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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

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[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 1 points 31 minutes ago

They could still refer to it as the ass-end of the ship

[–] civilconvo@sopuli.xyz 6 points 9 hours ago

Fart in Swedish means...

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 8 hours ago

Entering trumpspace

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 19 points 13 hours ago

Make it so, Number Two!

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 14 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

- "It's simply impossible to go beyond fart factor 10."
- "Eject the fart core!! (rip)"
- "I'll execute you just like Tuvix if you ever change the type of beans in my coffee specification again!!"
- "We monitor for species that are on the verge of achieving the fart-drive technology."
- "Bean me up, Scotty."
- "The fart field extends around the ship traveling through fart-warped space, it's like hot-boxing of Dutch ovenning."
- "Foton torpedo, target their starboard fart-box, on my mark!"
- "Warning! Incoming fart signatures!!"
- "Do not reverse the polarity on the engine drive or we will all instantly get pink eye!!"
- "Who put hot-sauce on the Difarthium crystals?? The ship can't take the extra boost!!"
- "Wesley, go clean the warp anuses!"

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 47 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

You'd be amused to hear that "fart" in most Scandinavian languages means speed/movement/travel

So we have fartpilot, overfart, fartbump, fartkontrol etc

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 2 points 35 minutes ago

I personally could use more fartkontrol

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 20 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure if this applies to all Scandinavian languages, but I remember learning that the word for "end" in Swedish is "slut".

Would "end of speed" be fartslut?

[–] chellomere@lemmy.world 18 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yes!

Also, the last bus/train station is the slutstation. And that's where you get off!

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Amazing, what a beautiful language! (not sarcasm)

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 32 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

This is not a thing I ever wanted to think about

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

So... which one of you is going to ask Randall Munroe if this is plausible or not? Disregarding the the obvious frozen-butt problem, of course.

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 3 points 10 hours ago

If every butt had a tiny airlock 2 door system that operated to a very accurate degree of opening and shutting just when the farts came out, and all simultaneously, I believe frozen butts can be avoided

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Farts are methane, right? The Space X raptor engine flies with subzero cooled liquid methane and an oxidiser.

So yeah it's totally possible to have a fart drive.

Ejecting just farts would also work, but to a very smaller degree of effectiveness.

[–] match@pawb.social 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

where are you getting the oxygen though

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 17 hours ago

After the Burn, captains did what they had to do.

[–] lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.works 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

"Fart" in norwegian means speed so checks out

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)
[–] dalekcaan 7 points 16 hours ago

Number one.

Give it the beans.

[–] ecrevisse@feddit.org 9 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Never watched star trek. No idea what this comic is trying to say. But I love the surrealist energy lol.

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)
  • Panel 1: The engine room of a starship, with giant cans of baked beans piped directly to the mouths of some heads poking out of the wall.
  • Panel 2: An outside view of the rear of the starship, showing an array of butts protruding from the starship, implied to be the butts of the people in the wall in Panel 1.
  • Panel 3: The starship captain issuing the command "fart".
  • Panel 4: The starship is now being propelled through space via the thrust generated by the array of farting butts from Panel 2.

This is more-or-less the same as the experimental drive introduced in Star Trek Discovery.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

You might be interested in a little movie called Thunderpants!

It's exactly what you think it is, and surprisingly good!

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

technically one could simulate this on a holodeck.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The reality where human technology developed around harnessing the power of farts is a strange one. Still better than ours, though.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

But is it better than mycelium drive? 🤔

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 17 hours ago

I propose a race!

Does the Discovery from this reality have a farting mushroom drive?...

[–] kaitco@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

This is delightfully silly and exactly what I needed given the way my day has gone.