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The Future is Here: The Invisibility Cloak!

by storiesbywilliams on April 2, 2013 in News, Science, Technology and tagged adaptive camouflage, Canadian stealth tech company, cloaking device, future soldier, hyperstealth, infrared radiation, International Camouflage Symposium, invisibility cloak, metamaterials, microwave radiation, quantum stealth, radar, SmartCamo, stealth cloak, stealth fighter, stealth ships, stealth soldiers, stealth tank, stealth technology, us army

Invisibility cloaks have long been considered the next frontier of modern warfare. With stealth aircraft, stealth ships and even stealth tanks in service or on well on their way, it seems like the time is ripe for a stealth soldier. But difficulties remains. Whereas cloaking planes, ships and tanks is a matter of simply coating […]

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The Future is Here: Invisibility Cloaks (Cont’d)

by storiesbywilliams on November 14, 2012 in News, Technology and tagged adaptive camouflage, bending light, cloaking device, duke university, future technology, invisibility cloak, metamaterials, predator cloak

An update on the ongoing efforts to create invisibility technology has been bearing some pretty interesting fruit. Earlier this year, scientists at Berkeley announced that they were working on a suit that would be capable of bending light around it. Unlike adaptive camouflage, this technology would not merely broadcast a background image to conceal a […]

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Technology in the Star Trek Universe (updated!)

by storiesbywilliams on May 30, 2012 in Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged 1984, aldea, Alien, aliens, battletech, beam me up, beaming, bone knitter, cloaking device, custodian, deflector shields, dilithium chamber, Dune, dystopian, George Orwell, holodeck, hypospray, matter anti-matter, matter-energy transporter, medical tricorder, phaser banks, phaser cannons, phaser rifles, phasers, replicator, science fiction universes, Star Trek, star trek ds9, star trek the original series, Star Trek TNG, star trek voyager, star trek: insurrection, Star Wars, technology in the star trek universe, Terminator, the aldeans, the borg, tricorder, uss defiant, uss enterprise D, utopian, warp bubble, warp drive

I’ve wanted to do a post like this for awhile, ever since my conceptual post on Galactic Empires in fact. After doing my research on what distinguished one from the other, I noticed just how central technology, or the perception thereof, is to it all. And let’s face it, Star Trek has had a lot […]

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The Future is Here: Invisbility Cloaks!

by storiesbywilliams on May 21, 2012 in Future and tagged army invisibility cloak, cloaking device, insurgents video, invisibility cloak, Predator, predator cloaking device, predator invisibility shield, us army invisibility cloak, war in iraq

Well, almost here. But according to this news segment from the Associated Press, the technology for an invisibility cloak may not be far off. Scientists working at the University of Berkley are working on a suit that would be capable of bending light around it, and are getting close to some viable results. If made […]

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Cool Ships (volume VIII)

by storiesbywilliams on May 17, 2012 in Cool Ships, Movies, Series and tagged 2000 dune miniseries, alliance escort carrier, arrakeen, arrakis, battle of bilbringi, battle of installation 05, battleship yamato, battlestar flight pod, Battlestar Galactica, boomer, caprica, cardassian union, centurions, cloaking device, corellian, corellian freighter, Covenant, cylon heavy raider, cylon raider, darth malak, darth revan, david lynchs dune, disruptors, dominion war, Dune, flight pod, FTL, gamilons, general martok, grand admiral thrawn, halcyon-class cruiser, han solo, imperium, interdictor-class cruiser, jedi order, klingon empire, kobol, KOTOR, mechas, milennium falcon, negh'var class cruiser, ornithopter, paul muad'ib, photon torpedoes, protoculture, quasar fire-class cruiser, robotech, scattered, Sci-Fi, science fiction, sharon valerii, space ships, star destroyer, star trek ds9, Star Trek TNG, Star Wars, star wars: knights of the old republic, starbuck, the farm, the great war, the leviathan, thrawn trilogy, truce at bakura, usnc in amber clad, valkyrie, vf-1 veritech, vladivostok-class missile frigate, yt-2400 freighter

Battleship Yamato: A couple times now I’ve given praise to ship designs that went beyond the usual airplane/ seafaring paradigm. But what can you say about a spaceship which is a carbon copy of a old sea battleship? I don’t know, gutsy maybe? That its paying homage to the original? That’s all I can really […]

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Cool Ships (volume VI)

by storiesbywilliams on May 11, 2012 in Cool Ships, Movies, Series and tagged Battlestar Galactica, boba fett, cloaking device, corellia, corellian freighter, cortana, Covenant, cylon raider, cylons, dominion war, event horizon, firefly, flood, forerunner installation 04, forerunners, gravity drive, halo, homeworld, homeworld war, jedi order, Kharak, klingon bird of prey, klingon empire, KOTOR, Kushan fleet, lewis and clarke rescue ship, lightsaber, millennium falcon, mothership, pillar of autumn, reaver ship, reavers, revan and malak, romulan empire, shinzon, sith wars, slave I, Star Trek, star trek ds9, star trek nemesis, Star Trek TNG, Star Wars, star wars kotor, taris, the ebon hawk, the scimitar

Back yet again with a sixth installment in the Cool Ships series. Like last time, I took this opportunity to tackle some overlooked examples, and some new ones as well. In addition… You know what? Screw the introductions and final thoughts, let’s just get into this! Bird of Prey: There’s nothing like a classic, and […]

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Cool Ships!

by storiesbywilliams on April 29, 2012 in Cool Ships, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged Alien, aliens, b5 crusade, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, book, building better worlds, cache weapons, captain sheridan, cat, chewi, cheyenne dropship, cloaking device, colonial marines, commander adama, companion, conestoga-class, corellia, corellian ships, cylons, deep space nine, defiant-class, delenn, drakh, dropship, firefly, firefly-class, han solo, hegazi, hell-class weapons, hoben washburne, ilia volovya, inara serra, interstellar alliance, j michael straczynski, jabba the hutt, jayne cobb, kaylee, kessel, kessel run, lighthugger, lister, malcolm reynolds, melding plague, millennium falcon, mimbari, phasers, president roselyn, quantum torpedoes, red dwarf, religious caste, revelation space, rimmer, river tam, romulans, sajaki, secret compartments, serenity, shepherd book, simon tam, spice, star trek ds9, Star Trek TNG, the alliance, the borg, the defiant, the dominion, the empire, the excalibur, the galactica, the pegasus, the rangers, the sao paolo, the twelve colonies, the valiant, the victory, the white star, ultranauts, ultras, uss nostromo, uss sulaco, wash, Weyland Yutani, white star destroyers, white star fleet, xenomorphs, zoe, zoe washburne

God, what an obvious extension of the whole conceptual sci-fi thing, I can’t believe I didn’t think of it sooner! After all, what is a sci-fi franchise without some cool spacefaring vessels? Sometimes, these come in the form of exploratory ships that chart the unknown regions of the galaxy. Sometimes they are battleships which kick […]

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