charonn0
@charonn0@startrek.website
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 1 week ago:
How many asshole have got on this planet anyhow?
- Comment on What actually came first? The chicken or the egg? 1 week ago:
Define “chicken”
- Comment on art rule 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on This 18th Century French Doctor Has a Solution to Oligarchy… 2 weeks ago:
The overwhelming majority of the people guillotined during the French revolution were innocent commoners.
- Comment on This fucking bot is still out there messaging 1 month ago:
- Comment on Why aren't all rooms holodecks? 1 month ago:
In emergency cases most holograms can be shut off to match increased energy demands by weapons and shields.
Disengage the safety protocols and suddenly you’ve got weapons and shield emitters than ought to work just as well as their material counterparts, but can’t be damaged (or any damage can be instantly reset). We know that holograms can be projected into space so the only limitation would be the range of the holoemitters.
- Comment on place yer bets 1 month ago:
At least “crushed by asteroid” not contagious.
- Comment on What would you consider the 3 greatest movies ever made? 1 month ago:
- Network (1976)
- Jurassic Park
- Pulp Fiction
- Comment on TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal 4 months ago:
From a national security standpoint of the government, it absolutely does matter who has the data.
- Comment on What is your happiest Trek related memory/ies? 4 months ago:
PSA: gog.com sells versions of Armada and Hidden Evil that work on modern systems.
- Comment on What is your happiest Trek related memory/ies? 4 months ago:
The Voyage Home is the first movie I remember seeing. I was around 3 years old and my parents took me to see it at a drive in theater. It remains my favorite Trek movie.
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 4 months ago:
“Here come the test results: ‘You are a horrible person’. That’s what it says, ‘a horrible person’. We weren’t even testing for that!”
- 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? 5 months 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 💸💸💸 6 months 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 7 months ago:
How is babby formed?
- Comment on 8 Minutes 8 months ago:
The classic sci-fi short story A Pale of Air touches on this.
- Comment on Peeble streamer on Doop 8 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 8 months ago:
- Comment on Who would win: every human in the world vs. every animal in the world? 10 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? 10 months ago:
- Comment on toxic 10 months ago:
Moisturize me!
- Comment on What year is it? 10 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 10 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 11 months ago:
- Comment on Never Forget 11 months ago:
plea for 1/2 that was rejected
The rejected plea was for 6 months.
- Comment on Never Forget 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 months ago:
Well, no. The courts struck down Trump’s Tiktok ban because he used an executive order and overstepped his authority.
