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So, I visited the Star Trek Lecture of the well-known Dr. Hubert Zitt today. He's famous for his christmas lectures about Star Trek he does every year at the University of Applied Sciences in Zweibruecken. In his lectures he talks about things like warp and impulse drive, beaming, graviton technology, stuff like that. He is doing this not only in Zweibruecken but also in other universities and at the FedCon ScienceFiction convention. Today he visited my university and explained to us various Star Trek technologies, from warp and impulse drive to energy storing. It was really awesome.
When the lecture started, they were playing the Star Trek: Enterprise theme and the powerpoint presentation in LCARS design appeared on-screen.
It felt like coming home.
He began talking about energy storing and the energy density of sarium krellide, comparing it with the energy density of today's car batteries. Then he continued with nuclear fusion, M/AM reactions, warp theories, replicators and the amount of deuterium needed for the impulse drive.
We learned, for example, that the energy needed by the replicator to make a cup of Picard's Earl Grey could cover the whole German energy requirement for THREE DAYS. Another example: Did you know that the M/AM "fuel" carried by the Enterprise-D could do the same for 19000 years?
But he did not only point out the problems with ST's science. No, he also demonstrated that the impulse drive could actually work (provided we can accelerate the plasma to almost light speed) and that it would need two hours for the Enterprise-D to reach maximum impulse speed with maximum impulse acceleration.
As I said, it was awesome. While listening to his explanations, I thought that this is what Starfleet Academy would probably feel like.
Well, the lecture took one and a half hour and we were all really excited. If he should come to my university again, I'll visit his lecture again.
When the lecture started, they were playing the Star Trek: Enterprise theme and the powerpoint presentation in LCARS design appeared on-screen.
It felt like coming home.
He began talking about energy storing and the energy density of sarium krellide, comparing it with the energy density of today's car batteries. Then he continued with nuclear fusion, M/AM reactions, warp theories, replicators and the amount of deuterium needed for the impulse drive.
We learned, for example, that the energy needed by the replicator to make a cup of Picard's Earl Grey could cover the whole German energy requirement for THREE DAYS. Another example: Did you know that the M/AM "fuel" carried by the Enterprise-D could do the same for 19000 years?
But he did not only point out the problems with ST's science. No, he also demonstrated that the impulse drive could actually work (provided we can accelerate the plasma to almost light speed) and that it would need two hours for the Enterprise-D to reach maximum impulse speed with maximum impulse acceleration.
As I said, it was awesome. While listening to his explanations, I thought that this is what Starfleet Academy would probably feel like.
Well, the lecture took one and a half hour and we were all really excited. If he should come to my university again, I'll visit his lecture again.