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Message 1921279 - Posted: 26 Feb 2018, 6:09:43 UTC - in response to Message 1921187.  

It's Delicious -- Uff Da!!! Just hold your nose and it goes down like nothing at all.....
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Message 1921429 - Posted: 26 Feb 2018, 21:30:45 UTC

I just caught the Star Trek writers in an error. I will be the first to admit it's a truly trivial error, but since Trek fans are known to be highly geeky about such details the writers (who are pretty geeky themselves) are usually more careful.

1: In DS9: Doctor Bashir, I Presume?, Dr. Lewis Zimmerman (creator of and model for the EMH Mark I) comes to the station to use Bashir as the model for the EMH Mark II. Air date Feb. 24, 1997.

2: In VOY: Life Line, Voyager's EMH is transmitted back to Jupiter Station (Zimmerman's home and lab) to treat his mysterious disease. Zimmerman says he hasn't left Jupiter Station in over four years. Air date May 10, 2000.

No stardate is given in the VOY episode, and probably not in the DS9 either, but one TV season is generally considered to be one year of internal time. The first season of TNG is 2363 and the last season of VOY is 2376, a continuous run of 14 seasons and 14 internal years (with DS9 overlapping both). Therefore, the three years between the air dates would approximately equal three years of internal time. Either Zimmerman lied (no reason why he should) or the writers screwed up.
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Message 1921496 - Posted: 27 Feb 2018, 2:43:17 UTC

The writers never screw up. Voyager must have encountered a graviton disruption, a distortion in the space-time continuum. Chakotay ordered the shields be raised but the ship is hit, knocking out the helm and trapping Voyager. Captain Braxton of the timeship Aeon loses control forcing Voyager into an alternative time where Paris meets Rain Robinson from Griffth Observatory. She has nothing to do with anything but I think she is hot anyway. So once Henry Starling is discovered the problem is solved.
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Message 1921507 - Posted: 27 Feb 2018, 3:22:37 UTC
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Star Trek writers never screw up.
I have seen one interviewed how they solved the problem to beam a person to an other place.
The problem is that you have to disassemble the person atom by atom, beam it up and later reassemble the atoms.
The Heisenberg's uncertainty principle however says that you cannot reassemble the atoms in the same state as they were before because they are not known by certain from the beginning.
So what to do. Make a Heisenberg Compensator of course:)
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Message 1921514 - Posted: 27 Feb 2018, 5:15:04 UTC

I agree with all above..

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Message 1921530 - Posted: 27 Feb 2018, 8:27:25 UTC
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This is the last thing that you'd expect to come across while getting your child ready for school.

Mother finds eastern brown snake while packing child's lunch in Adelaide Hills.

Where do these idiots come from?

Turkey's Erdogan criticised for telling tearful young girl dressed as soldier she would ‘die a martyr’.

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Message 1921538 - Posted: 27 Feb 2018, 9:40:54 UTC

Yeah spot the difference!!
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Message 1921751 - Posted: 28 Feb 2018, 22:03:22 UTC

What's it mean when there's no fortune in your fortune cookie?
The mind is a weird and mysterious place
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Message 1921763 - Posted: 28 Feb 2018, 22:48:09 UTC - in response to Message 1921751.  

What's it mean when there's no fortune in your fortune cookie?

Don't know.

What about when there is just air in the plastic wrapper with no cookie. Have found a couple of those.

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Message 1921782 - Posted: 28 Feb 2018, 23:59:00 UTC - in response to Message 1921763.  

No cookie? Never had that happen before!

What used to get me was when a bag of chips got hung up in the vending machine. Seinfeld did an episode about that.
The mind is a weird and mysterious place
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Message 1921809 - Posted: 1 Mar 2018, 3:24:13 UTC - in response to Message 1921751.  

What's it mean when there's no fortune in your fortune cookie?

You are S.O.L. = Your luck has run out and so has your fortune (money). Don't go near any mirrors.
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Message 1921819 - Posted: 1 Mar 2018, 4:27:24 UTC - in response to Message 1921507.  

Star Trek writers never screw up.
I have seen one interviewed how they solved the problem to beam a person to an other place.
The problem is that you have to disassemble the person atom by atom, beam it up and later reassemble the atoms.
The Heisenberg's uncertainty principle however says that you cannot reassemble the atoms in the same state as they were before because they are not known by certain from the beginning.
So what to do. Make a Heisenberg Compensator of course:)

I have been thinking further on this.
Why the need to beam atoms of a person or actually the particles that atoms consists of from one place to another.
You only need to store the information of the particles and their states in a computer and then send that to an other computer and then later reassemble the person from particles already at location.
But, wait a minute. Will the result be the same person now completly rebuilt of particles from a different origin?
Mindgobbling...
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Message 1921847 - Posted: 1 Mar 2018, 6:59:04 UTC - in response to Message 1921819.  

Star Trek writers never screw up.
I have seen one interviewed how they solved the problem to beam a person to an other place.
The problem is that you have to disassemble the person atom by atom, beam it up and later reassemble the atoms.
The Heisenberg's uncertainty principle however says that you cannot reassemble the atoms in the same state as they were before because they are not known by certain from the beginning.
So what to do. Make a Heisenberg Compensator of course:)

I have been thinking further on this.
Why the need to beam atoms of a person or actually the particles that atoms consists of from one place to another.
You only need to store the information of the particles and their states in a computer and then send that to an other computer and then later reassemble the person from particles already at location.
But, wait a minute. Will the result be the same person now completly rebuilt of particles from a different origin?
Mindgobbling...

If you use different atoms and compounds at the distant end.
What do you do with the original?

Couldn't that be murder?
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Message 1921881 - Posted: 1 Mar 2018, 12:06:39 UTC
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It's worse than that. The "transporter trace" is of the person at that time when the transport took place. So if it was made in the past. Then the person will be from then. But what if there is no computer where you want to sent a person?

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Message 1921883 - Posted: 1 Mar 2018, 12:19:27 UTC

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Message 1921901 - Posted: 1 Mar 2018, 15:03:52 UTC

Gives new meaning to the word backup. I typically keep 3 backups in different locations. I would want a backup in Fiji, Risa, and ?
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Message 1921906 - Posted: 1 Mar 2018, 15:14:49 UTC - in response to Message 1921901.  

Gives new meaning to the word backup. I typically keep 3 backups in different locations. I would want a backup in Fiji, Risa, and ?

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Message 1921912 - Posted: 1 Mar 2018, 15:28:49 UTC - in response to Message 1921901.  

Gives new meaning to the word backup. I typically keep 3 backups in different locations. I would want a backup in Fiji, Risa, and ?
Your new ICommode? :-)
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Message 1921914 - Posted: 1 Mar 2018, 16:14:52 UTC - in response to Message 1921847.  
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Star Trek writers never screw up.
I have seen one interviewed how they solved the problem to beam a person to an other place.
The problem is that you have to disassemble the person atom by atom, beam it up and later reassemble the atoms.
The Heisenberg's uncertainty principle however says that you cannot reassemble the atoms in the same state as they were before because they are not known by certain from the beginning.
So what to do. Make a Heisenberg Compensator of course:)

I have been thinking further on this.
Why the need to beam atoms of a person or actually the particles that atoms consists of from one place to another.
You only need to store the information of the particles and their states in a computer and then send that to an other computer and then later reassemble the person from particles already at location.
But, wait a minute. Will the result be the same person now completly rebuilt of particles from a different origin?
Mindgobbling...

If you use different atoms and compounds at the distant end.
What do you do with the original?
Couldn't that be murder?

The original? That's a backup just in case.
Murder? Yes but also resurrection on your destination.
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Message 1921916 - Posted: 1 Mar 2018, 16:23:47 UTC - in response to Message 1921881.  
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But what if there is no computer where you want to sent a person?

Hmm.
But it isn't that the same problem that the Star Trek Beaming Device have to deal with?
Where is the The Reassembling A Person From A Very Far Distance Device at the destination?
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