X-Message-Number: 20111 Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 19:51:48 -0500 From: "Kansas City Homes - " <> Subject: Cryonics and warp drive comparison Is 'Star Trek'in our future? Scientists work on projects where you might be able to beam up http://export.msnbc.com/news/809159.asp This article is rather long. Half of it is dedicated to analyzing "StarTrek" series and the other half deals with "hard core" science. I did find a lot of comparables with cryonics though :o) - nobody is making fun of this. Millis doesn't pretend that he and his team are going to come up with a warp engine within the next decade or even the next few, but he figures if someone isn't out there asking these questions, how will any progress get made? "It's easy to say it can't be done, but if we accept that, where does it get us?" asks Millis. "Literally nowhere. Progress is not made by conceding defeat. "The way I see it, it's as important to explore these technologies as it is to attempt to figure out the age and mechanics of the universe. If we can't develop hyper travel, then what do we lose? We'll still have learned a lot. But if we do succeed, the benefit is huge!" Millis says, given what we know now, he wouldn't be surprised to find it is just flat-out impossible to fly faster than the speed of light. But, he points out, when we were thinking in the 1950s about ways to go to the moon - before Apollo - there were experts that said it was impossible. They worked out their calculations and they were absolutely right - it was impossible to land on the moon in that particular way. You just had to change your approach, look at it from a different angle. So maybe the lesson is to redefine the problem, turn it on its head. Then maybe it won't look so impossible. Sincerely, IGGY Dybal Your Real Estate Consultant - Kansas City - RE/MAX Best E-mail: mailto: Web site: http://www.iggy.net Office: 913-894-4024 Toll-free: 877-550-IGGY/4449 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20111