Well you see, the people in charge of tuning the replicator just need to be motivated by death, and then they’ll find a workaround for literally any shortcoming!

Cant replicate a phased electron catalyzer and we don’t have a backup? Well if you don’t, everyone on this ship and that planet are dead in 20 minutes, so just invert the hadron matrix and it won’t be a problem anymore!

(repeat every other season)

Imagine someone using the same “that was stupid therefore they deserved the punishment” logic with another country attacking some US facility…

The only things it needs are power and base material.

The problem with complex things like starships and the like are some things can’t be replicated, they have to be manufactured, refined, or otherwise produced.

Gotta have something to cripple how overpowered they are.

“this is the future the left wants under COMMIESOCIALMARXISM!”

dystopian picture of current day late-stage-capitalism in the US

I’d spend the rest of my life trying to uncover every secret I can.

Imagine how many secret passages there must be…

Their feelings.

But you see, it’s different because the US is only supplying the orphan crushing machine, keeping it running, and making more. It’s okay as long as we aren’t actually throwing the orphans in ourselves!

This has the same energy as “I hate my wife/husband” boomer humor.

Nobody needs/wants the white liberal to speak for them, but another voice in the crowd demanding something surely can’t be a bad thing?

Maybe for you, I routinely leave mine at home.

You poll them on policies, and suddenly everyone is a “far left extremist” for wanting safety nets and basic standards for human existence.

Former coworker kept saying he was republican, but he disagreed with them on a fundamental level about nearly every social issue, including guns.

He was all for anything and everything about collective bargaining, the workers uniting against management, but god forbid you use the “U” word.

Agreed every day about this social safety net needs expanded, that program needs better funding, more programs like this or that should exist for people in need, but once the dreaded “S” word comes out, suddenly everyone is a commie. Cause you know how socialism is actually communism and all that.

It’s okay to admit when you’re wrong, you know?

That was at a specific rate though, and assumed you were needing to be present on the digging device.

I’ve been wondering how much deeper we could make it with the advances in materials tech.

The biggest issues are heat around the head, since it’s getting super hot down that far, as well as twisting the bit without warping the shaft. By the time the energy is transferred across that much piping, things tend to get very twisty.

I bet by now we could easily drill into the hollow earth!

Completely unrealistic.

The cops would have been there already dragging people out the doors to beat them away from the cameras inside.

“oh a new form of power generation? Sweet! looks inside it’s making steam to spin a turbine…”

As former enlisted, I wonder if at any point while floating to the ground they thought to themselves “holy shit, I’m gonna die in a desert for pedophiles, why did I go along with this?”

At least one gets to think twice for now, but I doubt they will.

That’s why they scream until they die. They held it in all that time.

Those aren’t the eggs I’m looking for.

However, could you assist me in locating a ham?

Well, when you come back and read this I hope you had a good trip, since by now (2 hours later) you should be feeling it.

I decided after 3 bad trips, I’m just okay with not trying again.

Hope you have a great ride! If you see the Sky Snake, tell her I said hi.