ShranTheWaterPoloFan

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[–] ShranTheWaterPoloFan@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You think if India doesn't change their name Pakistan will go "alright well go with Bahrat then!"

That's the funniest thing ever.

[–] ShranTheWaterPoloFan@startrek.website 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Mastering? It's an OS not a skill.

Are really looking down on people because you open the terminal often instead of being able to click something?

I initially hated the idea, but if it's possible to hit crazy benchmarks without trains then it gives a new way of reaching mega base.

Also it can limit the reliance on blueprints. There is something satisfying about pasting a big block, but it gets repetitive when you are pasting your 8th green circuit block.

I love that episode.

And the moral of "I can get stuff just by asking for it!" Is a real lesson.

I feel like this might be another example of OPs meme. Feyman called it a magic number we have no understanding of. It's one of the great mysteries of modern physics.

[–] ShranTheWaterPoloFan@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The strangeness of the Fine Structure Constant isn't it's value, it's that we don't know what it is.

Other constants have units that explain what they are doing. Like converting miles to meters we multiply by meters/miles. But this is just a number that is needed. That's so strange I can't think of another example.

People under the age of 25 tend to be really bad at the Internet. The number of times high schoolers or college kids are mystified by how I'm able to get information quickly from search engines is beyond me.

I'm not surprised they can't tell what's real, they can't search for tiny details like "transmission time to Mars" or "gravity on mercury".

[–] ShranTheWaterPoloFan@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Most of those equations are full of things that can make sense, and then there is a fine structure constant.

It's all over particles, but we don't know what it is. It has no units. It's just a number that is needed for physics to work.

[–] ShranTheWaterPoloFan@startrek.website 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

speak to anyone and everyone but now after years of being told I am racist

Were you saying racist shit?

I'm guessing you are one of those "I'm not racist, I hate everyone" assholes. Which is a long way of saying "I'm racist, but it doesn't count because I'm a jerk to my friends (who are all white).

Enterprise isn't exactly a representative sampling of star trek.

In TNG the only reoccurring villains that are more advanced than humans are the Q and the Borg. The iconians were super advanced, but are long dead. There are random space babies/sentient nebulas but most species are behind the federation in tech. Even the romulans aren't more advanced, just focused on war.

If you ever wonder how advanced humanity is in star trek, remember that Q is a reoccurring villain. Q has complete control of space, time and reality. The federation is so advanced God is an antagonist.

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