Stargate Universe

Wonderful! I can't wait for the first episode of Stargate Universe.

Here's the teaser:


I am excited!

Hopefully, it won't copy the style and approach of Star Trek Voyager.

Cosmic Scale War

I am not satisfied with how the war here on earth is being fought. Very primitive. When they say war I am thinking of the following:

1. Shrinking of any star (sun for our case) into a black hole. In Stargate SG-1 the Asgard did this to combat replicators. They shrunk a certain star into a black hole and throw the replicators into it.
2. Adding mass to a certain Jupiter-type planets and make them into star. In this way the whole planet will be destroyed as well as causing system-wide physical imbalances like increase of temperature in some planets. This was done by the Human beings with the use of Klikiss torch in Saga of the Seven Stars by Kevin J Anderson.
3. Radiation cascade. Sending series of radiation bomb in the atmosphere of the planet reducing almost all biological matters of that planet into molecular components. This was done by certain species in Delta quadrant against the species of Neelix in Star Trek Voyager.
4. Time-dilation wrap. Wrapping a whole planet into time-dilation warp. In this way, the time within the warp will slow down while time outside the warp will proceed in normal phase. This will provide ample time for the party outside the warp to develop certain technology to eradicate a whole planet. The Asgards did this to combat the replicators.
5. Cosmic wave, sending wave across a system and reducing certain biological or technological matters into microscopic dust depending on the frequency of the wave.
6. Extinguishing a star of a system. This can be done by sucking out the energy of the sun into some warp field. I think the hydrogues of the Saga of the Seven Suns can do this.
   

These are the just some of the hundred ways to do cosmic war and of these innumerable ways above are my favorite ways. I did not include the star war’s death star. You will need a lot of machineries before you can execute the functionality of that weapon. The best cosmic weapon is the utilization of cosmic objects and space-time fabric, like creating a black hole, a warp, or radiation.

The universe itself is currently at war, between Thermodynamics and Gravity. :)

And when I become the emperor of the universe, well, good luck to all of my enemies. Ha ha ha ha ha!

Naqahdah and the ZPM (Zero Point Module)

“In not so far away future, human beings were able to create a Naqahdah generator, a great source of huge volume of pure energy. After another few decades, they discovered one of the great sources of energy of the Ancient technologies, the ZPM – the Zero Point Module. Naqahdah and ZPM, they sound so nasty… so weird… so alien… but not so ancient. But these are great sources of energy. They can sustain all machines of human beings for thousand of years… insurmountable source of energy. Ha…. Well, they are just the product of the minds of the science fiction writers and doubt that they do really exist. I know things in the Stargate series perplex me so much. Imagine a ZPM, one can get huge quantity of pure energy from vaccum, from space itself (note here space is different from space-time). How this could happen? Energy from empty space? Isn’t it an illusion… from nothing (in human eyes) into something? Hmmmm… after all the universe started this way from nothing to everything. But how? Well, anyway, I don’t want my mind to be occupied by this. I still need to bring my used clothes to the laundry shop. Oh… I need to wash my face first and need to eat something for breakfast before doing anything.”

What in the world am I thinking? The cockroaches are lining up the corner of my room. They are there it’s because of the left-over I put there last night, Yikes…. Need to clean my mess.

“Oh yeah… what in the world am I thinking? Why I am so bothered by Naqahdah and ZPM?”

Oh maybe I just did not get enough sleep last night. Maybe I am thinking too much.

“Now I remember. The whole ZPM concept was in mind four years ago. I developed this idea independently from this one. That was the time when I was so engulfed by the wonder of physics. I remember telling a friend of mine about this.

We were walking along A. Roces in UP Diliman. There was certain mirth in the atmosphere that afternoon. All of the flowers of the fire tree were falling from the branches. While walking down the street, we could feel that the great trees were showering us with the red orange confetti, sending warmth in our hearts.

I was discussing with him the concept of deriving energy from space. Having like a vacuum bulb and drawing energy from it since I knew that time that vacuum devoid of anything tangible and visible, even through the lenses of the most powerful microscopes, even Quantum mechanics cannot detect any particle, can still provide us enormous amount of energy. That time I had a great understanding of space and space-time. Vacuum still carries energy. Like the great universe – from nothing (vacuum) into something the cosmos we have right now.”

Stupid. I am not supposed to remind myself about the past. Those ideas are just childish ideas created by our fanatical engrossment of sci-fi movies. I knew that time that my friend was not listening to me. As if I was talking to the trees that sprinkle red-orange flowers along my way.

“The hell I care about my friend. Deep within, I think it is possible. It is just a matter of physics, a matter of bringing out the equations. But how?

Assessing myself right now…. I am not sure if I can still handle Higher Order Differential equations, if I can still comprehend the symbols of statistical mechanics, if Quantum Theories can still be spoken by heart.

Right now…I feel that I am a wasted intellectual… a dead dreamer with great visions of future.

Right now… I become a mechanical being.

Right now… I am lost in the woods.

Right now… I am a waste in the fabric of space-time.

And I don’t want to explode!”

Written by: Fra Ivan

Date: August 15, 2006 12:01 am