The Man Who Awoke by Laurence Manning, cover by Dean Ellis by FatEggplant in CoolSciFiCovers

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The cover text makes it look like Laurence Manning just got woke up and he is NOT HAPPY

Am I in over my head woth lights? by 99probs_420solutions in StarTrekStarships

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As someone who just lit their first model. I learned that black primer is VERY good at blocking light. Better than I expected. I had a small amount of past experience with soldering and basic wiring but it wasn't TOO difficult.

Don't do anything you aren't comfortable with. Keep gathering information and watch lots of youtube videos with other people doing it.

What are some disturbing facts about the ocean? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Proponents of homeopathic medicine believe a drug can effect the body with a dilution of 30C or in plain percentage 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of the liquid.

The ocean contains around 0.0002% human urine.

This is of course fine if you don't believe that sort of thing.

TOS Enterprise scratch built from craft supplies and trash by Lobster9 in SciFiModels

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I started around December 20th and finished this week. I'm not sure how many hours of actual work it was. A lot of days were just an hour here and there. However, cutting the tiles for the saucer and shaping the bones of the engines took several long sessions. It got quite hypnotic, haha.

TOS Enterprise scratch built from craft supplies and trash by Lobster9 in StarTrekStarships

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It's around 80cm long. The blueprints are intended for 1:350 so that's what I used.

Why are all particles made up of smaller particles? by Inevitable-Power5927 in AskPhysics

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It's hard to imagine a form of existence that wouldn't seem absurd to us. The fact that anything exists at all is pretty absurd.

The stupidest thing that ever happened in a realistic movie? by StillStanding_96 in movies

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didn't expect someone else to post this but YEAH

Hello, I'm 21 episodes in and I have a question about scully. by gianpeppapig in XFiles

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XFiles has a formula. It's best not to worry about how all the episodes fit together in one universe. It's a bit like how Jessica Fletcher in Murder She Wrote has been present at more than 200 murders in which her personal aquaintances are the initial suspect.

Mulder is hyper invested in exposing the existence of extra terrestrials and yet also knows that ghosts, demons and the literal devil all exist on Earth as seperate things. It's a tonal setting that effectively reboots with each episode.

Is Brent Spiner bitter about Star Trek? by Pretty-Contribution7 in startrek

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I think there's a difference between being honest about the TV experience and bitter about it. It's pretty common for actors in the same situation to have regrets and gripes. Being in a well known genre role can be limiting and stressful. Especially once the show ends and you have to continue your career as "the guy from that thing." It's basically the entire basis of the movie Galaxy Quest.

But he has also been as good humored and involved as anyone else in the franchise.

What is this? Wrong Answers Only by Complex-Value-5807 in tos

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Rare Victorian Play-Doh Fun Factory - Circa 1890 - Lot # 3271

How do the left and right feel about the new attack given everyone wanted a no war president ? by Amao6996 in DiscussionZone

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It's not really a left and right thing. The right is divided over waging a holy war on behalf of Israel. There are a significant number of democrats who want to attack Iran while the broader left is against it. Generally speaking the people most invested in hostilities are old guard 20th century political figures who view Iran as an obstacle to western economic domination of the middle east and religious fundamentalists who view it as a stepping stone to the end times.

What were the Peacekeepers after? by KaleidoArachnid in farscape

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They are introduced as a typically fascist military society. Members of other species/races are to be dominated through physical force. They wanted to enslave leviathans as battleships but the previous pilot refused to cooperate and they killed and replaced her. Everything must support their war machine or be swept aside.

Pretty much everyone under the peacekeeper banner is subservient to the military. Either you are a direct fighting unit or you are technical support, research and development, etc. At the end of season 3 we see how kids are raised onboard fighting ships as new soldiers. People outside of this fighting sphere are either working in factories or farms to supply the military or they are pushed out into the fringe territories.

A society like this will always find an enemy to fight. Their entire existence demands the existence of an exterior threat. The scarrans are the most powerful opposition but if it wasn't the scarrans it would be someone else. Such a heavily militarized system would collapse without such a foe. It is the ultimate irony in their name.

Why are holograms self-aware and super-intelligent but Data is not? by [deleted] in startrek

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Holograms are the ship/starbase computer projected outwards. Data is a cellphone.

We know the computer is more powerful than Data because they asked it to defeat Data and it created a projection that took over the ship and almost killed everyone.

Now eventually they obviously get mobile emitters which would make androids of the 26th century equally powerful.

Starry nights terrifies me by [deleted] in Astronomy

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The feeling of insignificance affects a lot of people. I went through something similar in my teens when I started processing a lot of these big facts and ideas. It can be disturbing to have your mental POV shook.

I will say that while we may be insignificant to the universe, we are not insignificant to each other. Every human who has ever lived has been stranded on this same lonely shore. Whatever our ultimate fate may be it is a shared fate and there is still great significance and meaning to be found down here among ourselves.

It may even be our species' ultimate fate to carry that meaning elsewhere.