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rotor posted:I think we've all been there, am I right here fellas? set phasers to "way too many drinks"
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Shaggar posted:nacelles also house ramscoops used to pickup stray hydrogen which is the primary form of matter used in the core extreme couponers have gone way way way too far
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Ridgely_Fan posted:i remember one of those was actually a p good episode isn't this the one where ensign kim has to kill himself or watches himself die somehow?
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the Enterprise computer system badly need properly implemented root access limitations. the id check can be beaten with a sound recorder, and handprint checks are only used for the self-destruct sequence. when that lady who hated the crystalline entity, she could just put a password on her destructo-beam and there was no way for Laforge to just sudo in and turn it off. literally Linux manages permissions better than the Enterprise.
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axolotl farmer posted:
yeah but even geordi had sex once I think so it evens out
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toby posted:set phasers to "way too many drinks" I went up to an adenoidal kid who looked like a shipment of pork sausage with eyes to ask where to find the press booth. All that would come out of my mouth was, "You know where I can get a drink?" "Arkty bobblewonk. Haj," he said. I swear it. There was a glitter of wanton idiocy on his gold-rims. I think he realized that I was incapable of speech. "It's Klingon," he said complacently. "You ought to learn it." "Do you know where I can find a whole lot of drinks?"
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If you look closely at Dax's swimsuit you can see the Speedo logo on her right hip. It could be that Speedo is still making swimwear in the 24th century.
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Feb 22, 2012 16:37
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axolotl farmer posted:the Enterprise computer system badly need properly implemented root access limitations. the id check can be beaten with a sound recorder, and handprint checks are only used for the self-destruct sequence. nah, they had to root the ship to install cyanogenmod 832 [corium edition] [XMAXX Space-WiFi] and, welp,
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Panic! At The cisco posted:If you look closely at Dax's swimsuit heh, "if"
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that awful man posted:I went up to an adenoidal kid who looked like a shipment of pork sausage with eyes to ask where to find the press booth. that's funny but that dude desperately wants to be hunter s thompson
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Feb 22, 2012 19:48
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what kind of dude do you think signs up to be a klingon at the star trek thing in vegas? i mean that is serious, yo
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Feb 22, 2012 20:26
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reading century rain now, liking it so far
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finished dick's ubik. scary and depressing next up: electric sheep
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haveblue posted:finished dick's ubik. scary and depressing owns
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are there any sfi-fi about the dangers of early-tech bionic limbs like dudes getting super strong arms put in that then tear out of the body because they try and lift a truck and the rest of their torso isn't strengthened or their knees explode or w/e
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Feb 22, 2012 21:05
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toby posted:that's funny but that dude desperately wants to be hunter s thompson uh anyone who doesnt wish they were hunter s thompson cant be my friend
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Feb 22, 2012 21:09
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well that kind of happens in the ghost in the shell movie e: that's in reply to barons
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also the cult of the machine where people are all "why would I want a weak, flesh body when I could have the prefection of the machine" and getting in "accients" so they can have limbs and organs replaced
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Feb 22, 2012 21:16
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i wish i was a better writer so i could write this as an e-book and sell it on the internets.
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BUSINESS CATTE 2.0 posted:uh yes but putting on what is basically a hunter s thompson costume and trying to write like him is maybe a little much
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SATURNS SON EATER posted:are there any sfi-fi about the dangers of early-tech bionic limbs yes, Frederik Pohl's 1976 novel Man Plus. it's a classic. the story is that they're sending a manned expedition to Mars, and one of the astronauts is assigned to have all kinds of augmentations to be able to walk around without a spacesuit. of course he becomes less and less humans as they start taking pieces away. read it!
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1976 what am I, rotor?
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Ridgely_Fan posted:i remember one of those was actually a p good episode i remember this and it was p good. shame about the episode that spawned it because it was a loving dog
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Feb 22, 2012 21:27
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futurama did it
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So the first thing you'll want to do when you get your machine limbs is try to lift something huge. Oh no! That bus is falling off a cliff! Better go catch it! You jump up and catch the underside on your hands. Great job! But, instead of the relieved cries of little Johnny and Mary as they're saved from falling to fiery doom, you hear screams of agony as your metal hands rip through the undercarriage, up through the aisle, your arms and torso now bloodied like some B-grade zombie. It's not your blood; you just impaled little Johnny from crotch to sternum.
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SATURNS SON EATER posted:and getting in "accients" so they can have limbs and organs replaced there's a larry niven story about how the perfection of transplants will result in every crime down to traffic violations being labeled a capital offense and the state takes your organs
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so, China?
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Shaggar posted:yeah but if they were designed properly you could have a backup core or two on board to replace it. it'd be cool to have a star track show about repair dudes. like the dudes that have to go do EVAs to patch up ships, and like space tugboat pilots.
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SATURNS SON EATER posted:So the first thing you'll want to do when you get your machine limbs is try to lift something huge. Oh no! That bus is falling off a cliff! Better go catch it! When finding yourself imbued with super-strength, always remember to catch a falling vehicle gently by its frame to avoid murdering the occupants
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SATURNS SON EATER posted:So the first thing you'll want to do when you get your machine limbs is try to lift something huge. Oh no! That bus is falling off a cliff! Better go catch it! wouldn't you just rip your robot limb right off your body? or break your robot legs at the knees or hips
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axolotl farmer posted:yes, Frederik Pohl's 1976 novel Man Plus.
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I have always wondered the exactly same thing about comic book characters who are super strong but not also super durable (like spiderman)
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toby posted:When finding yourself imbued with super-strength, always remember to catch a falling vehicle gently by its frame to avoid murdering the occupants You're still pushing all your strength + all the weight of the falling thing against a very small area (your fingers/hands) and would just punch straight through it.
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have fun on the robot reservation, suckers! w're not gonna honor those bogus treaties!
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SATURNS SON EATER posted:You're still pushing all your strength + all the weight of the falling thing against a very small area (your fingers/hands) and would just punch straight through it. Unless you're Superman, in which case you have really lovely telekinetic powers that let you grab the whole thing simultaneously.
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SATURNS SON EATER posted:are there any sfi-fi about the dangers of early-tech bionic limbs Not the engineering bits, no, since it's pretty loving obvious to actual doctors and engineers that this would happen. But "More Than The Sum Of His Parts" by Haldeman is a pretty good piece along these lines from a different point of view. [Edit] SATURNS SON EATER posted:also the cult of the machine where people are all "why would I want a weak, flesh body when I could have the prefection of the machine" and getting in "accients" so they can have limbs and organs replaced Yeah, the Haldeman story is what you want. [more edit] Turns out that somebody's put it online here. Heresiarch fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Feb 22, 2012 |
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toby posted:When finding yourself imbued with super-strength, always remember to catch a falling vehicle gently by its frame to avoid murdering the occupants yeah i made this mistake once, boy was my face red (with blood (of the passengers of the little bus (i killed a bunch of reatrded children)))
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the lesson is that if you go robot go full robot.
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SmokaDustbowl posted:it'd be cool to have a star track show about repair dudes. like the dudes that have to go do EVAs to patch up ships, and like space tugboat pilots. a lot of shows did this one of the best babylon 5 episodes ever followed two repair dudes just talkin' about their lives and fixing poo poo while the station was under some horrible generic attack. the main characters are shown in the backgrounds doing whatever they'd be doing and the two mooks are the center of attention the whole time. at one point they are directly addressed by one of the main female cast members for their service, and the other ones kind of roll their eyes and mutter something about "why bother talking to them?!" but the mooks are extremely happy to be noticed. stargate did this with the three nerdy scientists a few times, and even did a whole episode on one of them being a hero. pretty sure i also saw an episode of tng or ds9 where they did it too.
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tng had lower decks which was about junior officers or w/e. idr if ds9 had one
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