Hux

It’s a bad concept for the materials and manufacturing we are limited by at present.

I hope they explore it, but not release such a device until it can be considered comparable in durability and function to their current phones.

A “selfie” in this context would be using a firearm instead of a phone camera, no?

I am optimistic that a forward-thinking Russia of the future won’t deny 6 year old girls or 90 year old women the egalitarian opportunity to “defend the motherland”.

If we stretch this thing out until the year 2509, we’ll get them down to zero.

I’m not convinced Microsoft would ever just take a feature, process, core concept, or entire method of operating from MacOS and then half-heartedly implement it in their Windows operating system without fully refining the user experience… /s

“We are clan Wolf…”

I’ve been rewatching TNG and recognizing all sorts of actors who played Seinfeld side characters, etc but never realized Barclay and Murdock were the same actor.

Mind blown.

Thanks!

Cloaking for pre- first-contact missions makes a ton of sense. I think if the enterprise showed up in orbit today, we’d notice.

But if it is outlawed by treaty, that’s that.

Phasing just seems like really good shields to me—defensive, but not covert. How many times would the Enterprise been able to just outright avoid entire story lines if it couldn’t be touched? Not even confrontational issues—like when asteroid dust introduced metal-eating parasites, that just wouldn’t have happened.

Although, just like any advantage, even a defensive advantage like phasing could be used for offensive purposes (invasion, etc) unless an equal counter to it is developed.

Thinking about it further, you’d almost assume any people with the technology of faster than light travel would have had to develop some form of phasing tech prior to the FTL stuff…

It is very interesting, but I wish the article was a bit longer and was more specific about the comparative impacts of the water distribution effects it referred to.

The article basically says “stuff changed, here are a couple of numbers”, but it didn’t elaborate on the actual changes and effects and how they compare to 20 or 50 years ago from either an ecological vantage point or human experience point of view.