Blog 19

Time Travel is a concept developed by science fiction but has become somewhat of a craze in the scientific world. Scientists are debating wether or not it is possible. Some say you can only go forward in time while others say you can go forward or backward. In class we watched the Star Trek episode A City on the Edge of Forever, in this episode Kirk and Spock go back in time to rescue Mccoy. While they are there they realize that whatever Mccoy did drastically altered the future. A woman must die in order for the future to be set right again. And if she doesnt then the whole future changes. However a homeless man dies who did not die before and yet nothing changed. Which can only mean that some people drastically alter history with their presence while others merely exist.
 We also read a Nova interview with Carl Sagan on his views of time travel. He reminded me of Stephen Hawking a lot. He used the same theories such as moving as close to the speed of light to travel forward in time. And how it is probably impossible to go backward in time. He said he has mixed feelings about backwards time travel. He would like to go back but he doesnt want to not exist. He also talks about the granfather paradox which is kind of crazy if you think about it.

I Borg blog

in todays class we finished up the star trek episode I Borg. in this episode the crew finds a borg thaat has been badly injured. so as they are nursing it back to health, for who knows what reason its a damn borg i would have just left it there, the borg begins to understand what it means to be an individual. this borg comes to understand the imporetance of not being assimilated because of Geordie. He doesnt want his friend to be assimilated and in the end pays the ultimate price. Geordie tells him that losing his sense of individuality is almost worse than dieing. and that is what Hue must do at the end. He must give up his individuality to be re-assimilated with the rest of the borg. but at the end of the episode we see him turn to geordie, which may mean he has retained some sort of his former self, from when he was with the crew, it must have stuck with him

blog "Reason"

Today i read the short story reason. in this story two guys are in a space staion with some robots and the robots take over and try to destroy earth. The two men must try to logically reason with a robot that is built to reason. ironic eh. anyway i did not much care for this story. it wasnt very exciting kind of dull in my eyes. i did think it was cool that they had to argue with the robot and the robot was smart enough to argue back. this demonstrates the frankenstein complex because man made the robots and the robots revolted in a way. they no loonger listen to their creators and have even come up with a new master that they follow who is also a robot. if this were to happen in real life all human life would be in danger.