Re:Mr Robot S02E01 easter egg
by orionblastar on Friday July 15, 2016 @11:29PM
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In Star Trek I don't know why they don't use fuses and circuit breakers so nobody dies if a panel explodes, if it overloaded it would just break the fuse or circuit breaker if the enemy fired at them causing a surge or whatever.
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Well, the real answer is because it's a cheap way to make "people sitting looking at computers" seem exciting and dangerous.
I think the in universe answer is that everything uses plasma or something.
Re:Mr Robot S02E01 easter egg
by orionblastar on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @11:10PM
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In the future with Star Trek, they should have quantum computers using fiber optic wires that are harder to hack because intercepting data changes it and the receiver will know it was tampered with.
Kirk and company basically had a Siri they could talk to and it would do things. "Computer show me yesterday's video log on the bridge at 3:32 PM" or whatever.