll ever get, though, sad to say.


47 posted on 06/11/2014 8:05:19 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Dallas59

I endorse this design.


48 posted on 06/11/2014 8:12:15 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: kjam22
Not ever gonna happen..... warp speed is not possible. Not ever.

This from NASA last month about the nearest inhabitable planet...."The new found object, dubbed Kepler-186f, circles a red dwarf star 500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. A light-year is almost 6 trillion miles.". So even if we were able to travel near light speed it would take at least 20 human generations to get there as a colony. Space travel to a new world is fantasy. Meeting new species is way past fantasy.

On the other hand, finding civilized life in other worlds via a SETI type operation is distinct possibility. But again, any message we receive would have been at least 500+ years at receipt.

49 posted on 06/11/2014 8:12:21 PM PDT by catfish1957 (Face it!!!! The government in DC is full of treasonous bastards)
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To: catfish1957

Yep.... reality is a real “buzz killer” sometimes.


50 posted on 06/11/2014 8:13:52 PM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: Dallas59

No, as far as I know, they don’t have tele prompters on a sound stage. The actors actually have to know their lines.

Of course Barry and the Dems will whine that that is insensitive to the literate challenged. Or racist; you can never tell these days.


51 posted on 06/11/2014 8:13:55 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: usconservative

I still remember it too. It was the Summer of 1969 and we were watching an old TV in the rec room of the boys dorm at a Summer retreat.

We knew we were watching history happening.

I can remember back around 1952, my older brother and a bunch of other boys were talking about space. Someone asked if we would ever land on the moon. My older Brother thought for a while then pronounced that we never would.

That settled it for me as my older Brother knew everything.


52 posted on 06/11/2014 8:16:27 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: Dallas59

Light speed? So we are expected to believe that technology has instantly advanced the point where we can extend the human speed record from 25,000 mph to 671,000,000 mph? I think not.


53 posted on 06/11/2014 8:18:25 PM PDT by catfish1957 (Face it!!!! The government in DC is full of treasonous bastards)
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To: Dallas59

Light speed? So we are expected to believe that technology has instantly advanced the point where we can extend the human speed record from 25,000 mph to 671,000,000 mph? I think not.


54 posted on 06/11/2014 8:18:28 PM PDT by catfish1957 (Face it!!!! The government in DC is full of treasonous bastards)
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To: Dallas59

Nice pictures, but it ain’t gonna happen.

We can’t build anything in this country.

I would love to believe this will have happen.

We cannot get a guy into space. What is being built are copies of what we did in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Nothing groundbreaking or inspiring.

It is 2014, not 1950.


55 posted on 06/11/2014 8:19:57 PM PDT by moviefan8
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To: kjam22

Realistic is pragmatic at this point in time. We are at at infantile stage of technology, IMO, and things change as knowledge advances. There is nothing at this time that I would put money behind as far as faster than light travel, but I do hold out hope that knowledge will advance and possibilities are endless. History teaches us that from example.

Perhaps I am overly optimistic, but given human ingenuity, I refuse to believe that something is “Impossible” given enough time and resources (within practicality).

I’d prefer to encourage from the side of frugality than to be discouraging from the side of ignorance and disbelief, but that’s just me.

The way I see it is, show me something to get behind and perhaps I will follow you!


56 posted on 06/11/2014 8:21:21 PM PDT by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: Dallas59

57 posted on 06/11/2014 8:24:38 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Pox
Perhaps I am overly optimistic, but given human ingenuity, I refuse to believe that something is “Impossible” given enough time and resources (within practicality).

I agree. Hard to believe that it was only 66 years between Kitty Hawk and Moon Landing. However, if the past 45 years are a trend, we are in for a long long wait, or more likely never. I personally think that light speed will never ever be even closely approached.

58 posted on 06/11/2014 8:25:37 PM PDT by catfish1957 (Face it!!!! The government in DC is full of treasonous bastards)
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To: yarddog

NASA’s job now seems to also be PR - draw nice pictures of spaceships they will never have the money nor political will to build.


59 posted on 06/11/2014 8:26:30 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Rodamala

Try imgur. Always works for me.


60 posted on 06/11/2014 8:33:29 PM PDT by Dallas59 ("Remember me as you pass by, As you are now, so once was I, As I am now, so you will be")
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