BTGBullseye
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On 8/25/2020 at 8:22 AM, kerdios said:
Another point is the klingons, they are part of the federation but still have noble hirearchies and priests and stuff
They aren't a part of the Federation at any point in any Star Trek timeline. There are individual Klingons that are either born in Federation territory, or are outcast from the Klingon Empire for dishonorable acts, who join Starfleet, but the Klingons as a race are not part of the Federation.
The closest they get is a permanent alliance made in the 27th century, and effectively all ships for both the UFP and the Klingon Empire become jointly crewed Alliance ships.
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On 8/25/2020 at 8:07 AM, kerdios said:
Isn't that partly because they had where to bring clean soil to bury the radioactive soil under? in a full scale nuclear war where would they bring the clean soil from? (chernobyl still clicks like crazy on a geiger counter)
No. The radiation left behind really isn't as bad as the "documentaries" make it seem. While it might be dangerous for a couple decades, the rest of nature won't care, and humans can move back in after that time. If they drink a lot of alcohol regularly, they can move in sooner. (alcohol chelates radiation better than any anti-rad meds)
On 8/25/2020 at 12:56 PM, Steve the Pocket said:Yeah, but those are wild animals with natural life expectancies of less than a decade. They could all be getting cancer and dying at age five and we'd never even know.
And it wouldn't matter anyways, because those aren't humans. We're talking about how much it takes for humans to be able to live there.
On 8/25/2020 at 12:56 PM, Steve the Pocket said:A better example, I think, would be Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Both started rebuilding within a decade of getting nuked, and both are thriving cities that are perfectly safe to live in today.
That is an extremely apt example.
On 8/25/2020 at 12:56 PM, Steve the Pocket said:And while a hydrogen bomb is likely to leave nothing but a massive crater its immediate wake, I've been told it leaves no more fallout behind than a WWII-class fission bomb—and even that's only because it actually contains a fission bomb used to trigger the fusion reaction.
More like, it leaves almost no radiation whatsoever, unless you add a tamper to boost the damage beyond the 50MT it already does. (see the Tsar Bomba for an excellent example)
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Just now, RaTcHeT302 said:
WE ARE ALL DEAD
Nope.
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Just now, RaTcHeT302 said:
this thread is boring xD
also i totally expect someone to quote me and say, "NO UR BORING", "nO U"
Not likely.
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Just now, RaTcHeT302 said:
i have no idea what you just said but i'll just assume that your thing is now speedy
Just as speedy as before, but now significantly cooler, so the fan doesn't get as annoying.
On topic: Getting ready for bed.
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10 hours ago, kerdios said:
that depends on the scale of the nuclear war, I think most science says that a full blown war will leave the planet surface uninhabitable for 1000s if not 100,000s of years.
Those estimates are for taking every part of the planet back to background radiation levels only... We don't even have that now, and we've never had a nuclear war. Most scientific estimates that are worth a damn, and have realistic expectations, say that there will be significant areas of the planet left habitable, and restoring ~90% of affected landmass is likely in under 500 years. (this is partly based on real life radiation cleanup results, like with Chernobyl)
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Not nonsense, "no" makes perfect sense.
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10 hours ago, kerdios said:
Yes, but it's not communism, it's a type of socialistic democracy. You can voice opinions that aren't favorable to the government and other stuff.
Also don't they have credits? (or am i confusing with some other show?) I mean the show doesn't focus on that as much since the enterprise is military and the military is usually completely bankrolled by the government. So a technician or a red shirt doesn't have to pay for his meal or clothes it's all "military issued". (plus I think I remember they have allowances for use of the holodeck, but it's been a while since I watched TNG or DS9)
No, they don't have credits, except in Star Trek Online... Because an MMO with no currency is boring.
Technically speaking, Starfleet isn't a military per-se... More of a scientific and police armada. Think of them as AAA, the Red Cross, NASA and local police, all rolled into one.
Nobody anywhere has to pay for a meal (except on certain planets that have "issues") in the UFP. Replicators make that an obsolete concept in its entirety.
That holodeck thing is in place because you have to make reservations when you have a ship with over 1000 people on board, and only 16 holodecks. Planetside it's not as much of an issue, and most homes have their own holodecks. (or a few communal ones for apartments)
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Now I'm stress testing my repaste of my GPU, and the "new" washer mod I did to it. I used to have stainless steel washers on it with a plastic bag layer to prevent shorting, but apparently the washers worked their way through and prevented my GPU from working right. Took me several hours to figure out the problem.
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No.
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On 8/23/2020 at 11:12 AM, Im_CIA said:
Are you the guy from the pigeon hunter video?
Me? No.
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Hmmm...
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9 hours ago, Generic-User said:
You were also under 9 stories of concrete, so cell service was completely out of the question. There was no wifi that you could access (not that I had a smartphone at the time, and you weren't allowed to bring in a laptop). You had a computer in front of you for handling all the switchboard stuff, but it had no internet (there was only a local intranet). Lastly we had a small CRT TV up in the corner of the room, but it only had local access cable, so pretty much the only thing on was infomercials at that time of night (though once in a while you got lucky).
Were you also not allowed to bring in books? I'd have at least 2 novels sitting there if I were doing that job.
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That "aliens" theory is based on the assumption that we actually know everything there is to know about how hydrogen icebergs form in space... We definitely don't. Astrophysicists are updating their models for the solar system we exist in now on a weekly basis due to new finding about stuff we've seen for hundreds of years, so why should "but molecular clouds that we know almost nothing about are the ONLY place they can form" be taken seriously?
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On 8/23/2020 at 12:16 PM, kerdios said:
good to hear that for a change, I'm hearing too many references to startrek as space communism
Technically speaking, that is the economic system being used in Star Trek for the UFP... They are a post-scarcity society, and have no use for capitalist methods.
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3 hours ago, kerdios said:
Is it good?
I don't know, it's a preorder, and I haven't decided if I want to spend $33 on it... I really want to though. The soundtrack itself is quite good though, as is the show.
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7 hours ago, RaTcHeT302 said:
i thought those were pieces of wood under it lol
It is, but the forklift hasn't dropped it on them yet.
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I'm trying to decide if having $33 less in my bank account is going to prevent me from getting a new GPU when they launch... I really want this thing...
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Not never, just no.
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No post, only topic.
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No.
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No topics, only post.
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Think of it like this... I had to undervolt to reduce the temps, which reduced performance, so I overclocked to regain the lost performance. Therefore, same performance, lower heat.