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FuglyDuck

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  • Good thing we have enough photon torpedos

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  • "Dude, what happens on the lower decks stays on the lower decks!""Apparently not.""What do you mean?""apparently, we just flushed the entire colony of space spores into life support. Welcome to USS Discotheque"

  • Good thing we have enough photon torpedos

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  • Dunno.

    The entire show makes more sense if you assume they’re tripping balls on space spores

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  • Yeah that one.

    Edit- imagine dr McCoy being like “sir, the computer flagged something in your embarkation scan…. Why don’t you come on down and we’ll deal with those janky balls”

    (The transporters disassemble and reassemble stuff at the molecular level, surely there’s a way to check if they’re andorian, right?!)

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  • Right?

    Like. That one episode where the orions snuck into a diplomacy thingy disguised as an andorians. I bet a simple airport backscatter scanner would have noticed the dangly bits were odd.

    But even if it’s not hard sci, a coherent universe is better than one that flops around. Like when you’re doing world building a moment needs to be taken to consider what your stereotypical DnD party would do with it.

    I mean, my party would absolutely weaponize the shit out of self sealing stem bolts.

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  • Imagine the M5 computer getting access to a replicator. the stargate cross over you didn't know you wanted.

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  • The replicators are not built directly into the hull of the ship because they’re delicate equipment.

    If they're connected into an array (which I'm pretty sure is part of what makes a replicator 'industrial',) then any single component of that array would be very easy to replace. You know the episode where they first encounter the borg and they pump the cube full of photon torpedos only for it to "regenerate"?

    this is how the borg do that. (and lets be honest, they already have these systems on the ship, so any danger to a ship going rogue or somehow being used against them is still just as real.)

  • Sleeve to protect your Flock camera from the elements by covering the lens

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  • Clean the lenses cover with acetone. You're doing a public service keeping that lenses clean and crisp.

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  • Seriously. I want to know what kind of starship designer or half-baked engineer would have access to replication technlogy (actually fabrication technology, but that's another rant*) and didn't build it into every facet of the ship.

    regenerating hullplating? cool. Regenerating critical structure? Awesome. Brig cells that seal off and have no exit because they're contained in six walls? klingons belt buckles need not apply. Need to isolate a contagion? yeah. Seal them off behind a bulkhead.

    Intruders? make it so the only way you can move about the ship is your transporter system.

    Fuel shortage? Well. you know you could have powered your ship with a singularity core, right? any old asteroid is fuel.

    and you know what the best part is? all of that comes with the inherent ability to specialize. Analyze damage when regrowing hull and increase the hull plating thickness where you get hit. analyze wear and tear on components, and upgrade the ones that wear out the fastest. Do you spend your time sprinting from crisis to crisis? tweak the performance of the warp drive for sprints.

    You need a new starship? fire a photon torpedo with a replication warhad into an asteroid. New base? bigger astroid.

    you want replicators? THIS IS HOW YOU GET REPLICATORS. replicators are things that make more of themselves. fabricators are things that make more of other things, and maybe also themselves.

  • Professor who claimed ancient Malays could fly loses university post

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  • Anything can fly if you strap a big enough rocket to it.

    Though I’m guessing that’s not what she meant.

  • We ignored the signs.

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  • It’s important to note that fax machines aren’t point-to-point either. Your data is still passing through someone else’s switches (probably fewer hops, mind.) and then there’s the physical security on the other end to wonder about.

    The last fax I saw was in high school and it was left out for any one to grab documents from. (Well. Inside the school library right near the librarians desk.)(she had a somewhat unearned reputation for being terrifying, so, you’re mileage might carry there.)

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  • Yeah. I guess that checks out.

    I bet you could make lots of money introducing them to the copy machines that can also automatically scan and email documents…

  • We ignored the signs.

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  • Does anyone still use fax machines?

  • We ignored the signs.

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  • Please tell me I’m not the only 90’s kid that air guitars to the 52k dialup.

  • Hey, Bert. Bert. Why aren't you smiling, Bert?

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  • The real reason Cap Archer’s dad never got to see a warp five.

    Bet he painted it red because that makes it go faster, too,

  • First time making authentic Pasta al ragù alla bolognese

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  • White is considered traditional. At least by some corners of the internet. (I won’t judge unless it’s some absolute rot gut box wine, though.)

  • Jeffries Secretly Met With Kushner to Find “Common Ground” on Immigration

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  • We can walk and chew gum at the same time. We can blame repugs for being nasty fascist bastards, and we can blame jeffries and his ilk for not doing enough to stop them.

  • frying pan

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  • Cat Iron pans are the best pans.

  • Gorgonna Lose It! - CatTrigger

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  • Such a use case would be a perseuscope.

  • Hey, Bert. Bert. Why aren't you smiling, Bert?

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  • Presumably higher capacity and maybe better output.

    But like, honestly? Data nuked a dam from miles away with a single shot from the Dustbuster hand phaser.

    Not sure they really needed more power.