Link Thread

[Nate the Great]

Sesame Street once did a Power Rangers spoof


Well, that's surreal.

[Nate the Great]

Today is my 42nd birthday, so it's time for some links...


Of course 6X9=42 in Base 13, but as Douglas Adams himself said, "I may be a sorry case, but I don't write jokes in Base 13."


Numberphile tackles the number


And again. It took a long time to find how to get 42 by summing three cubes


Miscellaneous mathematical properties from Wikipedia


Star Trek events in years that end with 42 (Memory Alpha and Beta):
2342: Picard refuses to meet Jenice in Paris, Ishara Yar is born, Bevery Howard starts her medical training
2242: Gary Mitchell and Janice Rand are born, construction begins on the 1701 under the command of Robert April
2142: Wendy Raymond (great great granddaughter of Clare Raymond) dies
2042: Final World Series (won by Buck Bokai)
1942: The Nexus ribbon passed through the galaxy this year, Chekov is transported to this year by an omnipotent being in a novel and meets one of Kirk's ancestors

[Nate the Great]

Teaser Trailer for STTMP featuring Orson Welles narration


I wasn't expecting to encounter this today!

[Nate the Great]

A LEGO stop-motion film retelling The Princess Bride using Star Wars characters and references.


It's...something else.

[Nate the Great]

Collage of scifi characters from Facebook


Trek is well represented.

[Nate the Great]

Matt Parker has drafted hundreds of volunteers to attempt to break the record of most digits of pi calculated by hand.



While I'm all for mathematical enthusiasm, this one seems a little ridiculous.

[Nate the Great]

Certifiably Ingame tackles the warp speed limit.


I still have trouble with the idea that the entire fleet could be replaced with ships of a less damaging profile that fast. Furthermore, it's clear that the variable nacelle geometry of Voyager was in the design before the fortunate side effect was discovered.


Then again, I'm more than willing to go with "Voyager still damages subspace, but the point is that it's the most powerful ship in the quadrant (within reason, of course) and the Delta Quadrant lacks the monolithic governments and well-trod "warp highways" that the Alpha Quadrant has."


I mean, think about it. What race (other than the Borg, who use a completely different propulsion technology) has enough high-warp ships to cause the kind of damage seen in "Cause and Effect"? None.