The 'sci' behind the 'fi'
Friday, December 11, 2009 - 15:14
in Astronomy & Space
As the voyagers of the Starship Enterprise boldly went to explore new worlds week after week on Star Trek, they used a host of futuristic technologies - including tricorders, holodecks, teleportation systems and warp drives - that may have seemed almost beyond possibility to many of the shows` (and movies`) legion of devoted viewers. But, say many scientists interviewed on a new program airing on public television, real science and technology is starting to catch up to - and sometimes even surpass - some parts of that future.