“Beam me up, Scotty” is a quote as iconic as Star Trek‘s once-magical automatic doors ― even if Captain Kirk didn’t actually say it. While Star Trek wasn’t the first sci-fi creation to teleport its characters around, its pleasingly sparkly transport scenes quickly captured fans’ imaginations. However, what is beamed up isn’t necessarily what is beamed down.
Simply put, Star Trek transporters, if they were real, would kill their users along the way. No matter the technicalities over moving versus duplicating the bits that make up a Trek crewman, you cannot blast a person into atoms without ending their brain functions and destroying them. You just can’t. Try it (don’t try it). So depending on how lazy a character is, a commute from a starship bridge to the bathroom could be the last thing they ever do.
It’s something that’s fascinated and vexed...
Simply put, Star Trek transporters, if they were real, would kill their users along the way. No matter the technicalities over moving versus duplicating the bits that make up a Trek crewman, you cannot blast a person into atoms without ending their brain functions and destroying them. You just can’t. Try it (don’t try it). So depending on how lazy a character is, a commute from a starship bridge to the bathroom could be the last thing they ever do.
It’s something that’s fascinated and vexed...
- 3/25/2024
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
A full-time career in online video can be a pretty demanding gig. Thanks to all the writing, filming, editing, uploading, and audience building the job requires, it can be difficult for creators to find time for their families, businesses, and personal projects.
So how are social stars negotiating their busy schedules? For one of them, the answer involves a personalized planner. Kristy Scott, best known as one half of the YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram duo The Scotts, has launched a productivity aid in partnership with North + Third. The purveyor of “custom notebooks” is now selling a planner designed by Scott. The book features the phrase “I promise I’m productive” emblazoned across its front cover. Depending on what your work habits are like, the veracity of that statement may vary.
Scott’s day-to-day is quite busy. When she’s not starring in short-form clips alongside her husband Desmond, she raises her two boys,...
So how are social stars negotiating their busy schedules? For one of them, the answer involves a personalized planner. Kristy Scott, best known as one half of the YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram duo The Scotts, has launched a productivity aid in partnership with North + Third. The purveyor of “custom notebooks” is now selling a planner designed by Scott. The book features the phrase “I promise I’m productive” emblazoned across its front cover. Depending on what your work habits are like, the veracity of that statement may vary.
Scott’s day-to-day is quite busy. When she’s not starring in short-form clips alongside her husband Desmond, she raises her two boys,...
- 8/16/2022
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
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