Darmok on the Ocean
Today is a good day to buy
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/100115565975321944
Autodesk, please open source the old version of Inventor I used in high school years ago
FreeCAD messed up when saving the file, now I can't edit it properly. Great.
Currently recreating an ancient starship manually in the holodeck*.
(* FreeCAD, actually)
I only just noticed that Discovery's nacelles are extremely long, more than the rest of the hull
“Familiar Starfleet Colors in First Look at DISCOVERY S2” http://trekcore.com/blog/2018/04/familiar-starfleet-colors-in-first-look-at-star-trek-discovery-s2/
From r/DaystromInstitute:
"[Theory] People in Trek are just plain not-good at computers, and replicators can make stuff that's as good as grandmother's, they just don't know how to tell it to do so."
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Tweaked some evolution today; made a bipedal humanoid species into an octopedal one. Utterly horrifying.
Just finished watching an antimatter accretion disk get swallowed up by its galactic nucleus. Absolutely stunning, had I physical form I would have been moved to tears by the beauty. Of course the majority of the phenomenon would have been lost to the human eye. Such a narrow perspective in this and all other matters. Shame.
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Look what we just found after following a trail of rust! https://tenforward.social/media/w5qBJ2jxJ6RY-jeSL8c
(source: https://twitter.com/TorinDarkflight/status/961071825689161728)
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What currency or service to use to replace Patreon? It goes without saying, I prefer something more stable than Bitcoing, like latinum.
How is there not a "gold pressed latinum" cryptocurrency? ...searches, nevermind, of course there is. Wow, there's a lot of things called latinum in etherium. Rom! take over the bar for the night, I need to do some reading...
"Dakota Fanning Suits Up as a Star Trek Super Fan in Please Stand By Trailer" https://www.wmagazine.com/story/dakota-fanning-please-stand-by-me-trailer
So, what should I watch now that DSC is paused?
I really liked The Expanse recently for its scientific credibility (BSG too, to a lesser extent). Do you know of any comparable series?