++ ATOT official NEF thread part IV ++

[MotF Bane]

V8Roadsters has a $2500 mounting kit for the NC MX5. Great, that's one of the biggest problems missing.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Holodecks are another ST device that might happen one day, but I don't think they'll be anywhere near as awesome as the ones in ST.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

And of course, the most important technologies of Star Trek -- warp drive and space exploration. I believe that we'll one day explore other star systems, but not within 300 to 400 years, which is the Star Trek time frame. I think warp drive is a technology that is much farther out.

 

[eldorado99]

ned

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I mean, by the 24th century, we may have sent probes to other star systems and possibly even humans to the nearest one, but we won't have 10% of the galaxy explored already as they have in ST (which takes place in the 23rd and 24th centuries).

 

[MotF Bane]

Remaining issue is that the $2000 ARCO coilovers don't fit NC.

 

[MotF Bane]

ICF, I think if we can violate the speed of light to do warp, we'll beat transporter technology too.

 

[MotF Bane]

Nef.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

ICF, I think if we can violate the speed of light to do warp, we'll beat transporter technology too.

Well remember, warp drive doesn't actually violate the speed of light. The drive creates a bubble around the ship which warps the fabric of space to make it appear to travel faster than light.

Transporter technology won't happen, at least not for living beings. You might be able to put a hammer on a transporter pad, have it scanned, and then "beam" the pattern to a remote location, where it is reassembled. That's more a part of replicator technology, another Star Trek technology which may happen one day but I imagine it is farther out than 400 years.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Of course, researchers recently felt that they broke the speed of light in an experiment with particles. I haven't kept up with the story and seen if it was, in fact, verified by other groups.

 

[eldorado99]

neft

 

[MotF Bane]

Nef.

 

[eldorado99]

Well remember, warp drive doesn't actually violate the speed of light. The drive creates a bubble around the ship which warps the fabric of space to make it appear to travel faster than light.

Transporter technology won't happen, at least not for living beings. You might be able to put a hammer on a transporter pad, have it scanned, and then "beam" the pattern to a remote location, where it is reassembled. That's more a part of replicator technology, another Star Trek technology which may happen one day but I imagine it is farther out than 400 years.

I don't know man...:

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke,

 

[eldorado99]

ned

 

[eldorado99]

ned3

 

[eldorado99]

nef

 

[MotF Bane]

Nef.

 

[shortylickens]

Well remember, warp drive doesn't actually violate the speed of light. The drive creates a bubble around the ship which warps the fabric of space to make it appear to travel faster than light.

Then Enterprise wrecked all that (actually they wrecked a lot, but especially the warp drive). Cuz they often slowly accelerated from warp 4 to 4.1 to 4.2 all the way up to 5.0, and if they pushed it too hard the ship started to shake and shimmy and vibrate apart.

 

[eldorado99]

ned

 

[MotF Bane]

Narf.

 

[shortylickens]

BROFESSIONAL: Your perpetually single friend who is always available for a night of debauchery with otherwise married, stay-at-home types.

TESTICULATING: Waving your arms around while talking bollocks.

CARNIVOYEUR: A vegetarian (or vegan) who digs watching others chomp on cooked flesh.

SINBAD: Single working girls. Single income, no boyfriend and desperate.

FREDDY COUGAR: A scary, middle-aged (or older) woman who mistakenly thinks she's more desirable than she actually is.

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

FREEBOOBING: The act of wearing a tight blouse sans bra. Think of it as the female equivalent of a man's freeballing.

INEPTOCRACY: A government or state ruled by people who are incompetent.

MILLENNIUM DOMES: The contents of a Wonderbra. IE. extremely impressive when viewed from the outside, but there's actually nothing in there worth seeing.

KARDASHIANED: Coined following the 72 day marriage of Kim Kardashian to Kris Humphries, it means the act of being blindsided following an ill-advised wedding.

JOHNNY-NO-STARS: A young man of substandard intelligence, the typical adolescent who works in a burger restaurant. The 'no-stars' comes from the badges displaying stars that staff at fast-food restaurants often wear to show their level of training.

RECYCLEOPATH: Person who is militant when it comes to recycling and goes apeshit when you accidentally forget to separate one lousy plastic water bottle from a bag of trash.

BLAMESTORMING: Sitting round in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

TEBOWING: Idiotic move of getting down on one knee in order to 'speak' to some imaginary 'friend'. Primarily used by egotistical athletes who think deities give a crap about some pass or play.

SWAMP DONKEY: A deeply unattractive person.

SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

HUMBLEBRAG: An ostensibly humble comment that also demonstrates the person's wealth, fame, or importance.

ASSMOSIS: The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.

SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die.

CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.

PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on. (This also applies to applause for a promotion because there may be cake).

SITCOM'S: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids or start a 'home business'.

BRIGHTSIZING: Corporate downsizing in which the brightest workers are let go.

AEROPLANE BLONDE: One who has bleached/dyed her hair but still has a 'black box'.

ADMINISPHERE: The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the 'adminisphere' are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. This is often affiliated with the dreaded "administrivia" - needless paperwork and processes.

GOING FOR A McSHIT: Entering a fast food restaurant with no intention of buying food, you're just going to the bog. If challenged by a pimply staff member, your declaration to them that you'll buy their food afterwards is known as a McShit with Lies.

404: Someone who's clueless. From the world wide web error message "404 Not Found" meaning that the requested document could not be located.

OH-NO SECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realise that you've just Made a BIG mistake.

GREYHOUND: A very short skirt, only an inch from the hare.

MONKEY BATH: A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in you go: "Oo! Oo! Oo! Aa! Aa! Aa!".

MYSTERY BUS: The bus that arrives at the pub on Friday night while you're in the toilet after your 10th pint, and whisks away all the unattractive people so the pub is suddenly packed with stunners when you come back in.

MYSTERY TAXI: The taxi that arrives at your place on Saturday morning before you wake up, whisks away the stunner you slept with, and leaves a 10-Pinter in your bed instead.

BEER COAT: The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a booze cruise at 3am.

BEER COMPASS: The invisible device that ensures your safe arrival home after booze cruise, even though you're too drunk to remember where you live, how you got here, and where you've come from.

TART FUEL: Bottled premixed spirits, regularly consumed by young women.

PICASSO BUM: A woman whose knickers are too small for her, so she looks like she's got 4 buttocks.

 

[MotF Bane]

Nef?

 

[eldorado99]

ned

 

[MotF Bane]

Narf.

 

[MotF Bane]

Man, this is a great game.