charonn0
@charonn0@startrek.website
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 9 hours ago:
How many asshole have got on this planet anyhow?
- Comment on The hard to pick fruit tastes less sweet 9 hours ago:
Sounds like sour grapes to me.
- Comment on What actually came first? The chicken or the egg? 10 hours ago:
Define “chicken”
- Comment on art rule 6 days ago:
- Comment on This 18th Century French Doctor Has a Solution to Oligarchy… 1 week ago:
The overwhelming majority of the people guillotined during the French revolution were innocent commoners.
- Comment on Why aren't all rooms holodecks? 5 weeks ago:
In emergency cases most holograms can be shut off to match increased energy demands by weapons and shields.
Disengage the safety protocols and suddenly you’ve got weapons and shield emitters than ought to work just as well as their material counterparts, but can’t be damaged (or any damage can be instantly reset). We know that holograms can be projected into space so the only limitation would be the range of the holoemitters.
- Comment on place yer bets 1 month ago:
At least “crushed by asteroid” not contagious.
- Comment on What is your happiest Trek related memory/ies? 3 months ago:
PSA: gog.com sells versions of Armada and Hidden Evil that work on modern systems.
- Comment on What is your happiest Trek related memory/ies? 3 months ago:
The Voyage Home is the first movie I remember seeing. I was around 3 years old and my parents took me to see it at a drive in theater. It remains my favorite Trek movie.
- Comment on Elon Musk Says He Owns Everyone's Twitter Account in Bizarre Alex Jones Court Filing 4 months ago:
Copyright generally applies to substantial creative works, not conver
- Comment on I'm a reasonably well educated human living on Earth. What's to stop me from replicating starship parts until I can make my own Starfleet? 5 months ago:
Your replicator is probably too small to replicate larger components, which would be a major inconvenience at best or a showstopper at worst. And industrial replicators are even harder to come by than starships.
Then there’s getting access to the replicator patterns for sensitive or dangerous components. Dilithium chambers, weapons, Mercassium composite for shield generators, etc. are classified by Starfleet.
Then there are substances that can’t be replicated, such as verterium cortenide for the warp coils. I don’t think it’s explicitly stated that VC can’t be replicated, but we know that Voyager had to find some to refit their warp coils, they couldn’t just replicate it. Also dilithium.
And finally, there’s antimatter. Building a starship won’t do you much good if you don’t have gas for the tank. Antimatter does not occur in large quantities in nature, and probably can’t be replicated (or at least not safely.) So you’d need some sort of industrial base to produce it, further complicating your plans.
