I've heard too much humidity is a bigger problem. Keeps your body from being able to cool itself down with sweat, making you likely to overheat. With desert heat you're probably fine if you have water and shelter from the sun.
Kind of fascinated by the subtle linguistic differences in this comic. Mainly saying "See the..." instead of "Look at that..."
It's also kind of a clever subtle call to action. "If you don't like this ending, you can change it by changing things in the real world."
I liked that it at least gave a few nods to the idea that living in a patriarchy isn't necessarily great for all men either. Not all men have power, and even the ones that do aren't necessarily happier for it and find themselves competing with other men and restricting their own self-expression. That's a nuance that's lost in a lot of pop feminist messaging.
My thought was that turning it into an alloy somehow stabilized it.
Well, there's not much they can do with the QR code. You can deactivate it as soon as you've made contact and established proof of identity with the recipient.
But, if it was really important, there are cryptographic key-exchange protocols you can do even over an insecure connection. The Diffie-Hellman key exchange is one of them. Using something like that, you can derive a shared secret key even if someone's listening.
But personally, I would just break it into two parts, and send one by email and one with pastebin's "burn-after-read" option.
Agreed, and along the same lines, pointing out bad logic or factual errors used to support a point you actually agree with.
Nausicans of all species had working temporal technology thousands of years in the past!!!
Is it possible they merely discovered the portal and carved the notice on to it?
So "Horonium" was once so abundant that it was accessible even with Earth's limited capabilities in the NX-01 era, but somehow it's now gone from the entire quadrant? Seems like there must be a story there. I wonder if something like The Burn could have come into play (I never watched DISC past the first season, so I'm going off of hearsay of what that was.) Or possibly it was a material somehow created and scattered all throughout the galaxy at once with a limited lifespan. Given that it powers the time portal, maybe it has some weird temporal properties that made it disappear.
I work at an office suite, and a lot of people say hi to me with my name. I know none of their names. I'm also really terrible at recognizing faces (prosopagnosia). People probably think I'm extremely cold and aloof, but really I'm doing my best.
Linux itself probably doesn't get enough credit. People still think it's an obscure nerd OS.
I definitely agree about the messaging. The Orville's idea of social commentary is: here's some aliens that built their society around a thing we don't like for no reason, they're total dicks for no reason, therefore the thing is bad.
The Moclan gender issue has been praised as an allegory for trans and intersex issues. But my problem with it is it ONLY works as an allegory. Their society makes no sense at all taken at face value, and has been portrayed inconsistently depending on what point the writers want to make. Why would a naturally hermaphroditic species adopt the human concepts of "male" and "female" in the first place?
I do like the show. It's entertaining, and a sincere attempt to recreate what worked about Star Trek in a way that Disc and Picard weren't. But the social commentary is just not well done. The Orville writers aren't visionaries or philosophers on the same level as the classic Trek writers.