Boner Buffet posted:

graph used to be really mad but couldn't keep it up because he's probably a fine chum irl

Ridgely_Fan posted:

the computers are made of bio neural gel packs

i think theyre spread all over the ship and take up a lot of mass and space

and sometimes they burn out and have to be replaced, or they get infected with space diseases

axolotl farmer posted:

why do they even bother pew-pewing with photon torpedoes and phasers?

send a huge barrage to take out the shield, then beam away the warp core and all weapons into space, or just beam in a bigass bomb.

if they can fit a bomb that kills several Klingons in a 6mm side cube, then welp.

qirex posted:

if there ever is actual space war it's going to be so boring, thousands of fist-sized spherical robots shooting sand traveling at relativistic speeds at each other or maybe invisible beams

qirex posted:

if there ever is actual space war it's going to be so boring, thousands of fist-sized spherical robots shooting sand traveling at relativistic speeds at each other or maybe invisible beams

axolotl farmer posted:

why do they even bother pew-pewing with photon torpedoes and phasers?

send a huge barrage to take out the shield, then beam away the warp core and all weapons into space, or just beam in a bigass bomb.

if they can fit a bomb that kills several Klingons in a 6mm side cube, then welp.

SmokaDustbowl posted:

thats pretty awesome though. I heard some guy talking about this poo poo awhile ago, and he was saying poo poo about little robots that would zip over and spray epoxy or whatever onto spy satellite optics and junk.

maniacdevnull posted:

that would be hella bad rear end

or a class of satelites that are cheap to build and launch that just grapple onto an enemy spy satelite, reverse thrust, and drag them back into the atmosphere

BonzoESC posted:

or just smash into them and keep going

BonzoESC posted:

or just smash into them and keep going

SmokaDustbowl posted:

Nah man, that'd create so much garbage zipping around that could damage your own satellites

maniacdevnull posted:

grapple onto one, smash into a second, if youve still got fuel left / arent completely broken go for a few more

Ridgely_Fan posted:

the computers are made of bio neural gel packs

i think theyre spread all over the ship and take up a lot of mass and space

and sometimes they burn out and have to be replaced, or they get infected with space diseases

Boner Buffet posted:

remember that sniper rifle in the last season of ds9 that would transport a fired round through walls?

qirex posted:

yes tiny battlebots in space would be way more badass than this

NINbuntu 64 posted:

that episode was so terrible

Endless Mike posted:

the writers must have played too much perfect dark

JustFrakkingDoIt posted:

TNG had dual (one for each hull) FTL cores the size of houses

NINbuntu 64 posted:

the farsight was such a useless gun. i think i used it once ever.

maniacdevnull posted:

the saucer section didnt have a warp core and couldnt go FTL on its own, they always had to ditch it somewhere then fly off in the stardrive section

also the modelers got pissed about how long it took to animate the seperation scenes so they prety much gave up on them after the first two eps

JustFrakkingDoIt posted:

i meant that the actual computer cores had FTL fields, i'm not digging up/scanning my old TNG technical manual but the electrons in the cores were accelerated FTL

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_%28NCC-1701-D%29_library_computer

this dumb article gives me nothing but enjoy the green on black images of warbirds and such

ALF

BonzoESC posted:

there'll also be future WMDs that are just big asteroids with big-rear end engines parked light years away and if you don't comply we won't change their course

(this is the plot of charlie stross's "iron sunrise")

Bedshaped posted:

where can i get a desktop theme like star trek LCARS, i'm building a fort and i want to turn it into the delta flyer

quote:

At the armored heart of Athena Station sat a nest of concentric spheres. The inmost sphere measured five meters in diameter, was filled with inert liquid fluorocarbon, and contained a black plastic two-meter cube that sprouted thick black cables from every surface. Inside the cube was a fluid series of hologrammatic waveforms, fluctuating from nanosecond to nanosecond in a play of knowledge and intention: Aleph. It is constituted by an infinite regress of awarenesses--any thought becomes the object of another, in a sequence terminated only by the limits of the machine’s will.

So strictly speaking there is no Aleph, thus no subject or verb in the sentences with which it expressed itself to itself. Paradox, to Aleph one of the most interesting ot intellectual forms--a paradox marked the limits of a position, even of a mode of being, and Aleph was very interested in limits.

Aleph had observed George Jordan’s arrival, his tossing on his bunk, his interview with Charley Hughes. It luxuriated in these observations, in the pity, compassion, and empathy they generated, as Aleph toresaw the sea change that George would endure, its ecstasies, passions, pains. At the same time it telt with detachment the necessity for his pain, even to the point ot death.

Compassion/detachment, death/life …

Several thousand voices within Aleph laughed. George would soon find out about limits and paradoxes.

Deuterieux posted:

go into a dark room, look into a mirror, and say "tom paris" three times

JustFrakkingDoIt posted:

honestly, why would you want to gently caress around with your desktop in TYOOL 2012?

probably try and see if you can get some stardock running on win7, yeah

ubnoooootu

Mind Spew posted:

Ridgely_Fan posted:

the computers are made of bio neural gel packs

i think theyre spread all over the ship and take up a lot of mass and space

and sometimes they burn out and have to be replaced, or they get infected with space diseases

NINbuntu 64 posted:

that episode was so hot