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回答先: 失敗タブー視せず挑戦的開発を 宇宙開発委報告書案 投稿者 宙が好き！ 日時 2000 年 5 月 16 日 12:53:12:
もちろん我が国の話でわありまへん。(^^;
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Thursday, 11 May, 2000, 09:24 GMT 10:24 UK
Science fiction powers space research
By BBC News Online internet correspondent Mark Ward
The European Space Agency (Esa) is studying science fiction for ideas and technologies that could be used in future missions.
A panel of readers is currently combing sci-fi novels and short stories published in the early decades of the last century to see if technology
has caught up with ideas that were futuristic when first put into print.
Any good ideas turned up in the
search will be assessed by
scientists to see if they can help
the agency in its ongoing mission
to explore space.
Knowledgeable fans of science
fiction are also being encouraged
to send in suggestions to help Esa
spot sources of good ideas.
While technologies such as warp
drives remain in the realm of fiction,
many of the technologies authors
employed in stories are now
commonplace.
Dr David Raitt, co-ordinator of the
Innovative Technologies From
Science Fiction For Space Applications project (ISTF), said an initial
scan had already proved the worth of the approach.
Inventive ideas
Planetary landers were mentioned in stories from 1928, stabilising fins
on rockets appeared in fiction in 1929 and a space station crewed by
astronauts and re-supplied by regular flights from Earth was considered in 1945.
Dr Raitt said the Dick Tracy cartoons in the 1940s had the lantern-jawed
detective using a watch that was also a videophone and a camera. In
January, Casio introduced a wristwatch that is also a digital camera.
"Only relatively recently have some of these ideas come to fruition," he said.
Ian Stewart, a mathematics
professor from the University of
Warwick and a science fiction author
and fan said Nasa regularly
consulted living authors for
exploration ideas: "Nasa uses SF
authors in focus groups for the
pre-planning of missions."
Authors such as Gregory Benford,
Greg Bear and Larry Niven have
helped Nasa draw up ideas for a mission to explore Europa - one of the
moons of Jupiter.
Nasa wants to go to Europa because pictures taken by the Voyager
and Galileo probes suggest there may be oceans beneath the moon's
icy surface. The agency looked to the authors to come up with
inventive ideas for piercing the ice to get at the molten world below.
Waiting for technology
Nasa is also conducting research into futuristic ideas such as warp
drives. The ultimate aim of its Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project
is a massless engine for a spacecraft that would be able to reach near-light speeds.
Although the agency has yet to
turn directly to old stories for
inspiration, Professor Stewart
believes such an approach will be
fruitful: "You don't need to get
much out of it to make it very
worthwhile."
He said that although many authors
employ devices
such as matter
transmitters that no-one has a clue
how to create, others come up with
ideas that only become science
fact years later thanks to a
technological breakthrough.
"The fax machine dates back to the
1890s," he said, "But the
electronics of the time were not up
to job."
Professor Stewart's first science fiction novel is due to be published in October.
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