"It rains all the time here. You'll forget what blue sky looks like."
Having lived under a clear blue sky for most of my life (San Diego, CA), I can honestly say I wouldn't miss it if it were to rain all the time. I'd welcome it. And your traffic problems pale in comparison to Los Angeles morning gridlock.
It wouldn't matter, at least at my high school. The teachers caught onto the students sticking with particular machines and implemented a policy of mandatory computer switching every month. "Just to be fair."
White noise. During the day you're probably being bombarded with noise from thousands of sources all at the same time. During the night, that white noise is likely nearly absent.
I've figured it's implied at least somewhat that the impulse engines themselves have to be online for the ship to attain warp speeds. The warp engines just project the bubble -- the faster the ship has to go the more "stretched" the bubble becomes, and it has to dump more power into it. The thrust necessary to move forward still comes from the impulse engines, because as far as the ship itself is concerned, within that warp bubble there's still no actual "thrust" coming from the warp drive.
Nope. The shield generators and deflector dish(es) were two different things, though you could easily get them confused. The deflector dish projected a magnetic field forward with the intent of deflecting space particles away from the ship, but that was it. Anything bigger than a human or something to the effect of a small fighter-sized ship would still have to be avoided.
The shield generator, on the other hand, if you toss known physics out the window (as is expected to actually explain treknobabble), projects a field (or six separate fields) around the ship to absorb energy and kinetic impacts. They can only tolerate a certain amount of energy being absorbed before they overload and fail, but the deflector stays active during this process for whatever good it does during a battle.
The deflector would have roughly the same effect as the shields within an atmosphere -- the air around the ship would be parted and the ship would create its own wake of air. They still comment though that the ships themselves were not designed with atmospheric flight in mind, more than likely because the primary impulse engines are on the rear of the ship and would provide as much Z-movement while moving forwards as the main thrusters of the Space Shuttle - absolutely none.
With regards to how often weapons were fired while at warp, at least with TNG and later, phasers are at least roughly easier to explain since they are instant-hit weapons to begin with. As for torpedoes, I don't know how the heck that'd work out, but it's just implied for the sake of everybody's heads not exploding that the torpedoes inherit the ship's "inertia at warp" and speed right ahead putting its own thrust into it. At least with tractor beams they imply that the warp field gets extended around the ship or object before they tractor a ship while at warp, albeit at lower speeds given how much they gotta screw with the warp field to handle it.
The concept of the "world community" is rather hypocritical and ironic if you consider that the perceived "world community" is dominated by socialists who ride on the "anti-globalization" bandwagon. This "world community" you speak of is self-destructive by nature.
You take a screenshot of a text window with the message typed out in plain English, post it to a remote host, and then remote link it in the email. They'll receive an otherwise-blank message until the image loads in which case they'll understand quite perfectly the problem.
"They fought the humans because they wanted to live, not out of malice."
Thusly it makes sense that the time period portrayed within the Matrix itself is that of the most successful point of human evolution before machines ever came into existence -- the late 1990's. Giving back to humans the innocence of life before AI ever existed. While the machines use fusion as a primary power source, it might make sense to draw a parallel that the Matrix itself is maintained solely through the power provided (thermodynamics notwithstanding) by humanity. When a human dies the power to maintain that human's perception of the Matrix dies with it.
If that's the case, then the Matrix itself can only be taken down by killing every human being stuck in the Matrix, or "enlightening" them ahead of time.
No, you're right. When I was just typing text it would continue out to the right past the message box near-indefinitely. That's why I said it looked funky. I was expecting it to act correctly and word wrap.
When I actually started hitting enter, and then hit backspace, it crashed.:)
This is assuming he's running OS X in the first place. Much like a simple fact of life that not everybody with a PC runs Windows XP, not everybody with a Mac runs OS X.
The supposed "detachment" only goes so far. The embedded journalists are the ones being shot at along with everybody else. It's quite safe to say "we" because what the troops do, you do, because the troops know what the hell they're doing.
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No AI can be considered sufficiently advanced enough until it can experience boredom.
If these probes are loaded with AI "much more intelligent" than a human, how long do you suppose it'd go before realizing "this is a waste of time"?
Having lived under a clear blue sky for most of my life (San Diego, CA), I can honestly say I wouldn't miss it if it were to rain all the time. I'd welcome it. And your traffic problems pale in comparison to Los Angeles morning gridlock.
At least you can breathe in LA. The further east you go, the harder that becomes. ;)
If space was a perfect vacuum, they'd have no use for the deflector grid.
Instead, they're elected into Congress.
It wouldn't matter, at least at my high school. The teachers caught onto the students sticking with particular machines and implemented a policy of mandatory computer switching every month. "Just to be fair."
White noise. During the day you're probably being bombarded with noise from thousands of sources all at the same time. During the night, that white noise is likely nearly absent.
Satisfy the labor unions.
I've figured it's implied at least somewhat that the impulse engines themselves have to be online for the ship to attain warp speeds. The warp engines just project the bubble -- the faster the ship has to go the more "stretched" the bubble becomes, and it has to dump more power into it. The thrust necessary to move forward still comes from the impulse engines, because as far as the ship itself is concerned, within that warp bubble there's still no actual "thrust" coming from the warp drive.
Nope. The shield generators and deflector dish(es) were two different things, though you could easily get them confused. The deflector dish projected a magnetic field forward with the intent of deflecting space particles away from the ship, but that was it. Anything bigger than a human or something to the effect of a small fighter-sized ship would still have to be avoided.
The shield generator, on the other hand, if you toss known physics out the window (as is expected to actually explain treknobabble), projects a field (or six separate fields) around the ship to absorb energy and kinetic impacts. They can only tolerate a certain amount of energy being absorbed before they overload and fail, but the deflector stays active during this process for whatever good it does during a battle.
The deflector would have roughly the same effect as the shields within an atmosphere -- the air around the ship would be parted and the ship would create its own wake of air. They still comment though that the ships themselves were not designed with atmospheric flight in mind, more than likely because the primary impulse engines are on the rear of the ship and would provide as much Z-movement while moving forwards as the main thrusters of the Space Shuttle - absolutely none.
With regards to how often weapons were fired while at warp, at least with TNG and later, phasers are at least roughly easier to explain since they are instant-hit weapons to begin with. As for torpedoes, I don't know how the heck that'd work out, but it's just implied for the sake of everybody's heads not exploding that the torpedoes inherit the ship's "inertia at warp" and speed right ahead putting its own thrust into it. At least with tractor beams they imply that the warp field gets extended around the ship or object before they tractor a ship while at warp, albeit at lower speeds given how much they gotta screw with the warp field to handle it.
The concept of the "world community" is rather hypocritical and ironic if you consider that the perceived "world community" is dominated by socialists who ride on the "anti-globalization" bandwagon. This "world community" you speak of is self-destructive by nature.
When they start paying income taxes to Uncle Sam, then they will.
Put in perspective, not many individuals protested the war in the first place.
You take a screenshot of a text window with the message typed out in plain English, post it to a remote host, and then remote link it in the email. They'll receive an otherwise-blank message until the image loads in which case they'll understand quite perfectly the problem.
Thusly it makes sense that the time period portrayed within the Matrix itself is that of the most successful point of human evolution before machines ever came into existence -- the late 1990's. Giving back to humans the innocence of life before AI ever existed. While the machines use fusion as a primary power source, it might make sense to draw a parallel that the Matrix itself is maintained solely through the power provided (thermodynamics notwithstanding) by humanity. When a human dies the power to maintain that human's perception of the Matrix dies with it.
If that's the case, then the Matrix itself can only be taken down by killing every human being stuck in the Matrix, or "enlightening" them ahead of time.
When I actually started hitting enter, and then hit backspace, it crashed. :)
If the user is doing anything "valuable" with IE and it crashes, they should consider it a rite of passage.
Mozilla 1.3, WinXP. Doesn't crash. Looks funky, but doesn't crash.
The Federation has yet to exist in this series.
This is assuming he's running OS X in the first place. Much like a simple fact of life that not everybody with a PC runs Windows XP, not everybody with a Mac runs OS X.
Hell, my high school still runs System 7.5.
Next letter is obviously E, though it doesn't stand for "easy". :)
Given the question, I wonder how the genius that used BLINK tags on that site answered...
The supposed "detachment" only goes so far. The embedded journalists are the ones being shot at along with everybody else. It's quite safe to say "we" because what the troops do, you do, because the troops know what the hell they're doing.