Where’s my transparent aluminum?!?
Would ya look at that. I hadn’t a clue. Thanks!
Stuff like Gorilla Glass and Apple’s “sapphire” glass used on smartphone screens are also compounds of aluminum. You’re very likely carrying transparent aluminum in your pocket right now and didn’t even know it.
Yup here’s a reddit post from 4yrs ago on it https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/kfpmnn/aluminium_oxynitride_aka_alon_is_the_real_world/
sapphire?
Uh, Scotty. You wanna run that by me again?
Their population is 135,000 as of 2018 according to Wikipedia. Although local populations ie in the Arabian Sea might be at risk having been genetically isolated for up to 70,000 years and in smaller numbers
Just because they’re better now doesn’t mean horrible people can’t destroy them more effectively the next time :/
“why be happy about good things when bad things can still happen?” - the voice of trauma
Sorry for my ignorance, but why is this attributed to Star Trek? Because the show had a cultural impact, which helped conservation efforts? Or is it something that happened in the show, relevant to whales? (Nothing against Star Trek, of course.)
The plot of the fourth movie, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, is a slightly off the wall plot.
A giant alien space probe arrives in orbit of Earth making weird noises, it sucks up all the power from ships in orbit and power grids on the surface and starts evaporating the oceans. Turns out it wants to talk to humpback whales, which in this timeline were hunted to extinction in the 20th century, so there are no humpback whales on earth for the probe to talk to, and it’s literally tearing up the oceans to find them.
Meanwhile, Kirk and his crew of main characters are on Vulcan (Spock’s home planet) in possession of a stolen Klingon warship which they’ve been preparing for the flight back to Earth to face court martial, because of the events of the previous movie. They learn of the problem before they reach Earth, they figure out that the probe wants to talk to whales. “can we pretend to be whales?” “we can make the sounds, but we don’t speak the language.” So they just casually decide to time travel by doing a high speed lap of the sun. No shit they just fly really fast around the sun and arrive in the 1980’s, where it just so happens the Bay Aquarium has a breeding pair of captive humpback whales on display. Meanwhile, the trip through time ran them out of fuel. Cue a LucasArts style multi-problem plot where they have to figure out how to refuel their ship, modify it to carry humpback whales, find and acquire the whales, and then get back to the future.
Spoiler alert: They do. They crash their ship into 23rd century San Fransisco bay and release the whales, which do this whole new age thing with the probe, which then goes “Understandable, have a nice day” sucks in its volleyball and floats away. Then that court martial scene which is actually part of the previous movie not this one ensues, where Kirk is punished with a reward.
TL;DR the main plot of the fourth movie involves the Enterprise’s crew, but not the Enterprise, going back in time to bring humpback whales back from extinction.
They discussed their plight a lot in Star Trek IV. Some relevant quotes and context here: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Whale
In HS I dropped acid and went to see this in theaters.
With Bester in the background I immediately distrust their hand in it…
Yea, who would trust a psi-cop
Doesnt the NG ship have entire sections of water filled hulls for whales and dolphins?
“Cetacean ops” is the name of the section.
Also, even ships much smaller than the Galaxy-class have it, too. It’s shown on-screen in Lower Decks!
And Prodigy (though after Lower Decks):
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The first mention of Cetacean Ops, in the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual published in 1991, predates SeaQuest DSV by two years.
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