Posts by cdnjay

Back to the future: Honda's new electric car can go an incredible 80 miles!

I remember hydrogen fuel cells being all the rage when I was a kid but now it seems like Toyota and Honda are the only remaining true believers. Everyone else is either in denial on fossil fuels or has realized that battery electric is the future.

Note to Captain Kirk: Warp speed will kill you

Misunderstaning

First, Star Trek very clearly states that the ships main deflector is used to deflect matter away from the ship as it moves forward keeping the warp field clear. This would I assume include Hydrogen atoms just as it did micro meteors in "year of hell" in Star Trek Voyager.

Second, ships in Star Trek don't travel at the speed of light. Instead they warp the space around them so there is less distance to travel at standard speeds, the higher the warp factor the greater the effect. It's like travelling straight between the top two points of a "U" instead of all around the "U" following the shape of the letter. Time would stop is you travelled at the speed of light so what fun would that be.