#techno babble

[technowings]

More ds9 posting I guess

Not only do I wish that lwaxana and odo had stayed married, I also wish that the baby changeling had lived.

Lwaxana's son and the changeling child could have grown up together as siblings.

Little baby goop and little baby half betazoid.

(Maybe they would have cleaned out the sacred chalice of rixx for baby goop to sleep in lol)

Little baby goop learning to shape shift and playing with their sibling as different alien species and creatures. Getting upset with lwaxana and turning into a betazoid cat to hiss and sulk. Playing "which one of us is the changeling?"

Also dr.mora is there too, as 'grandpa' with questionable child-rearing methods. And probably the female changeling because you know she always has to get involved in things.

[orbch]

this verse from no good deed from wicked. does this read like at all? i got hit in the head with the c!emduo brick 🤕

[pebblerosegamer]

does anyone else believe in short mechanic hegemol with big mecha robot thing or is it just me in this cold lonely world

[afaimscorner]

[technowings]

Oh wow, those corners are excellent!

And hinges????

I am staring in amazement and artistic appreciation.

Also glancing thoughtfully at my own stash of perler and having thinky thoughts.

(I'm honestly not trying to be a copycat or a creeper or anything, just every time you post a craft i also do it gets me thinking about it again and in different ways, cause idk, maybe I'm just a group crafter or something? Long distance parallel player?)

????

AHEM.

“secret project? Really now…”

[mo-ok]

This star trek shits good man i get what you guys have been on about now

[themaninyourcomputer]

Watching House, guessed the illness 10 minutes in, and spent the remaining half hour YELLING at my phone until they finally put the pieces together. The illness in question was textbook rabies. House and Wilson were too busy making heart eyes at each other to notice the patient spitting out water and hallucinating.

[buckevantommy]

..talk dirty to me fireboy.. 💦🚒

[bumblingbabooshka]

Technobabble. Whatever you say, king.

[technowings]

I feel like "Nor The Battle to The Strong" is a very important Star Trek episode. We see a lot of exploration, a lot of small teams on planets, and of course space battles, but I don't know of any other episodes that show what things are like planetside during battles.

It also shows that starfleet IS military. There are soldiers on the ground fighting and protecting people - and people dying. Not everything is fixed with a hypospray and a dermal regenerator.

It really could be the model for a M*A*S*H style spinoff, but idk how you could do that without just actually *being* M*A*S*H.

Idk I just think about the rumours I heard years ago about a medical based star trek, as well as a police/legal style show and I still think they would be neat.

[technoflare]

i'm so tired, but if i go to bed it'll be tomorrow

[rifleseye]

I THINK THAT'S THE LAST I'LL BE TAKING OF THOSE FOR A WHILE.

[ssjandtechno]

A quick guide to vaccines for scifi writers

(can you tell I've seen too many wildly innacurate bits of fiction this week?)

What is a vaccine for?

A vaccine is a fake disease. Its job is to pretend to be one very specific disease and con your body into fighting it, without risking you getting dangerously unwell. I compare it to fire drills when I'm talking to children. You have fire drills at school/work so that if there's a fire, everyone knows what to do and everyone can be safe. You have vaccines so that, if you ever meet this disease, your body knows what to do, and your body can be safe.

Important: Vaccines prevent. Vaccines very rarely cure. In almost all circumstances, you have to have had the vaccine you come in to contact with the disease, sometimes several weeks before. In a very small number of cases, in diseases with very long incubation periods (the time gap between catching it and getting sick), vaccines can be given in that long time gap and still work. Once you have symptoms, vaccines will not help you.

How long does a vaccine take to work?

It varies. The fastest one I've ever seen boasted 72 hours to onset of immunity, five to fifteen days is more normal

What is a vaccine made of?

Dead disease (killed vaccines), maimed disease (live or attenuated vaccines) fake disease (mRNA vaccines), or part of a disease (subunit vaccines). Dead viruses or bacteria, obviously, can't actually make you ill. But immune systems are suspicious gits, they'll still practice killing dead bugs most of the time. Subunit vaccines also are very safe, but small mutations (variations) in the bugs can stop the vaccines from working. Live vaccines tend to be very, very effective, but might be able to make you sick if your immune system is very weak. I could spend a long time explaining why mRNA vaccines are so, so clever (I thought they were likely to be impossible when I was an undergrad - like teleportation or universal translation software), but here is a nice readable explanation if you're curious.

But the disease in my story is a virus, so antibiotics won't work on it, so I need a vaccine, right?

Okay, yes, but also no. In face of a viral epidemic or pandemic, a vaccine is pretty much your only hope. But, as COVID showed us, vaccines are bespoke, slow to make, and don't work perfectly - vaccinated people still got COVID and, occasionally, still died. But there are a whole lot of other disease on which antibiotics won't work. Fungal infections (like in The Last of Us, or murcomycosis in real life) are scary and we don't have many treatment options for them. In many cases, you have to cut the infected tissue out like it's a tumour. Parasitic disease is a big group of weird and wonderful stuff which (mostly) won't respond to antibiotics. There's some nightmare fuel in parasitic diseases! Malaria is a parasitic disease, toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease (and it rewires your brain a little), lungworms and heartworms are parasites. Some parasites even have the fun catch that, if you kill them quickly/in the wrong way, they release stuff that kills the host anyway. Stargate SG-1 had a go at this concept. And, certainly these days, there are bacterial infections that are almost impossible to cure with antibiotics. Clostridium difficile, Pseudomonas aerogiosa...

Bottom line: Don't use vaccines as a ex machina fix for a disease in scifi. They only work for prevention, and take at least days to work, which is far too slow for most narrative purposes. Gross yourself out reading about unusual parasites or fungal diseases and come up with something more original and more horrifying than a virus.

And vaccinate your kids. And yourself

[marcsalmonds]

Rose is never gonna be a prominent character because Russell can't make her pregnant when he's done

[finex09]

tried to fix my desktop theme but i forgot everything went to shit with this webbed site hold on dont look