Climate change and acceptance of science

I decided (yet again) to save a reply I'd written in a discussion under a YouTube video clip an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine about a group of genetically modified geniuses. Three of them geniuses arrive on the station, and make startling long-term analyses about the Dominion War. The analyses are complex and also correct.

One of the YouTube commenters then asked, if the writers had in mind the climate scientists, their predictions, and how many people in the public — even decisionmakers — would dismiss these scientific conclusions.

My response was, that

The episode wasn't particularly on climate change, but about how ready the 'normal' people would be to accept accurate science, even if they did could not comprehend it.

For example, we are able and willing to use all kinds of gadgets despite the fact, that there is a huge amount of science behind them. We are able to take care of individual plants without knowing exactly how they work, but knowing, that they need sunlight, water, nutrients, and bees (for pollination).

What many people are unable to grasp wrt the climate of the Earth, is, that they fail to treat it as such a gadget or a plant that also needs care and maintenance, such as: 'Grow more plants' and 'exhaust less CO2 and other dangerous micromaterials'.

In many ways, the science fiction show "The Expanse" has a very accurate view of how the climate of the Earth might have progressed in the future. There, the icecaps of the Earth have melted quite a bit, and everything is swimming, with 30 (yes, thirty) billion people inhabiting the planet.

Red Matter

In reply to a post in IMDb forums on Star Trek XI.

My theory on this is that the Red Matter black hole that Spock Prime created gained in size by way of consuming the sheer energy of the supernova, thus enabling both Narada and the Jellyfish to pass through. Also note that both ships were very state of the art for their time, so they were within their means to traverse the black hole reasonably safely.

The black hole that Nero had his crew create within Vulcan's core did not gain much in energy compared to the supernova, and therefore remained the size of a very powerful peanut (equal to the size of the amount of red matter separated from its larger whole at the Jellyfish), which then sucked the planet's very unfortunate contents into it, maybe letting the contents in their basic and compressed form be ejected at whichever other side, as if passing though a one-hole meat grinder.

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