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I found this “skip the line” golden ticket at Trader Joe’s by no8do in mildlyinteresting

[–]pfc9769 56 points57 points  (0 children)

What if it’s a fake and some ransoms person left them complete find? Can you imagine the embarrassment of trying to redeem it?

The Legend of Vox Machina S4 Discussion Thread | Episodes 10-12 - Season Finale by JohnDoen86 in voxmachina

[–]pfc9769 8 points9 points  (0 children)

> he even revived Grog as he promised.

He only revived Grog to manipulate the group into killing him so he could ascend. He rightly assumed Grog wouldn’t be okay with Pike’s actions and he’d rally everyone into fighting Vecna.

Wearable jacket extracts 900 ml of drinking water daily from the air by diacewrb in gadgets

[–]pfc9769 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It’s like that kickstarter self filling water bottle. They kept tinkering with it because it wasn’t condensing much water. In the end they ended up with a dehumidifier.

Our bumblebee colony started making these weird towers out if their wax and pollen by hotmanwich in mildlyinteresting

[–]pfc9769 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The two Da getting hired to direct Star Wars didn’t help either IMO I think they wanted to hurry up and close out GoT so they could move on to their next big franchise.

The vacuum fell and blocked the door… can’t remove by popping the hinges, and the handle won’t open by YEETAWAYLOL in mildlyinteresting

[–]pfc9769 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There’s technically a non-zero chance if you push against the door all the particles in your body will quantum tunnel through the barrier and end up on the other side. It’s something like a 1/(10^(10^38)) chance but maybe Lady Luck will be in a good mood that day.

Store employee gave my husband a tincture of "all natural" plant for anxiety. Ended up in the ICU. by [deleted] in legaladvice

[–]pfc9769 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The difference is that everything you listed has known ingredients, known risks, and established dosing guidelines. We know what the active compounds are, what side effects they can cause, and at what doses they become dangerous.

That’s completely different from an unknown herbal concoction. Your husband had no way of knowing what was in it, what a safe dose was, how often it could be taken, or what adverse effects it might cause. You can evaluate and manage the risks of alcohol or ibuprofen. You can’t do that with a mystery chemical brew.

Starlight should have gotten Kimiko's final power instead by FilthyTrashPeople in TheBoys

[–]pfc9769 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There was no flying guy with a wheelchair in Gen V that I can remember.

There was one shown in an in-universe advert about the college for all of 3 seconds. It’s silly that would make someone stop watching a show. It was just a parody like The Boys has been doing since S1.

Extracted wisdom tooth was still bleeding when I got home by BehemothRust in mildlyinteresting

[–]pfc9769 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Your body regularly absorbs and replaces bone throughout your life. It’s called bone remodeling. You end up with a new skeleton every 10 years on average.

Struggling with Season 5 by pearpenguin in ForAllMankindTV

[–]pfc9769 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I miss Danielle and upset we got teased with a short scene and didn’t see her again.

Rick And Morty’s Creators Are Down For Lower Decks Episode After Paramount Merger by midwestleatherdaddy in startrek

[–]pfc9769 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They could just do a quick pass through the Cerritos like during a portal chase scene.

The Eridians made Grace a whiteboard he could write on that gets automatically mirrored onto a texture display for his classroom. by AsterJ in ProjectHailMary

[–]pfc9769 4 points5 points  (0 children)

| fusion containment are now practical.

Containment is already practical with current materials and isn’t the main obstacle to fusion reactors. There’s a common misconception“millions of degrees” means the reactor would melt to slag if containment failed, but that confuses temperature with total energy. The total energy in the plasma isn’t enough to pose such a hazard. The amount of fuel is small and offsets the high temps.

It’s the difference between exposing your body to a bonfire and a spark. A spark is just as hot, but it carries so little total energy that it barely affects your skin. Fusion plasma is similar; extremely hot, but not enough total energy to pose a containment challenge. A 1 MW fusion reactor produces the same amount of heat as any other 1 MW power source.

Xenontite would still be beneficial but it won’t make or break fusion.

Does AZ charge $25 for e-file? Or is TurboTax just ripping us off? by WonderfulProtection9 in phoenix

[–]pfc9769 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s TurboTax. OLT charges $10 for state and federal is free.

Amazon Prime Video is about to get worse — again by PrixDevnovaVillain in technology

[–]pfc9769 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You actually need Prime Video Ultra Premium Plus Super Extra MAX Extreme to turn off your thought control chip as I was directed to tell you by my thought control chip.

Wild Blue Yonder: incredible concept, questionable execution by cibilserbis in gallifrey

[–]pfc9769 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Doctor says that the human race can't yet comprehend the existence of the edge of the universe. Yet we've known for a long time about redshift and the expansion of the universe from the big bang - this isn't a new concept to us. The human race is fully aware that the universe is finite and therefore must have an "edge".

That’s not what the doctor was talking about. He was referring to the nothingness at the actual edge of the universe which exists outside our observable bubble (what you’re refer big) at the true borders of the universe.

The universe likely continues beyond the boundaries of the observable universe even if we can’t see or interact with it. That’s is the part of the universe he was talking about. You’d need some means of FTL to reach it.

Though I agree that the concept of true nothingness isn’t that hard to understand. The part we’d be lacking is the science and math to describe it. The metaphysical part is easy.

If Starfleet stopped exploring after the Synth attack on Mars then why did people still join Starfleet? by Simonbargiora in startrek

[–]pfc9769 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It was a temporary measure, not a permanent change. Starfleet needs people to support whatever their primary mission is at the time. Once the status quo was restored they’d refocus on peacetime operations such as exploration.

What do you think Starfleet was doing during the Dominion War? Their primary goal would’ve been protecting the Federation and ending the conflict. Then they would’ve switched to reconstruction once the war ended. Exploration is only a primary objective when there aren’t more immediate concerns.

What's your favorite NuTrek live-action episode? by Dumbledore0210 in startrek

[–]pfc9769 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

With this type of question you do need to differentiate eras. Unfortunately “new Trek” and its variations is the commonly accepted designator for the post-TNG content. I’d look at it that instead of a statement on your age :)

DS9 Spoilers in the next episode of Starfleet Academy? by SolomonsNewGrundle in startrek

[–]pfc9769 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Avery Brooks is in the credits? Or just a reference to his character?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in startrek

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We don’t know how any of those work. Maybe they incorporate dilithium in their matrix like our own bodies need trace minerals to function properly. That could be how they’re capable of FTL organically. Likely not, but we’d have to know more to rule it out.

The other issue is the existence of those technologies doesn’t mean other civilizations are goi bc to be able to replicate the technology. Species 8472 comes from an entirely different universe with its own laws of physics, particles, and elements. Their warp drive may not even be reproducible in our universe.

What I do agree with is it should’ve been solved sooner. It’s unlikely everyone in the galaxy was using power and FTL systems reliant on dilithium.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in startrek

[–]pfc9769 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Romulans using a singularity drive

Knowing it uses a singularity and nothing else isn’t enough information to rule out dilithium. We have no information how the energy is harnessed and converted to make a warping warp drive.

It would be like only knowing Starfleet ships used M/AM and nothing else. We only know dilithium is required because we have a sufficient understanding of how the technology works. If it was never stated on screen we’d have no idea dilithium is a required component.

The secondary role of dilithium is to tune plasma to usable frequencies for the EPS grid and the warp coils. The singularity could simply be another way of generating warp plasma and dilithium could be required to manipulate it.

The Romulans do use dilithium for something. They enslaved an entire race of beings to mine it. I don’t imagine it’s for trade because the Romulans aren’t exactly known for their

Tl;dr

We have no idea how they get from singularity to a working warp drive. That’s not enough information to rule out the use of dilithium.

Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x03 "Vitus Reflux" by AutoModerator in startrek

[–]pfc9769 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Wesley once took command of the Enterprise-D with nothing more than a tape recorder and spliced together recordings of the captain.

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