kieron115

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[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's fair. But the idea of approaching the universe from a standpoint of not being able to truly "know" is kind of the basis of all science isn't it? We can have evidence of something, maybe even enough evidence to make reliable, repeatable predictions in the context of our infinitely short existences, but it will forever and always be transient knowledge. Nothing in the universe is static and unchanging forever.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

Being that this is a Star Trek post I'll just add this.

Lt. Cmdr. Data: "Sir, our sensors are showing this to be the absence of everything. It is a void without matter or energy of any kind."

Commander Riker: "Yet this hole has a form, Data; it has height, width..."

Lt. Cmdr. Data: "Perhaps. Perhaps not, Sir."

Captain Picard: "That's hardly a scientific observation, Commander."

Lt. Cmdr. Data: "Captain, the most elementary and valuable statement in science, the beginning of wisdom, is, "I do not know". I do not know what that is, Sir."

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Clearly she just hadn't had her coffee yet! On a serious note though I have to agree with @Corgana@startrek.website. The evolving definition of "medical death" as more of a logistical necessity than anything is something that I never really thought about before.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

Naw it was perfectly clear. People just need to read past the first sentence.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago

Seriously! I know that BLUF is a thing but do that many people seriously not read past the first line before feeling the need to correct someone on the internet? @ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca as a fellow member of the human race let me formally thank you for forming a question, seeking out information that either confirms or denies your question, and informing everyone else who may have had the same misconception.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Janeway apologist! (/s)

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

"lopsided" font plate was almost a badge of honor back in the day lol because it meant that you had a front mount intercooler that needed air (and if you did the offset plate without an FMIC you were ridiculed endlessly for being a buffoon)

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 17 points 3 months ago

I agree that cybersecurity features should be included. In fact I think they should be included for free. The problem is that Microsoft wanted to charge the Department of Defense and it sounds like they used politics to make sure they could, and if true then they (and maybe also the DoD?) may have violated some federal laws around government procurement and "gifts" from contractors to the government.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 4 months ago

Unironically this movie is in my top 5 favorite trek movies. It counts.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The Orville got MUCH less satirical in season 2 and even more so in season 3. There are still jokes for sure but I would struggle to call any of it mean spirited. There's even this old home video TOS skit that Seth MacFarlane and his friend's did in high school. I assume Seth or someone let the writers off their leashes when they didn't get sued by Paramount in Season 1.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 5 months ago

Sorry to necro this but I just saw in the latest LTT vid that apparently Microsoft did go through with this plan? They were talking about it in the context of the diskless xbox that just released. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/all/how-to-transfer-content-licenses/7ac76f4e-c7e4-4153-8824-1e424478b02d

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The green hand? That's the hand of Apollo. The actual Greek god Apollo. TOS got weird lol.

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