#scifi technology

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So everyone has their own take on which is better (Star Wars or Star Trek), or who would win in a fight (Enterprise v. Star Destroyer), etc. I’d like to throw in my two cents. To start of my analysis, I’m going to assume that for all intents and purposes Star Wars and Star Trek exist in the same universe to maintain constant physics. I will also be ignoring statistics available on respective wikis for each fandom, as they are arbitrary at best and drastically misleading at worst. Hyperdrive - If you consider the mechanics of the hyperdrive relative to Star Trek technologies, I believe that the hyperdrive is approximately the same technology as a Quantum Slipstream Drive, seen in several episodes of Voyager. This eliminates the argument over which is faster - clearly ships in Star Wars are significantly faster to allow galactic scale transportation and economics. As such, civilization in Star Wars must have either skipped or developed past the warp drive.  Power Generation - Considering the reactors seen in both Star Wars and Star Trek, it is clear to me that Star Trek has the superior power generation technology. Star Wars requires a massive multistory power plant to run a Star Destroyer, while Star Trek uses a linear tube four or five stories long and a few meters in diameter to power a roughly equivalent (armament-wise at least) ship. This indicates to me that Star Wars likely utilizes advanced fusion technologies to produce power, while Star Trek extensively utilizes antimatter in numerous aspects of technology. As such, Star Trek likely has a technology that allows for easy production of antimatter that Star Wars lacks. This also explains the tendency for Star Wars ships to be either much larger or notably smaller than Star Trek ships - Larger ships need progressively larger reactors to power them while smaller ships use a lot of space to house their reactors (compare the Ghost to the Delta Flyer). 

Also on the topic of sci fi tech based on e=mc² energy/mass conversion, if we could harvest black holes' mass and convert their mass into energy, then black holes would be the ultimate battery since they're infinitely dense and can hold basically infinite energy. Like, if we could compress an entire galaxy cluster into a black hole, we'd probably have enough energy to reshape the whole universe however we want.

And since I'm already on the topic of super advanced future tech ideas, if we can master using wormholes, we can time travel to the past, almost. The first step, before we install the wormholes, is to develop a telescope that can perfectly analyze things hundreds of millions of lightyears away to the cubic millimeter or centimeter throughout the entirety of a planet. The next step is to install many wormholes many lightyears apart. Third, we send a telescope through every worm hole and point them all at the desired object. And finally, we install satellites to transmit each telescope's signals to Earth through the wormholes. Ideally, there'd be only a few seconds' delay from the furthest telescopes. It would work because, since things x light years away appear how they were x years ago, and with wormholes you could theoretically instantly pass objects and signals across millions of lightyears, then telescopes positioned 70 million light years away could look at Earth and show us what dinosaurs really looked like.

When I was about 16, I was in a flirtation with a boy. We spent a lot of time together. He got along with my parents and siblings. We traded books and secrets. We hadn't kissed yet, but it was only a matter of time. I remember him leaning over me in my bedroom and I was so certain he was going to kiss me, but then he didn't.

Then, one day, I was standing alone in the middle of my room when, without any forethought or reason, I thought no. I hadn't been thinking of him. I hadn't been wrestling with the relationship or anything. But still the decision arrived fully formed and so forcefully I couldn't even imagine questioning it: no, he isn't what I want.

If we dated, it'd be something big. He was already too entangled with my family. Dating would only make it so much worse. As irrational as it may sound, dating him felt like deciding to remain in my hometown.

So...... I ghosted him. He was friends with my friends, but when he walked over to join our conversation at a hallway bench before school, I'd stand and walk away. When he approached, I left. Repeatedly. I answered none of his calls. I responded to none of his texts. I explained nothing. I had no idea how to explain.

A light-driven energy trap similar to tractor beams used to capture spaceships in science fiction movies such as Star Trek and Star Wars has been developed by researchers in South Australia.

by Andrew Spence

The discovery is opening the way for new quantum experiments that may lead to new secure communications or advanced sensing technologies.