Big if true
On second thought let’s not go there, 'tis a silly place.
i feel like the romanian flag would fit more in in place of the chad flag
the odds of this are very high
So are you
how did you know
Everyone helping assemble Dr. Galen’s progenitor flag.
Massive origin story for the damn galaxy, never once mentioned ever again.
They wanted an explanation about why all species are humanoid, mostly because makeup on an actor is cheaper than making unique species. the explanation sucked, no explanation could have worked.
That is like having a whole 3 part episode on why there are no toilets on any federation ships, or why there is sound in space, or why they don’t use seatbelts…
why there are no toilets on any federation ships
No way, half the time JLP says he’ll be in his ready room he means he’s heading to the porcelain captain’s chair to fire off some earl grey torpedoes.
In the future you can choose to deuce the traditional way or have it beamed directly out of your colon, and Picard loves his photon bombing rituals.
I’ve held that theory for years. that due to teleport tech, people no money need toilets, as urine and fecal matter gets teleported out.
And part of Starfleet training involves potty training, where they have to train on how urinate/defecate during away missions.
Why would Picard bother when his ready room has his own private toilet?
The only change he needs is to have the aquarium INSIDE the bathroom for quiet reflection.
Do teleported urine and feces leave vacuum behind? Because that would mean massive cavitation bubbles in both the bladder and the rectum, immediately collapsing with a loud bang and a momentary increase in temperature over 100°C. Plus the organ walls experiencing sudden huge acceleration, either shaking the fuck out of other pelvic organs, or straight up ripping. (Must be fun being between the bladder and the rectum at that moment, and the anus is gonna pucker like it never puckered before.)
The alternative is replacing the feces and urine with something of equal volume and pressure, which most probably means either compressed air or water. This would leave you either with water in your bladder and rectum, or large amount of air in your bladder and rectum, which both are of dubious utility and ill advisement.
The transported feces is replaced with whatever the crewmember desires. In Picard’s case, Tea Earl Grey Hot! Riker gets a vibrator. Troi, a particular mix of heroin and qualuudes.
In Picard’s case, Tea Earl Grey Hot
Classy and tasty enema.
maybe instead of teleporting out the entire contents of a full rectum, you teleport a ml at a time, or basically teleport every tiny bit as it enters the rectum, same with the bladder.
Honestly, teleporter tech is criminally underused in that universe.
can you teleport out co2 from the alveoli and replace with oxygen instead of needing a respirator? imagine 99% of surgeries could be done with teleport tech instead of needing to cut anything.
fuck, maybe that is how Hypospray works, and how it can inject drugs into the bloodstream without hurting the skin or the clothes they are wearing.
There is also the transporter buffer, they can put a lot of stuff in the buffer, why not use it for storage? Or maybe a brig?
One of the Abrahams movie casually made spaceships obsolete by having teleporters that can reach across the galaxy.
And those are ideas that I came up in a couple minutes of thinking.
I’ve just thought of another consequence: if the waste is always teleported out, then the muscles of the bladder and the rectum are gonna become dystrophic, while the anal sphincter forgets how to loosen. In addition, the urinary tract might dry out for want of any moisture from the bladder.
Now imagine that one day your trusty crap teleporter breaks down. You’re stuck with piss and shit filling the bladder and the rectum, while both outlets are plugged from years of disuse and you don’t know anymore how to push the stuff out.
No wonder McCoy hates transporters
Photon < Quantum < RECTUM TORPEDOS (or rectal, if you prefer)
I agree. You gotta look at it like when a live theater actor starts pulling red scarves outta their shirt when their character gets stabbed. Obviously it looks nothing like real blood but bruh. Pipe down and enjoy the play, OK? For a while I followed somebody on tumblr who did art of what each species might look like if star trek had way more sfx resources. They were also a massive scaly LOL a looot of the art was Garak/Bashir.
although honestly, a play where someone gets stabbed in the first scene, and all the actors are horrified by the fact that instead of bleeding and dying, a red scarf comes out, they see he is still breathing but unresponsive. then they spend the rest of the play having an existential crisis slowly realizing that they are in a play and they will all cease to exist when it’s over.
that would be an awesome play.
‘Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Dead’ is sorta this. The film does a good job of immersion, which enhances the meta-play effect.
great suggestion, I will check it out
Holy shit, please write that.
Tom Stoppard already pretty much did. Watch ‘Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Dead’.
no idea how to write theater or scripts, I did write a short story where someone starts hearing the narrator on his dream and they have a conversation and end up having an existential crisis. even when the narrator promised him that he will forget the dream.
Someone needs to watch Discovery.
Discovery’s last season took place in a dilapidated, far-future federation that forgot how to build Genesis Devices.
I saw the first episode of it, was reminded that better episodes exist in TNG, and watched that instead.
Ouff, Genesis. Some kind of planetary scale replicator that starts working after it’s blown up. Good enough as a McGuffin for one story, but probably better left forgotten given how little sense it makes.
Anyway, it failed to create anything stable and almost everyone who was working on it was killed, right? A literal dead end.
you should post this to the vexillology community
symlink: !vexillology@lemmy.world
FYI, and this might be a difference between mobile and browser clients, but that link seems to be broken.
I like the cardinal with the Cuban flag head
Connecting Seychelles to Romania and Hungary like that is magnificent
Like the periodic table we need to discover the hypothetical missing flags
My apologies I believe you mean connecting Seychelles to Chad and Hungary
The Chad vs Romania flag colours strikes again
Really they should stack the Romania flag on top of the Chad flag and make the mega flag even more mega
Don’t do it! That way lies Maryland!
why is kosovo there it doesnt fit at al
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Bonus points to anyone who can name all those countries without doing research because you already have all the world’s country flags memorized.
I sure can’t.
Seychelles have the objectively most fun flag of all countries. Simple, recognisable, striking.
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Having São Tomé and Principe next to Timor -Leste is a deep pull. Hats off to original creator
EU, Chad, PRC, ?Guyana?, Brasil, ?Portugal?, Bermuda, ???, Bulgaria, Jamaica, South Africa, Kosovo, ???, Saudi Arabia, ?Botswana?, ???, ???, Cuba, Greece, ???.
How did I do?
EDIT: Kosovo was one of the ???
Guyana, yes
Yes, Portugal
Did not know Bermuda
Not Bulgaria, but Hungary
Not Kosovo but Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Seychelles
Not Botswana 🇧🇼 but Tanzania 🇹🇿
That’s Kosovo
São Tomé and Principe (or maybe St. Kitts and Nevis)
Timor-LesteAfter Bosnia is apparently the Christmas Island, a territory of Australia. (Seychelles is the one above it.)
The flag has a bit unusual proportions of 1:2.
I have upvoted this to raise awareness about this critically important issue in our society.
Pretty sure I saw a complete form of this on a lamppost in N. Ireland.
The mega flag is the 9 flag arrangement in the top left. The rest feels forced
I really think the diagonal black stripe with the other bit with stars in it has something going on that could be really cool with the right combination of other flags around it.
Agreed. But at least an honorable mention for the two with diagonal black lines.
