How the fuck do you think most of our rovers and deeper space satellites are powered?

Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators that use thermal energy given off by radioactive decay. We’ve literally been sending into space since the before Apollo program. Every Apollo landing, deep-space probe, and Mars rover has had one…

was about to say exactly this.

It wouldn’t be the first time, and we semi-regularly launch missions with plenty of highly enriched plutonium onboard in the form of RTGs. While it’s not as pure as this would be, an accident wouldn’t be a nothingburger.

I appreciate it just because Star Trek makes its humanoid species able to interbreed. That shouldn’t be possible if they evolved separately.

I’m just going to address the map, and why things are by state lines.

Those icons look nothing alike. They just both have “P” in them.

Good god, I hope not. It’s hard to imagine a more boring season of tv than what you just described. No offense.

Wow, TIL that superhero anatomy has horrible resolution.

I think everyone else already clarified this but I just want to add mine:

What? Not everybody needs that. Just don’t watch. Go watch a Marvel movie.

You realize not everyone plays videogames, right?

Just because you don’t care for her manner, that doesn’t mean that she doesn’t have anything useful to say

“Star Trek: Into the Delta Quadrant

I think the big mistake that everone makes is assuming that intelligence is the end goal of evolution. It isn’t. Intelligence just lets a species cheat the system. Its also a lot of random chance in both evolution and the star system of a species that even gives it a chance at “intelligence”. Even when intelligence is…

if life is common, then intelligent life must be nearly as common [...] more than enough time for us to be swimming in species capable of at least Kardashev Type 2 technology

- now I’m curious WTF happened.

That’s a fair point. Don West was the older person in the situation, so I shouldn’t put as much on her shoulders. Thank you for this POV.

Judy is still a teenage girl with no real experience making that kind of life-or-death decision. It’s one thing to let someone die in a simulation “for the good of the mission” but quite another when it’s a real person you know and like that you have to sacrifice. It was a poor decision and I’m glad the show punished…

Thing I did: Giggle at the referenced tweet when I initially saw it on twitter.