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In a similar vein, when you drive anywhere in your vehicle you don’t keep your engine at the red line at all times. You would wear it out within 20,000 miles at best. In fact, the engine almost always tries to be at the lowest rpm feasible.
We should strive to be like our vehicles: operating at the lowest load possible, hustling only when necessary.Right. That speedometer goes all the way to 270 km/h but on average we drive at about 30km/h in a city. That’s why our cars can last 400000 km while a Formula 1’s engine last about one race.
The other reason for traveling at Warp 5 is that the Enterprise is an explorer ship. If you never slow down you’ll “make good time” but miss the Universe’s Biggest Ball of String. Working at 100% can make you miss nuances that could be important, or could just add some ineffable element to your inner life.
Warp 5? That’s really slow.
I’d say their common travel speed is more like warp 7.
Guess it’s time for another entire rewatch of TNG to check the stats.
This is also why I can’t respond ‘good’ to how I am. If I am ‘good’ then it means I’m better than average or median. But if I say I am good too often, it becomes the average.
I’m the only person I know who thinks it’s incredibly rude to ask people how they are as a greeting when you don’t really want an honest answer. It puts the person being asked on the spot to be disingenuous like everyone expects, or offer information that the greeter really didn’t want, and therefore shouldn’t have asked for in the first place.
This is how I feel about it as well, but as an autist, I’ve learned that neurotypical just mean it as a greeting, and nothing more. It doesn’t matter what you say, they just want a “hello” in a structured way.
Massive push to get everyone into therapy because literal face-to-face human interaction can’t be automated, but by gosh it can surely be commodified.
How many parsecs is that?
