If NASA's recent efforts to build a warp drive engine wasn't enough to convince you that Star Trek will eventually mirror our own reality, then perhaps the latest research project from Penn State's Astrophysics department will.
A team of Penn State researchers were recently awarded a sizable grant to search the universe for intelligently created spheres large enough to fit a planetary system inside -- and to do so without ever setting foot on a galaxy-class Federation spaceship like the Enterprise-D.
