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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Would Sentinel Island still be untouched in the Star Trek Universe? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts

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If you haven't heard of it, this island has a population that the world has collectively decided to leave alone, mostly because they have proven, on multiple occasions, that they absolutely do not want visitors. Like, arrow-to-death anyone attempting to land or even visit near their shores.

This probably cannot go on forever... but maybe, it could. Essentially, we are already implementing a 'Prime Directive' of sorts here. Would the 23rd, 24th, ... centuries in Star Trek canon still have this little island on Earth, isolated from not just from Earth's own unified Federation society, but from the greater Federation races? What steps would the Federation and Earth take to maintain their isolation and the ecosystem on which they depend?

Would make for an interesting episode, or at least a cool side-note reference in one :)

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[–] ripcord 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Thanks for this, I hadn't heard about them before.

I thought this was a good history, and I'm surprised no one has demanded storming the island by force or something stupider:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2018/11/30/everything-we-know-about-the-isolated-sentinelese-people-of-north-sentinel-island/

Edit: fixed link.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wait till you hear about Christians.

[–] ripcord 1 points 7 months ago

I don't even remember what the original (wrong) link I had posted was that you were replying to here :). Sounds interesting

[–] Confused_Emus 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

At least one idiot tried, and he got what he fucking deserved.

[–] elephantium 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's ludicrous to describe a lone missionary as "storming the island by force".

I agree that it was a foolish move on his part, though.

[–] Confused_Emus 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm aware he didn't storm the island by force - I didn't use those words. The implication was that he went where it was made abundantly clear he wasn't wanted - more than once - and suffered the consequences.

[–] elephantium 1 points 6 months ago

The comment you responded to used those words, though.

I’m surprised no one has demanded storming the island by force

At least one idiot tried

Re-reading it, I suppose you meant to invoke "something stupider" which does make sense. Carry on!

[–] radicalautonomy 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Odd link to post, but okay.

[–] ripcord 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Ah jeeze. They have one of those stupid setups where if you scroll far enough you get to the next article transparently. And it actually changes the URL. I'd gotten to the end of tbe article I meant to post, but when I copied the URL it was for the next article.

Fixed the link.

[–] radicalautonomy 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Lol, I figured it was something like that. 😂 But romantic relationship style link was good stuff, too!