Let's say you are dying of starvation. You pull one of your teeth out, causing blood to slowly seep into your mouth, which you swallow. The calories from the blood getting digested will delay the time you die of starvation, right? Or will losing blood while starving kill you faster?
I thought you can't digest more than a little bit of blood because of the amount of iron in it. And you're likely to start vomiting.
And if you lose too much blood, it'll kill you much more quickly anyways.
And of course if you lose blood and have to replenish it... That takes a good amount of extra energy to produce all the blood cells etc. And digestion also costs energy.
Nice. But I suppose the quality also depends on the source material that got pressed on those disks?! I mean the credits are CGI and had been digitally created in a certain resolution and then been converted. But I really don’t know what kind of cameras and CGI tech they used for TV productions in the 90s. Might have been magnetic tape that isn’t the highest quality unlike something that had originally been recorded on analog film.
Edit: Wikipedia says Voyager is the first series with CGI effects for exterior shots of the spaceships. And the effects are rendered in “standard television resolution”. So they should be in 480p (or ‘i’)? But that seems to align well with Laserdisc which also contain standard NTSC or PAL video signals.
Thanks, that explains a lot. Yeah, unfortunately some initial masters and releases are sub-par. Guess it’s the same for DVDs as it is for some music album releases. And I mean for TV shows from a certain era there’s not much to be done. Glad the VHS or DVD wasn’t the only release. I watched some DVD a year ago an let’s say I wasn’t impressed. It’s not up to today’s standards of high definition TVs and to me it’s neither a valuable collector’s item.
I feel like we are ways out from seeing anything like it. From what I’ve seen non-Newtonian fluids typically take a decent amount of energy to stop something and sound wouldn’t have much energy compared to something like a bullet....
I think a fluid that you put in your ear muffles everything and makes it hard to hear. Being newtonion or non-newtinion. I can’t imagine a way for it to be useful as a general solution. You’d need to take it out anyways in order to hear normally. And then I don’t know how this would compare to an already existing high quality hearing protection. There are some available that supposedly are somewhat linear in the frequency spectrum.
Inspired by the ongoing Resurgence giveaway, I thought it might be fun to discuss some of our favourite Trek games. Underappreciated gems are particularly welcome!
Could death by starvation be delayed by drinking your own blood?
Let's say you are dying of starvation. You pull one of your teeth out, causing blood to slowly seep into your mouth, which you swallow. The calories from the blood getting digested will delay the time you die of starvation, right? Or will losing blood while starving kill you faster?
Star Trek on LaserDisc, if you've got the right equipment, it looks amazing! (samples in the description) ( youtu.be )
Star Trek on Laserdisc...
Could non-Newtonian fluids be used in the future as a kind of percussive ear protection?
I feel like we are ways out from seeing anything like it. From what I’ve seen non-Newtonian fluids typically take a decent amount of energy to stop something and sound wouldn’t have much energy compared to something like a bullet....
Let's remember some Star Trek games
Inspired by the ongoing Resurgence giveaway, I thought it might be fun to discuss some of our favourite Trek games. Underappreciated gems are particularly welcome!