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To: ShadowAce; SunkenCiv
Space and Tech Ping!.........................
May The Force be with you....................
2 posted on
05/02/2014 10:46:47 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
To: Red Badger
Pucky! the Rebel Alliance stole the technology from Star Fleet!
3 posted on
05/02/2014 10:54:28 AM PDT by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: Red Badger
A more mundane solution would be to pump out flak and a dust cloud.
To: Red Badger
I did this too in grade school when I saw Star Wars. It involved cardboard and tinfoil.
9 posted on
05/02/2014 11:12:47 AM PDT by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Red Badger
It's a sad, sad state of affairs when Physics.org doesn't realize that deflector shields used during space battles originated with
Star Trek in the popular imagination, not
Star Wars.
The modern generation of geeks has forgotten all the important things...
10 posted on
05/02/2014 11:12:53 AM PDT by
FredZarguna
(Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!)
To: Red Badger
Any spaceship that achieved any significant fraction of C would need deflector shields. A speck of dust could be catastrophic at speeds like that.
14 posted on
05/02/2014 11:22:14 AM PDT by
DManA
To: Red Badger
Will this cloud o’ plasma stop a low-tech conventional bullet?
15 posted on
05/02/2014 11:22:27 AM PDT by
chrisser
(Senseless legislation does nothing to solve senseless violence.)
To: Red Badger
Now if they could just develop a warp bubble...
16 posted on
05/02/2014 11:24:08 AM PDT by
jonno
(Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
To: Red Badger
Where can we buy these? They’d help tremendously, especially in the Costco parking lot!
17 posted on
05/02/2014 11:29:22 AM PDT by
faithhopecharity
((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
To: Red Badger
This concept is decades old. It’s been theorized as an armor for tanks too.
19 posted on
05/02/2014 11:36:26 AM PDT by
Durus
(You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
To: Red Badger
These shields won’t stop projectiles.
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25 posted on
05/02/2014 11:49:53 AM PDT by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: Red Badger
Imho, if we don't destroy ourselves or get hit by a meteor, we will see light travel in a hundred years.
I wonder if FR will be around then?
5.56mm
30 posted on
05/02/2014 12:22:34 PM PDT by
M Kehoe
To: Red Badger
The only drawback is that you won't be able to see a thing outside of your star fighter. Maybe you could tether a camera to the ship so you can see outside the force field. Or, have a drone with a camera that follows at a safe distance and sends back video. I wonder if the transmissions could get through the force field?
31 posted on
05/02/2014 12:41:35 PM PDT by
Defiant
(Let the Tea Party win, and we will declare peace on the American people and go home.)
To: Red Badger
Donald Sterling's whore has devised her own:
To: Red Badger
Star Trek had shields even in the original series, Star Wars is just introducing them 40 years later.
34 posted on
05/02/2014 12:51:34 PM PDT by
Brooklyn Attitude
(Things are only going to get worse.)
To: Red Badger
45 posted on
05/05/2014 7:56:46 AM PDT by
shove_it
(long ago Orwell and Rand warned us of Obama's America)
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