observantTrapezium
@observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Which shows are worth watching? 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t say pale in comparison. Enterprise was really good in my opinion. Lower Decks and Prodigy too, these are a bit different, but have the same spirit I think.
I also rewatch The Original Series episodes every once in a while. The show as a whole is not really good by modern standards, but it has gems and it’s interesting to see where it all began.
Every show except Discovery has a balance of great episodes, filler episodes, and bad episodes. Discovery was bad from A to Z.
- Comment on Just Finished Lower Decks 3 weeks ago:
I think Prodigy really improved in the second half of the first season and more so in the second season. I thoroughly enjoyed it as an adult watching by myself, no shame in that 😁
- Comment on Just Finished Lower Decks 3 weeks ago:
I watch 929 episodes (out of 930 to date), the 10 shorts, and the 14 movies. Out of devotion. Section 31 was indeed awful, what can I say. But it’s only 90 minutes and you lose nothing if you multitask while watching.
IMO Lower Decks and Prodigy, the two animated shows, were the best by far of New Trek. Strange New Worlds is quite OK (and I have a soft spot for it since the Toronto episode). I hope it continues on the right path.
- Comment on Just Finished Lower Decks 3 weeks ago:
Yep, I think that’s how it’s commonly understood.
- Comment on Just Finished Lower Decks 3 weeks ago:
It was absolutely the best of New Trek!
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- Comment on How Star Trek: Lower Decks Managed To Get Enterprise’s Jolene Blalock To Appear, And Why She’s Only Credited By Her First Name 2 months ago:
Why she’s only credited by her first name: because she asked and Mike McMahan agreed even though he didn’t know why.
- Comment on Everyone look! I got a picture of the Rosetta Stone 2 months ago:
That’s actually interesting!
- Comment on Lower Decks Eulogizing 2 months ago:
It was a masterpiece. Definitely an outlier in its craziness, but there’s room for that in such a big franchise, and it will be missed!
At first, I really hated this show, and really just hate-watched the first season. But it grew on me and I think I thought of it as not-so-bad by the end of the season. But it kept improving, and I think it stands out as probably the best of certainly modern Trek.
This show was a rare combination of being funny and actually good sci-fi at the same time. It contrasted so much with another Star Trek show that ended this year where characters took themselves way too seriously, and every single day the fate of the whole universe depended on their one ship.
- Comment on The Mighty Hummingbird 4 months ago:
Not sure this statement is true if “more closely related” is understood as shorter combined time between the two species from their most recent common ancestor. Hummingbirds and brachiosaurs had a more recent common ancestor than brachiosaurs and triceratopses (albeit probably still quite close to the dawn of dinosaurs in the Late Triassic ), but the latter pair lived closer in time to the common ancestor of all dinosaurs (while hummingbirds are from the Oligocene).
- Comment on What's your favourite Star Trek theme? 6 months ago:
My top intro music shows: TNG, VOY, DS9, DIS, SNW, LD Honorable mention: ENT Top movie theme: First Contact
- Comment on Why does trump try to alienate black voters than expect them to vote for the dickhead? And why use Kamala's race as even a talking point let alone even a thought? 6 months ago:
Playing 4D chess /s
- Comment on perspective 6 months ago:
They are quite similar to electromagnetic waves, but also quite different. They are produced by masses accelerating (just like EM waves are produced by charges accelerating), and indeed cause orbital decay. But this orbital decay is only important in relativistic systems (so the Earth, which is orbiting the sun at 0.0001 the speed of light, is not going to fall into the sun because of gravitational waves).
- Comment on perspective 6 months ago:
See my response below to Captain Aggravated about how dilute those large stars are.
It’s an interesting question whether anybody would actually feel spaghettification 😁 I actually don’t know. You can use physics to calculate the proper time derivative of the tidal forces, but you need biology to define the start (and end…) of the process. My intuition says that it probably happens too fast, so once the tidal forces are strong enough to be perceptible, they grow strong enough to rip you apart before you realize (again, just a hunch).
- Comment on perspective 6 months ago:
Yes, but red supergiants differ from the sun in that their photospheres are extremely dilute and don’t have a sharp transition to the corona. I don’t know the details of this particular star but take Betelgeuse as an example (it’s probably not particularly large for this catrgory), it’s radius is ~640 the sun’s per Wikipedia, which gives a volume of ~260 million that of the sun. But it is only x15 times as massive as the sun, so on average ~20 million times less dense.
- Comment on perspective 6 months ago:
Yep, you got it right. The accretion disk is actually really flat. Those images are produced in simulations that take into account the curved (and very complex) paths light takes in the vicinity of a black hole. These images really depend on the angle between the line of sight and the disk.
- Comment on perspective 6 months ago:
In the case you are unlucky enough to encounter the black hole “heads on” and fall into it radially, the proper time timescale to spaghettification is the size of the event horizon divided by the speed of light. The most supermassive black holes will have a horizon of around one light day, so that’s what we’re working with, a matter of days. If you come in on the most tangential orbit possible though, I guess you’re buying some time but I’ve never heard that it’s supposed to take many years of proper time (I doubt that claim a little bit, but haven’t calculated myself).
- Comment on perspective 6 months ago:
Astrophysicist here. Yes, space is crazy, but interesting things to keep in mind:
- The size of a star is determined by something called the photosphere. With those extremely massive stars, you can be hundreds of millions of kilometres “inside” and not yet know it.
- Similar story with supermassive black holes, from the perspective of an astronaut falling in, they wouldn’t really be able to tell when they cross the horizon because the tidal forces there are very small (they will inevitably fall towards the centre and get spaghettified at some point)
- Comment on Epoch fail!!! 6 months ago:
Haha, that’s right. Immediate noticed that.
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 6 months ago:
I think younger people in Canada only know °F if their thermostat is set to it and they can’t or don’t bother to change. My stupid fridge is in Fahrenheit and that can’t be changed (even though the handbook shows the display in Celsius! A variation of the model is probably sold abroad).
I think Canada properly adopted Celsius, kilometres, litres and millilitres (at least here in Toronto), but all other metric units are the underdog. Even CBC, that is probably the only media outlet that tries to stick to metric will specify people’s height in feet and inches. Shameful.
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- Comment on Irrational 8 months ago:
The premise here is completely wrong.
- Comment on Learn long and prosper: U of T’s Fisher Library becomes ‘eternal archive’ on Star Trek: Discovery 9 months ago:
On behalf of UofT, what an honour /s
It caught me by surprise. When they filmed the short trek some years ago there was a university-wide email about filming going on, but this time nothing.
Both DSC and SNW are filmed in Toronto, and we’ve seen landmarks from the city before (e.g. Aga Khan Museum, Ontario Place); and of course “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” took place entirely in the city in the 2020s and featured it heavily.
- Comment on How is the hydrogen made? 10 months ago:
Hydrogen was made approximately 400,000 after the big bang in a process called recombination, as the universe cooled down enough for stable neutral atoms to exist.
- Comment on \_🫨_/ 10 months ago:
Egyptian hieroglyphs used to be painted, what we see now is usually (but not always) completely faded.
- Submitted 11 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 7 comments
- Comment on Ultimate Chronological Star Trek Viewing Guide 11 months ago:
It’s interesting, but I don’t think viewing order has to be chronological. If someone is adamant about watching everything, I’d recommend they go by production order.
- Comment on Self Hosted Calendar 11 months ago:
Not sure it satisfies your requirements but I’m quite happy with Baïkal.
- Comment on Backup solutions 11 months ago:
Borg is great.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 5 To Debut With 2 Episodes On April 4 1 year ago:
Maybe fifth time’s a charm…
