“If I had time travel I’d kill Hitler” “If I had time travel I’d stop my favourite politician getting assassinated” you’re all thinking way too small. If I had time travel I’d stop Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from dying on the moon due to Soviet sabotage, kicking off the Great Nuclear War and devastating half of the planet.
the problem with “sam is the real hero of lotr” discourse is that it fails to recognize one key thing that the films (and the books, iirc) make a point of trying to convey: neither sam nor frodo could have made it all the way to mt. doom without the other there to bear his part of the journey’s burden. frodo is able to carry the ring so far bc sam is there to carry hope for him, and sam is able to carry hope so far bc frodo is there to carry the ring. in this essay, i will
An aspect of Star Trek lore that isn’t being made fun of enough is how many different kinds of radiation there are whose entire purpose is being convenient for the plot.
Admittedly, some of these are real (marked in green), but most of them are made up.
Hawking radiation isn’t marked green because while it is a real (theoretical) thing, the Hawking radiation in Star Trek is something else entirely.