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Lee
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Every so often I see an instance of the way Star Trek has, if you will, penetrated the zeitgeist. Here are a couple. . .

At the Bristol Eye Hospital; we were there late one night because my wife had a horrible pain in her eye, similar to when she'd scratched her cornea. Turned out she had a tiny metal splinter embedded! Anyway, I was staring at this mural done in the waiting area, it's an eye but it's also meant to be a planet with speceships flying around. One took my notice. . .



Parked outside the only Pharmacy in Bristol open on Easter Sunday, I spotted a sandwich bar called Ten Forward (I should have gotten out of the car and taken a closer shot, but I had Lula in there with me).

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AndrewR
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I don't know if Guinan ever had a metal rollerdoor. [Smile] Bet she wished she did! [Smile]
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WizArtist II
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Then there is THIS little nugget. And also HERE.

Shave the Whales!

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Jay the Obscure
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oh there's a copyrightht infringement lawsuit waiting to happen

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B.J.
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How about the Boeing Bird of Prey?
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Mikey T
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Well we have seen the creation of a Tricorder, a Hypospray, and a Phaser rifle. I want a replicator next!

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Nim
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Well, like I posted way back when, here is one of the first screenshots of the night sky in a portion of the now-famous MMORPG "Second Life":

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I would really like to know the story behind it. Needless to say, the Nerd is strong in this one.

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Nim
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Also, but this can't be backed up by image evidence because of the lack of camera phones at the time (1997), but I was on the bus on my way home to catch TOS on a sunday afternoon. I looked forward and saw the name "Ricardo Montalban" etched into the back of the seat in front of me.
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Lee
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I also have a mini-vacuum cleaner thing (for cleaning the insides of PC cases, my mother keeps giving em them for Christmas, God knows why, at work we just have compressed-air dusters to blow the crap out) which resembles a late-TNG/DS9/Voy-era phaser more than a little. I keep forgetting to get a photo of it. . .

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TSN
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Who knew Swedish bus seats were covered in soft Corinthian leather...?
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Mars Needs Women
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My TV remote kinda looks like a TNG phaser. Unfortunately I have no way of sending a picture of it to you guys.
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AndrewR
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quote:
Originally posted by Jay the Obscure:
oh there's a copyrightht infringement lawsuit waiting to happen

Not necessarily - I remember reading an article in a magazine way back when about some agricultural scientists making a working "Mark I" tricorder - it was a sort of all-in-one sensor pack to use out in the field. Supposedly Gene Roddenberry made some clause that copyright had to be given to people who invented technology that - how would you put it - brought us closer to trek tech.

BTW - this is the correct address for the first link:

http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/8/8/9

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Nim
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TSN: Oh I'll show you leather.
I swear to god one of these days I'm just gonna be there, stabbing you in the shower with a rolled-up newspaper.

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B.J.
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Shields! Well, radiation shields anyway.
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=22415

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Bump!

I was running errands with my wife yesterday. One of the places we stopped was a bakery outlet store. As we were going inside I started pointing and saying "Look! Look!" My wife was like "What?" when she turned around and saw what I was pointing at:

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I'd love to know what the semi was carrying.

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