Here's a "pinned tweet" thread because I want to pin more than one.

Once you understand how helicopters work. And the cleverness of the swashplate. And how steering linkages elegantly compensate for gyroscopic precession. And how the rotors will autorotate in an emergency. You never want to get into one of those flying bolt buckets again.

Simple manual sliding pressure doors that react to pressure differentials. Can release them with a pressure release button if you're stuck behind one.

Look at the size of this thing. Of all of the spaceships I've been working on, my favorite design is the Massive Container Transport.

Is it just me or does this carpet scream Borg???

This is notable alongside the argument that they're movies for children.

"... and that bastard won't do it!" - the envious

The unfortunate thing about Star Trek is that the timeline tended to compress over the years so largely skipped all of this sort of tech.

Wild

Good lord, would it have killed them to spray-paint some arrows? I see about three splits where I would've gone the wrong way.

RT @polypocketknife: i hate what we’ve done to nerdiness. the average nerd isn’t even smart now they just like slop. they watch long youtub…

Nope . . . there's a very ungraceful failure mode.

It’s been over 25 years and I’m still not over Pvt. Jackson not making it out of the bell tower. 😭

"... to destroy an entire system." Just saving this for the curious planet/system thing in Star Wars.

All of us running QRF for Freddy if he wanders too far off Bourbon Street

Somewhere between awe-inspiring and slightly intimidating. ⛈️✈️

This is a similar point to various claims about Trek politics. Just because one's story is inspired by a thing doesn't mean that's the tale that gets retold.

Cute theory, let's play it out. A monkey hoards a trillion bananas. The troop, enraged, beats him to death. They gather around the pile to feast at last. But... oh wait, there is no pile. It turns out the "bananas" were shares in a banana-launching company the dead monkey founded. The shares were worth a trillion because he was alive to run it. Now he is dead and the stock is worth $0. The retarded monkeys have clubbed their way into a recession. But it gets worse. Half the "bananas" were tied up in a rocket that supplies bananas to monkeys on the far mountain who had no bananas at all. Another chunk was tied up in a little satellite dish that beamed banana coordinates to the troop after a flood took out their trees. So now they realized they beat to death the only monkey who knew how the dish worked. So the monkeys sit there. No bananas. No rockets. No coordinates to get more banananas. Just a dead body and a powerful sense of fairness as they all now became infinitely poorer. OH And somewhere a smaller monkey watches the whole thing and quietly decides he will never build anything in front of these animals again.

a turret of a russian T-72B3 tank, destroyed in ukraine (2022) the wreckage just so happened to form a skull when viewed from above by drone, with the commander’s and gunner’s hatches acting as eye sockets.