charonn0
@charonn0@startrek.website
- Comment on I'm a reasonably well educated human living on Earth. What's to stop me from replicating starship parts until I can make my own Starfleet? 4 weeks ago:
Your replicator is probably too small to replicate larger components, which would be a major inconvenience at best or a showstopper at worst. And industrial replicators are even harder to come by than starships.
Then there’s getting access to the replicator patterns for sensitive or dangerous components. Dilithium chambers, weapons, Mercassium composite for shield generators, etc. are classified by Starfleet.
Then there are substances that can’t be replicated, such as verterium cortenide for the warp coils. I don’t think it’s explicitly stated that VC can’t be replicated, but we know that Voyager had to find some to refit their warp coils, they couldn’t just replicate it. Also dilithium.
And finally, there’s antimatter. Building a starship won’t do you much good if you don’t have gas for the tank. Antimatter does not occur in large quantities in nature, and probably can’t be replicated (or at least not safely.) So you’d need some sort of industrial base to produce it, further complicating your plans.
- Comment on 💸💸💸 1 month ago:
trekkies in their 40s for some reason. Pc technical, can use a pc well enough to understand above the basic concepts of the best buy laptop the general public use.
I feel attacked, yet also acknowledged.
- Comment on Make this thread look like it's your first day on the internet 2 months ago:
How is babby formed?
- Comment on 8 Minutes 3 months ago:
The classic sci-fi short story A Pale of Air touches on this.
- Comment on Peeble streamer on Doop 3 months ago:
Fuck social media, why doesn’t everyone have a geocities page with a webring that links to their angelfire page and guestbooks and ICQ and stumbleupon KIDS NEED TO STOP HAVING A DIFFERENT INTERNET EXPERIENCE THAN I GREW UP WITH!”
This, but unironicly!
- Comment on Today's SMBC is about the exciting science of archaeology 3 months ago:
- Comment on Who would win: every human in the world vs. every animal in the world? 5 months ago:
Flowering and fruiting plants generally need bees, birds, etc. for pollination and seed spreading.
- Comment on Who would win: every human in the world vs. every animal in the world? 5 months ago:
- Comment on toxic 5 months ago:
Moisturize me!
- Comment on What year is it? 5 months ago:
The Romans named their years after who was elected Consul that year. There were two Consuls, so you’d say “in the consulship of Jones and Smith”. 59BC was Julius Caesar and some other guy. The other guy was so unimportant that Romans joked by calling it the consulship of “Julius and Caesar”.
- Comment on hotwheels sisyphus 5 months ago:
The researchers say they derived the name of its genus, hotwheels, directly from the beloved toy due to the structure of the male spiders’ reproductive organs. […] “Because of the lack of nerves in the palpal bulb, the challenges faced by a male spider attempting to copulate can be likened to those of a person attempting to adjust a complex, delicate mechanism in the dark, using an elongate, elaborately formed fingernail”
- Comment on Never Forget 6 months ago:
- Comment on Never Forget 6 months ago:
plea for 1/2 that was rejected
The rejected plea was for 6 months.
- Comment on Never Forget 6 months ago:
That’s not exactly what happened.
Aaron committed suicide before his case went to trial, and so he was never convicted let alone sentenced. 35 years was never even likely; had it gone to trial there’s every reason to think he’d have been acquitted outright, or at worst given a slap on the wrist. Not that he should have even been charged, of course.
- Comment on Dawkins 6 months ago:
“Richard Dawkins confirms intelligent design mostly likely explanation”
- Comment on Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet 6 months ago:
Does the library provide ethernet jacks for patrons to use? If not then I can understand why a librarian would be surprised.
- Comment on Biden signs TikTok “ban” bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it 6 months ago:
That’s the opposite of what the court said.
- Comment on Biden signs TikTok “ban” bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it 6 months ago:
Well, no. The courts struck down Trump’s Tiktok ban because he used an executive order and overstepped his authority.
- Comment on Biden signs TikTok “ban” bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it 6 months ago:
Tiktok has been a subject of national security concerns since at least 2020.
- Comment on The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend 6 months ago:
It’s about 4940686 times the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum in one 299792458^th^ of a second.
- Comment on Off-campus UC Berkeley student housing bans white people from common areas 7 months ago:
Blatant violations of the federal Fair Housing Act and California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act.
Lawyer up and take the landlord for everything they’ve got.
- Comment on They're openly allowing illegal immigrants to vote in federal elections now in Arizona. 7 months ago:
I think you got it backwards.
- Comment on Biden bragged on twiiter about violating our inalienable rights, bypassing congress with executive orders 7 months ago:
What, specifically, do these order do?
- Comment on Jon Stewart found to have overvalued his NYC home by 829% after slamming Trump’s civil case as ‘not victimless’ 7 months ago:
He sold a property for more than its estimated market value.
Nice try.
- Comment on degree in bamf 7 months ago:
What an original and insightful thought. Thanks for sharing your best with us.
- Comment on degree in bamf 7 months ago:
How should I know? Or you, for that matter?
- Comment on degree in bamf 7 months ago:
Clearly he knew her name, though. He just didn’t know the woman he was speaking to was the woman whose work he was recommending.
- Comment on degree in bamf 7 months ago:
What I meant is that it’s derogatory to use the term “mansplain”. Sorry for confusing you.
- Comment on degree in bamf 7 months ago:
“Only white men do X” is absolutely racist and sexist. “Mansplain” is derogatory.
Either it’s OK to do that, or it’s not. The race and gender of your target doesn’t make a difference.
- Comment on degree in bamf 7 months ago:
Are Black trans women known for this kind of behaviour?
The question suggests that Black trans women are all alike. It’s exactly that kind of generalization that’s being criticized.