Jason Shankel's discussions

* There must be someone who can make a computer do something that no one ever imagined a computer could do, and that person must be asked "how did you do that?" Read more

Exactly. The Doppler Effect is the only implication of a moving wave source. Each wave moves at the same speed in all directions. Odd that anyone expected otherwise. Read more

Actually, no one has ever adequately explained why you would assume that the velocity of the source would affect the velocity of light. Yeah, "if you throw a baseball..." yadda yadda yadda but the difference is that the baseball exists in the same field as your arm and the vehicle you're riding in. Light doesn't. Read more

Correction: worst Christmas party that didn't involve wookies. Read more

And naturally Clark would comply, cuz screw the people of Gotham...Bruce has an idiom to fulfill! Read more

Yeah, but the fact that the let him join Star Fleet means he was inherently already determined to be a being with rights. Otherwise his commission is meaningless and he's still not Star Fleet's property. Read more

Yeah, whenever someone blames real-world violence on the media, I just want to strangle them. Read more

In the Syncopyverse, beard = superhero midlife crisis Read more

What's that you say? Bane is holding Gotham City hostage with a nuclear weapon? Let Bruce handle it. I've got shit to do. Read more

Right, I get that. I'll try again: the reason we can't travel to Proxima Centauri in less than four years time under normal conditions is because nothing can travel faster than light. The solution presented here is to alter space so that light itself...any beam of light following your course...will ALSO arrive in… Read more

You think Mudd's women are women...but it is an illusion...a comforting lie. Read more

Clearly it's Cyrano Jones. Khan and Mitchell never encountered Klingons. And the red vine covered planet is clearly in late stage Tribillitis. Read more

"Get in there you big furry oaf. I don't care what you smell." - Star Wars Read more

Fiddling with the scale of what you're moving through is fiddling with the rate at which you're moving. Read more

The silver bullet is the Dred Scott parallel. The writer felt it was too on the nose and she wanted to dilute the connection and Martin told her that connection is what makes the story powerful. Read more

It's a great episode, but there is something that doesn't make much sense. Read more

That's what I mean by increasing the speed of light. The usual construction is to find some way to beat a light beam to a destination, which creates causality problems. But if light always arrives before you do, then you're fine. It's semantics, but reducing the distance one needs to travel for a short period is… Read more

My sense is our view would be that Proxima Centauri snaps really close and then really far away, taking the ship with it. But I could be wrong. Read more

Yeah, again, they're not traveling at high speed so you don't need to shield the ship very much. But all the debris you do encounter between here and Proxima would accumulate up in front of the ship. Read more

Yeah, I don't think it can be perfectly stationary. It's just not moving much compared to four light years. Read more