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[rock lobster]

[heartgirl99]

hope we get some reviews of the RUSH concert!

[Mmmme...]

May 6, 2010
Star Trek is one of the most famous television shows and media franchises in the world today, and while many love the storylines of the original show, along with its spinoffs and movies, we may not fully realize the impact the show has had on our lives. No, we are not talking about pop culture impacts, but what Star Trek envisioned for technology, which then inspired many scientists to make those visions a reality. In many ways, that little show from the 1960s has essentially invented the future as we know it.
So, what are some of the things that have evolved from Star Trek?

1. Personal Computing

When Star Trek debuted in 1966, computers were very large, very expensive and very slow compared with what we have today. That didn’t stop Gene Roddenberry from envisioning a future where small computers were in every meeting room and wherever people needed them. The computers in the original series were larger than what we have today, but they were personal computers nonetheless.
Roughly five years after Star Trek left the air waves, the Altair 8800 was built by Ed Roberts, who just happened to name the computer after a galaxy mentioned in Star Trek. This build-it-yourself personal computer was pretty basic, but it would inspire two guys named Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak to improve upon the model and usher in the age of the personal computer.
On that same note, the Tablet PC also appeared in the original Star Trek, with Captain Kirk using a tablet and stylus to sign off on important matters. Everyone who uses an iPad now can thank Star Trek for showing us what a tablet PC could do in the 1960s. Oh, and what was the name of the tablet PC used in Star Trek? The PADD….

2. Portable Computer Memory

From the old floppy disks, to the small hard disks, over to our memory sticks with their huge capacities, all this portable memory could be found in the 1960s, in Star Trek. Star Trek used square disks that were three inches by three inches and only a quarter of an inch thick. To use them, they were inserted in computers where they would display the information contained on them, sound familiar?

3. Wireless Ear-Piece

4. GPS

No, we do not have transporters, although scientists have been able to transport individual light particles for a couple years now, but we do have GPS. Back in Star Trek: The Original Series, the transporter system could lock onto someone and transport them from where they were to some place else. Locators on the communicators were used to find where individuals were in the show, kind of like how we have GPS in our phones now that show where we are.
It was only four years after the end of the original Star Trek that the Department of Defense began to develop GPS. By launching satellites they were able to refine the system over time and after 1983 it became available to the public. By 2000, it was possible to find someone within 20 meters of their location. Now with things like OnStar in our cars and GPS in our phones, even emergency personnel can find us without us saying where we are.

5. Tricorders

Having something that scans the area around you and tells you information that you need about that area doesn’t quite exist yet, although we are getting pretty close. What we do have is devices like the PDA, the Blackberry and the iPod/iPhone.
These wonderful little devices have screens that display to us information we access from the internet, much like a tricorder would in Star Trek. When they needed information, they would call it up on a tricorder and see it on a tiny screen, no different than we do with our handheld devices today. Given how far these devices have come, it should be no surprise that pretty soon they will have sensors.

6. Plasma Screens

In the days of the original Star Trek series, televisions had small screens and the quality was not very good. The concept of the Enterprises’ view screen was amazing to many people who wished they could have a television as large as what was on the Enterprise. Before Star Trek, spaceships used windows at the front, but with The Original Series, a video screen became the norm for many science fiction shows and movies. These days, more and more plasma screens are hitting the market and the price is falling. The days of the old tube television are now disappearing as people get their own large view screens in their home. Screens these days hit about 50 inches before they become too pricey but it won’t be long before 100 or 200 inch plasma televisions turn the walls of our homes into view screens. Thanks Star Trek!

7. Cell Phones

Probably the most famous invention to come from Star Trek is the cell phone. In the days of Star Trek: The Original Series, Captain Kirk and the gang would use a communicator to speak with each other simply by opening it and hailing someone by saying their name into the communicator. This may have seemed far-fetched considering at the time rotary phones were the most common phones in the world.
It was Martin Cooper, an employee of Motorola, who invented the cell phone. When asked what was the inspiration for the cell phone, he is not shy of saying Star Trek’s communicator was what started the gears in his mind moving. Only four years after the cancellation of Star Trek, the first portable cell phone call was made. Just over 20 years after the Original Series debuted, one million cell phones were in use and it just exploded from there. These days there are hundreds of millions of cell phone users across the planet and cell phones are now pushing the old land-line phone into museums. Our cell phones these days are more than what the communicator of Star Trek was considering we can now take photos, access the internet, use GPS and keep track of everything in the PDA functionality of our smart phones.
There really is no denying the fact that Star Trek did indeed invent the future as we know it. Plasma television, GPS, cell phones, personal computers and more all came from this simple series that was canceled after three years and went on to change the world.

Author: Craig Baird — Copyrighted © roadtickle.com

[Mmmme...]

It is time for me to slip into something not too soft yet oh so cozy...

Have a good night's sleep if at all possible!!! If not have fun and...


I will see you tonmorrow!

Sweet dreams!

[heartgirl99]

June 14
trivia -

sports ===> C
tdich ===> A
word ===> C
tech ===> A

[mizzsazzyazz]

Sports Trivia C

Tech Trivia A

This Day in Canadian History A

Word Up C

[Andit]

Nightly Recap
Club Q Bonus Code - walkthisway
Winner:
Neon
Honourable Mention:
rock lobster

Rush Rock 'N' Roll Bonus Code - moving
Winner:
Isis

Trivia
word a
tech b
sports a
tdih b
Winner:
pipes

Sleuth - RADIO
Winner:
truenorthstrongnfree

8:20am - FORGOT
Winner:
WolfDio
Honourable Mention:
Wallie
rock lobster

11:15am - Geddy
Winner:
WULFMAN
Honourable Mention:
virrys
the H team

4:15pm - prankster
Winner:
the H team

9:15pm - NUMBER
Winner:
kenrod
Honourable Mention:
lolipop.yaz

Aerosmith words
http://www.q107.com/Contests/WinningWord.aspx
5:30am - scarf
Winner:
heartgirl99

6:45am - dude
Winner:
heartgirl99

10am - lady
Winner:
Wallie
Honourable Mention:
virrys
rockit

1pm - elevator
Winner:
Wallie
Honourable Mention:
the H team
mflourei

3:50pm - project
Winner:
the H team
Honourable Mention:
fantazy11

8pm - doll
Winner:
fantazy11

10:50pm - TOYS
Winner:
lime


Had a great time at Rain, wonderful show (& 5th row, slightly off centre, got us close enough to see the whites of the boys' eyes...in case they missed a note, as my friend joked ).

Night all.

[mizzsazzyazz]

Thanks for all the ww Good laughs. I don't know Toronto don't go there much .. but love the pics and info you guys send out.

TR wishing you and your husband the best .. keep him you don't find them often.

With all this talk of Drinking and driving .. When we would go to the bar I would order
water and be the dd. so I would always cheers with my water .. everyone would say
just have a beer. and I would stay firm and decline so I could drive. a few of my friends and I would go to a big party ( biker bash ) at good friends house for the weekend party. I drove my friend up in her Wheel chair van with about 5 or 6 other friends.

this one yr they had a tattoo guy there so I got him to tattoo a beer mug on my thumb
so I cheers everyone with beer not Water lol .. they would still bug me to drink so I would peel the label off the beer put it on my arm and say I am on the patch can't drink I will get really sick lol .. they got a kick out a that too.. next biker bash I do the Molson Ex Label on the other thumb .. if I can get a good pic I post it ..

And My kids and nieces and there friends call me all the time for drives home .. 2 - 3 - 4 in the morning I don't care as long as they are safe

sorry kinda long. but I don't know short hand lol

[pipes]

wed

word c
tech a
sports c
tdih a

[Andit]

I know David Soul is the blonde... never did
care for him and still don't. Doesnt do a thing for me....

David Soul was in a *very* short-lived (8 episodes) tv show back in the 80s called Unsub that I LOVED. It was CSI before anyone else ever heard of lab techs being exciting. That's my fondest memory of David Soul.

[bluebell55]

just got home from the rush concert. excellent but I didn't get the bonus code from the Q107 rock n roll circus. Does anyone know it?

[lime]

Aerosmith Word - VACATION

[lime]

just got home from the rush concert. excellent but I didn't get the bonus code from the Q107 rock n roll circus. Does anyone know it?

Rush Rock 'N' Roll Bonus Code - moving
Winner:
Isis

[karmac]

Good morning all. Thanks for the codes and reps.

[heartgirl99]

morning, qt's