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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (4 children)

. No matter how intelligent a person is, they can still make the simplest mistakes for their entire lives, because they stick by of what they've learned and die on that hill.

. Black holes will be proven to not exist. And in the list of cosmological errors, that's the most obvious one. [edit] What people are observing, at least for the "stellar sized black holes", are UV/X-ray/Gamma ray stars, much like there are red stars and blue stars. [/edit]

. For what it implies, Star Trek is far more evil than Star Wars despite all the anti-war rhetoric and perpetual war of the latter, as the former implies "Marx was wrong, Fourier was right. We CAN have a socialist utopia quietly evolved from an empire that began as a group of slave owners on stolen land with the flag of an oligarchic spice and slave trade corporation, who decided that a small sales tax, where most countries have VAT, on a single good, one that turns hot water into a tasty drink, was theft and so they decided that "this means war" and called for independence. Then a few decades later they created a manifesto saying that half the continent and more is simply theirs because they're so exceptional. The empire with the two-party system to ensure the purest form of kleptocracy, an ingenious way to silence dissent and perpetual struggle, moreso than any dictatorship empire has tried in the past.
The continuation of THIS empire, the empire of deception, is the one taking over the galaxy, destined to seize the entire universe because they're so enlightened as said by one of the gods in the Star Trek universe." And no, STD and Picard doesn't do it any justice. Star Trek doesn't tell why the Federation is or isn't progressive. At least Star Wars explained how the Republic collapsed as a queen appointed a harebrained mudskipper to be her representitive in case she was absent, who then got manipulated into giving a tyrant unchecked power.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I think you're missing some key parts of the Star Trek lore. America didn't peacefully evolve into the Federation. Earth wasn't able to get past it's self destructive tendencies until after World War III, a conflict so devastating that 30% of the Earth's population was killed. My knowledge is more fuzzy on this, but I don't think the American empire survived WWIII as an entity.

Also we have images of black holes.

[โ€“] [email protected] -4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

A romanticized repeat of world war II isn't remotely true of the current trajectory the US is heading into and that's not a fluke, unlike how the cold war ended through no solution to a petrodollar scheme until around 1996 when natural gas could mitigate the issue of fossil fuel flight in oil dependent nations.
The US empire surely survived in Star Trek as "the easteners" were defeated, Cochrane became a hero, the names of the ships are all NASA names. Just take one look of the opening theme of Enterprise. It's 100% US-oriented.

Images of "black holes" are artist conceptions, AI generated (the first "real" picture is this) from data to suit preconceived notions of what the object should look like or this

The last one is an actual picture of a so-called black hole in X-ray light. That's not a hole with an accretion disc. That's a star that shines in X-ray light.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

World War III isn't a romanticized repeat of World War II in Star Trek, though. It is an extremely destructive war that just about destroys most major national governments. There isn't a winner with a peace treaty; all sides collapse.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

There are many reasons why black holes exist and we've even imaged one via radio telescopes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

Yeah that one needs some explanation.

[โ€“] [email protected] -4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Cygnus X-1 is a star, not a black hole.
Furthermore, space cannot bend; time cannot bend; spacetime is an irrational concept and even if the concept was rational it still cannot bend, because concepts do not have the properties of objects and therefore some verbs cannot be applied to them literally or you'd be making reification fallacies.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

Just to be clear, you're not just saying black holes don't exist, but you're rejecting Relativity - the bedrock of modern physics - in its entirety?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I mean realistically it would have happened without jar jar anyhow. Palpatine wasn't gonna give up because he lost an election by a single vote.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

True. But it tells of a power structure based on laws that is rotten, as the laws preventing the power structure turning into one of absolutism could easily be dismantled by a lesser appointed official and a secret army. If Jar Jar could get the job, imagine how many other idiots would have been representatives in the Galactic Senate, that were appointed by people from the galactic senate themselves. It's a classic case of nepotism.
Star Trek on the other hand thought that utopian socialism was almost upon us, with a world war repeat in between, as social democracy was implemented in the US out of fear of a socialist uprising.