Bloody Treknobabble
We need to upgrade our satellites so we can receive binary data. But that should be an easy thing to do!
My significant other is currently playing the game UFO: Afterlight. It seems alright, although it’s rather silly that humans refer to their own spacecraft as ufos. Do they build them wearing blindfolds? When they board them, do they cover their eyes? “Don’t look! If we identify it, it might not be able to fly afterwards!”
And then of course there’s the quote (or paraphrase, as I can’t recall the exact wording) above. What in the world were they receiving before? Just a long series of ones? “We are receiving data from the people still on earth. It says: Daaaaaaaaaaaaah.”
What is it with script writers and their complete inability to find a grad student or two to go through the game and look for blatant scientific blunders?
Ah, ever the treknobabblophobic
Comment by Dologan — December 28, 2007 @ 10:53