Want - 'real' Star Trek phaser

From Boing Boing DIY Star Trek phaser pops balloons and makes a cool noise:

Wonder if my talented (and former laser engineer) cousin Anthony could build this?

Enterprise D ambient sound

From Real Life Comics comes , the Enterprise D Ambient sound. It's only an hour long, but if you drop it in a looping sound player, it does the trick Now to set it up to play in the office.

Fanboy fantasy

All my favourite sci-fi fantasies in one.

From http://fanvixens.com/about/

Star Trek online

I want to play this game. They now have a new Enterprise (the Odessey class Enterprise F seen below)

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Stephen Fry - on ADHD and Star Trek

I knew I liked Stephen Fry, now I know why

You code like a Klingon

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You learn something new every day, thanks to Not Invented Here

var'aq is a speculative exercise in language creation: what does a programming language used by Klingons look like? It is a real programming language (not just a toy) that tries to imagine what it's like to be a hacker of the best-documented alien race in science fiction.

I think it should be called K# or K Sharp. Sharp like a Bath'leth

This IS the droid I'm looking for

My favourite little droid R2-D2 shows up in the strangest places:

In the Well of Souls from Raiders of the lost ark

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And again

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In the new Star Trek movie

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And, lastly, in my favourite place of all.

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plus there are more here

Ways to (ab)use the holosuite

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Its a Horta's what??

Prepare for warp, Jim.

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Warp 9 - engage

Scientists have captured antimatter atoms for the first time. From http://articles.cnn.com/2010-11-18/world/switzerland.cern.antimatter_1_antihydrogen-matter-and-antimatter-cern?_s=PM:WORLD

Researchers at CERN, the Geneva-based particle physics laboratory, have managed to confine single antihydrogen atoms in a magnetic trap.

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To trap just 38 atoms, they had to run the experiment 335 times, says Nature which published the report findings.

Wahoo. One step closer to Star Trek,  that glorious socialist self-improving society in space. Next up, warp drive powered by matter/anti-matter reaction.

A Haynes manual for us geeks

Here's a Haynes manual I'd buy:

The 160-page guide covers the entire range of USS Enterprise models, from Captain Jonathan Archer's original NX-01 from the most recent TV series through to the NCC-1701 under the control of Captain Kirk and her replacement, the NNC-1701-E.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/haynes-offers-star-trek-fans-chance-to-get-inside-the-enterprise-engine-room/story-e6frfro0-1225946508166#ixzz15183K0NE

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Spelunklingon

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Time to learn how to say Stalactite in Klingon, come to think of it, it already sounds Klingon!

From http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100727/od_nm/us_caves

Staff at the Jenolan Caves west of Sydney have added a new out-of-this-world attraction -- a tour in the Star Trek language Klingon.

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"In the Star Trek universe, Jenolan Caves was first immortalized in the Next Generation episode 'Relics,' through the naming of a 'Sydney Class' Starship - the USS Jenolan," the Jenolan Caves Reserve Trust said in a statement.

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The Klingon tour has been set up for the Nettle Cave, which attracts up to 200,000 visitors a year, and will start on August 22.