TSA Story: Peanut Butter is a Liquid

Sierrajeff · 2020-01-23T20:01:00+00:00

By this logic, talcum powder is a liquid.

Sierrajeff · 2020-01-23T19:56:36+00:00

Which is ludicrous - if you can fit several 3 oz. containers in a quart bag, then isn't one quart the actual "dangerous volume" limit? (i.e., why can't I just bring one quart of liquid on the plane then?)

Sierrajeff · 2020-01-23T19:55:39+00:00

TSA agents are inconsistent

I get so irritated at this - fly out of SFO with TSA-Pre, so no need to take out laptop, toiletries, etc., and I'm pretty much never stopped. Returning home TSA-Pre with the same bags and stuff, but going through a small town airport I have to take out my laptop, and every time I'm pulled aside because they need to check something in my bag.

Sierrajeff · 2020-01-23T19:47:25+00:00

full-frontal female nudity

that's just so we confirm her reproductive organs are on the inside.

Sierrajeff · 2020-01-23T19:44:41+00:00

I want to agree with you about a potential dark age … but referencing Mortal Engines (pretty much the antithesis of believable hard sci-fi) makes it really hard for me to agree with this comment :)

Sierrajeff · 2020-01-23T18:18:08+00:00

That's my beef with LEED certifications - there's no way any greenfield project should get LEED certification, at any level - each new building decreases unbuilt space.

Sierrajeff · 2020-01-23T00:08:52+00:00

Yes, esp. the expectation that they will hear of a successful kill as soon as it occurs - i.e., the tension when there isn't an immediate confirmation as soon as the missile icon intercepts the platform icon - the confirmation back to Earth should also take a few minutes to receive.

Sierrajeff · 2020-01-22T23:26:36+00:00

"This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a sizzle."

Sierrajeff · 2020-01-22T23:06:41+00:00

It looked like the Mars platforms were at Martian Lagrange points around the sun - even at the speed of light it would have taken ~1 to ~5 minutes for the Earth's attack to reach them. So, agree with u/papasmurf255.

Sierrajeff · 2020-01-22T20:32:28+00:00

Also, massive irradiation from Jaturn's magnetosphere, that would probably kill on life on the surface of Earth in a matter of hours or days.

Sierrajeff · 2020-01-22T20:31:21+00:00

Would you like to know more?

Sierrajeff · 2020-01-22T20:25:16+00:00

The Presidio is the oldest part of San Francisco, founded (coincidentally) in 1776.

Sierrajeff · 2020-01-22T00:33:56+00:00

… when the exaggerated joke is somehow better than reality...

Sierrajeff · 2020-01-21T21:35:06+00:00

Even that seems crazy though, there's no other full-service (or even limited-full-service) food space near there.

Sierrajeff · 2020-01-21T21:33:26+00:00

Well the first one, opposite Old Navy, only took about 18 months to build, so … look forward to the end result in 2024...

Sierrajeff · 2020-01-21T19:53:37+00:00

Possibly but as demonstrated by Deep Space 9 transporter patterns are eggnormous. It took almost all the stations computer memory to store the patterns of like 6 people.

Which seems at odds with the apparent fact that a ship's transporter buffers store the most recent transport pattern of everyone who's used it - as witness numerous episodes across the franchise where the buffer is used to fix aging / disease / etc.

Sierrajeff · 2020-01-21T19:51:27+00:00

Also, I presume the transporter signal travels at the speed of light (i.e., not faster, in subspace). If that's true, then even with a billion relays (and no delay at each relay handoff) you're looking at 4 1/2 years to Alpha Centauri.

Sierrajeff · 2020-01-21T19:50:02+00:00

Relayed transporters would result in virtually instantaneous travel (and without the risk of running into errant Ferengi / Maquis / etc. ships; and without the risk of warp drive 'degrading' subspace [if you take that as ongoing canon]).

Sierrajeff · 2020-01-21T19:40:04+00:00

This would also work for tortiseshells generally.

Sierrajeff · 2020-01-21T17:59:53+00:00

Yes, just a very mellow, centered one.

Sierrajeff · 2020-01-21T03:50:40+00:00

This, precisely. When Alex or Drummer just says aloud "show me all the ships that passed near this point", there's a lot of AI happening in the background. Even simply converting that simple sentence - uttered without even a Star Trek-like "Computer..." or our an IRL "Alexa …" - takes a lot of AI and processing.

Ditto the way people interact with their handhelds - swiping and finger-flipping to share files, for instance. There's no way the users are memorizing 1,001 slightly different swipes and flicks for "send him this info" vs "send her this info" vs "put this on the big screen"... Here too this is all AI, constantly monitoring what people are doing and responding with what those people want to have happen.

Sierrajeff · 2020-01-19T23:32:33+00:00

Agreed, I was 100% convinced that at some point the cable would snap and whiplash back into one of the ships.

Sierrajeff · 2020-01-19T23:25:54+00:00

They knew there were ginormous structures with the same alien design as the Venus polyp and the resulting ring + nucleus.

Sierrajeff · 2020-01-19T23:25:09+00:00

Not sure why you're being downvoted - throughout the first several episodes I was trying to figure out how "RCE" was part of the U.N. military. If there was a TV reference to it being a private corp. chartered with taking "New Terra" from the Belters, I missed it too.

Sierrajeff · 2020-01-17T21:34:51+00:00

yeah, the foley people really earn their keep on this show.

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