Oh cool, reading the memory alpha page about antimatter containment fields now!
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He must hold back every day or he would constantly be crushing peoples hands. There was an episode where they mentioned that Data was the only one on-board capable of breaking Worf's arm.
edit: wrist, not arm.
Not that I know of, but he did play Arik Soong for three episodes on Enterprise which was a pretty dark role for him.
I always assumed that ships would be outfitted with enough concentrated anti-matter to last the expected lifespan of the ship, or at very least the mission they're on, then deuterium could be pumped in as needed to activate the warp core. I'm more curious how they store the antimatter. Do they keep it in a transporter buffer? Or some sort of magnetic/tractor containment system like holograms use? They couldn't just keep tanks made of anti-matter or else the whole question starts again (how do you keep the anti-matter from touching the matter the ship is made of.)
Yeah, I don't doubt their intelligence I'm just curious about the more practical problems of society/technology. For example, what do their technical manuals look like? How do you train a new Tamarian recruit on how do maintenance? Or for that matter, how do you pass along technical knowledge at all when all of your language seems to be in the form of specific cultural references? At least with the Pakleds and the Klingons we know the answer - they stole it.
I've got the moooooooves
"It's Always Sunny in the Holodeck" is a crossover I didn't know I needed until this very second. Bravo. Now I'm picturing Lore going off about being a golden god.
Pakleds are one of the goofier mono-cultures in Trek. Up there with the Tamarians on my list of "How the hell did this species learn to fly?". The bottom of the list is the Klingons, only because we know they stole most of their ship tech from the Hur'q.
You’ve got an estimated 10 years or so before quantum computers can crack all current encryption by using Shor’s algorithm.
One of the most important quantum computing algorithms, known as Shor's algorithm, would allow a large-scale quantum computer to quickly break essentially all of the encryption systems that are currently used to secure internet traffic against interception. Today's quantum computers are nowhere near large enough to execute Shor's algorithm in a practical setting, and the expert consensus is that these cryptanalytically relevant quantum computers (CRQCs) will not be developed until at least the 2030s.
Maybe with current quantum computers, but human technology tends to increase at an exponential rate so I doubt it will be long. Scientists are already trying to design post-quantum encryption for this very reason.
I always assumed he was involved in some sort of supervisory role but he this makes a lot of sense. My new headcannon is that he's the reason they stuffed such an overpowered engine in it because he wanted to see if it was possible.
Fantastic, that means we can have someone toss klingon devito for a gag