

Does it matter if it is weird? Everyone is weird in some way.
There’s no weirdness warden who will whack you into gaol for being weird.
Does it matter if it is weird? Everyone is weird in some way.
There’s no weirdness warden who will whack you into gaol for being weird.
Maybe if you gave him a wet food diet, like a cat or something.
Eventually we’ll hit it with phones, and then it’s just a matter of time till a solid “base” with swapable components come out. There’s been a couple already, but they still require a sacrifice of size or speed/power.
I’d honestly argue that we’ve more or less hit it already, since a lot of phones over the past few years haven’t really changed from the template of being a black glass rectangle with some buttons on it.
What happened?
for being violet
But what if it was chartreuse?
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is also an alternative to save and quit.
Equally valid for the facial expression you’d make upon finding that out.
No. Because any advanced civilisation capable of sending a colony ship across light-years to another planet is already so far outside of our current technological ability that it matters precious little.
We would be easy to colonise either way. Doubly so if they have some form of FTL technology to make that trip in reasonable time.
But there’s also an argument that anyone who can do so would have a much easier time not dealing with all of that and just colonising an uninhabited planet, or outright using materials to make a thing to colonise instead.
Depending on how they do it, not having to deal with hydrogen infrastructure might be nice, if they keep along with the plan to use refillable cartridges. Hydrogen is a bit more fiddly.
Although this seems much more reliant on humidity compared to a hydrogen fuel cell, which seems like a huge hole if the thing just won’t work if it’s a dry day/environment.
Plus the computer can figure out who is using it, and lock them out as necessary. “Hero Worship” has Data point out to a child that he couldn’t have blown up a starship by leaning on the console, because it can detect that, and not register the controls. And we know that there are ship functions that are keyed behind an authentication code, like the self-destruct system.
But he probably doesn’t need to explain that to Ralph, since it’d not be that relevant. What’d be more important in that moment to get him to stop causing trouble.
Can you? The only people who we’ve seen use that feature are people who would be the authority to do so anyway, like the Captain/First officer.
It’s also much easier to implement.
With consent, of course.