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11 points by beltex 12y ago

sp332 12y ago
So Earth-centric! Won't someone think of the post-human Andromeda colonists?
- stronglikedan 12y ago
  > This is not anticipated to pose a problem, as this is considerably longer than the time it would take the Sun to theoretically expand to a red giant and swallow the Earth. That's management speak right there. It's assumptions like this that will surely have future colonial developers cursing their earthbound predecessors.
- BuildTheRobots 12y ago
  CHEKOV: We do believe all planets have a sovereign claim to inalienable human rights. AZETBUR: Inalien... If only you could hear yourselves? 'Human rights.' Why the very name is racist. The Federation is no more than a 'homo sapiens' only club. -Star Trek, Undiscovered Country.
  - mhurron 12y ago
    You know, her anger was bullshit. First off, the word inalienable means: "unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor." Secondly, no shit, Earth came up with the idea of rights for humans well before space travel. So did other planets in the Federation. Checkov basically said, 'these rights we believe we all have, we believe we all have regardless of species.' Had we been talking to a Orion, he would have talked about Orion Rights. But, no, she just wanted to be angry. And thirdly, "The Federation is no more than a 'homo sapiens' only club" is demonstrably false as the Federation was made up of many member races and earth was only one of several founding races.
    - sp332 12y ago
      The leadership of the federation at that time was almost entirely human. And I don't agree about the term "human rights". What if everyone used the term "European rights" even when talking about people on every other continent? It would be very awkward.
      - BuildTheRobots 12y ago
        The obvious comparison that jumps to mind would be the word "mankind" in our (theoretically) post-sexist society.
- maaku 12y ago
  "Considerably longer than the anticipated heat death of the universe." Better?
  - sp332 12y ago
    You're only off by ~87 orders of magnitude. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe#Time_frame_for_heat_death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe#Tim...
    - maaku 12y ago
      that's when the last black hole evaporates due to the hawking radiation. the moment when all usable sources of thermodynamics potential are used up is much earlier.
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gcb0 12y ago
At first i thought that year was the UNIX time stamp...

11 points by beltex 12y ago

sp332 12y ago

So Earth-centric! Won't someone think of the post-human Andromeda colonists?

stronglikedan 12y ago
> This is not anticipated to pose a problem, as this is considerably longer than the time it would take the Sun to theoretically expand to a red giant and swallow the Earth. That's management speak right there. It's assumptions like this that will surely have future colonial developers cursing their earthbound predecessors.
BuildTheRobots 12y ago
CHEKOV: We do believe all planets have a sovereign claim to inalienable human rights. AZETBUR: Inalien... If only you could hear yourselves? 'Human rights.' Why the very name is racist. The Federation is no more than a 'homo sapiens' only club. -Star Trek, Undiscovered Country.
- mhurron 12y ago
  You know, her anger was bullshit. First off, the word inalienable means: "unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor." Secondly, no shit, Earth came up with the idea of rights for humans well before space travel. So did other planets in the Federation. Checkov basically said, 'these rights we believe we all have, we believe we all have regardless of species.' Had we been talking to a Orion, he would have talked about Orion Rights. But, no, she just wanted to be angry. And thirdly, "The Federation is no more than a 'homo sapiens' only club" is demonstrably false as the Federation was made up of many member races and earth was only one of several founding races.
  - sp332 12y ago
    The leadership of the federation at that time was almost entirely human. And I don't agree about the term "human rights". What if everyone used the term "European rights" even when talking about people on every other continent? It would be very awkward.
    - BuildTheRobots 12y ago
      The obvious comparison that jumps to mind would be the word "mankind" in our (theoretically) post-sexist society.
maaku 12y ago
"Considerably longer than the anticipated heat death of the universe." Better?
- sp332 12y ago
  You're only off by ~87 orders of magnitude. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe#Time_frame_for_heat_death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe#Tim...
  - maaku 12y ago
    that's when the last black hole evaporates due to the hawking radiation. the moment when all usable sources of thermodynamics potential are used up is much earlier.

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gcb0 12y ago

At first i thought that year was the UNIX time stamp...