alpine_jim
@alpine_jim@piefed.social
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
words have meanings, and it sounds like you don’t know the meaning of that one.
- Comment on Timothy Zahn To Write “Twisty” Star Trek Graphic Novel Set On Deep Space 9 1 week ago:
Fabulous news. Zahn was the main pillar of the best of the Star Wars EU, and I liked what I read of his non-SW sci-fi too (Conquerors trilogy). His new Thrawn novels are much more mature, tense, and psychological than his 90s Thrawn novels. Bodes well for DS9.
- Comment on Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better 2 weeks ago:
9.76N to 9.83N depending where you are, if you want to be super pedantic.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/1987831-gravity-map-reveals-earths-extremes/
“Mount Nevado Huascarán in Peru has the lowest gravitational acceleration, at 9.7639 m/s2, while the highest is at the surface of the Arctic Ocean, at 9.8337 m/s2.”
- Comment on Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better 2 weeks ago:
I’ve only ever encountered decaliters in Dune, where there’s the awkward phrase “38 million decaliters” instead of 380 million liters”. It’s probably because Frank Herbert was initially thinking in gallons, and it got changed later.
- Comment on Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better 2 weeks ago:
Pints are also much bigger on the east side of the Atlantic than the west.
- Comment on flat housing 2 weeks ago:
when I was a child, I was sure all American cars had entirely different kinds of engines than ours, because they ran on gas, while ours used liquid fuel.
- Comment on Joe Morton On Star Trek, A Life In Science Fiction, And His Pivotal ‘Terminator’ Role 4 weeks ago:
absolutely, the uniform looks way more Systems Alliance than Starfleet.
- Comment on Bring it back 1 month ago:
Iceland shouldn’t be on this, it didn’t exist until ~20 million years ago. Pangaea broke up ~200 million years ago.
Probably lots of others, like most of Japan shouldn’t be labelled either.
