Comment on A gigantic new ICBM will take US nuclear missiles out of the Cold War-era but add 21st-century risks

warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Fades@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Last time I watched star trek high I almost cried… it’s not fair!!! That could be us but the capitalist scum playin with our lives instead.

  Best the world’s oligarch trash can do is the ferengi alliance (the TNG version, not ds9)

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Best the world’s oligarch trash can do is the ferengi alliance

    BRB, objecting with Quark’s “frankly, we’re better” rant

    (the TNG version, not ds9)

    Oh wait, never mind.

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  • grayman@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s a whole bunch going on they don’t talk about. There may not be money, but there’s a shit load of cronyism and politics. I can only imagine the classes too. Who decides who gets land? Who gets a ship? Where me how big is your house? How does one get a job they like? There’s still gardeners, construction workers, janitors, plumbers, electricians, fast food workers, and everything else. They’ve got IDs, so something resembling the DMV still exists too. Who wants that job? Crime 100% still exists at all levels and the courts have proven to be less than fair in many episodes.

    I’d argue humans and ferengi are super similar except humans are not as outwardly greedy.

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• nullPointer@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  even in that world, humans still had to take things to the brink.

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  • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We’re just on the wrong side of the horrible wars that lead to the Federation

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• Oderus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In order for Star Fleet to happen, we’d need WW3.

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  • warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why do you think WW3 would finally inspire us to stop killing ourselves? What makes you think there will be anything left?

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    • Oderus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Haven’t you watched Star Trek first contact? They talked about WW3 destroying governments so Cochrane built a Star Ship from an old ICBM with warp drives. Once they go faster than light, Vulcuns visit us and boom… We’re a space exploring species. Peace ensues.

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      • warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The one that Spock comes out of some kind of pod ?

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• ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh good, we just have to rely on an alien intervention after we break the laws of physics in a controlled manner.

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