Re: Star Trek Teaser Trailer Now Up On The Internets

"David Halpern" <photonicbandgap@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Steven L." <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Anybody wrote:
>>> In article <wY8kj.688$lU5.602@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> "GeneK" <gene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> "Anybody" <anybody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>> In Star Wars that would definitely be true, but in Star Trek any
form
>>>>> of robot or droid seems to be extremely rare in any of the various
>>>>> cultures (other than Data and his sibling of course).
>>>> I'm not talking about droids with personalities, just
>>>> the same robotic welders on automated, articulated
>>>> arm that you see today in every automobile factory
>>>> in the industrialized world because they weld more
>>>> consistently than humans.  The welder in the trailer
>>>> would more realistically be sitting at a control panel
>>>> loading CNC programs and monitoring the results.
>>>
>>> I know what you meant and it's true in our world, but even those types
>>> of robots have rarely (if ever) been seen or mentioned in Star Trek.
>>> Even when you get to the time of Deep Space Nine they still have what
>>> appears to be living beings doing the external repair work in the
>>> opening sequence.
>>
>> Yep, robotics is one area where Star Trek vastly underestimated the 
>> future possibilities.
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>> Japan has made enormous strides in that area lately:
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>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvZS16IxC8k
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>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srwk-i5aXRQ&feature=related
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>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y95gtlyS-2Y
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>> In TNG, we had Data of course.  But he was supposed to be a rarity; a 
>> state-of-the-art advance.  Most likely less advanced robots will be 
>> commonplace long before the 24th century.
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>> -- 
>> Steven L.
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> Try in about a decade.
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZzLAsHiGHU


or lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbFFs4DHWys&NR=1