Hello Sci-fi fans and writers, I hope that this here is the correct spot to ask this question regarding a conundrum I have come about during my work on a sci-fi short Story....
Maybe something where the well generator pulls your Heroes off course from the pre-defined trajectory and they "drop out" to an unexpected situation, like (and also unlike) when the Millenium Falcon arrives at "Alderaan"?
I guess the method you choose depends on your universe's departures from "real" physics, but also your story's narrative aims. Are you looking to build a tense chase sequence or have a gotcha surprise?
Title is clickbaity, but article theorizes that it is not some kneejerk top-down thing, but the people at CBS/Paramount who are guiding Star Trek re-prioritizing now that they have an approach that works.
New evidence strongly suggests that OceanGate’s submersible, which imploded and killed all passengers on its way to the Titanic wreck, was unfit for the journey. The CEO, Stockton Rush, bought discounted carbon fiber past its shelf life from Boeing, which experts say is a terrible choice for a deep-sea vessel. This likely...
First, he was an aerospace guy and several things he's said make me think he was sort of chauvinistic about deep sea exploration in general, stuff like "It’s perfectly fine. Having all these certifications for airplanes is one thing, but the carbon fiber was perfectly sound."
Second, his business model, taking four people down with him in something other than Cameronesque claustrophia, and doing so without the cost of owning a proper launch vessel, instead renting any ship that could hold and then monitor his launch sled, meant it was critical he make something big and light, by deep sea submersible standards, that was at least nominally expected to handle the load. Shit, I guess in some sense, he did, since it went down and back two or three times or whatever. At the absolute best, though, he'd invented a disposable sub, and he clearly didn't worry about that limitation any more than the rest.
I wasn't quite into the Keychron or other fully customizable pricec range. I was looking at the various Tester68's on Amazon, but ran across an LTC Neon for only about 7 bucks more, which despite uneven reviews in stock form, had a few more keys, similar 5-pin hotswap, and was rechargeable 2.4/BT/USB. Figured that versus AAA and wireless only, it was a better deal. I have some Box whites and an Aliexpress XDA set that are currently boardless, so what're you gonna do?
Anyway, I do appreciate the the proposed alternative was not to simply stop acquiring keyboards, LOL.
There used to be a water park in my hometown that had a bunch of slides and a wave pool. I used to go there all the time as a kid, and even went there as a senior on a trip. I went to birthday parties there, sometimes....
Town centers and outdoor outlet centers are just malls, but worse. No AC, fewer small businesses somehow, parking shoved in between the stores, and (in the town centers) half-assed (at best) mixed use.
For all of their many, many flaws, a lot of malls actually fell backwards into accidentally doing some interesting things in terms of being community spaces.
A recent study published in Astrobiology examines the likelihood of the planet Venus being able to support life within the thick cloud layer that envelopes it. This study holds the potential to help us better understand how life could exist under the intense Venusian conditions, as discussions within the scientific community...
It seems almost impossible that earth-like life could have evolved on the surface of Venus for as long as it's been anything like its present condition, but if it ever did, I suppose some extremophile remnants could survive in the atmosphere. Unlike Mars, Venus has a band where atmospheric pressure and temperatures are not entirely hostile to life as we know it. Well, other than the sulphuric acid rain of course. One interesting notion for the sci-fi fans among us is that at the relevant altitudes, a breathable atmosphere would be a lifting gas.
At least in Trek, 24th century shields are extremely good at handling physical impacts. Even in a compromised state, with one of the shield processors having escaped and gone rogue, an ageing California class was able to take several hard impacts without so much as a scratch. They might have been able to resist indefinitely if their shields were performing optimally.
If addressing kinetic impacts this isn't part of the handwavium, then there's frankly very little way to enjoy Star Trek. I am just an old English major, but various sources put the Enterprise-D at about 4 million metric tons of mass. If you accelerate that to even 5% of c with impulse drives, it would impact with a force of about 2/3 or more of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, and that's just one ship operating well within the accepted performance of the impulse drives.
Hi all, I'm looking for something similar to my Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 to replace it that's mechanical. I'm looking for something with about the same number of Macros, about the same layout, and doesn't have a weird Delete key layout like the Logitech Wave....
At the budget end, Perrix makes the Periboard 535 which is certainly superficially similar. The Perrix is limited as a customizable mech, but if it is what your wrists and hands need, it may be good. I'm not sure if the choc switches are hot-swap, and good luck finding aftermarket keycaps, but you can at least choose from clicky, linear, or tactile.
If you want to drift away from a Microsoft style, several companies make "Alice" mechanical keyboards which are split and slightly tented, and allow more enthusiast options, but you'd have to get an external numpad if you need one.
LSU vacated all its wins under Miles from 2012-15 as a result of an ineligible player. It cost him his eligibility for the College Football Hall of Fame....
Here's the thing, even if you had zero intention of actually reading a case, there are STILL next steps once you get a cite. There is an entire "skill" you're taught in law school called Shepardizing (based on an older set of books that helped with this task) where you have to see if your case has been treated as binding precedent, had distinctions drawn to limit its applicability, or was maybe even overturned. Back when I was learning, the online citators would put up handy-dandy green, yellow, and red icons next to a case, and even the laziest law student would at least make sure everything was green before moving on in a Shepardizing quiz without looking deeper. And even THAT was just for a 1-credit legal research class.
These guys were lazy, cheap (they used "Fast Case" initially when they thought they had a chance in state court; it's a third-rate database that you get for free from your state bar and is indeed often limited to state law), and stupid. They didn't even commit malpractice with due diligence. I can only assume that they were "playing out the string" and extracting money from their client until the Federal case was dismissed with prejudice, but they played stupid games and won stupid prizes.
How would interdiction of Spaceships be possible?
Hello Sci-fi fans and writers, I hope that this here is the correct spot to ask this question regarding a conundrum I have come about during my work on a sci-fi short Story....
Why Star Trek Is Suddenly Canceling Its Shows (www.giantfreakinrobot.com)
OceanGate CEO Bragged About Using Expired Carbon Fiber to Build Doomed Sub (futurism.com)
New evidence strongly suggests that OceanGate’s submersible, which imploded and killed all passengers on its way to the Titanic wreck, was unfit for the journey. The CEO, Stockton Rush, bought discounted carbon fiber past its shelf life from Boeing, which experts say is a terrible choice for a deep-sea vessel. This likely...
OC Bought a keyboard with switches and keycaps I don't like...
...specifically to install spares I already have. Level with me, y'all. Do I have a problem?
What’s a place from your childhood that doesn’t exist anymore?
There used to be a water park in my hometown that had a bunch of slides and a wave pool. I used to go there all the time as a kid, and even went there as a senior on a trip. I went to birthday parties there, sometimes....
The Clouds of Venus Could Support Life (68k.news)
A recent study published in Astrobiology examines the likelihood of the planet Venus being able to support life within the thick cloud layer that envelopes it. This study holds the potential to help us better understand how life could exist under the intense Venusian conditions, as discussions within the scientific community...
Kinetic impulse weapons
"Full Impulse" is generally considered to be 0.25c....
Why Europe needs a travel dispersal strategy to manage overtourism (www.politico.eu)
Texas airport worker dies after being sucked into Delta jet engine (www.theguardian.com)
A worker at San Antonio’s international airport died after being sucked into a jet’s engine late on Friday, officials said.
Non-excessive ergo mech keyboards?
Hi all, I'm looking for something similar to my Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 to replace it that's mechanical. I'm looking for something with about the same number of Macros, about the same layout, and doesn't have a weird Delete key layout like the Logitech Wave....
What did Les Miles do? Why LSU vacated wins by former Tigers coach, costing him CFB Hall of Fame eligibility (www.sportingnews.com)
LSU vacated all its wins under Miles from 2012-15 as a result of an ineligible player. It cost him his eligibility for the College Football Hall of Fame....
Humiliated lawyers fined $5,000 for submitting ChatGPT hallucinations in court: ‘I heard about this new site, which I falsely assumed was, like, a super search engine’ (fortune.com)
The judge scolded the lawyers for doubling down on their fake citations.