Jason Chapman

Gene Rodenberry, HG Wells, and many other authors, directors, movie producers, have always held the dream of faster than light travel. Now science has caught up with scifi perhaps we can get on with real science and design the first warp drive.

I no I'm doing this backwards, but hi guys, new kid on the block

I may have posted these pictures before, I've been away for a while busy getting married and everything. But here's my represebtation of what a deep spacecraft may look like in the next 200 years.

I do have a lot more image on the drawing boars which I will be rolling out soon.

My ex girfreind used to sleep with her mouth open, bit like the hanger deck of the new Enterprise.

I was watching a really interesting documentary last night on the Discovery Channel entitled ‘Aircraft That Never Flew’ They were going on about a US government research project into Nuclear powered bombers, set up in the 1940s. Unfortunately they couldn’t solve the problem of shielding the crew against radiation so the program was abandoned. It got me thinking about what I designed, and suggested the theory of nuclear powered engines on spacecraft.

I wonder if the US government did abandon the project, or did they pursue a classified research project, it’s certainly a plausible thought.

Atomic powered aircraft

Have you a facebook account?

I was in the US in 1995, and called everyone 'mate' so most Yanks thought I was Australian. lol

Yes, I am well aware that there are various accents, and the one I do is definitely not the posh received pronunciation. From there, I'm lost though... I simply don't have the ear to tell the differences, and I've listened to so many different accents that the one I do is sort of a combination of all those I've been exposed to. As such, it probably won't sound very region-specific, but I am nevertheless curious as to what regionalism it most closely resembles.

Any chance you could e-mail me an MP3 sample to have a listen to, I might be able to tell you what region it sounds like.

Is it just the English accents you are after, as in England, or is it the whole of the UK, England Scotland, Wales, Ireland. There are some very distinct differences between them. 'example' every knows what Scotty sounds like of Star Trek, its kind of like listening to two Americans, one having a strong New York accent and the other one being from Alabama.

You won’t get a much bigger story than this over the weekend. I can just about remember when the news that Elvis had died. Back in 1977 you didn’t have the mass media and communication that you have today, news was practically drip fed to the various news agencies. Last night I couldn’t believe the speed at which this story was flashed around the world; it was out literally within ten minutes of his passing.

I think everyone has criticized his style of living over the last twenty years I know I have, and the media vilified him during the child sex allegations. However all that aside you cannot deny the genius when it came to his music, I still think today that Thriller has the best dance sequence performed on a pop video ever. There will be an outpouring of grief by his fans that will equal Diana I think.

RIP: MJ and that chick from Charlie’s Angels

I am an eighteen-year-old American who lives in New Jersey. I have been interested in linguistics for quite some time, and have studied various languages on my own, as well as plan to major in linguistics in college. Besides foreign languages, however, I have also been interested in accents for quite some time. What I found most intriguing was how learning to speak (one's native tongue) with an accent is of comparable difficulty of learning to speak an entirely new language. I figured this was because learning a new language is a completely new skill, while learning an accent is simultaneously "over-writing" a skill and learning a changed one. I thought of the analogy of learning to write with one's left hand and learning to write backwards with one's right (given right-dominance, of course).

 

How does this relate to "the" British accent? Well, first, I put "the" in quotes because it's a common misconception on this side of the pond that there is one definitive BRITISH ACCENT, while I know full well the diversity of the dialects of the kingdom. (It often confounds me how there is more diversity in dialect in a landmass so small as compared to the relatively little across the wide country of the U.S.)

 

Further, a British accent is the first accent that I actually tried to learn to do, mostly by imitation. The problem with imitation is that, often, one exaggerates the features one hears and disregards the ones they do not, resulting in a caricature of the accent. However, I seem to have an innate ability to subconsciously pick up the nuances usually missed in imitation, so it works for me and I excel pretty quickly in accents of all sorts, given only a small audio sample.

 

Now, I have always wondered how "good" the accent actually is, because pulling it in public here (as I often do for the entertainment ) is no test because Americans simply do not have the ear. I've also wondered what regionalism I most closely mimic (as the accent I do is a sort of amalgam of all the accents I've heard). I realized that, because there are quite a few resident Brits on this here forum, this could be a good opportunity to get these questions answered.

 

First and foremost, I don't mean any sort of mockery in doing this, as it is purely a linguistic and intellectual endeavor on my part, and I think this is a good place to request this because while many may take offense, or dismiss my attempts (as many have done upon similar requests in the past), I figured the users of this forum are the most unbiased group I could come across.

 

The problem is, how do I upload an audio file? Any suggestions, not only how but also what to read, perhaps?

 

Thanks.

Ok first of all I’M BRITISH, but I’m not much of a patriot so it’s no big deal.

I just want to ask what exactly do you mean by the ‘British Accent’ do you mean the way in which the Queen speaks, with an upper class tone ‘Ps and Qs’ or perhaps Hugh Grant. There’s a belief out there particularly state side that us Brits all sound the same.

I myself am Welsh, I have a Welsh accent but it’s not an extreme one I do try to speak with an upper class tone, but it’s mainly to sound clear to others.

My opinion on the British accent is there is no such thing, because Britain like America is split into many parts so therefore you have regional accents, Yorkshire, Herefordshire, Devonshire etc. May I suggest you watch an episode of Frasier, the woman on there Daphne has a Northern accent, almost Yorkshire, then watch Lord of the Rings, Sean Austin’s character Sam has more of a West Country accent perhaps with a bit of Herefordshire mixed in.

I’ve been out to America, and you have many diverse accents from state to state, I’d say Obama’s accent is the closet you will find the standard ‘American Accent.

Still a lot of conflicting news stories about, its yet to be officially announced.

Can you show me where? That would not only be news to me but it also seems quite impossible. A digital camera takes images using CCDs which are designed to record optical images. A radio telescope is, by definition, an instrument that receives radio signals. A CCD cannot read radio signals.

Here's the link here, I may have been wrong in using the term digital camera, sorry.

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/051221_pan-starrs.html

‘Sisyphus’ asked why ten of these deep space radio telescopes, effective you would only need one, if its far enough out without any objects to block its view then it could scan most of the sky. However ten of these telescopes in a circle at the outer edges of our solar system could individually more sky, or if one telescope picks up something of interest it could communicate with the others, which could focus on the object in question and relay the information back to earth. As for what could be passing through our solar system which could warrant and early warning system is anyone’s guess, take your pick.

I was wondering do we have a space based early warning system for tracking asteroids. I know that they have radio telescopes equipped with high powered digital cameras which scan the skies for danger, but how do they compensate for atmosphere distortion with these cameras.

I’m currently working on my latest idea, a deep space radio telescope. There are a few uses for this deep space radio telescope.

To Track objects entering our solar system, to determine if they’re a threat.

To peer deeper into the cosmos, monitor background radiation.

To relay communication with any deep space vessels, thus preventing signal degradation.

You could position up to ten of these tracking station ant various point in our solar system, beyond the orbit of Neptune as an early warning system.

Just a crazy idea of course.

Im curios, what program did you use to design this?

3D studio Max, and bryce for the background.

Hey Guys,

Thanks for the comments.

Hello this is my very first post here, so I thought I would play it safe and put this subject in Pseudoscience and Speculations.

Anyway, I like to design stuff particualrly spacecraft. I designed this particular space ship several years ago. I would just like to ask the question; given how conventional space travel is progressing do you think it would be possible to build a ship capable of travelling fast enought to explore our solar system within a ten year mission scedule. And is it plausable that such a ship could be designed and built within the next 50 to 75 years. Hope you find the images I have designed interesting.

Many thanks

JC

Hello, I've just come across this forum. I like science particularly space.

Thanks

JC