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h3ndrik , (edited ) to Ask Science in Could death by starvation be delayed by drinking your own blood?

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.

h3ndrik , to Star Trek in Star Trek on LaserDisc, if you've got the right equipment, it looks amazing! (samples in the description)

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.

h3ndrik , (edited ) to Star Trek in Star Trek on LaserDisc, if you've got the right equipment, it looks amazing! (samples in the description)

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.

h3ndrik , to Ask Science in Could non-Newtonian fluids be used in the future as a kind of percussive ear protection?

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.

h3ndrik , to Star Trek in Let's remember some Star Trek games

Some of my favorites were Star Trek Armada II and Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force.

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