Teleportation, the movement of objects or elementary particles from one place to another, more or less instantaneously, without traveling through space, is a very popular fictional concept, appearing in numerous sci-fi productions, "Star Trek" being probably the most famous.Now, a team of scientists set a new record... |
5 June 2007
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Two weeks ago, on April 29, the ashes of the actor James Doohan, who played the starship Enterprise's chief engineer Montgomery Scott in the original 1966-1969 Star Trek series, have been sent to the edge of space by a Houston-based company.The rocket, belonging to Space Services Inc., which organized the "memo... |
14 May 2007
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Star Trek fans around the world will be thrilled to know that an upcoming space mission will look for the famous Vulcan homeworld. In the show, Vulcan is a reddish Minshara-Class planet orbiting the star 40 Eridani A, 16 light years from Earth and is the homeworld of the Vulcans. Apparently, this classification also... |
11 May 2007
09:17 GMT |
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The following article is an excerpt from work by David Allen Batchelor, available online here.Generally, Star Trek is pretty intelligently written and more faithful to science than any other science fiction series ever shown on television. Star Trek also attracts and excites generations of viewers about advanced sci... |
21 April 2007
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