ummthatguy@lemmy.world to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoTheir Promenade is like a sad strip mall with some cult in one section, a hostage situation in another, and this:lemmy.worldimagemessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1169arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1167arrow-down1imageTheir Promenade is like a sad strip mall with some cult in one section, a hostage situation in another, and this:lemmy.worldummthatguy@lemmy.world to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square18fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareLimonene@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up30·3 months agoYou can tell it’s a dead mall because it’s tilted. Functioning ships and stations are always coplanar with the galactic plane.
minus-squareummthatguy@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·3 months agoI always laugh at the Dutch angle trick to show that it’s derelict and/or evil.
minus-squareTroy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up10·3 months agoTIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_angle
minus-squareMentalEdgelinkfedilinkarrow-up11·3 months agoDo you think Starfleet pilots ever get into debates about which side of the milky way is the top, and which side is the bottom? Are there rebels that disagree with the consensus and fly around “upside-down”?
minus-squareMaggiWuerze@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoUp is where, if you look down, the galaxy spins clockwise. There, you’re welcome
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoOnly you have to wait a really long time to see which direction is which.
minus-squareMaggiWuerze@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-23 months agoI’m sure sensors can pick that up within seconds, ST sensors even faster. Especially since you don’t need the rotation, but just the alignment of known points around the galaxy
minus-squareMentalEdgelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoYou’re assuming every species in the federation has the same cultural concept of “clockwise”.
minus-squareVindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoThe aquatic ones might not even have the same concept of “up”.
minus-squareCeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoThere’s probably an arbitrary standard just like with the globe. There’s is a galactic north, after all.
minus-squarewise_pancake@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoIt’s tilted because they wanted to take the picture and get their shuttle out of there as soon as possible. No time to align!
You can tell it’s a dead mall because it’s tilted. Functioning ships and stations are always coplanar with the galactic plane.
I always laugh at the Dutch angle trick to show that it’s derelict and/or evil.
TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_angle
Do you think Starfleet pilots ever get into debates about which side of the milky way is the top, and which side is the bottom?
Are there rebels that disagree with the consensus and fly around “upside-down”?
Up is where, if you look down, the galaxy spins clockwise. There, you’re welcome
Only you have to wait a really long time to see which direction is which.
I’m sure sensors can pick that up within seconds, ST sensors even faster. Especially since you don’t need the rotation, but just the alignment of known points around the galaxy
You’re assuming every species in the federation has the same cultural concept of “clockwise”.
The aquatic ones might not even have the same concept of “up”.
There’s probably an arbitrary standard just like with the globe. There’s is a galactic north, after all.
It’s tilted because they wanted to take the picture and get their shuttle out of there as soon as possible.
No time to align!