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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I recall that artificial gravity was used to disable enemies in Andromeda. Once. I never understood why turning it up (or down, or on and off again) was never used to slow movement of invasions. Well, I understand it from the production standpoint, but it’s one of the things that always bugged me.

    Another is the life support. There’s no reason whatsoever for the hallways to cool down, nor to lose oxygen. Without life support, oxygen levels should slowly decrease in inhabited rooms, people should slowly start to lose conciousness, with no sharp cutoff point when it becomes lethal. I know it’s more difficult for exciting storytelling, but it’s common knowledge, I would expect. I don’t get why more people aren’t annoyed by it.


  • Another reason is that cancer is made out of your own cells. There are not two distinct types of cells, yours and cancer. There are different kind of mutations in cells, and if cells get enough of bad mutations, they start to behave like cancer. If you kill too few cells, cancer survives. You kill too many and you kill enough of slightly mutated cells that behave normally that you kill the patient. If you kill just enough, you keep alive some of the cells that are close to cancer but not quite there yet. It’s easuer for them to become another cancer than for your average cell. And it’s much worse than that. The cancer cells are not all the same, they are very variable. And sone of them are resistant to treatment. While treating camcer, you kill the suceptible cells and give relative advantage to the resistant ones. So by treating cancer, you might be breeding more dangerous cancer versions that will be harder to treat later, if you keep some of the cells alive. And it’s very hard to kill all the dangerous cells without also killing the patient.