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comparativelysuperlative:

shlevy:

iamamaiden:

last-snowfall:

amroyounes:

Believe it or not, the present is not as gloomy as you think

Please memorize the second one.

This is so important to me

I saw Scott posted this and I was really hoping to scroll down and see some plausible argument that this all stems from the elimination of lead.

Seriously though, this is good stuff to keep in mind.

About that second one, not that their point isn’t true, but the decade they selected was the 1940s. OK, so we’re not in the middle of a world war! Go us! But I’d really prefer a more typical and less cherry-picked example.

Agreed. I seem to recall that a previous time I saw someone use the 1940’s for this, someone responded with an explanation of how it’s still true even if you don’t use a world-war decade. However, I have no idea where I saw that, so take plenty of salt.

The first time I saw a calculation of how much data was on the Internet, it was five petabytes. To think, just a few years ago the entire Internet could be stored inside Data’s brain, with room to spare. We’ve come so far.

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#proud citizen of The Future #reply via reblog #Data’s storage capacity is 100 petabytes #what does it say about me that that is my first association with the word ‘petabyte’

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sjmillerart:

I’ve drawn a few creepy twisty Odos before, but I really wanted to explore what it might’ve been like in the show aand I wanted to draw more Odo being twisty. So this little comic sprung out of that!

This was a fun exercise and I learned a lot while putting it together. Like how much I love drawing Quark.

I mistook this for an excerpt from an official comic and was wondering where I could buy it.

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#Star Trek #DS9 #Odo #comic #fanart #awesome #fun with shapeshifting

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electricsed:

So my friend Jake’s mom has like every Star Trek book ever made—the companion guides, not the novels. They’re all lined up on a shelf in order. I can’t sleep, so I plucked out the DS9 companion and started thumbing through it.

I get to one page and there’s a black and white picture of Damar kneeling over Weyoun 7’s body. Underneath it the caption reads:

“This scene wasn’t so much about Worf breaking Weyoun’s neck as Damar’s reaction to it,” Behr points out.

And I’m dying because that’s the best random fact I could have learned tonight.

From elsewhere on the same page:

Some of the best touches, however, remain Moore’s, such as the demise of Weyoun Seven. “I just knew it was going to be a fun moment,” Moore chuckles. “Weyoun would just get a little too close and say and say the wrong thing—and Worf would break his neck. And then Damar would laugh. It was gold.”

My night is 400% better than it was before I opened this book. Learning how much the neck snapping scene cracked up Rene Auberjonois is like getting a present I wasn’t expecting.

Also apparently after Damar quit drinking they lit Casey Biggs differently, to make him appear more human on screen.

This book is amazing.

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#Star Trek #DS9

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ladyyatexel:

I can’t stop laughing.

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#Star Trek #DS9 #Julian Bashir #they say it’s very hard to get a shot of Bashir’s face looking normal #and indeed when I paused an episode on him he had his cheeks puffed out in resignation #(it was…hang on…’Chrysalis’)