The above is from CBC News, showing ten indicators which together confirm global temperatures are rising, and have been increasing year over year for decades.
TV and movies and even official space programs have got some of us thinking that it's only a matter of time before mankind will walk on and perhaps conquer other planets around other stars like our own. In spite of all that entertaining chatter about 'warp speed' and 'hyperdrive' and all that fantasy, the truth is that we're stuck here, like it or not, simply because the distances to other places are too vast, and our technology isn't able to repeal the laws of science with nothing more than wishful thinking. So where am I going with all this? Just to say that instead of dreaming about some mythical 'Star Trek' technology saving our butts from our own stupidity, perhaps we should seriously consider the other possibilities, just in case.
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Certainly you're not suggesting that there is no planet Vulcan!! If that were true, then there would be no Mr. Spock and we all know he's real. I saw him on TV....
ReplyDeleteSpock may be real, but he lives in an alternate universe, where bullshit baffles brains, and they've not yet heard of plastic surgery to fix those ears. If you doubt me, just ask Seven of Nine.
ReplyDeleteDid you ever wonder, what she was? I mean Seven of Nine, I mean nine of what? Were there nine kids in her family?
ReplyDelete@ Tommy -
ReplyDeleteYou can find the whole story here....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_of_Nine
Have fun!
To quote that Wiki article, "At some point after her assimilation, Annika was given the Borg designation 'Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero-One'." Now let's see if we can figure this one out from Merriam-Webster..
ReplyDeleteTertiary:
Date: circa 1550
1 [Medieval Latin tertiarius, from Latin, of a third] : a member of a third order especially of lay people
monastic
I've included this definition just to enhance the meaning of Tertiary
Date: circa 1563
1 : of or relating to monasteries or to monks or nun
Adjunct:
Date: 1588
1 : something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it
Unimatrix:
Note, there no real definition for this, but Wiki kind of defines it as:
Definitions of Unimatrix on the Web:
The Borg are a fictional pseudo-race of cybernetic organisms depicted in the Star Trek universe.
Now, additionally Wiki defines Borg as:
The Borg are a fictional pseudo-race of cybernetic organisms depicted in the Star Trek universe. The Borg consist of assimilated humanoids whose bodies are infested with nano-probes that maintain their health and connection to the hive mind or The Collective The Collective is the group as a whole who operate somewhat like bees with a Queen.
Zero one
Note, Zero one is a programming term:
term used in a special case of integer programming where all the decision variables are integers and can assume values of either zero or one
Now Wiki says that Zero one is:
Pro Wrestling Zero1 (stylized as Pro Wrestling ZERO1), formerly known as Pro Wrestling Zero-One and Pro Wrestling Zero1-Max
So there we have it..let's see if we can make any sense of this..
A little girl, Annika Hansen, at the age of 6 became infested with nano-probes, became a nun and joined a monastery of the third order, which is somehow joined or added to another monastery, but is not a part of it, and they are called the Borg, which is a fictional pseudo-race of cybernetic organisms, which are very good at programming or they wrestle a lot.
I think that certainly clears up the question of what or who Seven of Nine is...
To quote that Wiki article, "At some point after her assimilation, Annika was given the Borg designation 'Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero-One'." Now let's see if we can figure this one out from Merriam-Webster..
ReplyDeleteTertiary:
Date: circa 1550
1 [Medieval Latin tertiarius, from Latin, of a third] : a member of a third order especially of lay people
monastic
I've included this definition just to enhance the meaning of Tertiary
Date: circa 1563
1 : of or relating to monasteries or to monks or nun
Adjunct:
Date: 1588
1 : something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it
Unimatrix:
Note, there no real definition for this, but Wiki kind of defines it as:
Definitions of Unimatrix on the Web:
The Borg are a fictional pseudo-race of cybernetic organisms depicted in the Star Trek universe.
Now, additionally Wiki defines Borg as:
The Borg are a fictional pseudo-race of cybernetic organisms depicted in the Star Trek universe. The Borg consist of assimilated humanoids whose bodies are infested with nano-probes that maintain their health and connection to the hive mind or The Collective The Collective is the group as a whole who operate somewhat like bees with a Queen.
Zero one
Note, Zero one is a programming term:
term used in a special case of integer programming where all the decision variables are integers and can assume values of either zero or one
Now Wiki says that Zero one is:
Pro Wrestling Zero1 (stylized as Pro Wrestling ZERO1), formerly known as Pro Wrestling Zero-One and Pro Wrestling Zero1-Max
So there we have it..let's see if we can make any sense of this..
A little girl, Annika Hansen, at the age of 6 became infested with nano-probes, became a nun and joined a monastery of the third order, which is somehow joined or added to another monastery, but is not a part of it, and they are called the Borg, which is a fictional pseudo-race of cybernetic organisms, which are very good at programming or they wrestle a lot.
I think that certainly clears up the question of what or who Seven of Nine is...
OOPS, sorry Ray, you can simply remove on of those posts...
ReplyDelete@ Tommy -
ReplyDelete"you can simply remove one of those posts..."
I wouldn't dream of it - and spoil all that hard work of yours? You're doing a fine job, even if you do it twice sometimes. Practice makes perfect, they say....
@ Tommy -
ReplyDeleteP.S. -
You forgot the part about how she saved the Star Trek Voyager franchise from a premature death by
attracting all us dedicated viewers
to it for another few seasons.....
..yes this earth is our living room. we ought to keep it clean.
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