Sci-Fi Science Hosted by Dr. Michio Kaku

[Lucky]

Sci-Fi science is a television show on the science channel. Dr. Michio Kaku sets about trying to create a hard Sci-Fi solution to problems found in science fiction.

In the latest episode they set about designing a fighter to blow up the Death Star. He seems to be something of a Star Wars fan even seeming to know the Death Star was powered by a fusion reactor.

The ship they came up with had four antimatter engines, relativistic particle beam canons, a water filled cockpit to help deal with g-forces, and a large anti-matter bomb to thrown down the exhaust port. The drawing they made of the ship looked a lot like a Thunderbolt Starfury from Babylon 5 with a fishbowl for the cockpit.

Does anyone else watch the show?

[Kor_Dahar_Master]

Sci-Fi science is a television show on the science channel. Dr. Michio Kaku sets about trying to create a hard Sci-Fi solution to problems found in science fiction.

In the latest episode they set about designing a fighter to blow up the Death Star. He seems to be something of a Star Wars fan even seeming to know the Death Star was powered by a fusion reactor.

The ship they came up with had four antimatter engines, relativistic particle beam canons, a water filled cockpit to help deal with g-forces, and a large anti-matter bomb to thrown down the exhaust port. The drawing they made of the ship looked a lot like a Thunderbolt Starfury from Babylon 5 with a fishbowl for the cockpit.

Does anyone else watch the show?

I watched a few, he tried to make a DS kinda deal to blow up the earth in one episode, and came up with LOADS of smaller ships surrounding the planet and firing beams rather than just a single DS.

So the ship to kill the DS had M/AM engines like trek and a m/am bomb/missile like a photon torpedo, that looked like a starfury?.

LOL.

MAAAAAN i bet some warsies are gonna foam at the mouth when that gets pointed out.

[Praeothmin]

But it's not canon, or in the ICS, so they can safely ignore this... :)

[Kor_Dahar_Master]

But it's not canon, or in the ICS, so they can safely ignore this... :)

Yea but the "we iz all abouts real science not technowankbabble" boys are gonna shit a brick considering this dudes credentials and the fact he is doing exactly what they claim they do...only his methods support trek.

DAMN but you just gotta love the irony of that fucker.............:).

[Mike DiCenso]

Dr. Michio Kaku's credentials are pretty solid as far as his education is concerned. But that's never stopped Wong or his followers from attacking people before as we all know. What they'll likely attack Kaku on are his sometimes kooky social policy advocacy, like his opposing the now highly productive and successful Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn just because it carried nearly 33 kg of plutonium in the radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) that was needed for the spacecraft to operate so far away from the sun.
-Mike

[The Dude]

I think he's been on a couple episodes of Weird or What?, hosted by Shatner. Why did he oppose the RTGs?

[Mike DiCenso]

From what I've read from various sources, Kaku thought that the RTGs would rupture in the advent of a launch accident, and more in particular he was concerned over the Cassini flyby of Earth that occured while the spacecraft was picking up enough velocity to reach Saturn through a series of gravity assists from various planets. His primary concern was that the RTG might not survive the high-speed reentry, if the spacecraft somehow were to miss it's trajectory targets and hit the Earth. However he apparently ignored the documented instances of RTGs that survived similar high-velocity reentries, and the Cassini RTGs are built to a very high standard of tolerances.
-Mike