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Ein cooler Typ posted:if gold is worthless, why was Quark trying to trade for gold with the US govt when he went to Roswell Why should anyone care about gold or other "rare metals" when there are likely tons of asteroids floating everywhere that are lumps of solid metal ranging from a few cubic meters all the way up to millions of cubic meters? Hell, why bother with planetary mining when the average asteroid belt already has a virtual buffet or everything you could possibly want. Iron, Gold, Nickel, etc... There have been instances where some asteroids passing close to earth are estimated to have upwards of 90 million tons of platinum in their cores. Mining in the ST universe would essentially be... <cargo ship warps next to an asteroid belt> <scans the composition of the nearby asteroids> <starts beaming solid iron, nickel, and platinum into cargo holds with it's industrial transporters> <impurities are automatically removed by the transporter and the metals are reshaped into ingot form> <fills 200,000 ton cargo cold in 5 minutes> Then again, since transporters exist, ship construction should be quite similar with all parts being created on-site with a transporter, and the entire hull being one solid, seamless piece of metal instead of the sheets we see during construction/repair scenes.
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Applewhite posted:At the very least I find it highly dubious that Klingons would develop space travel. Having Klingons be a warrior race uplifted from their nuclear hellscape planet by Vulcans to be their soldiers only to rebel against their pointy-eared masters makes sense. But only if First Contact had a scene where the two vulcans set down on earth, look at the cowering post-apocalyptic humans and said to each other "If at first you don't succeed..." or something.
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I think they do have money in the future and Kirk was lying when he told the whale biologist they don't have money because he didn't want to pay for pizza
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Blistex posted:
They could do it very efficiently like this, only the unions won't let them
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Jun 8, 2016 16:41
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The entire Star Trek universe was Gene Roddenberry's Mary Sue where every Federation character is a rational actor 100% of the time (unless they're under the influence of outside contamination).
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Do you think Broccoli ever got a girlfriend (holograms don't count)
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Ein cooler Typ posted:if gold is worthless, why was Quark trying to trade for gold with the US govt when he went to Roswell He probably assumed he wouldn't be getting back, so he might as well get rich in the local currency.
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Ein cooler Typ posted:I think they do have money in the future and Kirk was lying when he told the whale biologist they don't have money because he didn't want to pay for pizza  Normally he'd have said "I forgot my wallet at home." He needed them whales though
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Ein cooler Typ posted:Do you think Broccoli ever got a girlfriend (holograms don't count) he should have dated that girl that dated data
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Raku posted:They could do it very efficiently like this, only the unions won't let them What unions? They literally just use holograms to dig out the ore like chain-ganged slaves because lol holograms aren't real people.
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Jun 8, 2016 18:19
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Could Q create a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it?
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Arkanomen posted:What unions? They literally just use holograms to dig out the ore like chain-ganged slaves because lol holograms aren't real people. The hologram programmers' union
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Jun 8, 2016 18:36
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it's ok, we can just fire them all and use holograms to program holograms
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Hector Beerlioz posted:Could Q create a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it? Temperature or Scoville scale?
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Hector Beerlioz posted:Could Q create a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it? Of course he could, what is stopping him?
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Applewhite posted:So do those have steam engines? no they do not. just like the nuclear batteries in our present day satellites and space probes do not have steam engines
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Cthulu Carl posted:Having Klingons be a warrior race uplifted from their nuclear hellscape planet by Vulcans to be their soldiers only to rebel against their pointy-eared masters makes sense. in one of the early TOS novels the said that the Klingons where uplifted by the Federation and given warp drives. but then to the horror of the federation they started conquering their neighbors like a "more primitive civilization", and this was when they invented the concept of the prime directive obviously that idea was abandoned later, but i think its way better than what they went with
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8-Bit Scholar posted:A Keikold! Ha ha, nailed it.  Hector Beerlioz posted:Could Q create a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it? Yes, and then I'd eat it anyway. 
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Zorodius posted:imagine a Klingons versus Space Marines crossover! How AWESOME would that be you guys! does anyone know someone who could make it happen?? Talk to these guys Startrekaxanar.com
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Blurry Gray Thing posted:Why do human ships try to pretend their main gun is really a "censor"? The gun part is really a secondary utility, it's really there to stop tiny space pebbles from destroying the ship when it goes zoom. This is why it has to be "configured" to shoot what ever baloney thing the plot requires in a given episode.
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Latinum is a liquid. They just put it in gold because why the gently caress not use gold instead of some other metal.
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Applewhite posted:Space Marines would kick the Klingons' asses and it wouldn't even be close. No way! Klingons have a strong and courageous warrior culture. They fight with awesome swords and have lots of spaceships!
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Zorodius posted:No way! Klingons have a strong and courageous warrior culture. They fight with awesome swords and have lots of spaceships! Warhammer dudes would just nuke the planet and go home, but if you read this 40,000 word essay I wrote about fake space physics and references to the Star Trek manual....
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