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  • Yeah the problem isn’t the ideals being in there but how bad the story is makes the ideals seem like a cheap crutch.

    Compare Brokeback Mountain to Ben and Arthur. Both movies about the relationship between gay men and society. Both say gay people should be treated fairly by socity but aren’t. The first does it in interesting way with great storytelling and ideas. The later is a hamfisted mess.

    I’m not going to say modern Trek is Ben and Arthur bad but it is much closer to Ben and Arthur writing then it is to Brokeback Mountain.





  • I’d stay far far away from Anova. Their build quality has massively dropped.

    In the last two years I’ve seen plastic cracking, touch screens failing, and panels falling off because the glue couldn’t handle the upper temp limit of the machine.

    If you are willing to spend big for buy it for life get a PolyScience MX-CA11B. It’s what restaurants that run them non stop for years use. If you are not willing to spend that much get one of the other PolyScience machines.




  • Us is a big country and when we formed it could take days to get from states to the capitol. Legislators and leaders might be away from home for a year or more and needed to get their home situated.

    So there is a lot of time between elections and assuming office in national positions. Results had to go from state to national, get certified, return the results, get your house in order, travel to DC, hire staff, and arrange housing (if congress).

    It’s also why 200 years ago the electoral college made sense. There wasn’t time to hold runoff elections. These days with fast information and travel it’s a garbage legacy system.





  • Hugin@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldEveryone's dead now
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    The other problem is the ship signal they traced would have been frequency shifted by the same amount as the time dilation. They would have had to compensate for that to even detect the signal.

    It was 1 hour : 7 years I think. So about a factor of 60,000. So if a ping was once a second it would be once every 42 days. And if it was a 1MHz transmission it would be at about 17Hz.

    So they somehow realized the once a second 1MHz signal was now a every 42 day 17Hz signal at 1/60000 the power. But didn’t realize that there was time dilation involved.