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Titolo: Hawking's future is Serenity not Star Trek

Speriamo di no. :-//
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7682/1066/
Stephen Hawking, the genius who wrote a best seller that most readers
couldn't understand, believes the human race is destined to colonize
planets in other star systems. However, Hawking's vision sounds more like
the cult space western series Firefly than Star Trek.
As far as Hawking is concerned, planet earth one way or another will meet
its destruction. The way forward, however, is not to go boldly forth and
meet alien civilizations a la Star Trek.
In Hawking's future, humans will become space pioneers who tame and inhabit
suitable planets outside our solar system, much like the Firefly series
which features a team of space rebels aboard the space ship Serenity who
make a living trading contraband between the outer colonies of a loosely
knit federation of planets.
There are no alien civilizations, just an authoritarian central government
and no mention is made of what became of Earth other than it is where
everything started. Oh yes, and everybody speaks both English and Chinese
because the US and China were the two surviving superpowers.
Hawking has not said whether his vision is inspired by Firefly but the
space ship Serenity doesn't feature a faster than light warp drive, just
plain old rocket propulsion. According to Hawking, if we can harness the
power of anti-matter for our rocket propulsion, we could reach near light
speeds, taking us to the nearest star system within six years. Hawking
doesn't say it but, according to Einstein, six years may seem like just six
weeks to those on board the space ship because of the time contraction
effects that occur at near light speeds.
What Hawking also doesn't say is that the nearest star system probably
doesn't have any planets that can support human life. Earth is pretty
special in that regard, so the nearest star system with inhabitable planets
could be hundreds or thousands of years away even at near light speeds.
In the Firefly series, they solve that problem by turning uninhabitable
planets into Earth clones using a process called terra forming.
Unfortunately, at present, us humans can't even keep our own atmosphere
under control let alone tame the atmosphere of another planet.
Thus, for the time being at least, if we are to colonize another planet, we
may have to content ourselves with a future more like that of Governor
Arnie's Total Recall, where humans live in domed cities on planets like
Mars. First, however, we really should finish the international space
station and hope like crazy that nuclear war doesn't break out, a new ice
age doesn't sweep the planet or an asteroid doesn't bring on an extinction
level event.
-- 
Jolan Tru, Filippo "Hytok" Simone
L'oracolo sampdoriano di Sunnydale
http://perestroika.altervista.org/
http://lacasadeglielfi.altervista.org/

 Speriamo di no. :-//
Purtroppo siamo sempre più vicini alla visione di Orwell che non a
quella di Roddenberry.
Soprattutto con le ultime azioni amerdikane poi stiamo come minimo
andando verso un mondo dominato da persone come quelle dell'ira di khan.

 andando verso un mondo dominato da persone come quelle dell'ira di khan.
Con l'aggravante che quelli erano geni, mentre questi sono pure
imbecilli. Che in un sistema di merda fa ben poca differenza, ma
comunque in peggio.  
-- 
Dathon (per scrivermi, sostituite "tanagra" con "libero")
"Very strange", thinks the security officer. "That's the fourth
Arabic man without an Arabic name who just got on board with a
knife, gun or boxcutter and gas mask. And why does that security
camera keep flicking off every time one of these characters shows
up? Must be one of those days I guess..."

 the cult space western series Firefly than Star Trek.
mi sorge il dubbio che si sia pentito di quel "Ci sto lavorando..."
riferito al motore di curvatura della E-D e stia cercando di "aggiustare"
il tiro ;-))PP
ciao :)
-- 
Sat'Rain          [ sat (dot) rain (at) email (punto) it ]
                  [ ++ 
http://satrain.altervista.org/
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"Quando tutto il resto fa fiasco, leggi le istruzioni."
[Assioma di Cahn]

 il tiro ;-))PP
oppure cerca di distogliere l'attenzione prima dell'annuncio clamoroso :D
ciao
BLADELA
-- 
"Resistance is Chuck Norris"

 il tiro ;-))PP
Non ho capito... sono disinformato in merito...
Qualcuno sta lavorando nella realtà alla curvatura!?