Trek Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself!
Scientific Engineering
Connections
Disasters
Be the Haw..king
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Tricorder technology for diagnosing medical illnesses
What is developing science fact. Several companies are currently working on these devices to be used in remote areas away from immediate medical help as part of a contest for $10 million in funding. http://io9.com/meet-the-teams-who-are-building-the-worlds-first-medic-1543000639
100
Instant meals that do not need cooking.
What is true! Soylent (named after the movie, Soylent Green, about a futuristic food made of people) is now being shipped to backers who funded it through Kickstarter.
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The people that Hollywood directors often pair-up with to get science right in sci-fi flicks.
What is the National Academy of Sciences. Directors who can make their films more believable can make more profit. (http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/digital/fact-vs-fiction/scientific-advisors-to-the-stars)
100
Nuclear reactors explode
What is false. This nuclear reactors melt, not explode.
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Time travel to the future.
What is true. We could do this, but only by traveling at very high speeds.
200
Communicators from The Original Series
What are science fact. Cell phones are just like communicators.
200
We have already cloned a dinosaur.
What is false. But some Russian scientists say that they could probably clone a mammoth very soon. http://io9.com/russian-scientists-we-have-a-high-chance-of-cloning-1543713621
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The most powerful way to learn science, a new study says.
What is music!
200
When they come into contact with one another, matter and antimatter explode.
What is true!
200
Time travel to the past is possible.
What is false. It would create a time paradox, which is impossible in the space-time continuum.
300
Holodeck technology, a place where crew members could go on adventures, vacations, and more provided entirely by hologram.
What is science fiction. Hologram technology is improving, and a Holoroom was recently built. By Lowe's Hardware Stores, (http://www.businessinsider.com/lowes-holoroom-v-star-trek-holodeck-2014-6). However, we currently have no holodeck technology.
300
A car recently made it from one side of the country to the other on a single tank of gas.
What is true. This feet was accomplished by a car called the Urbee 2, which is an entirely 3D printed car! You can even download the plans from the internet.
300
Some evolutionary biologists say that our love of this particular trait (which is not offensive or provocative) has helped us survive.
What is a love of beauty.
300
Global floods are possible.
What is false. There is currently not enough water on earth to cause a global flood.
400
Silicon based lifeforms.
What is false. This was a popular scientific notion in the 1960's. However, research now shows that silicon based lifeforms could not exist because of respiratory and waste complications. http://io9.com/5020921/where-is-my-silicon-based-life
400
We have successfully created a truth serum for use in intelligence operations.
What is sort of. We have truth serums, but they do not always work correctly, if at all. They are not always successful. They are not always the best option, either.
400
The most scientifically true science fiction movie.
What is 2001: A Space Odyssey.
400
Water shortages
What is true! This is already happening in some areas of the world.
400
The universe will collapse in on itself, even thought it is boundless.
What is true!
500
The warp drive, which would allow us to travel through space at very high speeds.
What is false, currently, but the physics might be solid. Prototypes are already in the works.
500
We can now implant memories (that never happened) into the brains of lab rats.
What is true. Which is sort of scary.
500
This movie had the most realistic depiction of flying cards, according to what we know about physics, recent laws, etc.
What is Blade Runner
500
A man made ice age could settle over the Earth in a week or less, through a natural disaster.
What is false. This would take at least a decade to occur.
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The one scientific award that alludes Hawking.
What is the Nobel Prize. Despite other awards, Hawking has never won this.
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