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[-] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 5 points 42 minutes ago

The face you make when you learn trek lore predicts WW3 starts in 2026

Stop the world, I wanna get off.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 minutes ago

For any non-trekkies still living in New Zealand...you may wish to relocate.

[-] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

As long as everyone is 100% instantly vaporized I'm cool with it. It'd suck if anyone had to suffer the aftermath.

[-] yakko@feddit.uk 4 points 54 minutes ago

Honestly I'd being in the Star Trek timeline would be worth it to die horribly. I don't even care at this point.

[-] KyuubiNoKitsune 27 points 3 hours ago

We already missed the Bell riots.

But we do (did) already have "Sanctuary Cities"

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

the ones in 1974?

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 64 points 4 hours ago

Star Trek promised us Irish unification two years ago, so I'm not holding my breath

[-] jupyter_rain@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 4 hours ago

I guess this needs to happen for WW3 to start. Clearly.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 hours ago

The Eugenics War and the 2nd American Civil War were supposed to preceded WWIII. When the Bell Riots didn't happen we changed the timeline.

[-] bufalo1973@piefed.social 5 points 2 hours ago

That was the original timeline. But after so many time travel, who knows?

[-] 13igTyme@piefed.social 14 points 4 hours ago

But we missed the bell riots. We aren't in the federation universe. We're likely in the Teran universe.

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 6 points 2 hours ago

One miiiiight argue that 2020 BLM protests count? In a way? Too early, granted.

[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 28 points 4 hours ago

On the plus side, the Vulcans then notice us and introduce themselves a couple of decades after the war ends.

C'mon ya green-blooded freaks! Do it early!

[-] homes@piefed.world 26 points 4 hours ago
[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 23 points 4 hours ago

it's only 7% of earth current population. That's not bad right?

[-] starik@lemmy.zip 25 points 4 hours ago

WW2 killed about 3% of the world’s population.

[-] albbi@piefed.ca 13 points 4 hours ago

The ratio of wounded to dead is around 4 to 1.

[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 10 points 4 hours ago

Most people who die in wars are civilians. Especially if WW3 goes nuclear, that would probably be most of them. However that is basically just nuking all major cities in China or so.

I could easily see nukes being dropped on the US, albeit they'd mysteriously only target Blue states and historically Blue cities.

[-] homoludens@feddit.org 6 points 4 hours ago
[-] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 hours ago

How about stubbing your toe?

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 hours ago

Maybe everything that was supposed to happen in the Star Trek universe up to this point is all going happen all at once on December 31, 2026

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 18 points 4 hours ago

Meh, Ireland is supposed to be reunited by now.

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 hours ago

I blame the temporal war.

Clearly Irish unification leads to Star Trek timeline equally as much as the forever war, and was easier to prevent.

[-] mimavox@piefed.social 2 points 2 hours ago
[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 3 points 2 hours ago
[-] mimavox@piefed.social 1 points 37 minutes ago

Aha. My bad.

[-] usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 hours ago

Committing to any real world dates was a fundamental misstep. They knew it was a bad idea from the start! That's the whole reason stardates were invented! But they couldn't help themselves.

[-] cattywampas@lemmy.world 13 points 3 hours ago

Counterpoint: they should have just kept real world dates without worrying that they "didn't happen." We all know Star Trek is made up. Stop trying to reconcile it with real history.

[-] usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Not my preference. Star Trek was made to be about our future, not the future of an alternate past.

SNW seems to have formalized the concept of a sliding timeline, attributed to temporal cold war shenanigans. I hate that justification, but the sliding timeline approach is probably the best one for how the franchise has developed. The Eugenics Wars are will happen 20 to 30 years from now... whenever now is.

[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 hours ago

I honestly doubt, that it would take that long. Nukes can end a war pretty quickly.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Nukes can fast-forward the world into a late-war environment in a couple of hours. But it's not actually known if they can end a war.

Unless you are talking about those "Earth's crust destroying" nukes. But no country has actually built those.

It's probably do a lot of surface damage in they weren't air burst nukes

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

If they start giving out drugs to troops, I'm signing back up!

[-] Devadander@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

They were already doing this in WWII

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, but we're not still fighting WW2, lol

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