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cable management will not be assimilated (quokk.au)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Deceptichum@quokk.au to c/sigh_fi@quokk.au

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[–] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why? There's no friction in space and a sphere is an inefficient use of space

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

Depends on what you mean by "efficient use of space", I guess.

If you are organically building onto the ship or continually lumping new tech together, you're not going to end up with straight, clean edgesor uniform proportions. And assuming intra-ship distance matters for things like power/resource distribution, the natural shape will be spherical.

Now if the borg need to pack dozens of ships into a spaceport or something, a cube starts to make more sense...