Musings and Thoughts

[Dartskipper]

So when the cooks served breakfast it was a day, or possibly a year, too late?

[Malcolm G]

Way to go….

[BobClay]

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
Groucho Marx ... Master Philosopher ...

[Malcolm G]

One for the Ship’s plumbers and sci fi geeks
Where does this pipe go….?

[BobClay]

The N435 Groundwire. This helps the Di-lithium crystal maintain its phase reference to Ground (you can't say Earth because that's light years away.)

Without this wire the Di-Lithium crystal would deteriorate, (a small sugar lump sized device that keeps the entire star ship going, yet mysteriously isn't backed up by a spare, for which Capt Kirk was once heard to say: "Mr Spock, please escort Scottie down the working alleyway to number 42 airlock and space the f*****.")

Such are the vagaries of space travel.

[Sparkie2182]

"mysteriously isn't backed up by a spare"

Hope they don't get a survey.

[Varley]

The star ship design is constrained by a minimum size. It would be possible to build them to doiuble the critical size but not smaller.

This is because di-lithium crystal structure can become destabilised by interaction at a quantum level between the di-lobed lithium atoms that make up one crystal with that of another. All the atoms allowed to form a propulsion grade lattice are 'selected' (by non-detangling spin spectrometer) to be in the same quantum state. That state cannot be influenced, only measured and stored in isoquantum corals from which a crystal can then be synthesised.

This also explains why collisions of Warpspeed enabled spacecraft are more likely to result in complete stranding as the risk or mutual interaction between the two crystals involved becomes more likely. There is an ongoing subatomic research effort into effective shielding to guard against the interaction and so allow for 100% redundant propulsion plant.

It is conjectured by the SAIB that many of the boarding beam fatalities are caused by accidental disentanglement of of hearing aid and pacemaker power packs as the wearers encounter the active filter found at both ends of a transporter conversation link. The wave that is the transportee in transit has any harmonics in the same quantatrope as the destination propulsion plant crystal removed and so remains in the receiving transporter's spam box as having failed the parity checks.

The major cause of grounding remains poor ECDIS training and practises. The major cause of earthing is the same officers carelessly washing down thus ignoring Varley's first law of electricity at sea. There is no such thing as Deck-Watertight.

[Makko]

Wh-i isn't everything W-i F-i?
Dave

[Engine Serang]

I thought Lithium was a type of grease to help roller bearings roll and ball bearings ball. In my boilersuited innocence I was unaware that di-lithium crystal structure can become destabilised by interaction at a quantum level between the di-lobed lithium atoms that make up one crystal with that of another. Thats why the crane jibs seized.

[Makko]

It works great on my bike. I also put it on the door hinges to stop the squeaking - Bluddy house was like the Addams mansion prior!
Rgds.
Dave

[Malcolm G]

Meanwhile, no one has answered the question in #454

[Malcolm G]

Originally Posted by Makko

Wh-i isn't everything W-i F-i?
Dave

Now there's another bit of trivia - What does 'Wi-Fi' stand for ?
It turns out that it is not an acronym or anything like that, but it is effectively a branding name as a roll off the tongue description of Wireless Ethernet standard.
Read all about it here;

https://boingboing.net/2005/11/08/wi...short-for.html

[Sparkie2182]

"Meanwhile, no one has answered the question in #454"

Thats my line!!!!

[Malcolm G]

Ah, I wondered whether you were paying attention.

[Sparkie2182]

Ohhhh....

I often wonder that!!!!!

Teddy Boy.

[Malcolm G]

Going to have to something about that Avatar.

The actual 'teddy' is 10cm tall, sits on top of my printer and I use it to test digital cameras after cleaning, repairs, etc.

[Sparkie2182]

Your never short of cotton balls i suppose.

[Malcolm G]

Now that would be cruelty to teddy bears.

more trivia - From Dodie Smith's play Dear Octopus:
Why is the teddy bear called 'Gladly'?
Because of its eyes.
It's eyes?
Yes they are crossed, so it is Gladly my cross eyed bear.

[Malcolm G]

The GNDN protocol, vaguely linked to the Wi-Fi protocol but much older.
I first came across it in the 1960s while working on a UKAEA site.
I have used it myself and it can be quite effective.
The protocol can be applied to both pipework and electrical wiring installations.
Gene Roddenberry was obviously acquainted with it and used the terminology on Star Trek sets.

Anybody guess how it works?

[Dartskipper]

I thought GNDN was an acronym entered on the form completed when an employee has finished an appraisal exercise with management.

"Gets Nothing Done, Normally."

[Malcolm G]

Close Roy.
In the context I am using it stands for;
‘Goes Nowhere Does Nothing’

[BobClay]

I beg to differ. My answer addressed the question. None of this 'spooky action at a distance' quantum nonsense which as Richard Feynman pointed out nobody understands anyway.
Stick with Uncle Albert's classical physics and your bearings will run straight and quiet and all will be well ..... (unless you encounter a black hole, then all bets are off.)

[Dave McGouldrick]

How does the di-lithium crystal system work?

Very well thank you.................

[Dartskipper]

Di Lithium. Wasn't she a backing singer in the Crystals?

Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron.

[Malcolm G]

How Hollywood portrays people,
And what they really looked like.