Comment by 👻 darkghost
I think the lasers in space was inspired by the tracer rounds used from the guns in WWII. But why the VISIBLE laser weapons and glowing orbs aren't steered has always been a personal pet peeve of mine.
I'm at the episode in DS9 where the cast is sent back in time to the year 2024 and the computers in use are hilarious. Touch screen CRTs that need a wireless light pen for some reason, no keyboard and instead pointless random objects glued in their place including what looks an awful lot like a white Radioshack Slimline Push Button landline telephone as viewed from above. The UI has a kind of low resolution 16 color aesthetic that one might program in QBasic to have a "Graphical Environment."
2025-11-23 · 5 months ago
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🗡️ The_Jackal · Dec 25 at 01:53:
For the depressurization thing it could just be that there's always some catastrophic failure and whatever gravity stabilizer device they're using breaks too.
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Bad Space Science... — I know it's supposed to be fiction but a few things completely break my viewing pleasure. I'm not a scientist but it's pretty obvious what an explosion in space looks like. things fly apart in straight lines. If there is oxidizer around there will be an explosion -- a flash but no bang please. None of those weird shock waves. No billowing clouds. Just crap flying in different directions from the center after a flash. Obviously you don't get thrown, unless something...