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demilypyro

As utopian as the franchise is I don't actually want Star Trek to correctly predict the future cause that would mean in our time we get world war 3 with drug-addicted fascist supersoldiers. Real ones know Star Trek is post-apocalyptic actually

demilypyro

Me: haha the Irish unification of 2024

Also me: uh oh the bell riots, the eugenics wars, the nuclear bombs

shadofist

Don't think I'll ever get over the fact that so much of star trek history is supposed to be a warning that "HEY THIS IS WHERE THINGS WILL GO IF YOU DO NOTHING TO STOP THEM" and then we did nothing and now the only difference between sanctuary districts and skid row in la is that the walls are made of law instead of concrete and they don't even adopt the pretense of it being to help the people living there

demilypyro

Star Trek said things are gonna get worse before they get better and rn we have to live through the getting worse part

mercurysystem
frownyalfred

Clark being like “well what if moved the Earth” in justice league doom is the funniest thing ever because you can literally see Bruce have a minor stroke under his cowl, take a breath, and then say “if I had a week, I couldn’t list all the reasons why that’s a terrible idea,” between gritted teeth

you know he went home to Alfred right after that, flopped facedown on his bed, and said “you won’t believe what Superman said today.”

poor Bruce. this is earth’s most powerful defender, a man who probably skipped high school physics and thinks nudging the earth out of orbit “for just a quick second” isn’t “a big deal, Bruce”

thisisdefinitelyacreativename
slipstreamborne

You know, if we DO make contact with aliens within the next hundred years-ish, enough people are going to give the Vulcan salute to the first alien they see in real life (whether out of quivering excitement, lol memeitude, or sheer awkward, panicked grasping for the one prominent alien greeting nested in the social conscious) that there's a solid chance that it becomes a thing we're known for as humans.

Live Long and Prosper, my friends.

thesaltofcarthage

Leonard Nimoy would openly, unironically weep with joy if that happened.

He helped develop the Vulcan salute based on what he saw certain people doing during services at his temple. The splayed fingers represent the Hebrew letter shin  ש‎, and the men (I don’t know if they are rabbis) do it with both hands. It represents a blessing.

In an interview, Nimoy mentioned how delighted he was that people the world over greeted each other with “the Vulcan salute,” because it meant “they were going out and blessing each other.” 

I’ve always been an atheist, but I still think it’s a lovely sentiment to greet someone with “May you have a long and bountiful life, and I wish for good things to happen to you.” 

elfwreck

It's an excellent greeting.

It's non-threatening. You not only can't hold a weapon in that hand, the position itself is awkward enough to be useless for combat. It's not something that easily switches to a punch or strike.

It doesn't involve touch contact - avoids both cultural barriers to touch and problems of disease or incompatible skin types. (Don't have to shake the hand of the volcano aliens.)

It's clearly deliberate, unlike some kinds of bowing. And it can be mirrored by a wide range of body types, even if they don't have "hands" or "fingers" - an octopus-being that holds up a tentacle in response would be recognized.

And the sentiment it conveys (the Vulcan version; I have no idea about the original Jewish meaning) is likewise pretty universally acceptable.

random2908

It’s the Priestly Blessing (although in some Reform synagogues the rabbi will do it rather than calling up all congregants of priestly lineage to do it--i.e. everyone whose last name is Cohen or Katz or Kaplan or whatever is supposed to go up and collectively bless the community together).

The words match the oldest excerpt of the Bible found by archeologists, on amulets in grave goods dating from before the big redaction project that actually produced the Bible in its written forms. (NB: Jewish amulets usually take the form of written text; this is even more true in the modern era.) There is a real sense in which this blessing predates Jewish religion as we usually understand it.

The translation is “May HaShem bless and keep you, may HaShem’s face shine on you and show you favor, may HaShem lift his face to you and give you peace.”

In the Jewish religious context, “may HaShem bless and keep you” means, like, may God decide that you’re going to keep living a while longer. So the benediction literally means Live Long and Prosper in Peace.

mercurysystem
we’ve still got four days left to turn this around brothers VOTE HELMET AND HOODIE!!!!
thisisdefinitelyacreativename
well i watched the first avengers movie the year it came out and then didn’t watch another marvel movie until ragnarok so there's that