#Technobabble

[andyoullhearitagain]

[quijicroix]

Sorry not to be a camera nerd but in IWTV S2 ep2, 3 and 4 Louis in Paris having a Rolleiflex and a Leica specifically for Armand is so significant to me!!! Two cameras used at the same point in time but not by the same people.

First the Rolleiflex.

For the the Rolleiflex to work- you have to take a lil bow before your subject. This is because the viewing mirror is on top of the camera's body, so to see what the lens sees you have to incline. A lot a photographers said utilising this camera is also showing humility in front of the subject specially in street style photography (Robert Doisneau said that the Rolleiflex is like gathering images and the Leica like hunting for them, he also was convinced that the Rolleiflex was an "ethic of life and art" not betraying the subject you are trying to capture). You have to take your time and bow before them. (showing also the fact that louis struggles with not admiring humans )

Now the Leica

The Leica on the other hand put you on the same level as the model. The mirror is in a more traditional position at eye level. And is more favoured for fleeting subject, at least one street photographer as describe the Leica's style of photo as "hunting" for faces capturing the moment ( i think it's Janine Niépce or Henri Cartier-Bresson but don't quote me on this). It's really interesting that he photographs Armand with it , capture the fleeting aspect of his nature ,he is being hunted or they are hunting together ,and they are equals in Louis's eyes.

The style of photo he is taking in ep 4 is called "Humanist photography".

The mouvement in France was criticised for being a postcard image of paris, cliché, naïve and not political enough. And giving a romantic image of Paris after the tragédie of the WW2. It focuses mainly on people, often doing daily mondain activities, Humanist photography really liked cafés and bars. The paradox was despite the cliché exterior a lot of pictures were of working class people (we can see that in the pics he gives to Daniel in ep 2, louis has a very similar choice of subject mater and view of the world, taking portraits of his working class lovers and of Parisians in restaurants). The goal was to heal post war Paris and to show a new beginning. (echoing louis owns personal struggles of finding his new self and a new lover in paris, but also the rose tinted glasses he has on this time has a tourist)

Also in post war paris this is sososos significant in the history of photographie hahhahha my nerd heart is dying....

[this-hazbin-quoted]

Vox: Velvet, we haven't spent a day apart since we started working together. How will I manage without you?

Velvet: Very poorly.

[whirligig-girl]

Mellanoids will always prefer a fluidic version of a technology over a solid one

So Mellanoids mainly use (micro-)fluidic processors Im presuming?

And has Guz thought about how you could use a ship's plasma stream to also function as (some of?) the computer? V:

Guz here. Mellanoid computing architecture is based around electro-optical systems, which I don't understand real well. I learned to program using those systems, but only abstractly; most of my current programming knowledge comes from Starfleet Academy and FTL Isolinear processing is completely and utterly different. The only similarity is that most powerful computers take up entire rooms or decks, and most interfaces are comparatively simple terminals. Most Mellanoid computers are owned by libraries and large institutions, but they're powerful enough that many many individual programs can be run, so you effectively have a bunch of personal computers on a network.

Guz isn't a computer girlie, so she doesn't know about the state of the art Mellanoid computers, which are indeed fluidic, but in a totally different way: believe it or not, Mellanoid Slimes invented the Bio-Neural Gel Packs used on the Intrepid-class and Sovereign-class starships. They were highly experimental in the 2360s, when the Federation made contact, but the techniques were refined by mellanoids and other researchers abroad. Federate takes on the architecture were more successful than Mellanoid ones--the Federation just has a much larger and more advanced scientific institution than Mellanus--but native Mellanoid bio-neural gel computers are starting to appear in certain niche industrial uses, and will probably replace electro-optical computers on UMSP spacecrafts before long.

Oh right, the plasma thing. So. Oh uh it's Guz again. Theoretically it would be possible to use EPS conduits to create logic circuits, in fact there are a few very simple logic circuits used in the main controls for most of the high power systems on the ship, but they can't be used for full-blown computing because the logic gates have to be too big. Like, we're talking bigger than vacuum tubes and tri-squish bulbs. So I dunno you might have to elaborate on that?

[captain-starskull]

Computer mice don’t have tails anymore. We shouldn’t call them mice we should call them hamsters.

[thetriggereffect]

Nothing About the Stargate Is Intelligent

Don't get me wrong, I love all three Stargate shows, and I regard them as some of the best science fiction on television.

But the Stargate itself is a mass of technobabble whose operation is not just ridiculous, but impossible. And I don't mean technically, I mean logistically.

A standard Milky Way Stargate has 39 glyphs. Each glyph represents a constellation. A standard Stargate address involves seven of these glyphs-- six of them identify the location in three dimensional space, and the seventh is the point of origin.

This is several entirely distinct flavors of stupid.

Constellations are not points. One of the stars in Orion's belt, for example, is more than a thousand light years from either of the others.

Even if this weren't the case, the Stargates are millions of years old. Stellar drift has changed the constellations in the ~10,000 years that mankind has been aware of them.

You only need three points to identify a location in three dimensional space. Requiring a second position for each axis does nothing except for drastically limit the locations that can be addressed.

If every address requires the same seventh symbol at a given gate, there's no reason not to make the gate automatically supply it.

If you can identify the point of origin with a single glyph, why can't you identify the destination with one? (There is actually a bit in the original movie where Daniel tells the natives, "we're from here" and shows the symbol that corresponds to earth and they get it.)

Also, if the point of origin is one symbol.... there can be a maximum of 39 total gates. There is no such limit in the shows.

Of course, there is also the magic eight-symbol address that somehow, despite being made up of coordinates in the milky way galaxy, points to the Pegasus Galaxy. Or the nine-symbol address that can only be dialed from one gate (that apparently isn't even in the right place, affecting its ability to dial), which points to Destiny, which doesn't even have a fixed location.

And while we're on the subject of Destiny, how does THAT gate work? If the glyphs on a gate are constellations, how does that work on a ship that moves between galaxies?

How does dialing even work? The whole spinny thing is just our gate, because we don't have a DHD, but, like... why does spinning it even work? And how is it that, by the end of the show, we've developed the technology to build our own gates, but we're still dialing the main gate with the equivalent of a hotwire?

That's not even getting into the physics of the "wormhole" itself, or, rather, the lack thereof.

An incoming wormhole spits out a vortex that, in a violation of all known laws of physics, completely destroys everything it comes into contact with.

Unless it's the iris, which is just really close to the event horizon.

Or you just bury it, but that seems to have only worked the once.

The iris that we built, because the ancients who created them didn't seem to think anyone would need to be able to lock the goddamn door (until they got to the Pegasus Galaxy).

The iris that nonetheless seems to be completely integrated into the gate so seamlessly that you can't see the mechanism or where the parts go when not in use.

Wormhole travel is one-way. Except, of course, for radio waves.

It is an explicit plot point in several episodes that an object passing through a stargate is de-materialized as it passes through the event horizon, and is not re-materialized until (and unless) the entire object passes through.

Which begs the question-- how can you step through? Once your front foot is through the horizon, it can't bear weight. How is your back foot lifted up?

[technogryph]

Ref for my ponysona!

[quarks-pussy]

Idec anymore, I'll say it. I like technobabble. Adore it actually! It sets the atmosphere well and I like when they try to have it make internal sense and I can see the worldbuilding. Maybe I'm just a professional tech nerd but I truly, genuinely enjoy technobabble and in fact I think most franchises could use a little more of it. Fight me

[essence-inked]

I love reading scientific papers, because sometimes a set of words will seem like wacky sci-fi technobabble, except they're actually real, and I get to learn about them!

Also, this is the bit of the atmospheric science paper that inspired this:

[firwyn]

I made a techno plush but he’s about 4 times smaller than I thought he was going to be

Also his head is heavier so when he slipped from my hand this is how he landed

Edit : he's not done yet, need to make his cape and crown !

edit #2 for the techno fans reblogging and loving on the little guy, this one is "Pocket Techie" and i will make bigger ones until i manage to find the perfect size so stay tuned (if you want)

[trashmammal-7]

Voyager has so much technobabble. Like, insane amounts of technobabble. I'm only on episode 4 and so far I have not been able to understand the logistics of anything because of the sheer amount of technobabble, but I'm just along for the ride.

[theredcuyo]

Made some draws 'bout last night's stream (i'm in class, haven't finished the Vod)

[idol--hands]

Captain Data: “I am experiencing overwhelming stress.”

Idol ⭐️ Hands: note, I believe Data is modeling himself after Captain Sisko’s style of leadership here — as earlier, Sisko, laughed at Commander Data’s suggestion to consult Starfleet’s admirals before heading into a potentially fabric-of-reality-altering situation. As text is smaller below (a two-page spread), I’ve transcribed the dialog.

Acting Captain Data: Ensign Sato, broadcast Starfleet evacuation codes to all affected planets with my over-ride authorization.

Ensign Sato (the Andorian): Yes, sir.

Acting Captain Data: Additionally, broadcast the sub space frequencies of all nearby Starfleet vessels so they can be coordinated with directly.

Ensign Sato: Help is on the way!

Acting Captain Data: Lieutenant Descheeni, reassign all personnel from sciences and research to communications and telemetry. Transfer display protocols rather than physically relocating staff.

Lt. Descheeni: Clever, Captain.

Acting Captain Data: Simply necessary, Lieutenant. They will assist in efforts by Ensign Sato to coordinate evacuating in local language and custom as well as aid Ensign T’lr’s upcoming calculations.

Ensign T’lr (the Vulcan): Speaking of which, sir. I have a trajectory that might allow us to alter the course of the creature slightly by affecting their warp field stability, like a gentle nudge.

It will not change where they are going, but it should affect less inhabited systems.

Acting Captain Data: That is acceptable. Execute. And, Mr. Paris?

Lt. Paris: Don’t gotta tell me what to do, Captain. I’m the first human to ever achieve trans warp flight. I can handle the turbulence. The problem is going to be keeping up.

I can feel the engines, Commander. They’re not up to this.

Acting Captain Data: Mr. Scott, to address this, please activate the the Theseus’ classified propulsion system.

Chief Engineer Scott: I dinnae know what you’re talking ab—

Acting Captain Data: I looked over your design as soon as I was assigned, sir. It is incumbent on a first officer to know everything about his ship.

And while such a classified marker would no doubt deter most, my best friend is a decorated warp drive engineer. And so I was able to infer the use of the redacted capsules near each of the Theseus’ warp nacelles.

I was also able to infer that they were classified because they were, in fact, not yet working.

Chief Engineer Scott: Aye. Torres tried to get it working for months, but the containment frequencies never held.

Lt. Paris: Wait, B’elanna Torres? Like, my wife, B’elanna Torres? This was her little ‘side project’?

Chief Engineer Scott (on speaker): Aye, laddie. She said if you behaved, she’d let ye design the Bridge canopy.

Acting Captain Data: I have just relayed to you containment frequencies that I believe will solve the problem.

Chief Engineer Scott: It...it works. My God...

Acting Captain Data: No, Mr. Scott. Simply an android. Now, if you would be so kind, please take the vessel to transwarp.

Chief Engineer Scott: Way ahead of ye, Captain. But one little correction...like I always said, transwarp’s nothing but a dead end.

We call this little beauty...proto-warp!

Acting Captain Data: “I am experiencing pride.”

[whirligig-girl]

How did Mellanus invent warp technology?

Was it an independent inventor like Zefram Cochrane? Or was it a government project?

Eaurp Guz here. So, In the 2330s, our species made first contact with the Zaldans, who had a military station on the surface of and orbit around Oldsky, the other habitable planet in our Zwo-Nmu system (Omen's biggest moon, in fact.)

Zaldans only actually visited Mellanus a handful of times iirc, but they brought knowledge of faster than light travel. We had an understanding of Syernit's Theory of Heavy Masses [Ed note: an incomplete piece of General Relativity, itself an incomplete piece of Subspace Field Theory], but it was not able to explain Zaldan spaceflight. Before the Zaldans had left in the late 2330s or 2340 or so, we had a pretty good understanding of Subspace Field Mechanics on paper, and tested against astronomical observations of Zaldan spaceflight and subspace radio astronomy. (Thanks to a Zaldan Military Officer who left behind a communicator watch)

But this is equivalent to, to put it into Earth terms, Alcubierre's metric. Actually inventing the Cochrane drive was a completely different beast for humans, and the Zaldans were tight lipped enough that we just had no clue at all how to actually build one.

The Omen apparition after the Zaldans left was focused on designing missions to explore Oldsky. This was before Economic Standardisation and the formation of United Mellanus, mind, so this was a real space race. (No, not like the one-sided space race of Terran history.) Who could recover what technology, who could understand how disruptors and subspace and warp drive all worked first.

Using artifacts recovered, several different nations tried to build warp drive prototypes. Most failed. The coolest was probably the Arrowhead Initiative's warp ship, which had the reactor and nacelles built into the payload bay of a two-stage spaceplane. It flew twice, but only on test missions with dummy warp drives. First test was low orbital, second test docked to a transfer stage to test how it would handle reentry from escape velocity, as a potential abort scenario in case the warp drive could not be reactivated.

The Economic Standardisation revolution ended up putting a pin in all of that for a bit.

And so the first successful warp drive was a joint project of United Mellanus Space Program. Which, by the way, fun fact, actually predated United Mellanus itself by several years! We unified our space program before we unified as a planet, which is kinda funny and backwards.

Shortly after the flight of the first crewed warp flight--made from a space station module docked to an NTR, a bunch of capacitors radiators, and a warp drive that could do brief bursts of warp-1, the United Federation of Planets arrived. I was one or two years old when that happened, so I don't remember it personally.

This isn't that different from Earth's spaceflight history. In the 2030s, multiple human nations had launched uncrewed warp drive prototypes, and one of them reportedly even managed to break warp 1, and all sorts of private agencies were sticking sublight warp rings and fusion-impulse drives on old interplanetary rockets to try and make interstellar rockets. But the last of the Eugenics Wars put those projects on hold.

I think terrans tend to exaggerate the importance of individual 'great people.' While it's undeniable that the circumstances of Cochrane's flight were pivotal to the formation of the Federation, humans would have invented warp drive sooner or later without him. (And hey, what about all the other physicists who came up with the theoretical background for it! The many thousands of people in those space programs that made the warp prototypes happen. What about Lily Mucking Sloan! She's the one who did most of the systems engineering on the Phoenix!)

I think that's why we call two nacelles and a cubic factor/speed relationship a "Cochrane drive." Even though most other spacefaring aliens will independently invent essentially the same metric and engine design.

Anyway, mellanoids don't tend to think this way, so we can't really point to a single slime who 'invented' the pulsed warp drive.

And, don't let the UMSP hear me say this, but it's not even completely clear whether we truly invented warp drive. I mean, yes, there are key differences in both the theoretical metric and the physical engineering between mellanoid pulsed warp nacelles and Zaldan warp drive, but like. We got the idea from them. Does make me wonder what we would have figured out, maybe 50 or a hundred years later, if Zaldans never colonized Oldsky. There's only a handful of common 'baby civilization's first warp drive' modalities, but we do lots of stuff weird. We do warp drive weird. Could we have discovered something completely new? Oh well. We'll never know.

[magmythedevil]

Technoblade and Liam vickers similarities

I made this post bc technoblade was a hugeeee hyperfixation of Mine, so comparing him to my actual favorite creator at the moment brings me a lot of joy so this is extremely self indulgent lmfao

Deep Voice (?) Liam's is less deep so im not sure

Both are very inactive, and Just post content when they feel like it

Both have a niche community of very dedicated fans that have been around since the start of they careers

But both got more popular after they joined a group ring of other popular creators

Similiar speech manerisms and patterns

White nerd boys in glasses /endering

Big sense of humor that not everyone understands

Both don't use the popular social medias like the other content creators use all that much, they prefer Discord

Very reserved about personal informations. Making them the most mysterious content creators out of the other ones

Dont really care about clout.

Have been on YouTube since 2013/2014

Both got almost cancelled by twitter stan accounts of the big popular thing theyre being part of spreading out of context stuff ( techonables case was worse )

Both had a anime phase as teenegers

Dont show they face that much

Both got more recognized by a personal project of them that went viral (potato war and Cliffside)

Maybe i Will ad more

Technoblade was a Minecraft content creator that was loved by a lot of people. He was known for his Very smart Gameplays strategies. he died june 2022 at the very young age of 23 as a victim of cancer, rest in peace </3

[yianny4green2]

JuneTBlade2024 The TechnoBlade's Month . Day 29. Laughter and Courage / Risas y Coraje

I Need them to laught and feel brave.