I never got around to watching "Breaking Bad". I heard of it, but never got motivated to go watch it.Badger and Skinny Pete talking about this on Breaking Bad.
Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 4x10 - "The Galactic Barrier"
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you sound like someone against self-driving cars. But I bet you took some plane or train on occasion, without thinking how they are pretty much automated by now. Same goes in fact for the city traffic regulators. In 1000 years the idea that a targeting computer might make an error will be as absurd as a pocket calculator failing to do a simple addiction.
You guess correct.
And, while we're at it, I know some better paths while driving than either my regular GPS or the GPS on my phone.
I don't go on the train that often. Probably a handful of times and not recently. As far as planes, three times: 1998 on a trip to California, and then in 2009 and 2010 to Florida for a family thing.
So I'm not an avid train rider or plane flier.
They suck! I always pre-map a route into unfamiliar territory myself when possible because I know that step will save me fuel.
Agreed. Here's the thing-a tool is only as good as those who design and program it. Humans are failable (no matter what the Internet tries to tell people) and an artificial program is going to fail. It won't be pretty the more we remove ourselves from the decision making process.
Lol, this kind of posts make me think of people of the 1800s saying they’d never get on a car.
Let's do a hypothetical and pretend that the "Galactic Barrier" is a Natural Phenomenon of the spatial anatomy of a Galaxy. That every single Galaxy in our Universe has their own "Galactic Barrier" of similar composition.
That the "Galactic Barrier" stops/seperates/severs the Mycelial Network from inside a Galaxy to Outside the Galaxy. Whatever the reasoning, you can't use the Mycelial Network within 4-9 ly of the Galactic Barrier.
The Galactic Barrier could be a similar natural construct to our Star System with it's own Heliosphere. The HelioSphere has a edge layer known as the HelioPause that surrounds our Star System. But within the Heliopause, there is a Spherical region known as the "Termination Shock"
I wouldn't be surprised if our own Galaxy has it's own Spheriodial or Ellipsoid "Galactic Barrier" that our current sensors couldn't observe from Earth.
But given the nature of the "Galactic Barrier", it's more of a nuisance than a real imposition.
Discovery is the most recent StarFleet vessel to cross the "Galactic Barrier", and at the location that it crossed, probably closest to Species 10-C's location, there seemed to be a large gap / bubbly frothing opening at the point in the Galactic Barrier that Discovery chose to cross.
I wouldn't be surprised if the effects of the DMA's WormHole punched a massive hole right through the "Galactic Barrier" and left it in the state that we see it in. Which could be the Galactic Barriers natural way of returning to equilibrium.
Anyways, the "Galactic Barrier" is barely a imposition to Inter-Galactic Travel in the grand scheme of things, even if every Galaxy has their own "Galactic Barriers".
All that means is that once you reach the edge of a Galaxy, you gotta hop out of FTL into normal space, slowly pass through the local "Galactic Barrier", then go back to FTL speeds once you're inside or outside the Galaxy.
It's hardly a real problem, more of a nuisance / toll booth for FTL Space Travel where you have to slow down temporarily.
I don't know. The heliosphere is created by our sun. What would be the source of a galaxy sized equivalent?
Didn't say I wouldn't. You're just dragging this out. I don't feel too strongly about it. You've actually seen when I feel strongly about something. This isn't it.
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You demonstrate to me it can work effectively, safely, with minimal risk to people and things not going wrong then I'll consider it.
Skepticism should not be maligned.
Good. Still, the idea that they haven’t solved a problem as simple as not killing the user 900 years after the transporter is so ridiculous I can’t even imagine a fitting comparison with today’s technology.
Ridiculous is in the eye of the beholder.
well, I suspect you use technology originally invented in the 12th century without much fear. In fact you are using stuff invented in the 20th right now.
Or people who were saying 'man will never fly' or 'man will never walk on the moon'.
Sufficed to say both statements were proved erroneous within a few decades... and its actually fascinating how much of a leap that was (from flying a basic aeroplane) to walking on the moon.
From 1903 to 1969. That's 66 years worth of difference.
Also, its not that we lost anything or cannot innovate or achieve similar feats in smaller time frames... in fact, we are innovating much faster (and with adaptive algorithms and AI, this is actually accelerating) ... but societies aren't prioritizing such things anymore (or fixing/upgrading infrastructure, improving the standard of life for all humans on Earth while simultaneously reducing our footprint and protecting the environment) and our socio-economic system needs to fundamentally change.
We could have effectively eradicated poverty, cleaned up the Earth, improved living standards for all humans everywhere, built a Dyson Swarm by now, colonized the moon and used that as a jumping board to colonize other planets in our solar system (just to name a few).
So much we could have accomplished (that would put a lot of scifi out there to shame) and yet, we still insist on playing monopoly.
The thing is, there is a good chance this will actually happen fairly soon (albeit at a 'delayed' time frame until our priorities shift.
The good thing about Trek is that UFP was described as a type of organisation which is no longer bogged down by the same issues that currently plague us (as a result of living in an outdated socio-economic system)... and it would have been a perfect setting to introduce positive outlook on the future and what can conceivably be achieved if we really wanted to (with pre-established Trek tech too).
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Depends on the tech.
I hope I live long enough to see a new, fairer society emerging. We live at a moment of crisis qnd every crisis is a gamble: it could be the one that makes us do important steps in the right direction (but at what price?) or one that sets us back decades.
And of course there are even harder to predict stuff going on...For all we know we might invent reliable, affordable fusion this year and solve all our energy issues in a decade, for example. Or a new pandemic might hit, ending is in a worse situation than the last couple of years.
There must be some etiquette too. Can't have Tuvixs all over the place.
This was my favorite of the three filler episodes we've had since the hiatus. I wish we'd have gotten Tarka's backstory beforehand but better late than never. I did think it was a little silly that the scientist that Tarka bonded over the "Golden Ratio" with was named Oros ("Golds" in Spanish and presumably every other Romance language).
Badger and Skinny Pete talking about this on Breaking Bad.
Here's the scene in question:
IDK if this has been mentioned, but a sad coincidence that the week a Galactic Barrier episodes airs, we lose Sally Kellerman. M*A*S*H. Back To School. And maybe the sexiest voice ever?
RIP Sally.
RIP Sally.
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