How Sci-Fi Shows are wrong.

[Tzan]

Steel_Valkyrie talking to his mom:
"We've been discussing your ass on the internet and we have come to the conclusion that your ass's gravitational effect on other objects in the universe is Inconsequential."

[Overwatch_Elite]

when i make topics about stuff i don't understand natalya bans me and i get grounded smh white people

[Steel_Valkyrie]

Steel_Valkyrie talking to his mom:
"We've been discussing your ass on the internet and we have come to the conclusion that your ass's gravitational effect on other objects in the universe is Inconsequential."

Pretty much, yeah.

[stubby]

Whenever you hear a captain in a sci-fi show say "come about," that's what it means. It's a nautical term for bringing your ship into alignment. You hear it in Star Trek a lot when the Enterprise encounters other vessels.

Okay, that's assuming they can tell up from down. Being arrogant, we'd probably make the north pole the "up" side. But what explains that every other alien ship also comes at enterprise completely level and flat to them? Wouldn't their species have an "Up" of it's own? And why does everything happen in 2D? All the ships are at the same level.

They're aligning to whatever the other ship is using as "up." There is no absolute, universal up. The camera rotates to match. They could both be completely upside-down and sideways, but as long as they and the camera are all aligned with each other then it looks like a flat plane on the TV screen.

Part of the reason that everybody aligns to each other is that it presents the smallest target area to a potentially hostile opponent. It's a practical consideration.

But they always say "Full-stop" to investigate some wreck.

Full stop, relative to the wreck. Since there's no absolute frame of reference for motion in space, there's no absolute frame of reference for stopping either. You can only be "stopped" relative to another object. If you and the object are both traveling at half lightspeed in the same direction, you are at a full stop relative to the object.

it's hard to prove that there is any part of the universe that hasn't felt the effects of your mom's fat ass.

Technically, It has. Everything in the universe feels the pull of everything else. It's usually very, very, very small, Enough to call "Inconsequential"

Nope. This argument might have worked last month, but since then we've proven that gravitational waves propagate at the speed of light. Everything in the universe feels the pull of everything else once the gravitational waves reach between them, but the speed of light has limits. If there's a part of the universe that's far away enough when the gravitational wave is sent, then the wave won't reach it before the relative expansion of the universe in between exceeds the speed of light, which is already happening. Over vast enough distances, space expands faster than lightspeed can cross it. No one knows why.

This is a stretch. Thinking only proves that something exists to do the thinking, but not that the thing you think of as "you" is what's doing the thinking. Even what you think of as "you" could just as easily be a computer program playing a pre-recorded script of a brain thinking that it exists.

Yep, and Still, My argument stands. "I" would then be the computer, and "I" would still only Know that "I" am the only one capable of free thought.

Only as much as a book where your thoughts were written down could be considered "you." It doesn't seem to me that a static recording counts as actual thought, even if it's played on a very nice playback system.

[RedRover]

Steel, if you want to win, get the thread moved to marblecake, Mike won't go in there.

[Steel_Valkyrie]

Killjoy. Still. They should come from all around, from above and below the enterprise.

[Zahru II]

Steel, if you want to win, get the thread moved to marblecake, Mike won't go in there.

I think you unintentionally won the thread with this one RR.

[Steel_Valkyrie]

Congratulations, RR.

[stubby]

gg everyone

[Overwatch_Elite]

wheres my participation ribbon

[Tzan]

You already have one under your avatar.

Its:

Red
Green
Piss brown

[Zupponn]

I'm disappointed that nobody mentioned the idea of multiple realities for the time traveling thing.

[The Shadowscythe]

Yeah but then we'd have more than one ass.

And this forum is having trouble enough just talking about one ass, how do you think these kids would deal with the prospect of infinite ass?

[Steel_Valkyrie]

More of a chest guy myself.

[RedRover]

More of a chess guy myself