[Steely Tom]

I believe that Dr. McCoy’s “tricorder” is between five and ten years away.

ObamaCare is accelerating development of this technology.

[I want the USA back]

Science fiction: faster than light travel. Transporting living beings from one place to another. Translator that can handle previously-unknown languages.
Will not happen. Ever.

[wally_bert]

My chiropractor uses an adjusting tool that looks like the hypo spray on the old series. He laughed when I told him. Originally it was used in dentistry somehow.

[bunkerhill7]

We got a crude tricorder medical device, but nobody believes us.

[Maceman]

We will soon see a new generation of wearable devices such as bracelets, watches, and clothing that use external sensors to perform electrocardiograms and measure our temperature, blood oxygenation, and other vital signs. These will later be replaced by less obtrusive sensors in skin patches, tattoos and eventually microchips embedded in our bodies. As well, we will have cameras and heat, gas, and sound sensors in our bathrooms, kitchens, and living rooms that constantly monitor our health and lifestyle.

Of course, the government will NEVER use technology to monitor our lifestyles. That would be tyranny, and Obama said that would never happen.

“Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all our problems,”Obama told the audience at the Ohio State commencement ceremony. “They’ll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.” Calling on the students to dispense with “individual ambition,” Obama attempted to align his big government agenda with the vision of the founding fathers, lamenting the fact that less and less Americans trust the state.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I’m still waiting for the flying car that has been promised since the 50s.

[needmorePaine]

Let me know when the holodeck is available.

[Minutemen]

All has come to pass, sadly, minus the actual “hardware” to get to outer space.

[hecticskeptic]

Well... I am hoping that just before this world falls totally apart, a ‘beaming up’ will happen that will be so fast that I won’t even hear the trumpet that is supposed to sound in advance of the event.....1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

[Buckeye McFrog]

They’ll pry my Phaser II from my cold, dead hand...

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The relatively many times faster than the speed of light travel, however, is still a pipe dream.

Just to get to the star nearest to our Sun in a year of travel would require the equivalent of four times the speed of light. Six months, eight times. Three months, 16 times. A six weeks, 32 times. Three weeks, 64 times.

Roughly speaking, to get there in 12 days is about 120 times the speed of light. 6 days, 240 times. 3 days, 480 times.

36 hours, 960 times the speed of light. 18 hours, 1,920 times the speed of light. 9 hours, 3,840. 4 and a half hours, 7680. 2 and a quarter hours, 15,360. A little over an hour, 30,720 times the speed of light.

And to fit into an hour episode, traveling between Earth and Alpha Centauri in about half an hour, you need to go around 61,440 times the speed of light.

Just to travel four light years away.

Here is a list of the stars nearest our Sun. They average about 8 light years away.

http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/extra/nearest.html

[JohnBovenmyer]

Time travel to find Obama’s records.

[trisham]

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[PLMerite]

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