The word Ansible designate an hyper-luminous (even almost instantaneous) communication device. Originally imagined by Ursula K. Le Guin in 1966 in Rocannon’s World, the concept was largely used by Orson Scott Card in the Ender series[1]Ender’s Game… Lire la suite... |
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Dico S.F. – Solar sail
A solar sail (or light sail, or photon sail) is a theoretical (but currently seriously under study) device which allows to propel a spacecraft by the pressure exert on the sail by the photons emitted by the sun, … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Space elevator
A space elevator is a device constituted par a rope whose one extremity is fixed on Earth et the other to a mass in orbit (for instance an asteroid in geosynchronous orbit). By sling effect, the rope is well-tensed et … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Tricorder
In the Star Trek universe, a tricorder is a portative detector that can realise a large number of measurement: magnetic field, life signs, particles, electromagnetic radiations… all that an away team could have to measure. There is a version specialized … Lire la suite... |
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