Did somebody order some starship fuel?

[Tiberius Jim]

Very cool. Do you have a link to the specific container? I'm tempted to give one of these a go myself.

EDIT: In fact, would you mind if I reposed your work on this board? I bet the folks there would love it.

Sure thing, go for it.

Well, maybe 24th century Class-A Starship Grade Deuterium *does* glow. And I intended it to only be dangerous when near anti-deuterium, since loss of containment is what leads to core breaches.

Yes but the warning would be on the OTHER container not this one, deuterium by itself is no more dangerous than hydrogen.

Like I said...maybe 24th century Class-A Starship Grade Deuterium *is* dangerous by itself. I'd imagine the type used to fuel a starship isn't your average everyday stuff.

 

[Plecostomus]

Ok, I'll buy that... sort of like the red M&Ms give you cancer but the blue ones don't.

 

[S'kai]

I would like to order a half a dozen of these for the Zhang Heng.

I'd like to see your container for dilithium crystals.

 

[Gepard]

Very cool. Do you have a link to the specific container? I'm tempted to give one of these a go myself.

EDIT: In fact, would you mind if I reposed your work on this board? I bet the folks there would love it.

Sure thing, go for it.

Sweet.

 

[Tiberius Jim]

Here's where I got the container, they come in various sizes. Borosilicate Glass & Stainless Jars

 

[Gepard]

Did you frost or line the glass in any way? It doesn't look transparent.

 

[Tiberius Jim]

I put some semi-transparent blue paper inside the canister to give it the color and the diffused light effect.

In other news, it looks like scifi-meshes.com has been hacked. Again.

 

[Vance]

That said... I'm not bashing your design. That came out sweet. Just your misuse of technobabble.

It's Star Trek.. naturally the technobabble will be misused, particularly if it's TNG era!

 

[Ptrope]

^^

Oh, I don't know - in an ep of ENT, they were mining deuterium out of an asteroid. Mining??

 

[ThomastheCat]

^^

Oh, I don't know - in an ep of ENT, they were mining deuterium out of an asteroid. Mining??

I remember that. I thought it was hilarious. I also remember being confused as to why no one on the ENT boards here raised the question right after it aired.

Eeesh I've been here for a while.

 

[Tiberius Jim]

Originally I did intend for this to house antideuterium a.k.a. antimatter...but the word "deuterium" obviously has few letters and thusly I could make it larger on the canister, which to me just looked better. So try not to look at it from a Trek universe perspective and just from a graphic design/artistic perspective. I might go back and relabel it "Antideuterium" later to please the nitpickers.

 

[DRACO]

If so, I've got a shipment right here.

For my Intro to Packaging course at The Art Institute, our final assignment was to create packaging for something rare, precious, advanced, powerful, antique or just otherwise special. It also had to be in a circular form. I took this as a great chance to create something Trek. I decided my "precious object" would be something that could glow from inside it's container. I thought about a lot of various Trek substances before settling with Deuterium. I may do another version some time of Antideuterium...just gonna make sure I keep the contents from mixing.

Made it out of a glass container found at the package designer's heaven, The Container Store, and carious types of paper and card stock. Light is from two Stick N Click LED lights, one on the bottom of the container, one stuck to the bottom of the lid.

Oh and be sure to check out the last pic, I had some fun with the Caution label.

that's so neat! but wait, didn't someone do this before? I remember something like this but I think it was warp plasma...

 

[Kemaiku]

^^

Oh, I don't know - in an ep of ENT, they were mining deuterium out of an asteroid. Mining??

Its entirely possibly that a planet or especially asteroid forming differently to Earth would in its spatial chemistry phase solidify with a much higher proportion of Deuterium (Hydrogen-2) in its ores and minerals than Protium (Hydrogen-1).

Mining say oil or other hydrocarbon compounds rich in Deuterium saturated mineral instead of Hydrogen would be an alternative to planets where the Deuterium was in lower concentrations in sea water and harder to process.

It does not mean literally mining the gas.

 

[Plecostomus]

I might go back and relabel it "Antideuterium" later to please the nitpickers.

Please do! I cannot sleep and I've lost 20 pounds stressing out over this.




Seriously kidding. The art itself is amazing, I'm just picky about misused technobabble.

 

[Vance]

Its entirely possibly that a planet or especially asteroid forming differently to Earth would in its spatial chemistry phase solidify with a much higher proportion of Deuterium (Hydrogen-2) in its ores and minerals than Protium (Hydrogen-1).

No.. it isn't. Physics doesn't change just 'cause you're on another planet. And certainly pressure from gravity wouldn't solidify a gass when there's less of it.

Besides, the BEST place to look for Deuterium or Tritium would be a gas giant. We've got several in our solar system, after all... why go through all that rediculous work when you've got a mammoth source of the material in raw form literally less than five minutes away?

It does not mean literally mining the gas.

Unfortunately, in ENT, it did.

 

[Tiberius Jim]

I might go back and relabel it "Antideuterium" later to please the nitpickers.

Please do! I cannot sleep and I've lost 20 pounds stressing out over this.




Seriously kidding. The art itself is amazing, I'm just picky about misused technobabble.

I get that, but my point was that I didn't *really* misuse it, since this prop was never meant to be accurate to Trek canon. The people I'll be presenting it to for my grade wouldn't care if the label said "Midichlorians: Certified Jedi Fuel" so I went with what looked good rather than what was Trek accurate.

I also still remain that this form of deuterium could be dangerous and require containment, especially in proximity to antideuterium. And it glows because...it looks cool.

 

[Tiberius Jim]

Update: I plan on doing a second pass at this for my final in the class. I *will* be changing the content to antideuterium, have found a way to create the skin out of one piece of the cardstock instead of two, keeping the seams to a bare minimum. Also, I will sum up the main addition to version 2.0 with three words: animated. control. panel.

There will also be a carrying case for the container (part 2 of the project is to develop something that can be used to carry the initial product). I have plans for an aluminum canister with a shoulder strap.

 

[Gepard]

Update: I plan on doing a second pass at this for my final in the class. I *will* be changing the content to antideuterium, have found a way to create the skin out of one piece of the cardstock instead of two, keeping the seams to a bare minimum. Also, I will sum up the main addition to version 2.0 with three words: animated. control. panel.

There will also be a carrying case for the container (part 2 of the project is to develop something that can be used to carry the initial product). I have plans for an aluminum canister with a shoulder strap.

Sweet.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

How much is it a gallon?

 

[Kemaiku]

Its entirely possibly that a planet or especially asteroid forming differently to Earth would in its spatial chemistry phase solidify with a much higher proportion of Deuterium (Hydrogen-2) in its ores and minerals than Protium (Hydrogen-1).

No.. it isn't. Physics doesn't change just 'cause you're on another planet. And certainly pressure from gravity wouldn't solidify a gass when there's less of it.

Besides, the BEST place to look for Deuterium or Tritium would be a gas giant. We've got several in our solar system, after all... why go through all that rediculous work when you've got a mammoth source of the material in raw form literally less than five minutes away?

It does not mean literally mining the gas.

Unfortunately, in ENT, it did.

Well since Star Trek takes place in a different universe, unless the Eugenics Wars and the Voyager 4-6 launches happened without me knowing, in their universe it is possible.