What does this button do?
What does this button do?
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If 8-year-olds can understand calculus, I think 5-year-olds can understand basic self-preservation.
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I dunno. I've seen five year olds and their self preservation skills rely mostly on the ability to bounce
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Calculus isn't difficult. Pidgeon holing the general population into pushing symbols around on paper to algebraically satisfy a multiple choice exam for college credit is. At the end of the day, Calculus is just a way of describing rates of change oe how adding little parts form big parts.
The way we teach calculus completely misses the point of Calculus. In practice, you don't do Calculus with pen and paper. You do calculus by having a function and telling a computer to "do Calculus at it" to get the result. In public school, you begin learning functions in 6th grade.
The important part is understanding why and when you "Do Calculus at" something. I guess the figured all that out in Star Trek.
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On the one hand, yes, I agree with you, calculus is not that complicated, but at the same time, I think you'd be hard-pressed to teach even the basic concepts to your average adult today.
I loved that line in whichever TNG episode it was, because it was just an off-hand joke that shows how much humanity has advanced.
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Actually kids are surprisingly good at taking care of themselves. In recent decades some countries have gotten paranoid, and it's sad.
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Young children on starships are told that if they misbehave, Worf will come into their room at night and neglect them.
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Don’t tempt me with a good ti-…oh wait
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Some people are into that
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So basically, growing up Gen-X.
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Fucking feral. 😂 Bottle rocket fights and looking after yourself when you're home sick from school by the time you're 8
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Exactly that. I got my own keyring while in elementary school.
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Grade 3! My walk home from Fritz-Köhne was ~15 minutes in theory, but always took me like half an hour, counting the Pfennige to buy some sour candy at the corner store and also hit a playground on the way with friends. I was mandated a Schlüsselanhänger by my dad that I have lost and found over the years many times. Magically it always re-materialized, sometimes after my dad got home after work though. Waiting on the steps in front of your apartment building for 3-4 hours is not that fun.
How did we even survive without cellphones as a society? /s
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Let me put it this way.
When I was a kid I got a book at the Scholastic Book Fair. It was about a 11 year old boy who travels by himself from New York to Washington DC by train. At no point does any adult question him or threaten to call the police.
Heck, by today's standards "Stand By Me" would be rated X because it shows child abandonment.
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The original Sesame Street episodes are considered unsuitable for children https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/636022/sesame-street-early-controversies
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They showed a mom [Buffy St. Marie] breastfeeding her child back in 1977.
That would be considered R rating today
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Chopper, sick balls.
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Whenever a child misbehaves, a transporter clone is made and the original is vaporized while the clone watches. The lessons are learned fast.
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This is why it always bothered me that whether or not an unauthorized person can used the computer is dependent on episode.
In canon every console has biometric security, but there are several episodes where people, like Cardasians, just walk in and start pressing buttons.
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Even in the future, people are leaving their workstations unlocked and unattended
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In all fairness, you'd probably want to have overrides in case of emergency.
"Sorry captain, I can't stop the warp core from exploding, nor can I eject it because we're all turning into space lizards on account from the virus the away team picked up" is not a situation they want to find themselves in.
The cardasians being enemies with the Federation means they'd probably have spies working on finding those overrides.
Granted they didn't explain any of that, and it is 99.99% just lazy writing. But there could still be realistic in universe explanations.
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Computer! Raise this child. blip boop
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I not only trust my 5yo to stay unsupervised, I also trust her to keep her 2.5yo sister from drawing on the walls. Young children can be responsible if you give them the chance.
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Kids in Star Trek don’t need supervision, because kids in the future are extraordinarily well-behaved.
Well… Except for that one episode…
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and the other one where one had "imaginary friend" who turned out to be malovent and misunderstood human-offspring interaction, parenting and started attacking the enterprise out of defense for the child. the parents dint believe her, and dint moniter the child if she was just going through a phase, she was interacting with an alien that became aggressive.
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But that little girl was incredibly well behaved. It’s not her fault that some alien came along and pretended to be her imaginary friend until she misbehaved to the point she got noticed.
Even then, everyone was totally shocked at the idea of a misbehaving child
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Now, now, now, now, now, now, now, n- – Stop it; you hurt me! I want my father! I want my father!
That one? Or the one with a young Q? Or the one where Wesley gets himself the death penalty? Or when Wesley is into werewolves? Or when not-Tom Paris causes somebody to die by flying fancy? Are there episodes with children where they're not a problem? Besides that one with the drug discs, I suppose.
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The TNG Enterprise has an automatic fire suppression system. Also they mention multiple times the ship can clean itself to some degree.
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So the saucer will just explode instead
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Sounds much more manageable
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The computer is probably capable of monitoring the kids. The kids know they are monitored. If you were a kid and could replicate toys to your imagination, you would be contently playing on the floor too.