{"id":560,"date":"2006-07-30T00:50:09","date_gmt":"2006-07-30T00:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/akramsrazor\/2006\/07\/30\/romulan_technol\/"},"modified":"2013-05-07T18:47:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T23:47:42","slug":"romulan_technol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/akramsrazor\/2006\/07\/romulan_technol\/","title":{"rendered":"Romulan technology on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/akramsrazor.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/romulan.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"74\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/akramsrazor.typepad.com\/islam_america\/images\/romulan.jpg\" alt=\"Romulan\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;float: left\"><\/a><br>\nGood news:\u00a0 We\u2019re one step closer to warp drives and photon torpedos.<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/4968338.stm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/4968338.stm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">BBC NEWS |\u00a0 \u2018Cloaking device\u2019 idea proposed<\/a>  <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The cloaking devices that are used to render spacecraft invisible in Star Trek might just work in reality, two mathematicians have claimed.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If I could have one imaginary technology from ST, it wouldn\u2019t be obvious ones.\u00a0 Not the cloaking device.\u00a0 It\u2019s not the transporter, either.\u00a0 Not the warp drive. Not the tricorder.\u00a0 Not even the phaser.<\/p>\n<p>Give up?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this shows what a hopeless nerd I am, but what I really fantasize about is getting my hands on one of those <a href=\"http:\/\/memory-alpha.org\/en\/wiki\/Universal_translator\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">universal translators<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news:\u00a0 We\u2019re one step closer to warp drives and photon torpedos. BBC NEWS |\u00a0 \u2018Cloaking device\u2019 idea proposed The cloaking devices that are used to render spacecraft invisible in Star Trek might just work in reality, two mathematicians have claimed. If I could have one imaginary technology from ST, it wouldn\u2019t be obvious ones.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,36,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-science-fiction","category-star-trek"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Romulan technology on the way - Akram&#039;s Razor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Good news:&nbsp; We&#039;re one step closer to warp drives and photon torpedos. 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