From javilk at mall-net.com  Wed Sep  6 16:49:21 2006
From: javilk at mall-net.com (javilk@mall-net.com)
Date: Wed Sep  6 16:49:33 2006
Subject: [Mad-Scientists] Massless EM based Thrrustor
Message-ID: <20060906234922.49968.qmail@mall-net.com>


    Seems we are on the way toward massless "rocket" engines, this one 
having passes some reviews and being funded by the British Government.  
Will England once again rule the waves?  Even if micro-waves?  Landing 
colonies out beyond earth as she had centuries ago?  

   Or are we mad scientists going to beat her to the punch?

http://www.habitablezone.com/space/messages/404584.html

    Remember, it's them Brits that started the whole global warming 
thing with their coal fired steam ships.  Are they now going going to 
microwave earth itself?

    (Probably not, but it sounds like a good plot for a science 
friction story.)

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From javilk at mall-net.com  Mon Sep 18 15:13:43 2006
From: javilk at mall-net.com (javilk@mall-net.com)
Date: Mon Sep 18 15:14:05 2006
Subject: [Mad-Scientists] Star Trek to be auctioned off
Message-ID: <20060918221343.54466.qmail@mall-net.com>

     Props from the Star Trek series, all of the series, are to be 
auctioned off at Christies in October.  Everything from the original 
Enterprise bridge, to dummy bottles of Chateau Piccard from Star Trek: 
Nemesis is on the block. Consoles, costumes, captain's chairs, 
tricorders, laser rifles, tricorders... large and small models, even, as 
I said, the original Star Trek bridge.

     The auction catalog is on line at:
http://www.christies.com/special_sites/startrek/overview.asp

     What this all means for future Star Trek series, if there will be 
any, is a good question.  

     Some of the original "technology" and methodology shown on the 
series has inspired real world developments.  DARPA and NASA studied the 
original Star Trek bridge as a model for modern situation and control 
rooms.

-JVV-