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Was Nimitz carrying nuclear weapons? Could 1940s technology reverse engineer one? Granted the Nimitz would have been carrying very advanced thermonuclear weapons, but basic designs for that type were only ten years out. A lot of the fundamental science had already been done. Working examples could have sped things up a lot, how much? Unclear.…
Watched Beware: Children At Play after seeing a Whang video about it. It was actually pretty good! Surprisingly intelligent criticism of the more dangerous threads in American Christianity that are relevant even now in what i expected to mainly be an excuse to kill a lot of kids in excessively gory fashion. The main strike…
The more DISCO S3 plays out, and the more I think about it, I think the Sphere Builders from Enterprise are behind The Burn. They have a demonstrated ability even in the 22nd century to affect massive areas of space and change its fundamental properties. 1,000 years later? Who knows what they might be capable…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6639301/Kelsy-Karter-gets-Harry-Styless-face-TATTOOED-cheek.html So, this article came across my radar and WTF people. Now, to be fair, it’s not the worst face tattoo I’ve seen. It is, after all, recognizable as a human face. Not a super strong resemblance to Harry Styles, but it’s fresh and the skin is probably angry right now and some allowance needs…
So in The Last Ship an Iowa class battleship shows up fighting for the bad guys. Now, given the fall of global civilization that came before this point, losing track of a battleship is actually plausible. Could have come loose from its moorings and drifted and been recovered perhaps? That said, I’d expect…
F-15 Strike Eagle II is not particularly realistic. This is to be expected to some extent for any flight sim from the period targeting the hardware it did, but not in the ways I’ve found. I just ran a Vietnam War scenario. First problem, the F-15 wasn’t in service. And the E variant wasn’t…
Star Trek: Beyond introduced the first Warp 4 capable ship operated by Earth, the USS Franklin. This ship and it’s known canon timeline appear to pose some challenges. Why is its registry number so high compared to later NX ships? Where was she during the Xindi crisis? Why, for a ship that predated the last holdouts…
They talk about various traits that sometimes show up in humans that appear to be reptilitan in origin. Not one scientist mentions potential terrestrial origins of the features. The first thing- Well, genetics sometimes goes wrong. Our DNA replication infrastructure is quite good, but it isn’t perfect and it can be damaged after replication. The…
Thinking back on it, destroying the Enterprise early in Star Trek: Beyond was a brilliant move that really helped sell the themes. All that stuff about standing by each other, and valuing your crew above all else- it really supported the “stronger together” theme brilliantly. I don’t think that would have worked nearly as well…