Based on a comment thread featuring @SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip, @steventhedev@lemmy.world, and Sir-Not-Appearing-In-This-Meme
Well, they’re spaceships so i’d say anywhere between zero and one atmospheres.
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I’d think it’s at least one atmosphere no? Safety margins and all that.
Probably significantly more since it’s apparently capable of planetary landings.
Edit: okay just realized it’s about pressure differential of course, or whatever it’s called.
Depends on which side of the wall. I’m sure the ISS would turn into a crushed soda can if the pressures were reversed.
Nah, the ISS would be fine at 1 atmosphere. It’s a bunch of cylinders made to contain 1 atmosphere. That’d be pretty strong for quite a number of atmospheres if you submerged it or put it in fluidic space. I was just making the same joke Professor Farnsworth makes in Futurama.
The person you responded to said reversed, so 1 atmosphere on the outside, vacuum on the inside. I agree it would be crushed.
would make a good troll in a crossoverHow many atmospheres
Professor Farnsworth: Well, it’s a space ship, so I’d say anywhere between zero and one.
But Klingons and Romulans actually are different. The Monty Python joke is that swallows are migrating birds so the difference between European swallows and African ones isn’t a difference in species or at least individuals but season. They live in summer in Europe and in winter in Africa.
Or am I missing the joke and Romulans and Klingons use the same ships for some reason?
No, it’s referring to a separate non-migratory African swallow species, as indicated by the guard saying “But then of course, African swallows are non-migratory.”
Just that their ships are both referred to as “Bird-of-Prey” thus causing the need for differentiation.
I belive that in TOS the models were inconsistently used for both Klingons and Romulans.
Romulans first in “Balance of Terror” then repurposed name using a different design for Klingons in STIII. Plus some retconning in ENT.
No way. The naming of the “Klingon Bird of Prey” was in STiii? I’d always just assumed that it was TOS.
The Klingons probably stole a bird of prey from the Romulans at some point and managed to create more of them. Would explain why their ship design barely changes over like 300 years lol.
“You’ve not seen a Bird of Prey until you’ve seen the original Klingon!”
I thought they did use the same ships - I seem to recall reading somewhere that it was because of an alliance at some point, but I don’t remember if that was in a non-canon book.
The real reason was to reduce production costs of course.
Huh I always thought romulans had the bird of prey and klingons had the warbird, but it looks like they both used both kinds. Kinda wish they’d kept them separate
In the original Star Trek series the Romulans were later using Klingon ships because someone in the production team had stepped on the original Romulan Warbird model and broken it. It was cheaper to write a few lines about enemies exchanging tech with each other than to build a new one ;)
