Rigil's New Endeavour thread...

[blacknblue]

Actually the Vulcan brain would have to be faster than the Human brain. In fact, the Vulcan nervous system would have to react faster than the Human nervous system by necessity, since gravity is heavier on Vulcan than on Earth. Which means that things fall faster on Vulcan than they do on Earth. Which means than simply to keep their balance, much less to react to falling objects, and flying objects, a Vulcan would have to have a faster reaction time. Therefore they must think faster than we do or they would not have survived.

[hth2k]

Daym! Well done sir.

Perhaps T'Pol with many years more experience in her field is using concepts and ideas that Trip is not familiar and likely thinking in Vulcan. Vulcan science at this point is somewhat more advanced in many areas than Earth science.

If they had time to sit down and discuss what she was doing most likely he may well be able to grasp what she is doing. Though she was doing so in a flash.

I see them as roughly equivalent but different. She is a high speed logic based processor with massive ram and storage. He is a massivly parallel machine that uses some form of fuzzy logic that can exceed its programming. (Inspiration)

HtH

[blacknblue]

Daym! Well done sir.

Perhaps T'Pol with many years more experience in her field is using concepts and ideas that Trip is not familiar and likely thinking in Vulcan. Vulcan science at this point is somewhat more advanced in many areas than Earth science.

If they had time to sit down and discuss what she was doing most likely he may well be able to grasp what she is doing. Though she was doing so in a flash.

I see them as roughly equivalent but different. She is a high speed logic based processor with massive ram and storage. He is a massivly parallel machine that uses some form of fuzzy logic that can exceed its programming. (Inspiration)

HtH

So Trip's brain is a Beowulf cluster?

[Rigil Kent]

How apt ... given that this fic is entitled Grendel, huh? (Had to look up what a Beowulf cluster was, though...)

Okay ... given that on Earth, g=9.80 m/s^2, I wonder what it would be on Vulcan...

[hth2k]

A guess would be maybe 10-20% or so. Much greater and humans would have great difficulty. From what I've seen on screen humans do fine short term but notice the difference and begin to suffer when extended exertion is required. Obviously excepting super-human types carrying ancient katras.

HtH


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[krn]

there goes the other shoe

it was inevitable.

If you're going for population density -- Bombay, India & Sao Paulo, Brazil -- hey, I have friends in Sao Paulo!


Rigil - looking at a screen cap of the Xindi probe zapping Florida - looks like it starts around Sebring and proceeds to cut through a part of the state that no one lives in. Are you saying it started in Gainesville in order to account for the 7 million dead? Are you 'fixing' yet another mistake?

[Rigil Kent]

Rigil - looking at a screen cap of the Xindi probe zapping Florida - looks like it starts around Sebring and proceeds to cut through a part of the state that no one lives in. Are you saying it started in Gainesville in order to account for the 7 million dead? Are you 'fixing' yet another mistake?

Pretty much. I remember wondering how seven million were killed based on population density and where the beam struck ... even taking into account tsunamis or a "nuclear winter" effect caused by the beam, I just don't see how that many people could have died based on where it hit. Real world explanation is that they just pulled a number out of their butts, of course, but I just had the beam start a little farther north (thus destroying the place of my birth, Ocala, and the city that I mostly grew up in, Gainesville.)

[krn]

ah, yet another fine example of bnb pulling crap out of their asses.

but did ya have to take out Gainesville too? Guess this means I'm toast. At least it's not my city of birth.

humm... Selina needs an action figure....

'Ace Pilot' Lt Selina Mayweather

[Rigil Kent]

but did ya have to take out Gainesville too? Guess this means I'm toast.

Whoa. You're still alive in the 2150s?

Look at this way: by me taking out Ocala & Gainesville, no one can give me crap for taking out their home towns either.

[Rigil Kent]

presents...

Act Five, Scene One.

Aftermath...

=/\= =/\= =/\= =/\= =/\=

Up at Fanfiction.net for those of you who prefer it there.

[evcake]

Rigil - looking at a screen cap of the Xindi probe zapping Florida - looks like it starts around Sebring and proceeds to cut through a part of the state that no one lives in. Are you saying it started in Gainesville in order to account for the 7 million dead? Are you 'fixing' yet another mistake?

Pretty much. I remember wondering how seven million were killed based on population density and where the beam struck ... even taking into account tsunamis or a "nuclear winter" effect caused by the beam, I just don't see how that many people could have died based on where it hit. Real world explanation is that they just pulled a number out of their butts, of course, but I just had the beam start a little farther north (thus destroying the place of my birth, Ocala, and the city that I mostly grew up in, Gainesville.)

Maybe it took out Caracas?

[Rigil Kent]

Unlikely. Despite the dialog stating that it hit Venezuela, as we can see by the below image, the beam didn't get anywhere near that country.

[krn]

well, they have stopped teaching geography in schools. obviously the writers suffered from that scholastic cutback as well.

Whoa. You're still alive in the 2150s?

I might be.

[Rigil Kent]

You're not from the planet Zeist are you? (Mad props and condolences if you get the reference...)

[krn]

....i've got a sword around here someplace...