• afk_strats@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    The movie was ruined for me when he launches a rocket into a star that looks to be about 1au away and the rocket gets there in like 15 seconds. Dont tell me that ish was warp-capable.

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      10 days ago

      And if it was 1au away, it takes about 8 minutes for sunlight to reach earth. So if there were any visual changes to the star they wouldn’t be able to see them for a few minutes

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      10 days ago

      We don’t know the size of the star he blew up so we can’t know how far away he is. Maybe it’s a small star and they’re really close. Also why can’t the missile have warp? Dreadnaught, the missile reprogrammed by B’Elanna, was warp capable and it was designed and built a couple years before Soran tries to return to the Nexus.

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      10 days ago

      Give or take. His species lives for centuries and I’m sure they lose track after a while.

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        10 days ago

        I suspect the person you responded to understood the context, but was cheekily calling out the “technically incorrect” usage of ±

        The ± symbol requires a tolerance value to create a defined maximum and minimum range, e.g 300±20 (so Soran could be anything between 280 and 320)

        it doesn’t mean “approximately”

        But I understand this is just an inconsequential funny picture, so whatever right.

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          10 days ago

          it doesn’t mean “approximately”

          They should have wrote ~300 if they wanted approximately 300.

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            10 days ago

            Well, that part at least I don’t think is necessary. It’s a parody of a dating app, and it seems from searching screenshots the real app doesn’t have units either - just the number.

            Which is just fine, because the number next to someone’s name being their age is clear from context.