Star Trek Shields Soon To Be Science Fact – Not Science Fiction April 18, 2007
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RED ALERT SHIELDS UP!!
Where would the Starship Enterprise NCC-1701 be without her shields?
(oh yeah it would be the NX-01 with that totally bogus hull plating nonsense).
According to a report on the BBC, British scientists are actively working to make SciFi Shields a reality. Details have been presented at the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting in Preston, UK.Scientists hope to mimic the magnetic field which protects the Earth.
Don’t expect to be deflecting Klingon disruptors anytime soon though..the shields are more about deflecting solar radiation than incoming particle weapons fire.
You don’t need much of a magnetic field to hold off the solar wind. You could produce the shield 20-30 kilometres away from the spacecraft,” explained Dr Ruth Bamford, from the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory in Didcot, UK in a statement
Read the full story on the BBC site.
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