ummthatguy@lemmy.worldM to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoWell, it's been 1.7 seconds from our initial hail, so they're clearly refusing to respondlemmy.worldimagemessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1147arrow-down12
arrow-up1145arrow-down1imageWell, it's been 1.7 seconds from our initial hail, so they're clearly refusing to respondlemmy.worldummthatguy@lemmy.worldM to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square26fedilink
minus-squarerenegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 days agoThe fact that every ship from every species in the galaxy can even recognize a hail is a miracle. I can’t even get my friends to use the same messaging app.
minus-squarethemoken@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 day agoI’ve always thought about that. There must be some quirk of how subspace comms work that makes it obvious when someone is aiming a message at you. The real thing that gets me is how do view screens work? That would seem to require a shared format to encode/decode.
minus-squareCrackhappy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoHow about the universal translator just working with never been seen species? Or how communicators are simply magic? https://youtu.be/ChaZ2RWvBWI
The fact that every ship from every species in the galaxy can even recognize a hail is a miracle.
I can’t even get my friends to use the same messaging app.
I’ve always thought about that. There must be some quirk of how subspace comms work that makes it obvious when someone is aiming a message at you.
The real thing that gets me is how do view screens work? That would seem to require a shared format to encode/decode.
How about the universal translator just working with never been seen species? Or how communicators are simply magic? https://youtu.be/ChaZ2RWvBWI