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Trek & Wars tech, canon wars, #StarshipVolumetrics, et al.

Originated: Trek as Post-Scarcity, parallel Lucas canon, & more ideas you've seen on YT & Wikipedia

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Here's a "pinned tweet" thread because I want to pin more than one.

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@EAFPW_Official @Commodore256 @AndrewCFrancis The 1964-2005 live-action productions are the #StarTrek Original Universe. That's TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, the TMP films through TUC, and the TNG films.

(Jeri Taylor also canonized her two VOY backstory novels. No one of higher rank ever disputed it, but many ignore them.)

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Noteworthy.

He's right about Buc-ees, though.

[Adam Singer @AdamSinger]

One of the most misinformed groups in the world has to be people who watch John Oliver religiously, this is one of the better forum posts on the phenomenon of the "comedic-news" segments

[Sean @sean_from_earth]

the future is now

[Enterprise Computer @EnterpriseCPU]

"This doohickey can make any food I want?"

"Affirmative."

"Computer. A succulent Chinese meal."

[Red Alert]

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@BallerToy1327 "God sent me."

(Gets ass kicked)

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@RussForLiberty @MittRomney Sorry I doubted you.

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@RussForLiberty @MittRomney Ah, thank you for clarifying. In a world of propaganda swallowers who get confused as to who is friend and who is foe geopolitically, my knee may've jerked. :-)

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@Orthodox_Slavic @serhan6d @NathanielW72701 @GSVBemusementPk He was more the anti-corruption candidate . . . they still had some issues after the pro-Russian administration in that regard.

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@SomeBitchIIKnow Based on what little I know, it seems that the whole thing went to hell when the proto-Marxist Montagnards took over and removed the moderate Girondins, much as would later occur in Russia after the Czar.

The American Revolution didn't suffer from such a poison in the system.

[Unwanted Blog @UnwantedBlog]

Gotta love the spirit these little guys are showing. It could well be that they'll have happier, healthier lives if they let the giant monster scoop them up... but there's no reason why they should be expected to know that. The defiance is glorious.

[13thKai 👻#ComradeLoki 🇷🇺 @13thKai]

This is so weird. 🤣🤣🤣

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@RavenGraceGtr Trump vigorously reminding everyone how wrong he is on Russia and Ukraine was an unforced error.

No matter which side of that you're on, it is unwise to suddenly and angrily push a view that is a debate even among your own voters.

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@Truthful_ast That's what shuttles looked like before starvation.

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@NathanielW72701 @FurioserK @GSVBemusementPk The Ukrainians want to be able to voluntarily join whatever community they wish to be a part of ... not coincidentally, it also happens to be the one that tends to be voluntarily joined.

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@NathanielW72701 @GSVBemusementPk That's not an accurate characterization of what was said. Just from the summary: messy laws, breached laws, nontransparent voting and counting, no legal remedy on challenge, etc.

Also, comparing with US 2020, they tend to put things rather politely.

https://t.co/J079UaN0VD

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See? Just laying down the hits ...

https://t.co/j5bSMOu0iq

[AnalogTV @_AnalogTV_]

You can play with the mechanical TV simulation on the web here with any web browser, no Apple products needed: https://t.co/T7JuX9KHkL

Eventually I'd like to get the whole app available for more platforms but 1) There is a long way to go to get the simulator to the level of accuracy and performance I'd be truly happy with (for example, SECAM is a bit of a struggle at the moment, still not happy with it) and 2) Until I get it right, making more versions just slows me down as I'd have to backport every improvement across every version.

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This account is truly extraordinary.

See, back in 2005 I ended up writing a primer about broadcast and home video tech as part of the debate, and thought I knew a little bit, but this cat lays down such knowledge that I feel like a little kid in school.

https://t.co/lceliBh4wc

[AnalogTV @_AnalogTV_]

Yes on the cameras. France built its own studio equipment for 819 lines. Radio Industrie made studio cameras from the late 1940s on image iconoscope tubes, and Thomson-Houston and CSF followed through the 1950s and 60s with image orthicon cameras. The Cinémathèque Française has a 1969 Thomson-CSF image orthicon camera built to run on 819, 625 or 525 lines, and I believe that type was the most common camera of the black-and-white era. The line count was fixed but the horizontal detail was not because the tube, the lens and the video band, and the equipment of the day couldn't keep up.

Most programs went out live, and until videotape the only real way to keep one was a kinescope (a 16mm film camera pointed at a monitor). For the early years what survives is film of the screen, not the signal itself. 2-inch quadruplex videotape was in use at the RTF by the early 1960s, and quad machines could be set up for 819 lines. The INA holds what was kept.

On the HD question, by line count it was well ahead of the other main standards of the time, 405, 525 and 625, and it took until Japan’s 1125-line Hi-Vision went on air in 1989 for a broadcast service to carry more lines. But lines are only half of resolution. In the chart in the post, 819 still kept only about half the contrast at the finest zone, so not quite HD as we would mean today.

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@_AnalogTV_ You make me wish I had an Apple product.

https://t.co/lgyAbXhQbd

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This account is truly extraordinary.

See, back in 2005 I ended up writing a primer about broadcast and home video tech as part of the debate, and thought I knew a little bit, but this cat lays down such knowledge that I feel like a little kid in school.

https://t.co/lceliBh4wc

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@NathanielW72701 @GSVBemusementPk You mean the 2010 sketchy election that led to a hideous pro-Russian government that killed a bunch of its citizens? Surely you don't refer to the 2004 elections where the Russians poisoned the pro-Western guy.

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@MarmotRespecter @GSVBemusementPk Ah, yes, NATO's secret WW2-era origins are finally revealed. The whole thing where we armed Russia after Hitler did his surprise invasion of his almost-ally was part of NATO's very long game to bring down Russia once and for all.