Thursday, February 23, 2017

"Live long and prosper" -The guy who died last year

I've seen like 2 star trek episodes outside of class. One had a Federation guy who took over a country using old Nazi techniques, swastikas and all. The other episode I saw was the one where Q first shows up and the crew is put on trial for humanities crimes. I don't think I finished the episode, but in the end they proved that humans are pretty cool. Fast forward like two seasons and then the Borg completely annihilate them. Good times.

When I watched the trial for humanities crimes episodes, I thought there would be more social commentary stuff by directly referencing human crimes like destroying the planet, but it wasn't as much as I expected.Instead they went on about human nature and how they're persistent and can overcome challenges, and how Q doesn't stay true to his word.

In this photo, we see Q serving up some hot justice in the form of a fair trial he called a fair trial but wasn't actually one. What a guy.

Imagine being Q. You can do anything you want, so what do you decide to do? Mess with a starship. What a guy. I mean, what else s there to do? if you went around soling problems on planets you would be done in like 20 minutes. You could play and hang out with other Qs but you would get bored after a while, especially if you're as old as he is. Plus the Enterprise crew seems like a pretty cool group. I wonder if Q was the reason the Boston Tea Party happened.

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What if replicators were real?  Would they be available in stores? Would hey be able to replicate life?
Would they be heavily monitored so that money didn't get messed up? Would we even need money?
What would we fight over if ownership isn't an issue? 
Who will build the roads? 
What d you fight for Mr Anderson, why do you persist? 
Who you gonna call?
has anyone ever been as far as decided to look more like ?

Thursday, February 9, 2017

Steins;gate - The chinese cartoon about the dangers of time travel

Steins Gate is an anime from japan about a self titled mad scientist, (even wears a lab coat around all the time) who plays god and does all kinds of crazy things by sending texts messages back in time, and then screwing everything up. He meets friends and foes along the way.

Theres like 3 things I could talk about so here they go

1- Why you shouldn't mess with time
Okabe is the mad scientists, who lives in a shoddy little "lab". He lives with his friend who looks like hes straight outta 4chan, his childhood cute girl best friend(Mayuri), and eventually another scientist lady (Christina) who he falls in love with. One day, he accidentally makes a microwave that can send text messages back in time (and eventually sends him back too), gets involved in a CERN conspiracy, and messes with events. Which is bad, because one day his poor friend is killed. So he goes back in time to save her. But wait, he cant. She's destined to die because he went off the timeline or something, and he needs to undo every thing he changed. So he has to watch her die in front of him like 50 times so the lesson can truly be learned. To make sure he doesnt forget, he needs to undo the first time travel text that he didnt even realize he sent, and if he undoes it, it will cause the girl he fell in love with to die.
Dont mess with time.

2-What is love
Baby dont hurt me, no more. In BloodChild, part of the reason it was so 'ugh' to read was the relationship between the alien (I forgot her name) and Gan. You dont know if it was real love. He doesnt know anything, hes grown up in a cage. I dont think he let himself get impregnated for her, he did it for his sister.  Because thats the only connection he really knows about.
Then in Steins, whenever he undid something, the people involved still had very faint traces of memories from the alternate timelines. He falls in love with Christina, but since none of her memories are 'real', does she reciprocate the feelings? Every time he goes back in time, he meets a new version of her thats not really her. Weird.

3- John Titor
Back in the 2000s, some guy in internet forums said that he was from 2036 and had all kinds of crazy preditions, Turns out it was a prank, but in here they actually meet the guy. Turns out its a girl. Anyways, the girl is from a future where CERN took over the world and theres the classic sci fi rebellion, which leads to the question, how much power should we give ourselves? Okabe and his friends gave themselves the power to mess with timelines and they ended up having to undo everything because it was too powerful. CERN  gave itself to do the power of something or other, and then they basically ruined the future for everyone. This whole series has an underlying message of "dont mess with what you shouldn't". Remember in Bloodchld when we went to a different planet and ended up slaves to a species that lays eggs in us

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