Star Trek had artificial gravity and inertial dampers.
The ships are laid out to fit their warp bubbles.
NASA has neither...... just a warp engine ( theoretical ) so the giant window & layout like an airplane in something that isn't meant to land is silly.
Perhaps it's part of their new religious mission.
Make Muslims proud of their 14 th century contributions to science & crush Climate Heretics.
Thunderstorms do indeed create matter from gamma rays. This was discovered about three years ago. What is special about the experiment described is that we now have a way of accomplishing the feat in a controlled environment. If we can raise the coupling of the gamma rays with the EM field, we can raise the efficiency of the process, creating more matter. If we can raise the energy of the gamma rays, we can create proton-antiproton pairs. If we can capture the positrons and antiprotons, which should not be difficult, and slow them down (which we have already done), we can produce anti-hydrogen.
If we can use the Sun to directly supply the energy and source matter stream for the production of the gamma rays and the creation of the high density EM field, we suddenly have a worthwhile anti-matter production facility. This has direct implications for space exploration.
I was just reading an article on RB-66 operations in the Cold War.
The author describes the 35, 000 watt strobe lights used to take pictures at night and the photo flash "bombs" as being a major source of UFO reports in the mid 1960's.
Having been part of an inadvertent UFO incident at Daytona Beach back in (redacted) ( I think the statute of limitations is up.... ) where we were guerrilla parasailing New Years Eve.......... I can understand not making any public announcement.
Shining a police car searchlight into a paracommander (round) parachute from below with the "jumper" dressed all in black..... a few hundred feet up on the beach past the condos & hotels at midnight generated hundreds of UFO reports as we saw on the news the next morning at the Ihop in Deland. The staff of the collegiate skydiving nationals knew nothing.
Global warming has begun literally striking down aircraft from mid flight, SCUBA divers are being boiled in the oceans, and Barack Obama has been elected pResident!!!!
Wait... this one is even more scary! Stay inside, save yourselves!!!
Wait a minute... that's only since 1880. What about this information, the um... last 5 MILLION YEARS... this couldn't be significant...
... or could it?
Sorry, I didn't hear what you guys were all talking about, what with the huge manatees and such. I was hiding, with my eyes closed and my fingers in my ears with my head under a rock... in a cave. On Mars.
Wasn't there some strange name for that period of time around the late 1800s? Something about an abbreviated really freaking cold period or something like that? I do remember the late '70s. Mostly anyway. That was right after they were claiming we heading into another really freaking cold period or something like that. So it's a bad thing that we aren't in a really freaking cold period?
Given a choice between 2-4 degrees cooler or warmer, I'll take warmer.
2 degrees is probably near optimum, based on historical record. Viking Warm period, aka little climactic optimum, 4 degrees might be a shade warm for my taste, Classical Rome, IIRC a brief cold spell around the birth of Jesus, then decent until the Dark ages were in part brought on by a cold cycle, ....... the Danube freezing, the Northern European tribes swamping Rome, the Eastern Empire's consolidation of the Italian Rome, followed by plague...... Lots of plague.
The Cold times suck.
As to warming causing an ice age?
Something to that. Theory as of the late 1970's was that extended arctic ice free time in winter could trigger massive snowfall, that would in turn reflect the Sun's heat and cause/accelerate a cooling trend. When the snow doesn't melt in summer...the year round albedo changes and.... slide into Fimbulwinter.
Not proven theory, not as sophisticated as today's popular ones, but I like it for the well thought out synergistic effects, snow + low humidity + solar minimum = kick start. As is turned out, the Solar flux changed and the theory remains untested.
OTOH the "current" Climate Models don't work yet. They fail to predict the past. ( so they cannot be counted on to predict the future ) I have high hopes that another century or so will give us a better baseline, and that I'll be safely dead when the Ice Age Comes. Unfortunately, we're about due.
Is the Ice age coming? Yes. Period Fracking Dot. It's major, repeating cycle based on orbital dynamics and the heartbeat of solar thermonuclear reactions....
There has never been an Ice Age canceled because of a volcanic active period that I recall, with higher levels of CO2 than now.
Can we have a long period of Hot enough to give us "Soylent Green" climate disaster?
Don't think so, since it's never happened before. Might though. Complex subject and I'm just a amateur.
Ice caps melt and flood the lowlands? Sure. That could happen. You used to be able to walk from London to Paris. ( don't know what the villages were called then... )
Trees use solar photons to drive the chemical reactions, not create matter.
The lightning bolt/gamma ray bit, that's a high energy photon getting kicked by an EM field to create/become momentarily a tiny bit of matter & antimatter. Which then recombines to create/become the photon again.
Happens all the time. They noticed that there were the tell tales signs of antimatter/matter Annihilation in violent thunder storms. Apparently able to recreate the process in the lab, ( I haven't read up on that part yet ) and if you can do it in the lab, you can make antimatter. Awesome battery, Antimatter. Packaging is a issue. You thought Lithium Ion Battery fires were a problem?
Fredrica your thoughts alone are a source of noxious vapors. If your going to be an annoying troll you need step up your game! Too bad we were beginning to like you. We need to call Trolls are Us. Badweb has worn your itty bitty troll brain out. If your all we can get We need to step up our Game
Your Evil Pres Carter pushed France into freeing the Ayatola. The Shah fell soon after and the Mideast has been on fire ever since. The American Jewish Community has been a majority Demoncrat voting block for too long. Your Demonrat handlers are plotting the destruction of Israel. Your time is about up evil always fails in the end. Evil turns on its self after all it is Evil.
Now, 28 hysterical years later, the same charlatans expect us to believe the Hoax. The data has been manipulated, the temperature hasn't gone up, and the models haven't matched reality but yet we need a carbon tax.