For All Mankind Trailer - Apple TV- SPOILER
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You know, if Shatner did decide to only stay on Phase II for the first thirteen episodes like they were considering, and since Nimoy wouldn’t have been on the show at all, alt-TWOK would’ve been quite the event with it not just being the first Star Trek movie, but also the return of Kirk and Spock after years of Trek without them. Which probably would’ve made the ending even more shocking.
You'd probably have to grab their versions of media players too, just in case of minor format differences.
And when you get back to your world, IF you can get back their media players may be exotic technology, who knows? You could be rich
Then you get back to our world and find out the electric outlet output is different and burn out the device you brought back.
So you end up like the guy breaking his glasses in the library of the Twilight Zone episode.
Yes but is multiversal?
I don't see why not since things like that have to obey the basic laws of physics. Electricity should be the same everywhere, it's why that guy crashed in Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun.... Dummies didn't realize electricity would be the same on the other Earth and wired everything backwards
Probably... but I was thinking more like the voltage from outlets can vary by country. Some power supplies have a switch on the back to go from 115v( US/Canada) to 230v(Some? Most? European countries)
If you have a PSU on 115v and it's hooked up to an outlet delivering twice that it 'thinks' its only receiving that 115, so it can burn out the unit or components in the computer (or device).
I guess there's also the chance that in the alternate world DC power managed to become the standard delivery system over AC power.
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If you're getting alternate-timeline versions of Star Trek, everything up to 1966 or so should be the same, so your power outlet should be safe. An analog format would be your best bet for ensuring there isn't some arbitrary standard that's different, a film reel or something. Or a player with an analog cable (though you'd be limited to standard definition). Reverse-engineering a digital format would be harder, be it file or disc, especially if you don't have the equipment to read it, but it could be possible. Like, any digital disc is going to be, fundamentally, just a long spiral of bits, and you can rig up some kind of microscope or something even if it's not designed for the exact laser moving in the exact way as our universe's disc players.
I follow some people who do "digital archeology" with old video games, and since people were pretty much making it up as they go along in the early days and there aren't standard formats for the data, a lot of times they have to just take the bytes and mash them together in different ways until they figure out what order they're supposed to go in to produce an image or a sound.
I follow some people who do "digital archeology" with old video games, and since people were pretty much making it up as they go along in the early days and there aren't standard formats for the data, a lot of times they have to just take the bytes and mash them together in different ways until they figure out what order they're supposed to go in to produce an image or a sound.
?So instead of Alternating Current they use Alternate Current.
You know, it took a second before I realized that, but since the internet doesn't meaningfully exist in FAM, Al Gore never could've taken credit for inventing it (well, for "taking the initiative [in Congress] for creating" it). To be fair to Gore, he had a better case on the internet thing, considering that Paine telescope had been around since the '90s, and directly riffing on his real-life gaff probably made for a much more awkward phrasing than something alt-Gore would've really said when trying to burnish his reputation for a hard campaign.
Actually, I think a little background on space-telescopes and asteroid-hunting might've been left on the cutting-room floor, considering we saw it was an American observatory that spotted the asteroid, but the Soviets were very insistent that they also discovered it, and no one really called them out on it or even seemed exasperated with what would seem to be obvious bluster.
Dani letting loose after Ed's constant needling was really cathartic. She broke her own arm for the man, so he wouldn't have to be sad about Gordo losing it! He's constantly accusing her being a careerist and glory-hound when she took a hit that grounded her and made her the laughing-stock of the moon for a decade, and when she asked him, nicely, to be put back in the saddle like she always would've been if she hadn't made that sacrifice, he put her on a PR stunt that she turned into single-handedly preventing World War III. I would not have had so much patience for Ed's constant, increasingly unhinged projection. And I would've dared him to give me the finger, if he really wanted to prove he could hold his hand steady.
Actually, I think a little background on space-telescopes and asteroid-hunting might've been left on the cutting-room floor, considering we saw it was an American observatory that spotted the asteroid, but the Soviets were very insistent that they also discovered it, and no one really called them out on it or even seemed exasperated with what would seem to be obvious bluster.
Dani letting loose after Ed's constant needling was really cathartic. She broke her own arm for the man, so he wouldn't have to be sad about Gordo losing it! He's constantly accusing her being a careerist and glory-hound when she took a hit that grounded her and made her the laughing-stock of the moon for a decade, and when she asked him, nicely, to be put back in the saddle like she always would've been if she hadn't made that sacrifice, he put her on a PR stunt that she turned into single-handedly preventing World War III. I would not have had so much patience for Ed's constant, increasingly unhinged projection. And I would've dared him to give me the finger, if he really wanted to prove he could hold his hand steady.
Well, we finally found out what happened to Danny, pretty much what we expected, I think.
I thought the flashbacks were interesting- there were a couple comments that alluded to them slowly starving on Mars before being rescued, this made it look like it was a lot more touch-and-go than maybe we were led to believe.
All other plot points are progressing nicely. Interested in seeing Kelly's kid make the trip to Mars, and we finally got some solid info on his health issues, presumably resulting from the circumstances of her unusual pregnancy and birth.
MOAR!
I thought the flashbacks were interesting- there were a couple comments that alluded to them slowly starving on Mars before being rescued, this made it look like it was a lot more touch-and-go than maybe we were led to believe.
All other plot points are progressing nicely. Interested in seeing Kelly's kid make the trip to Mars, and we finally got some solid info on his health issues, presumably resulting from the circumstances of her unusual pregnancy and birth.
MOAR!
Well, how much you want to bet two certain someones will cross paths in the Soviet Union…
Oh he really did that? I thought that was just a Futurama joke lol
As the Wiki article correctly stated he never claimed he invented it but that he took the inittiative in creating it, i.e. moving the project forward on the political stage, which was his job. Without all elements of a project, the actual design/development work and the manager/political side nothing can be done.
In that way he can be viewed akin to Steve Jobs to a degree - Jobs never sat down and drew up plans to make the first iPhone, he never solved the engineering problems etc. He had people for that but he pushed for it and gave direction to the project and unfortunately the public only remembers Jobs and views him as the guy who invented the iPhone when he was just part ( an important part but still only a prt) of the entire process that involved thousands of people.
I was listening to the NASA Vending Machine podcast, and learned that we got a new person to add to the "real person as more than a voice-over" club on FAM (first one in a while, I think); Eli's White House contact was Ron Klain, who was Chief of Staff for Al Gore when he was Vice President (and also had that position under Biden as Vice President and President).
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