Priceless: Star Trek isn't real life!
Apr. 4th, 2005 04:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
danaerisSo, I've been reading about Toshiba's new lithium-ion battery, which can recharge to 80% capacity in just one minute, full capacity in a few minutes (60 times faster than existing lithium-ion batteries), loses only 1% of capacity after 1000 cycles (also way better than existing batteries), and functions well anywhere between -40 and 25 degrees centigrade (80% at the former, 100% at the latter). I'm sure that there must be something that isn't wonderful futuristic happiness and joy about this, but nothing so far stands out as clearly the suck (other than not being released until 2006, and then only for industrial and automotive use).
However, in reading some reader comments on a blog, I ran across this gem:
First person:
Were a 60 watt-hour battery to short and discharge in a few milliseconds you'll be digging shrapnel out of the bystanders...
Second person:
That is so true. I watched a Star Trek episode where some aliens boarded USS Voyager and deliberately overloaded the EPS power relays, the resulting explosion was similar in yield to a Mark VI photon torpedo.
Another time, Tuvok rewired a hand-phaser to "cause an accident", and the self-discharge was powerful enough to kill a holo-matrix version of Cesca.
Because if Star Trek says it, it must be true! Is it possible this guy is joking?
EDIT: To clarify, I'm not at all arguing with the concern over the battery exploding; that's a well established danger of modern batteries. I thought the quote was self explanatory, but I guess not. What I WAS commenting on was that this guy is using events on Star Trek episodes to support an argument. No matter how correct the argument is, that's just wrong. Its disturbingly geeky in the dumb way.
However, in reading some reader comments on a blog, I ran across this gem:
First person:
Were a 60 watt-hour battery to short and discharge in a few milliseconds you'll be digging shrapnel out of the bystanders...
Second person:
That is so true. I watched a Star Trek episode where some aliens boarded USS Voyager and deliberately overloaded the EPS power relays, the resulting explosion was similar in yield to a Mark VI photon torpedo.
Another time, Tuvok rewired a hand-phaser to "cause an accident", and the self-discharge was powerful enough to kill a holo-matrix version of Cesca.
Because if Star Trek says it, it must be true! Is it possible this guy is joking?
EDIT: To clarify, I'm not at all arguing with the concern over the battery exploding; that's a well established danger of modern batteries. I thought the quote was self explanatory, but I guess not. What I WAS commenting on was that this guy is using events on Star Trek episodes to support an argument. No matter how correct the argument is, that's just wrong. Its disturbingly geeky in the dumb way.
