I honestly believe that it has been in the last 100 hundred years or so that our understanding of the universe (and ourselves) has been turned on its head by scientific discoveries. There are certainly results that I enjoy (gizmos and gadgets) as well as things that peak my interest for the future.

However, my largest hope is that we as a civilization cease from trying to tear each other down and succeed in a dog-eat-dog type of world. Instead, I hope for the day that all people live from an attitude of trying to lift each other up and inspire each other to be the best that that they can be. To me, that is the only claim to any semblance of importance that the human species can have.

For his part, Roddenberry's work has been a wonderful inspiration to untold numbers of people to strive for knowledge and discovery. For as much as we like to think that we understand, there is so much more to learn and we've only just begun.

That is a very interesting point Ozzy, something I have heard repeated a few times on TED talks. The factory-like educational system derived for producing adequate labor for an industrial society (well for the masses. the wealthiest of people have it a bit different). I suppose we are locked into a very unique situation; on one side there is the need to expose all people to the capabilities and creativity of human kind while the other is to respect that we have a massively overpopulated species that cannot get the kind of resources or advantages required without first a basic understanding.

There is an important aspect in a more well-rounded education; for example Einstein. His success came, besides his mathematics logic, from a unique creative capability allowing him to "see" the vary phenomena that he wrote about. Long before CGI could have been thought of as a means of creating realistic imagine of an abstract concept. There is a lot to be said about fostering this ability.

Ozy--for comparison, my mom is about to turn 74. She said when she was a kid (in a two-room schoolhouse, with one teacher going back and forth between the two rooms teaching all grades), that the teacher stressed the importance of getting an eighth-grade diploma so you could get a job.

How do I obtain the orange looking armor for my knight??! I will thoroughly love whoever tells me!!

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I like Mumble but mainly cause it has an ingame repositonable resizable UI so i dont have to keep alt+tabbing to see whose talking :D

Love it! Awesome job, buddy ;)

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All my starships are named after summons from the Final Fantasy franchise (ie. USS Odin and USS Belias for my main and alt respectively) while all my small craft are named after airships/vehicles from various console RPGs (ie USS Strahl is my Delta-class shuttle and USS Epoch is my Aeon-class Timeship)

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How did I not see this until today? Amazing work! :D

Thanks ^^ Meh... I made this over a year ago, so it kind of got lost in cyber history. :)

Sean, we got our HK a few days ago. When you are ready, we can set up a time so we can help you with yours :).

I have no words...wow,

Wow that was amazing :D

How did I not see this until today? Amazing work! :D

I can help you out with crafting of gear... any exotics, just let me know and try to provide materials. I can help if you don't have all of them. Other than exotics... legendary weapons would be the next option. Perhaps we can get a trade going for rares... deposit rare weapons that are being requested for legendary precursors and take out the rare weapons you need based on a point system. Please give me any other suggestions... you know I'll help when I can.

I think for me, as an educator for most of my professional life is the current worldwide revolution in education. You can see some of the symptoms of this inevitable change already occuring in developed countries by the way in which education-inflation has increased. Where 10 years ago a degree was required to do a job, now a masters is required. Though the job requirements really havent changed.

The problem is, society itself has changed. When the whole system of education was created, particulariky that of western civilization, it was devised to meet the needs of industry ( moreover the industrial revolution). This is why, wherever you go (as remarkable as it sounds), from Rio to London, the structure of education is exactly the same. At the top are maths and languages and at the bottom are the humanities; from music to drama. Regardless of where you go, this is repeated. How many of us were benignly steered away from subjects we liked in school because we we were told (whether informally or formally) ; " Dont study art, you cant be artist...Dont study music, you cant be musician". But this rhetoric is profoundly misguided. Time and time again, we see children demonstrate particular talent(s) in one or more areas, butwe squander them, pretty ruthlessly because the system of education prioritises subjects that are favourable to industry. But society has moved on a great deal since the advent of the industrial revolution.

Why isnt music taught with the same presence of math? Mathematics is of course important, but so is music, drama, dance et al.

This is where I think the greatest societal change will begin, as is already underway in many developed countries. Tailor-suited education that focuses the talents and potential of children to help nurture skillsets so they can self-actualise and be whom they were always destined to be. Definitely not steered into a direction of employment to work at some nameless corporate entity factory.

This I think would probably be the most positive contributive factor to human progress in the 21st century. Well rounded individuals with their potentials reached, free to claim their niche in the world and be all the more happier for it.

Apologies for any typos, im on my samsung tab at 2am. :)

WOW, haha sofar great responses. Yeah I've been following mostly photovoltaics and advancements in liquid-metal batteries. It's incredible to think that every surface of a building can now generate its own electricity. And why not? Every second of every day the Earth is hit with more ambient energy than has been used by the entire run of human civilization. I've seen images of German neighborhoods like this; with their European green surroundings they are quite beautiful... though I still can't -for the life me- figure out why the most powerful nation on the planet cannot get with the program in a meaningful way (actually I know exactly why but not the place to be negative). Call me a pragmatist, but my biggest passion is for not-to-distant future advantages. Better energy usage, algae refinement and use, and of course computer tech.

Haha, I really cannot wrap my head around the mathematics behind purposed methods of FTL travel and advancements in space travel with my art school education. Though I do read what I can and keep to date, I am far from an expert. However, I do see what benefits will come from the investment. One of my favorite is Vertical Farming: such a concept of advanced agriculture which may be required for survival in inclosed Mars habitation could be engineered on Earth into something like Archology (ref. Mass Effect): the creation of urban centers that produce both energy and agricultural needs locally, drastically reducing resource consumption.

What an awesome topic and such great answers so far!

As a scientist myself, I get excited about all sorts of stuff. Even with the rapid advancement of technology in the last century, it seems like the coming decades may yield even more life-changing scientific discoveries and technological achievements.

I'm a biophysical chemist and geneticist, so I tend to get professionally excited about those possibilities. Right now I'm doing a postdoc on developing some new instrumentation, but I hope to one day work on algae-based biofuel. There are some really promising proposals to turn algae into fuel producers for humanity. A big advantage of this process is that it creates fuel compatible with our current infrastructure, but all of the CO2 and other nasty byproducts released upon use is pulled out of the atmosphere when the fuel is created in the first place, making the whole process carbon-neutral. Additionally, it provides us with another source for plastics and fine chemicals, which is something that other alternative energy sources like wind and solar can't provide.

Outside of my own work, I'm very excited about all the recent advancements and near-future possibilities of astronomy and space travel. The fact that private companies are starting to take over more routine aspects of space travel is very cool, and it is freeing NASA up to do even cooler things. On top of that, I can't believe that some scientists at NASA are actually attempting real, laboratory experiments to create warp bubbles based off the ideas of the Acubierre Warp Drive.

It's actually gotten me so jazzed that, the next time NASA puts out a call for astronauts (they do it every few years or so), I'm going to throw my hat into the ring!

I'm not an engineer or scientist. My background is in literature, art, and philosophy. But Star Trek inspires me in these areas, as well. The idea that humanity can come to a point that we see each other as equal, that we put aside the differences (after much difficulty) to create a society where anyone can achieve as far as they desire, and where the human endeavour focusses on discovery rather than warfare, these inspire me in my own work.

Its an awesome idea, I have seen other online groups large enough do the same before. I just cant afford to go and to take the time off D:

Awesome. I 'liked' the pizza place's Facebook page. They're making out quite well for themselves following this little incident, hehe.