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Tweet screenshot “me at 13: wow i can’t wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek me at 30: wow i can’t wait until we destroy all computers like in dune”

  • KittyCat@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    We’re more or less on track for the star trek universe right now. WW3 begins in 2026/2027 and continues with nuclear exchange into 2053.

    • Cheebus@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      Is that also the timeline where Q put the crew on trials for the fascist phase of the human population?

      Also holy shit didn’t realize how long that war was for

      • ProfessorHoover@infosec.pub
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        4 days ago

        Yeah, decades worth of nuclear exchange? I thought most doctrine was to dump everything at once so they didn’t have a chance to return fire.

        • kossa@feddit.org
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          4 days ago

          Well, depends on the rate of exchange. Like, after the first, it took the survivors 10 years to rebuild their nuclear arsenals to go at it again. And after the third exchange, nobody was left who knew how to build nuclear weapons anymore.

          That’s why it took so long.