Aoba (OFF):“The target is still intact. Currently advancing towards Tokyo-3.”
Woman A (OFF):“The Air Self-Defense Force doesn't have the power to stop it.”
Reichu: As you can see, holographic technology has gotten quite impressive in the NGE universe. Not up to the indistinguishable-from-reality level of Star Trek, but 3D visual displays in midair are far beyond anything we have now.
Additional Commentary
Kendrix: Ah, the Central Dogma, aka, our good old mission control... Everybody has spent a long time analyzing the religious allusions and explaining where they're from, but I'd like to point out that Anno uses at least as much imagery from Biology, especially genetics and neurology (All the spines and nerves etc). This, in particular, is a reference to the "central dogma of molecular biology", which stated that the transfer of Information in organisms always flows from DNA to RNA to Proteins and never the other way around. As the name implies, it used to be one of the great principles of molecular biology until it got destroyed... by AIDS.
No, really, AIDS. The HIV and other retroviruses have enzymes capable of reverse transcription, i.e, transcribing RNA to DNA. This enzyme is, for various reasons more or less the source of the HIV's deadliness, also because its transcription is very inexact - at first, that sounds rather inconvenient, but the more complex an organism gets, the more damage can be caused by a smaller error, for example, a zebra fish can have too many chromosomes in the majority of it's cells and live perfectly fine, a tree can still survive as a whole if one large branch dies, but a human would die or face severe repercussions.
Viruses are as simple as lifeforms come, to the point that the scientists are still debating whether they can be considered alive at all, and given how much replications take place in one patient's body, it's not even that much of a problem if the majority of the viruses are defective - so that simple, little thing that's basically a strand of RNA in a nice packaging manages to exploit the very force of evolution that grinds all living beings to dust between its wheels if they don't adapt to its advantage, becoming a "worthy opponent" for things like us with brains and self-awareness and science. We have little problems subjugating other mammals and since we have guns, we needn't fear any predators anymore, but we, the most complex of beings, are still having trouble with the most simple ones. I think that's all very fascinating and strangely poetic.
In any case, naming something after a huge scientific principle that was debunked is a nice way of telling the alert viewer that by the end of the series, this place or those who work in it are BLOWING UP that's a bit less obvious than naming it "Hindenburg", "Titanic" or "Kobayashi Maru".
