Star trek is not and has never been anything about speculative fiction any more than star wars is. The have technospeak. They are deliberately not even trying.

Really? And dilithium crystals are all good then? What about just reversing the polarity on the modulation frequency.

It's fucking star trek. The lowest of the lows in all of sci fi *ever*.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Star Trek was not what you think it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... says it all.

Oh and obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Yea cus dilithium crystals are right on the money and ignoring that the correct application of teleport solves pretty much most of plots was soo rock solid.

You fans are all the same. You point out what is wrong with the new while it was twice as bad in the original. And please don't start with "it was intellectual". it was only if your a Texan neo nazi. " Oh.. killing people different to me bad?"

It is star trek, the softest crappiest (technospeak anyone) form of sci fi invented by man. Futurama is more intelligent, more realistic and just better sci fi. You can't do crap with star trek because it was already crap in the first place. At least JJ work is interesting enough not to walk out before the end of the movie. If your sci fi is that crap *at* least have some action.

You not going to get 90 min pings from mars to Europa buddy. And if you are getting that, then where do i sign up!

The difference is 20 years of digital transceiver developments. They have been substantial.

Fused silica has a refractive index of approx 1.5. so light is 33% slower in fiber. But that is not the whole story since group velocity and phase velocity are mode dependent. I assume it is all single mode however at that would be in the ball park.

Diamond has a index of refraction of 2.4, so fibers made of diamond (there are reasons to use diamond :) so signal speed would be 1/2 c.

Over 1/2 of lag however is in the switching.

Most DSL are about 20m-50ms at best due to the way the lines are set at the ISP. As in first hop 50ms ping even if your all at the same ISP. (can't remember the details, something about the ATM setups often used etc)

The difference is that a space based internet is useful. Underwater cities and jetpacks, no so much.

Probably the biggest difference between 1990s and now, is the *amazing* progress with transceivers. The SNR ratio and gain, noise rejection and everything is just incredible. Just the bitstream on modern USB is plain godlike compared to what we could do back then. This makes the whole system far more viable.

Oh and legal reasons. Buying bandwidth, getting right of ways for cable etc is not just cheap, it is total cartel central in just about every country out there.

You claim Turing complete, with nothing more than an assertion. There are physical process that are *not* Turing complete. You don't need magic to make it uncomputable. Now either put up or shut up.

Oh my personal project is a vacuum energy machine that runs on water. I can't cite anything or show you anything because it is my own personal project.

Yea right.

So you claim you know what is needed... Well lets see the citations. Because people working in the field here don't know what is needed for "strong ai" or even how to define strong ai properly.

What? My masters was in Astrophysics. It was widely speculated that planets are common. But size distribution/distance from parent and all that was a bit of an unknown. We don't believe we (the solar system) is special.