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chaogomu, to daystrominstitute in Where Are All The Bicycles??

You sound like someone who has never ridden a bike through broken terrain.

I'll argue that the "flat" used by the comment above might be better taken on a more granular level. You can go up and down mountains just fine so long as there are no logs, large rocks, pits, or gullies that are in the way.

I was doing some D&D world building a while back and wanted to really dive into transportation of people/goods and found the same problem. Tenser’s Floating Disk is a very low level wizard spell that basically does away with all but the heaviest ships and carts.

It's the same for the trek universe. They have personal transportation methods that mean there's literally zero need for a bicycle for anything other than recreation.

Hell, Lower Decks opens with Mariner pushing around a hover cart full of stuff. It's literally the cold open of the entire series.

If you can have a hover cart like that, then why bother with a bike? Need to move stuff to a remote area? Get the hover cart, you don't need to cut a trail, just go over the obstacles. And that's if the transporter doesn't work if the first place to beam the people and equipment to a nearby area.

chaogomu, to risa in Do they ever work at all?

Banana, Hot. Banana, Hot.

chaogomu, to risa in Cope

He did a wonderful job on Lost... Well, the early set-up for Lost.

See, JJ is phenomenal at building up mystery boxes. He's just shit at putting anything inside those boxes.

He can lay out questions and hints at world building like no other. He just never goes back and does any of that world building.

chaogomu, to science_memes in More like guidelines

Fun fact;

Fahrenheit and Celsius line up at -40

Fahrenheit and Kelvin line up at 575

Those numbers are not particularly useful, but they are fun to know.

chaogomu, to risa in Everyone's piling on Rick Berman now?

I do love a little arson, murder, and jaywalking.

chaogomu, to risa in It's so bubbly, cloying...and happy.

The quotes are parts of the theme song to Enterprise.

It was the only Star Trek show that didn't use a variant of the Trek theme song.

The show also had a rough start. But got good.

chaogomu, to risa in Though Bat'leths are way cooler than guns.

I do understand the drive for hand to hand combat. That's how I'm rating it. And even compared to other kligon weapons, the Bat'leth is just bad.

chaogomu, to risa in Though Bat'leths are way cooler than guns.

It will hurt the user more, yes.

It's a bad weapon design.

The guy who designed it for Worf in TNG, was inspired by a Chinese single-handed weapon. That weapon was not widely used because it wasn't actually that good.

Still, the deer horn knives are theoretically a sound choice for a weapon, provided your goal is to disable the opponents while likely getting skewered from range.

The Bat'leth is just a useless hunk of metal.

It was designed to be showy and look interesting on camera, not as a practical weapon, and it really does fail as a practical weapon.

chaogomu, to risa in Though Bat'leths are way cooler than guns.

I've never liked Bat'leths. They're bad. They make zero sense as a weapon.

Wielded in both hands, it have all the reach of a large knife, but none of the maneuverability.

You can kind of use a Bat'leth one-handed, but it's clumsy and not at all balanced. It makes for wild swings that are more likely to hurt you or your friends than the enemy.

You can sort of block with them, if the opponent is going to make an overhead chop. That looks cool on screen, but if the warrior with a Bat'leth was facing a warrior with a simple sword and shield, the warrior with the Bat'leth would fucking die.

It's just a bad weapon, and looks like it was made to impress mall ninjas.

chaogomu, to risa in Sparkly too?

The payoff of that story is far better as well. In Generations, Data uses the emotion chip, then at the end, digging through the wreckage of the Enterprise, they find Spot. Data cries tears of joy.

chaogomu, to science_memes in Fahrenheit vs. Celsius vs. Kelvin

Never. They use the same spacing between degrees. The Kelvin scale was derived from the Celsius scale, just placing the 0° at absolute zero rather than at the freezing point of water.

chaogomu, to science_memes in Fahrenheit vs. Celsius vs. Kelvin

Fun fact time, -40F is -40C.

And 575F is 575K

chaogomu, to mildlyinteresting in Harbor Freight charges $1 extra for green extension cords instead of orange

Garden use might mean a different plastic that resists UV light better than the orange one.

chaogomu, to upliftingnews in Potentially the world's largest lithium deposit has been found in a US volcano

The volcano is dead. When it was active, millions of years ago, it deposited a bunch of lithium in the area.

chaogomu, to upliftingnews in Analysis Shows We’ve Been Overestimating the Amount of Plastic in Oceans by 30x

The vast majority of ocean plastic comes from fishing boats, we're just told it's from land based sources so that major factory fishing firms can continue to pollute but make you feel guilty for dropping a straw in the trashcan.

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