Trek & Wars tech, canon wars, #StarshipVolumetrics, et al.
Originated: Trek as Post-Scarcity, parallel Lucas canon, & more ideas you've seen on YT & Wikipedia
@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.)
@konstructivizm Pretty sure that's AI. Note the reflection of the sun on the right side, the general lack of shadows also suggestive of overhead sun (not a thing there), the rather unusual angle for a pic to include the ass end of a Soyuz (suggesting a repurposed ISS image), et cetera.
@CJ13bd@vkozoubenko@Flanker30MKI Refreshing in this day and age!
No harm, no foul ... all sins are forgiven, and if at any point I escalated inappropriately, my apologies in return.
@CJ13bd@vkozoubenko@Flanker30MKI So your choice was to acknowledge backpedaling, acknowledge poor reading comprehension that led you to make challenge in the wrong direction, or just be an ass.
Looks like you picked the last one to cover and avoid one of the other two. (The best option for you is the middle.)
@CJ13bd@vkozoubenko@Flanker30MKI So, do pardon me if I laugh at your posturing that I proved your point . . . instead, I've defeated everything you've tried to put up. Sorry, no points for you.
@CJ13bd@vkozoubenko@Flanker30MKI You remained evasive but when finally challenged to defend your apparent idea with it spelled out in embarrassing detail to you, you suddenly backpedaled, claiming air, and claiming further that the tank would sink if full. That was also proven wrong.
I was today years old when I learned that "corn" was a super-generic term. In the US, I presume the generic use fell out of favor, and so we shortened "Indian corn", referring to maize, and just called maize corn after that.
Every single DDAY anniversary I think about this footage from Omaha beach and the soldier that goes down on the left hand side of the frame.
Who was he?
What unit was he in?
Did he survive?
What did he believe in?
Was he a Christian?
Where was he from?
What would he think of the world today?
If he didn’t survive I hope he didn’t suffer.
@SCShipyards Not sure how you'll take this feedback, so I'll apologize in advance, but there seemed (from my perspective) to be a run of tweets without the feigned-alien terminologies lately (i.e. USAian, manipulator for hand, et cetera), and it was quite nice.
#OTD in 1945, over 100 feet of USS Pittsburgh's bow was snapped off by a typhoon near Okinawa. The heavy cruiser managed to make it to Guam where she was referred to as the "Longest Ship in the World" because the distance from bow to stern was thousands of miles. The bow was salvaged and nicknamed "USS McKeesport" after a suburb of Pittsburgh. USS Pittsburgh was given a new bow and served another 11 years.