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Title: 100 Year Starship: An interstellar leap for mankind?
Post by: DigitalBuddha on March 25, 2012, 08:30:27 AM
100 Year Starship: An interstellar leap for mankind?

Is a Pentagon plan for a spaceship travel outside our solar system a crackpot idea, or a visionary blueprint for reaching the stars?

(http://www.rebelwarez.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/jack_sarfatti-600x300.jpg)

When Jack Sarfatti was 13 years old, he began receiving phone calls from a strange metallic voice that told him he would someday become part of an elite group of scientists exploring uncharted territory. Those calls, which he believes may have come from a computer on a spacecraft, proved a seminal influence on his life and led him to pursue a career that combined mainstream physics with an enduring interest in UFOs and the far-out reaches of science.

Check it out -
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120321-searching-for-a-starship

(http://static.bbc.co.uk/wwfuture/img/ic/624_351/images/live/p0/0q/9c/p00q9cvh.jpg)

Title: Re: 100 Year Starship: An interstellar leap for mankind?
Post by: milnie on March 26, 2012, 03:40:24 PM
Maybe it was Stephen Hawkins calling him? Has anyone heard his 'new' voice?
Title: Re: 100 Year Starship: An interstellar leap for mankind?
Post by: DigitalBuddha on March 26, 2012, 04:28:42 PM
Quote from: milnie on March 26, 2012, 03:40:24 PM
Maybe it was Stephen Hawkins calling him? Has anyone heard his 'new' voice?

He has a new voice? I did not know that. Would be cool to hear.
Title: Re: 100 Year Starship: An interstellar leap for mankind?
Post by: meekon5 on March 27, 2012, 08:40:10 AM
I did try to find it on :

http://www.fulldocumentary.com/default.asp?action=default

but no luck, still nice source of on-line documentaries.
Title: Re: 100 Year Starship: An interstellar leap for mankind?
Post by: Abideist on March 27, 2012, 01:42:24 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GcmbFb8afQ

Stephen Hawkings new voice.
Title: Re: 100 Year Starship: An interstellar leap for mankind?
Post by: DigitalBuddha on March 27, 2012, 02:14:34 PM
The thought comes to mind that it would be cool to hear a few Lebowski quotes in Hawking's voice..."well, that's just like your opinion, man." ;D
Title: Re: 100 Year Starship: An interstellar leap for mankind?
Post by: meekon5 on March 28, 2012, 09:48:41 AM
Install the micro$oft voice api (SDK) (http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=10121) and run some text (http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/15426/Text-to-Speech-with-the-Microsoft-Speech-Library-a) as one of the voices.

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