for the same reason as when you are wining olympic athlete, and someone magically scale you down 10 million times, you will no longer be the winner of 100m run.
Or maybe because you've been scaled down so much there are now different methods of TFL travel that are only possible at a near-quantum scale. Perhaps warp 9.9999999 is now easy and they can be home next week.
so it is 6 years old repost, but it is not just a nerd playing with their lab equipment, it actually seem to be part of quite interesting research.
Physicists at Leiden University in the Netherlands have created a 3D-printed microscopic version of the USS Voyager from the Star Trek franchise, according to a recent paper in the journal Soft Matter. These kinds of synthetic “microswimmers” are of great interest to scientists because they could one day lead to tiny swimming robots for autonomous drug delivery through the bloodstream, or for cleaning wastewater, among other potential applications. Such studies could also shed light on how natural “microswimmers” like sperm and bacteria travel through the human body.
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smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 21d
Why would it take longer? Warp 7 is warp 7 no matter your size.
itrealgood@mander.xyz · 15 pts · 21d
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 21d
because now you are not capable of warp 7.
for the same reason as when you are wining olympic athlete, and someone magically scale you down 10 million times, you will no longer be the winner of 100m run.
Headofthebored@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 20d
I don't know man, if one of the scientists sneezed while close to the slide that thing might hit warp 7.
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 20d
Or maybe because you've been scaled down so much there are now different methods of TFL travel that are only possible at a near-quantum scale. Perhaps warp 9.9999999 is now easy and they can be home next week.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 21d
More stops for fuel I guess? Though, IDK, that was only a problem sometimes in the show.
crazycraw@crazypeople.online · 12 pts · 21d
we could have seen this thing shrink 50 times by now. it's impossible to tell.
treadful@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 21d
Fun fact: That's how they filmed the macrovirus episode.
AbsolutelyNotSpez@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 21d
We all live in a tiny Voyager... 🎵🎶
verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 21d
A tiny Voyager, a tiny Voyager ...and our friends are all aboard, more Tuvixes live next door.....
itrealgood@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 21d
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 21d
Results may vary.
DmMacniel@feddit.org · 8 pts · 21d
Tough little ship.
microcapybara@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 21d
There once was a little ship That took a little trip
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 8 pts · 21d
Remembering the time on DS9 when Dax, Bashir, and O'brien's shuttle got shrunk down and they had to stop a Cardassian take over of fhe station.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 21d
You might even call it a Fantastic Voyage(r).
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 21d
Maybe next they'll build a full size one.
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 21d
so it is 6 years old repost, but it is not just a nerd playing with their lab equipment, it actually seem to be part of quite interesting research.
Physicists at Leiden University in the Netherlands have created a 3D-printed microscopic version of the USS Voyager from the Star Trek franchise, according to a recent paper in the journal Soft Matter. These kinds of synthetic “microswimmers” are of great interest to scientists because they could one day lead to tiny swimming robots for autonomous drug delivery through the bloodstream, or for cleaning wastewater, among other potential applications. Such studies could also shed light on how natural “microswimmers” like sperm and bacteria travel through the human body.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/tiny-version-of-uss-voyager-sheds-light-on-physics-of-microswimmers/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p47jwGQvPUw
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 21d
Q did it better, he made voyager subatomic proportions.
BillyClark@piefed.social · 4 pts · 21d
When it gets home, Worf will certainly write a poem to commemorate its victory.