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Date Posted: 19:07:16 08/05/02 Mon
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kyee7k
's message, "star wars vs. star trek tech. 2" on 13:04:39 08/05/02 Mon
>i believe that star trek technology will go through
>more changes than star wars has in the last 20000
>years of its existence. case in point
>1. star wars galatic civilization is about 20000
>years old, and yet has not united the galaxy in one
>giant republic. where are the older civilizations?
>are there any?
>2. the collective group known as the federation has
>gone through more technological changes through the
>short 300 years of its existence than most
>civilizations go through in about 500 years (compare
>b5 before and after intervention.
>3. drive system has gone through amazing leaps from
>the earlier intrasystem jumpdrives they call
>hyperdrive to a theoretical model of transwarp drive
>in about 300 years.
>4. working model of surface capacitance in st, while
>still trying to figure out how it works in sw.
>5. two proton torpedoes and one a-wing broke through
>defenses and shields of a ssd to totally incapacitate
>ship (i still shudder at this)
>6. inability to track starfighters. clarification:
>when the computers are fast enough and powerful enough
>to regulate several large fusion generators,i.e.
>particles within reaction chamber are traveling at or
>near c=300000000 meters per second; then calculating
>and eliminating starfighters should be a cakewalk.
>7. ion drives are not more advanced than impulse
>drives. in fact have the ability to warp space and
>then "pushing" off of it encompasses more concepts (if
>it were true)than just propelling excited molecules
>through an exhaust.
>8. really a gripe about ep. 1 of sw prequel . if
>you have a little knowledge about economics then you
>should have recognized how outlandish the republic
>currency not being valuable on tatooine should have
>been. the old republic like the united states has one
>of the most robust economies available within the
>galaxy. now you tell me that a civ. whose currency is
>traded on 3/4 of galaxy is not valuable on even a
>remote planet like tatooine has got to be nuts.
>9. in the han solo trilogy, we find out that
>antimatter is very experimental. meaning it's used
>only in the laboratory on carida. when you consider
>that antimatter is closely related to fusion
>generation, then you begin to question huh?
>9. if you've read federation by judith and garth
>reeves, then you know that some of the ideas of it are
>really outlandish but possible. zero point energy
>extraction (primitive version would be the buzzard
>array),transwarp drive beyond transwarp (sidewarp
>factor and sidespace),a centralized computer system
>and an artificial contruct such as data (in sw realm
>there is only guri) extra galactic travel.
>10. the ability to travel in multiple universes, and
>have the ability to create portals to other universes.
>
>11. since 4000 years ago during the rise of the sith,
>not one innovation has been made in terms of tech.
>they still use solar sails even when they have fusion
>generators (huh?)oh sure, you have improved mapping of
>the galaxy via hyperspace routes, but i can't seem to
>see any more improvements beyond the occassional
>improvement such as a type of computer chip, etc.
>i'm not saying that the star trek tech is more
>advanced than star wars tech, but for its age(approx.
>20000 year space civilization) it should have already
>surpassed many of these concepts ages ago
>(concepts=pseudo-science). in fact they should
>already be on par, or just below what would be
>classified as ordinary for the voth, but the sw
>universe is backwards and really slow in terms of most
>of their technology and the rate of change.
>in essence the new republic ships should have
>shattered the yuzhang vong during its first encounter.
I also think the SW universe has had little progress in 20000 years. Give the Fedeeration 20000 years, and you won't know what hit you!
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