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Because of the higher air pressure resulting from a higher gravity, right?
Gravity itself doesn’t affect boiling points in the least, to the best of my understanding.
Maybe they are stronger, but less dense. The carbon fiber of alien species.
I've been been a Star Trek fan for a very long time. Trust me, I can make up plausible bullcrap to get around silly plot devices as much as any Star Wars or anime fan.
Wait this is Orville...maybe their dude is named X
Gravity doesn't affect boiling points very much, but if you double the pressure around water, its boiling point will increase 20 C.
However, a heavy gravity planet doesn't need to have as high an atmosphere as earths. If you tripled the surface gravity, you could just have 1/3 the thickness of atmosphere and you'd get exactly the same pressure at the surface.
In fact, I would expect that a heavy gravity world whose atmosphere was also very dense would lead to people living there who couldn't breathe in 1 bar of pressure. Their lungs would be adapted for the ease of extracting O2 from very dense air, and as such would be much smaller. So Alara from High Gravity, High Pressure world would only be super strong in high pressure + low gravity (where her lungs would work right, but everything would seem light), otherwise she'd be gasping for air.
High Gravity Normal Pressure would explain super strength in Normal Gravity Normal Pressure even better. Because her lungs and respiratory system would have to be absurdly efficient to get enough 02 from the air to support work and motion in the high gravity, as such, with normal pressure and normal gravity not only would her muscles be able to do the lifting easily, she also would almost never get tired, because her respiratory system would be able to deliver vastly more O2 than needed for the work she was doing.
I got this-
Hey true believers Stan the man here!
Because of the gravity of the situation your fearless leader wants to explain that for your sensitive eyes we made all the gravity seem like your everyday earth! If it was all falling faster you'd miss it!
Your No-Prize is in the mail.
Cause that was a pretty close guess.
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I really liked the Rorschach test stuff. Might have been a reason to have the doc in the episode but it was a good gag.
Michele Boyd for reference, though she has dyed her hair blonde since then.
I mean, she got a promotion for being the last survivor on that ship, and was elevated to the point where she was helping plan a high level infiltration and espionage mission. I'd guess that her having been caught, but somehow not executed, tortured or interrogated may be something in her favor, especially if she passes off the recordings she got as an important document.
I'd think that, had she expected to return home only to be tortured and executed, she would have mentioned it at some point during her incarceration. Probably played it as a card to get some useful information, "...unless I have something useful for my superiors, something worth sparing my life... something like the command codes." I mean, she clearly knows how to play the captain's emotions, I'm surprised she didn't try that.
Minor ending spoilers:
I'm sure a considerable number of people here have been in happy relationships only to realize that the person wasn't who they thought they were.
Presumably, far fewer had that person turn out to be a literal alien lizard spy, but it's still a pretty universal experience otherwise.
I do like that the Union is taking information security a bit more seriously than the Federation though.
I wonder if they set up some kind of virus that would download itself to any system using the fake codes. Could do all kinds of interesting things with that vector of counter attack.
Backloggery. It's totally updated again, I swear!
The second in command ex.
For those of us (maybe just me) who haven't watched Discovery, can you expand on the spoiler?
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Part of why I like this show.
Backloggery. It's totally updated again, I swear!
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which doesn’t excuse it, I am mildly annoyed by both
i wouldn't call the King and I "recent stuff".
That has to be something Seth just likes. The King and I was a major plot point in a Season 1 episode of family guy
I mean it's a safe bet that Seth's in to it and most musicals but i'm sure it's also because Fox owns the rights and that makes it easier to incorporate in to an episode.
They really should have gone the B5 route and made up future media stars to reference that nobody today would understand.
I actually think it's a hilarious send up of that aspect of TNG. Like why do Picard and folks like the "classic" literature and music with no real effort towards dreaming up future music and media?
yeah, i don't think anyone actually wants that:
B5 gets it, in that you never actually show the act or play the music because nothing you can make up in a tv show will meet the expectations.
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To be fair, a lot of classical literature is still being rehashed and remade today. I mean, how many versions of The Three Musketeers have you seen? Romeo and Juliet?
It seems likely that these classics will continue being remade alongside newer works as time moves on, finding a new audience with every iteration, some of which will inevitably search for earlier versions until they find the original.
It's not like the works of Shakespeare are going to vanish off the face of the planet, and it seems likely that the themes of the classic works will remain just as valid in the future as they are today. And, just like today, you'll have a handful of space weebs who will always insist that the original version is the only one worth knowing and disavow any of the later remixes.
Of course, that says nothing about how hard dreaming up an entirely new, futuristic music genre is. And, the moment you do so, can it really be considered "future music"? It exists now. Even if you make it intentionally awful, someone somewhere will like it and duplicate the style. The other option is to just make up a random artist/song name up and only reference it in passing with no effort made to flushing out what Sr. Winklyknob III's 2256 Venusian Concerto actually sounds like, and that's going to be marked as lazy writing just as quickly as "Classical Beastie Boys" is.
B5 also did the modern stuff too though. Garibaldi was a fan of Looney Tunes, noir detectives, and slugthrowers (aka regular ass guns). He and Lennier built a Kawasaki Ninja.
It's a way to get the audience to relate to someone, though in B5's defense at least it wasn't the captain in that case.
Like in High Fantasy novels where they start talking about how the Quish of Tribacia arrived in Ulfmaria riding her Golatt and wearing the finest noroclast to treat with the Nooleans and their Smarf.
Like...
...what?