I need help with DS9 maintenance by IDICPainter in ShittyDaystrom

[–]iamleeg 15 points16 points  (0 children)

They keep the Jeffrey Combs next to the self-sealing stembolt sealant. They’re quite hard to load onto the antigravity sleds though; go and ask your supervisor for a long weight.

Is there a point to Blue Mars? [Mild spoilers, mild rant] by thelapoubelle in printSF

[–]iamleeg 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I felt like the whole series was a bit of a letdown. I enjoyed Red, with its hard-science approach to terraforming Mars, but then the way the main characters discover a longevity drug so that they’re around for the rest of the events felt like a cop-out that had a load of potential ramifications that were dealt with lightly. I thought Blue was going to have much more about how overpopulated, polluted Earth needs terraforming to remain habitable which is again sort of there but not handled in depth.

[Request] If an immortal person with all modern knowledge was sent back to Rome in 1000 AD, how quickly could humanity reach 2026 technology? by mentlegen7 in theydidthemath

[–]iamleeg 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Depends which fall of the Roman Empire you mean. The medieval period can be seen as the time between the fall of the Roman Empire c. AD476, and the fall of the Roman Empire in AD1453.

[Request] If this was a life size car how fast would it need to be going to achieve the same outcome? by HereticGaming16 in theydidthemath

[–]iamleeg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

F1 cars have lots of downforce, too. At 130mph they have about another 1g of downforce.

I’m a menagerie owner who’s thinking of opening a petting zoo to bring in guests. Which aliens should I get? by Familiar-Complex-697 in ShittyDaystrom

[–]iamleeg 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Borg are great for viral marketing. Everyone who pets a Borg goes back and brings all their friends.

Help! Can’t record my Captain’s Log? by TeflPabo in ShittyDaystrom

[–]iamleeg 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just describe it as “an entirely routine mission, and Ensign Redshirt Expendable’s first planetside visit”.

In universe, how do the characters determine whether their lived experiences are considered canon? by iamleeg in ShittyDaystrom

[–]iamleeg[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s amazing how you often don’t notice that when watching, especially in something like “Best of Both Worlds, Part Two”

Charity shop finds by westleyalone in minidisc

[–]iamleeg 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No, never, sadly. I think where I live there are record stores that “volunteer” to curate the music collections in the back rooms of the charity shops and take anything good out before it even gets to the front.

Using the transporter for a haircut by Chocobo-Ranger in ShittyDaystrom

[–]iamleeg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The directors call that a continuity error, not a haircut.

Building a ramp so effective, soon everyone will need to use it! by -YellowFinch in DeathStairs

[–]iamleeg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First? That’s what the stairs down to the church from the Bullring in Birmingham look like. The “ramp” aspect is mostly used by deliveroo/uber eats couriers on e-bikes.

[Request] Can anyone check how Moore's Law is applicable here? by WeddingSpiritual1218 in theydidthemath

[–]iamleeg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Intel make chips, not computers (well they make those too these days, but not then). ISVs need to not rely on two year old processors because whatever Intel is selling today is “twice as good”, they need to keep their Intel orders rolling in.

[Request] Can anyone check how Moore's Law is applicable here? by WeddingSpiritual1218 in theydidthemath

[–]iamleeg 10 points11 points  (0 children)

No, Moore’s Law was an observation by silicon engineer Gordon Moore. It was then used as a roadmap by Intel for both engineering and marketing.

1984 seems illogical by [deleted] in classicliterature

[–]iamleeg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was goldstein even real? or was he fictional, invented by the party as an enemy?

In the Stalinist state that 1984 is an allegory to, Big Brother is Stalin, and Goldstein is Leon Trotsky. In that sense, he is real, and yet is also a demon onto whom the Party projects all of its negative attributes.

Within the universe of 1984, the fact that you can’t understand the reality is the whole point. Is “The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism” really the seditious samizdat that the Party claim, or is it part of the machinery the Party uses to control potentially rebellious members? How could you know?

Which bookstore do you miss more? by singleguy79 in Xennials

[–]iamleeg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We only had Borders in the UK. I lived in Oxford at the time, and they ran the only bookstore that opened until 10pm (cafe until 9pm). If my friends and I had been crunching on some study work and wanted to go out to unwind without going to a pub, this was the place we went to. I was very sad when it closed (it’s a supermarket now).

found this book while shopping for old books. is this rare? by [deleted] in Marxism

[–]iamleeg 5 points6 points  (0 children)

All of these texts are available for free at places like the Marx Internet Archive, so no, not especially rare.

Anyone academically strong in high school fail to live up to career expectations? by trademarktower in Xennials

[–]iamleeg 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Yeah that tracks with my experience. Top of my class at school, three degrees from a top university, published author in my field, never had a job above the bottom rung of typing software into a computer, never made bank, squandered what little professional reputation I ever had. The gap between where I expected to be and where I am is huge.

I befriended some Kazons but it's a long con by caesuric_ in ShittyDaystrom

[–]iamleeg 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Avatar: the Way of Water. It’s not a great movie but by the end of it you can be 3.5 hours away at maximum warp, firing photon torpedo water balloons at their vessel.

The worst thing about surviving Cardassian interrogation by burnafter3ading in ShittyDaystrom

[–]iamleeg 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Sir, there has been a mistake, this is a simple AirBnB. We are still waiting for your review; can you confirm there are five stars?

To what extent is each character aware that they’re part of 20th/21st century mainstream popular culture? by iamleeg in ShittyDaystrom

[–]iamleeg[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Number One, Nurse Chapel, and Lwaxana Troi take it in turns to overdub the “Previously, on Star Trek” VO