This is a combination of two popular series. Star War an Star Trek co-existed for about fifty years. StarGate is the newest take off of StarTrek.
The Star Wars system became one with the Federation space in StarTrek through Yoda, Obe One and Aniken; and Kirk, Picard and the Borg.
Anakin turned to Vador as The Borg were created through misunderstanding that turned to anger, which ended up leading them to as a difference of opinion that turned into the seeking for control. They are both of human decent that as mechanical, however the Borg is more about control of thyself whereas Darth Vador is controlling others because of his lack of control in himself.
Yeremiah Hardt
yeremiah@aol.com
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
Holographic Beginning
It was in 1974 when I first came to know about the use of hologram in movies, especially horror movies. Based on the holographic technology, a famous Tamil story writer named Sujatha penned a lovely suspense story in which he projected ghostly 3D figures to scare certain individuals. He argued that the very nature of this universe is holographic. A holographic picture or object when broken into several pieces will show the full picture in all the broken pieces. At that time, the hologram technology itself was looked at awe. Now, it is used in various applications that include hologram stickers for security purposefully stickers: These security hologram stickers embedded with numbers for identification purpose are not easily tampered and forged. You can find hologram security stickers in legal documents, business cards and ID cards. Hologram printers: With more usage and increase in demand, hologram printers were developed in which a special thermal ribbon is used to print out hologram labels and hologram sealing applications: The United States Federal department is a major user of hologram security stickers. Even small businesses like pharmaceutical manufacturers and logistic companies use hologram labels and seals. In India, banks are urged to use hologram seals in their documents, share certificates and currency bundles. Hologram study can be quite engrossing. Untouchable abundance. My husband surprised me when he said I am now ready to impart training on bullion watching to aspiring commodity trader. Yes, he first wants me to teach bullion watching and then bullion trading! Quite methodical-eh? I buy and sell gold and copper online for making money but frankly speaking, I like having physical gold, especially gold bars and South African Kruger ands. When you hold them on your fist, the feeling of financial abundance it gives cannot be taken lightly. It is the wealthy feeling that actually brings more wealth. Another big advantage of buying physical gold is the anonymity factor. I feel there is more gold among U.S. citizens than the official gold reserves figure. This applies to Indians too. The fact that gold possession cannot be traced lures more gold buyers. I read an interesting observation online regarding the advantage buying gold coins and taking delivery of your purchases instead of buying virtual gold where your purchases are recorded on a paper and you get a certificate. The gold bars and gold coins you keep in your vault are all yours and none can claim it as theirs! Literally untouchable-right?
Yeremiah Hardt
yeremiah@aol.com
Friday, October 15, 2010
StarTrek Birthdays
January
1-6. Aron Eisenberg Nog [DS9]
1-12. Kirstie Alley Saavik [STII]
1-20 DeForest Kelley Leonard McCoy [TOS/STI-VI]
February
2-1 Bibi Besch Carol Marcus [STII]
2.-2. Brent Spiner Data [TNG/STVII-IX]
2-8. Ethan Phillips Neelix [VOY]
2-14. Andrew J. Robinson Elim Garak [DS9]
2-16.. LeVar Burton Geordi LaForge [TNG/STVII-IX]
2-17 Michelle Forbes Ro Laren [TNG]
2-22. Jeri Ryan Seven of Nine [VOY]
2-23. Majel Barrett Christine Chapel [TOS/STI], Lwaxana Troi [TNG/DS9])
March
3-2 Gates McFadden Beverly Crusher [TNG/STVII-IX]
3.3. James Doohan Montgomery Scott [TOS/STI-VII]
3-20 John deLancie Q [TNG/VOY]
3-22 William Shatner James T. Kirk [TOS/STI-VII]
3-26. Leonard Nimoy Spock [STI-VII/TNG]
3-29 Marina Sirtis Deanna Troi [TNG/STVII-IX]
April
4-15 Michael Ansara Kang [TOS/DS9/VOY]
4-18 Avery Brooks Benjamin Sisko [DS9]
4-20 George Takei Hikaru Sulu [TOS/STI-VI/VOY]
4-29 Kate Mulgrew Kathryn Janeway [VOY]
May
5-5. Marc Alaimo Dukat [DS9]
5-30 Colm Meaney Miles O'Brien [TNG/DS9]
June
6-1 René Auberjonois Odo [DS9]
6.6. Jeri Taylor Author [TNG/VOY], Executive Producer/Creator [VOY]
6-22 Tim Russ Tuvok [VOY]
July
7-13 Patrick Stewart Jean-Luc Picard [DS9,STVII-IX]
7-23 Ronny Cox Edward Jellico [TNG]
7-26 Nana Visitor Kira Nerys [DS9]
7-29. Whil Weathon Wesley Crusher [TNG]
August .
8-7 Cirroc Lofton Jake Sisko [DS9]
8-19 Gene Roddenberry Star Trek Creator
8.19 Jonathan Frakes William Riker [TNG, STVII-IX]
8-19 Diana Muldaur Kathrine Pulaski [TNG]
8-24 Jennifer Lien Kes [VOY]
September
9-3 Merritt Butrick David Marcus [STII/STIII]
9-9 Corbin Bensen Q2 [TNG]
9-11 Roxann Dawson B'Elanna Torres [VOY]
9-14. Walter Koenig Pavel Chekov [TOS]
9-23 Rosalind Chao Keiko [DS9]
October .
10-15 Mark Lenard Sarek [TOS/TNG/STIII/STIV/STVI]
22.10. Christopher Lloyd Kruge [STIII]
10-24 John Winston Kyle [TOS]
10 27 Robert Picardo Holodoc [VOY]
November
11-5. Armin Shimmerman Quark [DS9]
11-5. Eric Menyuk The Traveller [TNG]
11-9 Robert Duncan McNeill Tom Paris [VOY]
11-11 Max Grodènchik Rom [DS9]
11-13 Whoopi Goldberg Guinan [TNG/STVII]
11-19 Terry Farrell Jadzia Dax [DS9]
11-21 Alexander Siddig Julian Bashir [DS9]
11-24 Denise Crosby Tasha Yar/Sela [TNG]
11-24 Dwight Schultz Reginald Barclay [TNG]
11-25 Ricardo Montalban Khan [TOS/STII]
December
12-3 Brian Bonsell Alexander Rozhenko [TNG]
12-9 Michael Dorn Worf [TNG/DS9]
12-13 Christopher Plummer Chang [STVI]
12-15 Garrett Wang Harry Kim [VOY]
12-25 Rick Berman Executive Producer [TNG/DS9/VOY], Creator [DS9/VOY]
12-28. Nichelle Nichols Nyota Uhura [TOS/STI-VI]
Yeremiah Hardt
yeremiah@aol.com
1-6. Aron Eisenberg Nog [DS9]
1-12. Kirstie Alley Saavik [STII]
1-20 DeForest Kelley Leonard McCoy [TOS/STI-VI]
February
2-1 Bibi Besch Carol Marcus [STII]
2.-2. Brent Spiner Data [TNG/STVII-IX]
2-8. Ethan Phillips Neelix [VOY]
2-14. Andrew J. Robinson Elim Garak [DS9]
2-16.. LeVar Burton Geordi LaForge [TNG/STVII-IX]
2-17 Michelle Forbes Ro Laren [TNG]
2-22. Jeri Ryan Seven of Nine [VOY]
2-23. Majel Barrett Christine Chapel [TOS/STI], Lwaxana Troi [TNG/DS9])
March
3-2 Gates McFadden Beverly Crusher [TNG/STVII-IX]
3.3. James Doohan Montgomery Scott [TOS/STI-VII]
3-20 John deLancie Q [TNG/VOY]
3-22 William Shatner James T. Kirk [TOS/STI-VII]
3-26. Leonard Nimoy Spock [STI-VII/TNG]
3-29 Marina Sirtis Deanna Troi [TNG/STVII-IX]
April
4-15 Michael Ansara Kang [TOS/DS9/VOY]
4-18 Avery Brooks Benjamin Sisko [DS9]
4-20 George Takei Hikaru Sulu [TOS/STI-VI/VOY]
4-29 Kate Mulgrew Kathryn Janeway [VOY]
May
5-5. Marc Alaimo Dukat [DS9]
5-30 Colm Meaney Miles O'Brien [TNG/DS9]
June
6-1 René Auberjonois Odo [DS9]
6.6. Jeri Taylor Author [TNG/VOY], Executive Producer/Creator [VOY]
6-22 Tim Russ Tuvok [VOY]
July
7-13 Patrick Stewart Jean-Luc Picard [DS9,STVII-IX]
7-23 Ronny Cox Edward Jellico [TNG]
7-26 Nana Visitor Kira Nerys [DS9]
7-29. Whil Weathon Wesley Crusher [TNG]
August .
8-7 Cirroc Lofton Jake Sisko [DS9]
8-19 Gene Roddenberry Star Trek Creator
8.19 Jonathan Frakes William Riker [TNG, STVII-IX]
8-19 Diana Muldaur Kathrine Pulaski [TNG]
8-24 Jennifer Lien Kes [VOY]
September
9-3 Merritt Butrick David Marcus [STII/STIII]
9-9 Corbin Bensen Q2 [TNG]
9-11 Roxann Dawson B'Elanna Torres [VOY]
9-14. Walter Koenig Pavel Chekov [TOS]
9-23 Rosalind Chao Keiko [DS9]
October .
10-15 Mark Lenard Sarek [TOS/TNG/STIII/STIV/STVI]
22.10. Christopher Lloyd Kruge [STIII]
10-24 John Winston Kyle [TOS]
10 27 Robert Picardo Holodoc [VOY]
November
11-5. Armin Shimmerman Quark [DS9]
11-5. Eric Menyuk The Traveller [TNG]
11-9 Robert Duncan McNeill Tom Paris [VOY]
11-11 Max Grodènchik Rom [DS9]
11-13 Whoopi Goldberg Guinan [TNG/STVII]
11-19 Terry Farrell Jadzia Dax [DS9]
11-21 Alexander Siddig Julian Bashir [DS9]
11-24 Denise Crosby Tasha Yar/Sela [TNG]
11-24 Dwight Schultz Reginald Barclay [TNG]
11-25 Ricardo Montalban Khan [TOS/STII]
December
12-3 Brian Bonsell Alexander Rozhenko [TNG]
12-9 Michael Dorn Worf [TNG/DS9]
12-13 Christopher Plummer Chang [STVI]
12-15 Garrett Wang Harry Kim [VOY]
12-25 Rick Berman Executive Producer [TNG/DS9/VOY], Creator [DS9/VOY]
12-28. Nichelle Nichols Nyota Uhura [TOS/STI-VI]
Yeremiah Hardt
yeremiah@aol.com
Saturday, September 4, 2010
StarTrek Presence
Yeremiah Hardt
yeremiah@aol.com
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Existence of Alternate Realities
Do alternate realities exist? Can anyone be sure? How does anyone know if this reality is real? It is definitely not possible.
This is one of the interesting questions of all times. In these times of computer age philosophies, is it possible to know what’s real and what isn’t, human senses are so easily fooled.
Where does it end, and more importantly, where does it begin?
Which is the master or highest reality? Is there ever one? Is it possible to tell?
Yeremiah Hardt yeremiah@aol.com
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Teleportation
Teleportation over 10 miles
the ultimate secure line
We picked our jaws off the floor when we heard about tiny particlesbeing teleported just a foot or two away, but now scientists have topped that by 10 miles. This tech won't be transporting Kirk and his Away Team to the surface of some distant planet anytime soon, but it has seriously practical applications to communications.
Quantum physics says photons can, in some ways, occupy two places at once. When one photon gets entangled with another, whatever happens to one of those particles also happens to another, even if it's TEN
frickin' miles away! Now THAT's a fast connection.
The good news: The researchers were able to send this info with 89% fidelity. The bad? Information transmitted in this way will be hard to encrypt. But they're working on that. There's good reason to work on it; if they can get this right, the communication would be completely secure. Since there's no physical medium for the transmission to travel through — not even spacetime itself — it would be physically impossible to jam or intercept.
Teleportation 101
Yeremiah Hardt yeremiah@aol.com
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Meet the nano-spiders: The DNA robots that could one day be walking through your body
The ground-breaking devices outlined in the journal Nature, could one day lead to armies of surgeon robots that could clean human arteries or build computer components.
In one of the projects a team from New York's Columbia University created a spider bot just four nanometres across. This is about 100,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair.
Robots of the future could operate at the nano-scale level, cleaning arteries or building computer components
The nano-spider moves along a track comprising stitched-together strands of DNA that is essentially a pre-programmed course.
A molecular nanorobot dubbed a 'spider' and labeled with green dyes moves along a DNA track to its red-labeled goal.
To watch the spider in motion, the researchers used atomic force microscopy which showed the molecular robots following four different paths.
Molecular robots have drawn huge interest because of the allure of programming them to sense their environment and react to it.
For instance, they could note disease markers on a cell surface, decide that the cell is cancerous and needs to be destroyed and then deliver a compound to kill it.
Yeremiah Hardt
yeremiah@aol.com
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Warp Drives: Making the 'Impossible' Possible
By Ian O'Neill
It's very easy to say that something is "impossible" when talking about technologies that appear to be more at home in science fiction storylines. And when it comes to warp drives -- the staple of Star Trek propulsion systems -- there's no shortage of critics.
Being critical of advanced concepts is no bad thing, however. Indeed, it is a very healthy part of the scientific process, but singling out the impracticalities of faster than light-speed travel could be considered to be a little premature to say the least.
Yesterday, I wrote an article about William Edelstein's concern that a warpship could vaporize when traveling close to the speed of light. Let's face it, it doesn't sound good when a scientist points out that the ambient gas between the stars could turn into "death rays" with as much energy as a beam of protons in the Large Hadron Collider operating at full pelt.
To counter this argument, advanced propulsion expert Richard Obousy is concerned that citing problems with a theoretical futuristic warp drive is a little shortsighted at best. At worst, it could distract from these advanced theories ever being tested.
"Of course, a warp drive is a purely theoretical device at this stage, and no evidence exists that indicates that a warp drive could actually be built," Dr. Obousy told Discovery News. "There are, however, some research papers which lay down a mathematical and physical framework for how such a device might function, given the convenient caveat of a 'sufficiently advanced technology.' "
In June 2009, Dr. Obousy gave Discovery News an exclusive look at his "warpship" concept (a piece of 'sufficiently advanced technology' itself), a spaceship that could generate its own warp "bubble," compressing spacetime in the front of the vehicle and expanding it from the rear.
Inside the bubble would be a region of "stationary" spacetime. The warpship would carry this region of spacetime with it, allowing the vehicle to zip around the universe at unlimited velocities.
However, as highlighted in our interview, he pointed out that the warpship, although physically accurate, only operated according to our current assumptions of the nature of our universe.
For example, to warp spacetime, the warp drive would need to manipulate the "dark energy" that is theorized to pervade all space. (This mystery force must be there if we are to explain the accelerated expansion of the universe.) Also, microscopic extra dimensions as predicted by superstring theory would need to exist.
Assuming these theories stand the test of time, then perhaps Obousy's warp drive could be a reality in the distant future.
Addressing Edelstein's concern about warpships converting interstellar gas into deadly radiation, irradiating our future interstellar travelers, Obousy presents a novel solution as to how this problem could be mitigated.
"I'm fairly sure some kind of shielding would be required [when traveling at warp speed]," he said. "I'm quite interested in doing some more research into the 'cloaking device' that's been in the news recently using metamaterials that bend radiation around objects. I don't know enough about this field yet, but it's an obvious place to start."
Using metamaterials on the hull of our futuristic spaceships could conceivably act as a shield against electromagnetic radiation generated as a consequence of traveling faster than the speed of light. Metamaterials have some very promising characteristics that redirect photons around objects, "cloaking" them from view.
Metamaterials are a technology that's being developed now, having been used in the lab to simulate the properties of black holes and to improve ultrasound techniques.
As Obousy suggests, perhaps the voracious energy predicted by Edelstein could be deflected by metamaterials. But this is just one solution to this scenario; who knows what other 'sufficiently advanced technologies' we'll have should warp drive propulsion become a reality?
Yeremiah Hardt
yeremiah@aol.com
It's very easy to say that something is "impossible" when talking about technologies that appear to be more at home in science fiction storylines. And when it comes to warp drives -- the staple of Star Trek propulsion systems -- there's no shortage of critics.
Being critical of advanced concepts is no bad thing, however. Indeed, it is a very healthy part of the scientific process, but singling out the impracticalities of faster than light-speed travel could be considered to be a little premature to say the least.
Yesterday, I wrote an article about William Edelstein's concern that a warpship could vaporize when traveling close to the speed of light. Let's face it, it doesn't sound good when a scientist points out that the ambient gas between the stars could turn into "death rays" with as much energy as a beam of protons in the Large Hadron Collider operating at full pelt.
To counter this argument, advanced propulsion expert Richard Obousy is concerned that citing problems with a theoretical futuristic warp drive is a little shortsighted at best. At worst, it could distract from these advanced theories ever being tested.
"Of course, a warp drive is a purely theoretical device at this stage, and no evidence exists that indicates that a warp drive could actually be built," Dr. Obousy told Discovery News. "There are, however, some research papers which lay down a mathematical and physical framework for how such a device might function, given the convenient caveat of a 'sufficiently advanced technology.' "
In June 2009, Dr. Obousy gave Discovery News an exclusive look at his "warpship" concept (a piece of 'sufficiently advanced technology' itself), a spaceship that could generate its own warp "bubble," compressing spacetime in the front of the vehicle and expanding it from the rear.
Inside the bubble would be a region of "stationary" spacetime. The warpship would carry this region of spacetime with it, allowing the vehicle to zip around the universe at unlimited velocities.
However, as highlighted in our interview, he pointed out that the warpship, although physically accurate, only operated according to our current assumptions of the nature of our universe.
For example, to warp spacetime, the warp drive would need to manipulate the "dark energy" that is theorized to pervade all space. (This mystery force must be there if we are to explain the accelerated expansion of the universe.) Also, microscopic extra dimensions as predicted by superstring theory would need to exist.
Assuming these theories stand the test of time, then perhaps Obousy's warp drive could be a reality in the distant future.
Addressing Edelstein's concern about warpships converting interstellar gas into deadly radiation, irradiating our future interstellar travelers, Obousy presents a novel solution as to how this problem could be mitigated.
"I'm fairly sure some kind of shielding would be required [when traveling at warp speed]," he said. "I'm quite interested in doing some more research into the 'cloaking device' that's been in the news recently using metamaterials that bend radiation around objects. I don't know enough about this field yet, but it's an obvious place to start."
Using metamaterials on the hull of our futuristic spaceships could conceivably act as a shield against electromagnetic radiation generated as a consequence of traveling faster than the speed of light. Metamaterials have some very promising characteristics that redirect photons around objects, "cloaking" them from view.
Metamaterials are a technology that's being developed now, having been used in the lab to simulate the properties of black holes and to improve ultrasound techniques.
As Obousy suggests, perhaps the voracious energy predicted by Edelstein could be deflected by metamaterials. But this is just one solution to this scenario; who knows what other 'sufficiently advanced technologies' we'll have should warp drive propulsion become a reality?
Yeremiah Hardt
yeremiah@aol.com
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Essential Freedoms
In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
The first is freedom of speech and expression -- everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way -- everywhere in the world.
The third is freedom from want -- which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants -- everywhere in the world.
The fourth is freedom from fear -- which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor-- anywhere in the world.
That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.
To that new order we oppose the greater conception -- the moral order. A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.
Since the beginning of our American history, we have been engaged in change -- in a perpetual peaceful revolution -- a revolution which goes on steadily, quietly adjusting itself to changing conditions -- without the concentration camp or the quick-lime in the ditch. The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.
This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women; and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose.
To that high concept there can be no end save victory.
Yeremiah Hardt
yeremiah@aol.com
Rules for Being Human
by Cherie Carter-Scott
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called life. Each day in the school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error, experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately "works".
4. A lesson is repeated until it is learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go on to the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.
6. "There" is no better than "here". When your "there" has become "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will, again, look better than "here".
7. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8. The answers lie inside you. The answers to life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen and trust.
9. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
10. Everything in life is done ONE day at a time
Yeremiah Hardt
yeremiah@aol.com
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called life. Each day in the school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error, experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately "works".
4. A lesson is repeated until it is learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go on to the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.
6. "There" is no better than "here". When your "there" has become "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will, again, look better than "here".
7. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8. The answers lie inside you. The answers to life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen and trust.
9. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
10. Everything in life is done ONE day at a time
Yeremiah Hardt
yeremiah@aol.com
Monday, January 4, 2010
Equal Universe
The universe always equals itself out. Sometimes the equalization process is good for us; and sometimes it is not so good. You have to believe it’s for the most positive intention, even though it sometimes seems to have a negative impact. That impact will eventually turn itself around and be seen as a positive difference in the future for you.
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