Interview: Space Travel

Here I bring in space travel if it were to just be brought out to the world. I question computer science major, Justin, on his detailed view for what it would be like.

1. How do you see space travel in its early stages when introduced in present times?

At present it would be an extremely expensive venture. only a few wealthy citizens would be able to afford it, and even fewer willing to use it. The lack of any news of space in recent years indicates that the public generally doesn’t care for space travel, at least not in this decade.

2. What kind of accidents can you see take place in space travel if there are few individuals?

There are many things that can cause an accident in space. the most serious include oxygen leaks, miscalculated food rationing, loss of water. There is also the threat of bone density loss after a prolonged period of time in space.

Fewer individuals using space travel means less money being used to fund and research it. Which means safety precautions might not be looked into as much as they should, depending on the company. then there is fuel, and the threat of floating debris as well as gravitational pull should the vessel enter range of a large mass, say an asteroid.

3. What laws do you see be put in place?

First set of laws I see being put into place are restrictions on where and when space vessels can be operated.

Governments don’t want vessels flying and landing all over the earth willy nilly. It disrupts the peace of those poor fishermen, and worse yet pirates could easily hijack a vessel if they don’t land in safe territory. I believe all this would be worked out beforehand, but this is what I see being first implemented

4. If you had the opportunity to space travel what  would you do?

I’d take it!

5.  Where do you see yourself traveling and doing there?

I’d fly to the moon and then mars. If we’re talking about inter-galactic travel, Id hitchike a ride and sail the universe.

There really isn’t much to do on the majority of most planets other than die a horrible death from noxious gas or lack of oxygen and livable air pressure. So I think i’ll snap a few pictures and go about my other business.

Going back to the moon, I’d like to see niel armstrong’s footprint  and dig it up and bring it back to earth to shove into conspiracy theorists’ faces.

6. What type of cities do you see space travel bringing?

If we consider an animal, its body consists of blood vessels, muscles, and organs, among other things. civilization is the same in many ways. Roads are the blood vessels that carry needed supplies to cities and other settlements. space travel, then, is the first step to colonizing outside of mother earth. As for the kinds of cities, structurally they would have to vary to adapt to the terrain they inhabit.

Culturally, they would at first be inheritents of earth culture, but would over time develop their own distinct flavors of society. This also depends on the rate at which people can get from one city to another. The longer it takes to reach a settlement, the less interaction there will be between peoples. Communications in general will also take longer.

7. Do you see space travel reaching the level of star wars achievable?

Depending on the type of methods used for propulsion, maybe. not any time soon, though. There isn’t any way of knowing whether or not we can pull it off, but we managed to fly and that was thought impossible too. So who knows what the future holds. right now, we can only fantasize.

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Interview: Instant Clean Clothes

Ever dreamed about a cleaning product spray on that makes clothes seem just washed and dryed instant. Well this ESL Instructor, Astrid, does and will be answering her view on this.

1. What makes you so interested in such a product?

Because it would save me on time and not worry about dirty clothes constantly. I would save on water and save on buying detergant. Which makes it better on the environment because washer and dryers wouldn’t be used as rarely. Along that this product be made ecofriendly.

2.Would say this product is a replacement for washer and dryers?

Yes it would be a definate replacement since it would do all their work but more effieciently.

3. What do you see happening to washer and dryer companies?

They would have to develop this product in place for washer and dryer. While finding a ecofriendly way of dealing with getting rid of old washer and dryers.

4. What ecofriendly solution do you have in mind?

I’m sure they use them as spare parts to contribute for other machines.

5. Any other personal opinions you would like to make?

I would like this to come out tomorrow!

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Interview: Flying Car

I’ve done a previous article on flying cars. Now that I’ve seen it is slowly in the works to being put into society there is a curiosity. How would this go about? Well I bring another college student, Renee, on what she sees the future for flying cars.

1. How do you see flying cars being integrated in everyday traveling?

I see flying cars being an issue since there could be air travel interference because of airplanes.

2. What outlandish laws do you think will be put in place?

I can see parking in the air an issue causing weird accidents. Also running out of gas in the middle of the air or whatever material runs the car. I can just see peoples reactions on the ground level going O_O ‘We are screwed’.

3. What illegal activities will be done with flying cars can you see?

Now that you don’t have security checking through your bags then illegal drugs being transported by air or illegal weapons. I can just see the cars being used as a free pass transportation for anything that is illegal.

4. What would you do with your flying car if society was still with majority towards landed cars?

I would like to try to be Amelia Earhart and test how far the car can take me. I hope they have security measures for cars if they run out of gas in middle of air or whatever they use to fly cause I do not want to disappear like Amelia.

5. How do you think this will affect the shaping of future cities highways?

I mean they would have issues with skyscrapers and tall buildings which just has too much of accident problems so I think flying cars wouldn’t be permitted in cities. It just has too much issues because of accommodation for the cars which requires money we do not have.

Thanks Renee for participating in my interview run. Anyone want to comment their opinion on this go ahead and comment.

Interview: Laser Weaponry

Laser weaponry is slowly coming into military departments. In my earlier article I I talked about the Boeing YAL-1 that U.S. Defense Dept was developing.  Now I interview retired military veteran, Ernest, about laser weaponry.

1. What impact do you see from laser weaponry in military?

More fire power on target with less loss of life for us. Target is easier to identify and paint a target for the missle to zero in on target within a millimeter

2. What are the negatives this weaponry would make?

Confirm target, one shot and target is gone, but you need eyes on target

to guide the missile in. Which makes that misguided percentage the target won’t always hit its target.

3. What laws would be placed for this type of weaponry?

Gevena Convention and solid Rules of Engagement to minimize the loss of innocent life, but allow a quick decision.  The enemy will not wait around.

4. Do you see the punishments changing due to the different weaponary?

It needs to, the weapon capabilities must be taken in account, however too often laws are lagging behind.  This creates a Gray area to hold individuals accountable to.

5. Do you see yourself to ever use laser weaponry? Why?

IF the need arises, the situation will dicate the action one must take.

7. What are the specific requirements these weapons might employ?

To save soldiers lives in any battle.  You do not have to commit ground troops.

6. Any other personal comments you would like to make on this subject?

Key addresses need to be noticed; one enemy forces using  inoccent cilivilians as Human Sheilds – UN does not take this in to account.  These weapons cause serious damage and human deaths, but they are effective, and can not tell the good from the bad when they are launched.

This really brings attention the political and military troubles that can arise. Along with the gray area that makes solutions so hard to find. Any opinions wanting to make a statement on this go ahead to the comment link.

Holograms: If They Were Real

I decided to ask people what they would use science fiction inventions for. I mean we are going to be the ones using it in the end. Interviewing a fellow college student, Kelly, about what she would do if a hologram was real as a cell phone.

1. What do you see hologram being used for?

I can see it being used as an instructional teaching method for those who need a more visual take on things. As a representative for people who are out of country. OH, and using them for blue prints architecture and things similar to that. The models can be easily changed without having to erase like on paper.

2. What laws or rules do you think would be set for holograms?

Copyright laws

3. Why Copyright Laws?

Well the blueprints would need to have them. I mean you don’t want people stealing those?

4. How would you abuse these Copyright Laws?

I would steal the coding for the hologram or whatever its made of. Some sort of programming stuff that they make hologram from. I’d hack into all holograms to create a virus system override! Hologram takeover!

5. What use would you have for a hologram?

Thats easy because I use it to talk to relatives that are far away so they can physically see me. Also use it for future business meeting especially for international business. If maybe theres a teaching hologram that can help me if nobody can help me with my homework or suppose I get lost and  theres a directional hologram to go ask for help on directions.

I appreciate Kelly for letting me interview on this subject and will be bringing more of these posts. It only makes sense to have a public opinion on inventions when the public will end up using this stuff.

Profile Look: William Gibson

Looking into the authors who created these works rather than science fiction elements in their stories. William Gibson, a leading author in sci fi land who helped shape invention ideals for our reality. He made such works as Burning Chrome and Neuromancer that help make foundation on science fiction ideas. Virtual reality and  gaming were still in its baby steps when Gibson had his novels establishing a world and reality if such things were possible. Now it would be all fiction this is taking place, but we realize that reality can be parallel to fantasy at times. I strongly suggest reading these works and see what has been brought out to current times.

Invention Joke

I have found the future of the lazy boy chair for sports affair. This chair is called Brobdingnagian where it makes the adult look kids size. I mean with the height of 5’5″ that is a new species of chair. Now I still ponder the point in making this chair other than one wants to be really lazy. This is a funny scene because this man had to use a step stool to get in this thing. It reminds me of some of those classic lazy boy chairs. Once a person sunk into that seat there was no seeing them for a couple of hours. Does anyone else seeing themselves buying these? Oh by the way it is $150 for this one chair alone, still want to buy it?

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Barbie Is Watching You

We have all seen spy cameras in multiple Hollywood movies. A spy is set in a dingy room playing poker and has a pen in his pocket. Which is recording the villain doing illegal crime of drugs or another. All of this action is being recorded in a tiny camera that on outside is an ordinary pen. I would always imagine myself having that and of course abusing the power on using it. It seems that little girls now can have that dream.

In the Toy Fair in New York it seems that one of the future type Barbies has a camera in place of her necklace. Now this quality of camera is enough to upload to Youtube. There is nothing like having your daughter spy for you while playing dolls.  However, this does put security to question as well. It all goes back to the Hollywood movie where the villain doesn’t know their being watched. Instead we are in the place of the villain, and who knows what will be recorded. I would like to know what is your opinion on this subject of spy cameras. If you were given a lawsuit because the company had a video on you due to “Barbie Vision”. What would you do?

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Contact Lenses: The Next Step

Larry Niven and Steven Barnes wrote a series that contained the novel The California Voodoo Game where it contains one invention that has contact lenses and a player can use that to view information. This novel is set around many inventions that are innovative to how one plays a game like in video games. Instead of having to press the pause button to catch what was on the menu just having ones contact lenses does the work right there and then. Now this was set in the early 1990s where glasses were just starting to shrink in its size compared to 1980s times.  I briefly mentioned in previous entry about these types of contacts, and now they have become real.

The lenses are called Opto-electronic contact lenses where it does similar technique like in the novel. The current function provided by the article now is that one can check their vital signs. There is still constant work being done to making it easier on availiblity of data to be shown, and resolution of it. I have to say the ability of technology keeps growing faster and faster that its hard to keep up. Wonder what the next step will be for the lenses since I wouldn’t mind changing out my contact lenses for something like this.

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5 Inventions: When Will They Be Real?

1. Transporter

It would be the innovation of travel. It would be the next leap after the airplane to be able to go anywhere one would want. As long as there are transports to take one from place A to place B. I would love to be able to just go somewhere in the blink of an eye, and not worry about fees on luggage since one could possibly just carry it right with them. This really takes care of being able to go get the things one forgets when traveling.

2. Virtual Realm

Every gamer out there has had the discussion of being able to interact using an avatar of themselves, and live in a world that is fictional made but possible to touch. It would just be amazing to hold a conference, and still have the sense of physical interaction that isn’t through a screen. Even just being able to interact with friends who are across the world from you would be amazing to happen. I mean just go have cyber coffee with your friend from Japan is just a click away.

3. Interactive Holograms

Being able to talk with another yet see the person in 3D while recording in actual time would be next leap after the webcam. I mean just dialing a number for a family member who is located in New York while you can be in China just being able to see them as if they are there with you. That would a closer connection felt, and able to really bring across ones verbal message. It would be even more wonderful if the hologram didn’t lag like webcam video calls.

4. Opto-Electronic Contact Lenses

The main idea of this would be able to have contact lenses able to display images or information from a computer one would wear like a watch. It would send the information wireless so it makes things pretty simple if you don’t want anyone to find out what your looking at. This would come in quite handy if one needed quick lookup on data they save from their labtop, but wanted privacy from nosy bodies.

5. Space Cities

Now I know I’m taking a big stretch on this since it would take a lot of resources that we possible do not have. Though this will be the future of expanding to space. I just hope we don’t spread our trash habits into space as bad as on Earth. It would be amazing to have the same living environment we have in our cities available in space environment. Just to be able to have the sky be the universe though this will take possible a couple hundred years before any blueprints come out of this.