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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Is this a picture taken off a tv screen?

ETA: I’m not complaining, this place needs as much T’pol as it can get and this is a lovely template.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Good lord, is she always that stunningly pretty?

I've never watched more than a few episodes of Enterprise. Is it worth the investment? Is there a cut of it with that godforsaken theme song removed, or replaced with something more palatable like two dozen screaming goats?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Love it or hate it, almost every Trek series has its eye-candy characters who keep us from revolting when the writers drop the ball. T'Pol did about as much heavy lifting in that department as Seven, and I'm pretty OK with that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've said before that anyone who had an issue with Seven being added to sexy up Star Trek should take another look at the Yeoman uniforms in TOS or Deanna in a lot of TNG.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

I mean Deanna is by far my biggest issue with TNG

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Never has the "skip intro" button received as much action as when I watched Enterprise.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Jolene Blalock? Yes. Watch Enterprise if you want to see her butt. :D

Hey, some of us are proud to have faith of the heart!

But I understand. There are fan edits on YouTube that use the credits theme (Archer's Theme) as the title theme and it works really well. You could do an audio swap on your own rips with an app like Handbrake.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hey, some of us are proud to have faith of the heart!

And no one's gonna bend or break you

It does grow on you after a bit though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Enterprise is a TV adaptation of a children's Star Trek story that LeVar Burton read on Reading Rainbow.

I also liked it overall. But they did not spare the cheese.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Me upon seeing this particular meme, more then any other risa post: “i should really start watching star trek”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Like most Star Trek, the first couple seasons are a bit rough. The problem is they killed off Enterprise after only 4 seasons, meaning the ratio of good to bad isn't great. And the series finale is god awful. Still, I liked it more than Voyager.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But 3 is the worst season. They should have ended it after 2.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I agree, once it gets to be all about the temporal Cold War it’s kind of bleh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I do like some time travel in my Star Trek.

I don't really want a little Star Trek in my time travel

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Cold wind is slow-moving particles hitting you at high speed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I’m sorry, but THE WINDS I FEEL ARE ONLY WINDS OF CHANGE! 🎸🎶❤️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The winds of winter do move slowly...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So speedometers are just thermometers for cars?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

They measure how hot the engine is. The more hot, the more vroom.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not if you run on methanol!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Wait, you run on methanol? I just drink coffee

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The more precisely momentum is known, the less precisely is its position known and vice versa. As for how temperature affects these measurements, the velocity of atoms and molecules isnt a sharp peak but a probability distribution whose maximum shifts toward higher velocities as the average temperature increases.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

IIUC extremely cold substances turn into so-called Bose-Einstein condensates because their temperature (hence speed) is so tightly controlled that their location becomes more "spread out" in terms of probability. And you can't fix its location without raising the temperature.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sort of. It has to do with certain matter (they have to be neutral bosons i.e particles with integer spin and no overall charge) being so cold that there arent really any higher energy quantum states for things to be in. So everything is essentially in the same state and functionally indistinguishable. Which is why not everything can form a bose einstein condesate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It is a combination, if the particles' positions don't overlap then you don't have a condensate, but at low enough energy and close proximity these particles will overlap

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Never thought of it that way. So when I have a fever, my forehead is running faster than my feet