• cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
    56·
    2 days ago

    You’d be amused to hear that “fart” in most Scandinavian languages means speed/movement/travel

    So we have fartpilot, overfart, fartbump, fartkontrol etc

  • gmtom@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 day ago

    This is just star trek that happnes in the universe of the hit 2002 movie Thunderpants.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zipEnglish
    15·
    1 day ago

    - “It’s simply impossible to go beyond fart factor 10.”
    - “Eject the fart core!! (rip)”
    - “I’ll execute you just like Tuvix if you ever change the type of beans in my coffee specification again!!”
    - “We monitor for species that are on the verge of achieving the fart-drive technology.”
    - “Bean me up, Scotty.”
    - “The fart field extends around the ship traveling through fart-warped space, it’s like hot-boxing or Dutch ovenning.”
    - “Foton torpedo, target their starboard fart-box, on my mark!”
    - “Warning! Incoming fart signatures!!”
    - “Do not reverse the polarity on the engine drive or we will all instantly get pink eye!!”
    - “Who put hot-sauce on the Difarthium crystals?? The ship can’t take the extra boost!!”
    - “Wesley, go clean the warp anuses!”

    • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 hours ago

      Whoever changed the warp scale in Star Trek: grumble grumble, warp 9 and warp 9.5 sound barely different.

      I dunno about you, but I prefer a scale for velocity where as velocity goes to infinity, so does your scale

      • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        9 hours ago

        … all these scales can go to infinity regardless of if they are logarithmic or not (if I understood your complaint correctly).

        And you are right, warp 10 isn’t the maximum, just an (energy consumption of that) tech limitation. And also that is very ship-capability specific - eg crew’s experience on a warp 7 ship going from 7.0 to 7.5 is not at all comparable in any practical navigational reasons to crew’s experience on a warp 9 ship going from 9.0 to 9.5.

        I don’t think the warp 10 being infinite by default is cannon tho:

        • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 hours ago

          My complaint is that the warp factor only goes to infinity in the first chart you provided (the old system. i.e. as v –> ∞, fw –> ∞). They changed it from v = fw3*c. So warp 3 was 27c for TOS and ENT: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Warp_factor

          Warp 10 being infinite is definitely cannon, just ask the haters what the worst episode of Star Trek Voyager is haha

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_(Star_Trek:_Voyager)

          (The headline of this wiki article is a little off, he doesn’t travel “faster” than warp 10, he travels at warp 10)

          Your second graph literally says “warp 10 is infinite velocity”, which is the new system. That there are 10 energy thresholds is cool world-building, vlbut basing your velocity scale on it is annoying and intuitive. When they use these numbers, unless you crack open a calculator, you have no idea how fast it actually is.

          In the new system as as v –> ∞, fw –> 10, and I find that annoying.

  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 days ago

    So… which one of you is going to ask Randall Munroe if this is plausible or not? Disregarding the the obvious frozen-butt problem, of course.

    • macniel@feddit.org
      9·
      2 days ago

      Farts are methane, right? The Space X raptor engine flies with subzero cooled liquid methane and an oxidiser.

      So yeah it’s totally possible to have a fart drive.

      Ejecting just farts would also work, but to a very smaller degree of effectiveness.

    • dutchkimble@lemy.lol
      3·
      2 days ago

      If every butt had a tiny airlock 2 door system that operated to a very accurate degree of opening and shutting just when the farts came out, and all simultaneously, I believe frozen butts can be avoided

      • Aimeeloulm@feddit.uk
        1·
        9 hours ago

        Maybe also use infra red heaters to keep butts warm and toasty at peak operating temperature for farp speed would also help 😬

  • ecrevisse@feddit.org
    101·
    2 days ago

    Never watched star trek. No idea what this comic is trying to say. But I love the surrealist energy lol.

    • SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org
      15·
      2 days ago
      • Panel 1: The engine room of a starship, with giant cans of baked beans piped directly to the mouths of some heads poking out of the wall.
      • Panel 2: An outside view of the rear of the starship, showing an array of butts protruding from the starship, implied to be the butts of the people in the wall in Panel 1.
      • Panel 3: The starship captain issuing the command “fart”.
      • Panel 4: The starship is now being propelled through space via the thrust generated by the array of farting butts from Panel 2.

      This is more-or-less the same as the experimental drive introduced in Star Trek Discovery.