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- By the end of 2026, how useful do you think agentic/multi-agent AI systems will actually be in your daily work or personal projects? Posted on March 11th, 2026 | 8647 votes
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- By the end of 2026, how useful do you think agentic/multi-agent AI systems will actually be in your daily work or personal projects? Posted on March 11th, 2026 | 40 comments
I keep on searching for a Heart of Gold (Score:5, Funny)
Missing option... (Score:5, Interesting)
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Translation. Stinky movie, held together by his acting. But just barely.
As for missing options. ANDROMIDA ASCENDANT
I chose BSG since it was my 2nd choice. Closer to existing technology than all the other ships up there. I.e. No shields, Big Weapons, Heavy steal hull. It even dropped like a stone when they jumped into the a
Pattern recognition (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Pattern recognition (Score:4, Insightful)
Not, of course, that humans can't be fooled, but it takes more work and its less certain.
Re:Missing option... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Missing option... (Score:5, Interesting)
It was Sci-Fi when the book 20,000 leagues under the sea was written. I think the design Disney gave it was pretty darned cool.
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Re:I keep on searching for a Heart of Gold (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I keep on searching for a Heart of Gold (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, I know. Nobody likes a smartass.
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Re:I keep on searching for a Heart of Gold (Score:5, Funny)
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what about (Score:4, Insightful)
DARK STAR! (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:I keep on searching for a Heart of Gold (Score:4, Insightful)
Just on looks, it'd have to be Hotblack Desatio's stunt ship, with working teleport boths, of course. Starship Bistromath [wikipedia.org] would be my second choice, though.
Re:I keep on searching for a Heart of Gold (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I keep on searching for a Heart of Gold (Score:5, Interesting)
Space Battleship Yamato
Mesopotamia
Gekko
Archangel
Bebop
DS-12 "Toy Box"
Von Braun
Basroil
--ahh, I could go on for days.
No votes for Ryo-Ohki? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I keep on searching for a Heart of Gold (Score:5, Funny)
Oblig. TARDIS line. (Score:5, Interesting)
Mine, by the way, looks like a manhole cover.
Missing options:
Vader's TIE fighter
DEATH STAR (that's no moon...)
The Puppetteer's traveling solar system.
Lone Star's Winnebago
also missing (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Oblig. TARDIS line. (Score:5, Insightful)
Although my vote just had to go with the Tardis.
Heart of Gold would have been an honourable mention.
Also slipped under the rader (Score:5, Funny)
Red Dwarf.. No wait..
The Jupiter Mining Corporation transport vehicle Starbug [wikipedia.org]
This is the Jupiter Mining Corporation transport vehicle Starbug!
Now hear this! 'cause it's only comming once..
We surrender! Totally and completely without condition!
Re:Also slipped under the rader (Score:5, Funny)
Kryten: Are you sure sir? It does mean changing the bulb.
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Re:Oblig. TARDIS line. (Score:4, Insightful)
More missing options:
USS Voyager
Andromeda Ascendant
Starship Bistromath
Veeger (Voyager 6)
USS Defiant
Vanguard (the generation ship from Orphans of the Sky)
Re:Oblig. TARDIS line. (Score:5, Insightful)
Super Star Destroyer Executor
USS Sulaco (or maybe its dropships), which was the first thing to come to mind when I saw the poll (besides Death Star)
USS Excelsior
Klingon Bird of Prey
Slave I
X-Wing starfighter
Or heck, even the Seaquest or the rig from The Abyss or Sphere
There are too many to list, really, but c'mon...two Enterprises, but no Death Star?!?! We got Death Star! We got Death Star!
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Pyro-GL
2001 (Score:5, Insightful)
ObMST (Score:5, Funny)
What about the Lexx? (Score:5, Interesting)
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Serenity! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Serenity! (Score:5, Insightful)
Part of what helped make Serenity a great ship in the mind of the viewers is that you really got a feel for the layout of the ship [wikipedia.org] (see Set Design). This was because they basically built the whole ship in two separate sets (the upper half and lower half attached by a ladder column). In a couple episodes, you actually follow the crew as they make their way from one end of the ship to the other. This helped the ship feel more real which makes it that much more likable.
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If only there were decent tea on the Falcon...
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White Star from B5 (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:White Star from B5 (Score:4, Funny)
Which NCC-1701? (Score:4, Insightful)
Either way...that was my first encounter with Sci Fi. So it gets my vote.
More options? (Score:4, Informative)
The Betty - from Aliens 4(?).
The Sulacco - from Aliens I
Klaatu's ship fro The Day The Earth Stood Still.
That pyrimid thingy from the original Stargate.
Re:More options? (Score:5, Informative)
Okay, how about a more or less complete selection [merzo.net] of missing options to this poll, with images, all to scale. One of the best sites on the internet in my humble opinion.
I want a General products hull (Score:4, Funny)
The general products [wikipedia.org] hull will protect me from danger.
A #2 hull with a statis field will keep me safe tyvm (as long as we don't go near antimatter)
Galaxy Quest (Score:5, Funny)
CPP Potkustartti (Score:3)
Tough Choice!!! (Score:5, Insightful)
It certainly is the most difficult that I can remember.
Don't forget Culture ship names (Score:5, Interesting)
I love I.M. Banks's ship names [saunalahti.fi].
My favorites are "Very Little Gravitas Indeed" a General System Vehicle or "Frank Exchange Of Views" an Offensive Unit.
Re:Don't forget Culture ship names (Score:5, Interesting)
Wahey!
Also, the list you linked to is missing those from Look to Windward [wikipedia.org] - where two people at a party have a slanging match using ship names they've heard.
I think my favourite name is from the original Consider Phlebas - the somewhat cryptic GSV Eschatologist (temporary name). Literally took me years to figure that one out...
Millennium, not Millenium. (Score:5, Funny)
Eagles from Space: 1999 (Score:3, Interesting)
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Out of all the spaceships listed, the Eagle is about the only one we might be able to create as a spacecraft.
Shame about the safety record though. If I remember, wasn't i
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There's a whole shitload of things about Space: 1999 that can never be out figured. Like: how come at least two aliens, light years apart, looked and sounded like Brian Blessed? Why could the camera never, ever get a good focus on Babs Bain? Why was that Australian bloke always shouting?
And what the bloody hell were the scriptwriters thinking?
Where are the Futurama fans? (Score:5, Funny)
I mean, think of all they did with the ship in the cartoon! They made deliveries with it, and...um, made deliveries with it. Who wouldn't choose that as their favorite ship?
Space Battleship Yamato... (Score:3, Interesting)
But which looks the fastest? (Score:4, Informative)
Liberator for the win! (Score:5, Informative)
or the replacement Scorpio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpio_(Blake's_7) [wikipedia.org]
Now git off mah lawn!
This poll has too many missing options. (Score:4, Informative)
Pillar of Autumn?
Starship Titanic?
Starship Bistromath?
USCSS Nostromo?
SDF-1 Macross?
Gay Deceiver?
UESC Marathon?
Kobayashi Maru?
Ryo-Ohki?
oh hell, just go here [wikipedia.org] and here [wikipedia.org].
For those without Geek cards. (Score:5, Informative)
Millenium Falcon [wikipedia.org] Han Solo's Love Mobile in Star Wars
NCC-1701 [wikipedia.org] The Original Star Trek Enterprise
TARDIS [wikipedia.org] Time and Relative Dimensions in Space! Dr. Who police box thingy. It's bigger on the inside. (Like a vagina)
Battlestar Galactica [wikipedia.org] Most peopel tend to like the new series in the war against the cylons.
Moya [wikipedia.org] Farscape! Cool Sci-Fi flick. (Aren't all of these from cool sci-fi flicks?)
NCC-1701-D [wikipedia.org] This would be the Next Genreation Star Trek Enterprise with some bald-shakespearian-actor guy as captain.
H.M.S. CowboyNeal -- You must be new here.
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Heart of Gold [wikipedia.org] What are the odds that the link is wrong?
Couple of missing options (Score:4, Insightful)
Here are some that are more memorable to me:
- Liberator (Blake's 7)
- The Cobra Mk III (Elite, the Original!)
- TCS Tiger's Claw (from the game, not that... film... thing...)
- USCSS Nostromo (Alien #1)
- White Base (Gundam)
- Argama (Z Gundam and ZZ Gundam)
- The bloody Death Star
- Solo Ship (Space Runaway Ideon)
and, of course,- Der schnelle Raumkreuzer Orion [wikipedia.org]! (OK, not sure if any non-Germans know this one
;-)
I need a life...SDF-1 (Score:5, Interesting)
The SDF-1 was certainly for me the mother of all space fortresses.
(Note to all rabid fans - I know I'm a lightweight as fans of this seried go; please don't flame me for lumping Macross and Robotech together, I'm on your side here, honest =)
Re:SDF-1 (Score:4, Insightful)
Well, it wasn't exactly teleportation... though it seemed like it because of the relative distance travled (earth to pluto) and the relative period of time. I think they described it as a space fold, but basicly faster than light travel. The aircraft carrier on each arm was rather a choice to make use of materials that got sucked in their fold. It wasn't really clear in the english edition (there were many things unclear) that there were space carriers inroute to the SDF-1 to dock but were destroyed.
In the series, the earth was basicly destroyed with the exception of those who lived on the SDF-1. But it wasn't so much the ship it self that offered the greatest defence, but the culture. In Robotech they presented protoculture as some form of alien engery source where it was ment to be old culture.
Size and relative scale is shown here [merzo.net] and here [merzo.net].
As a fan of Iain M. Banks' Culture novels... (Score:5, Funny)
Nostromo (Score:4, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostromo_(Alien) [wikipedia.org]
Ready-made list of "Missing Options" (Score:3, Informative)
Good poll... (Score:5, Funny)
Firefly in BSG (Score:4, Interesting)
The Nostromo of course! (Score:4, Interesting)
Let's see one of those other ships haul a big ass refinery across the galaxy...
Maybe I'm over thinking this... (Score:5, Interesting)
I guess it partly shows my age, since it is beat handily by the NCC-1701-D (STNG)
Here however is how my selection process went, favoring hard-sci-fi elements:
Serenity (Firefly), Not really any true sci-fi underpinnings. Firefly is a study in frontier justice, mercantilism, and totalitarianism. Points for utilitarian look, but way too heavy look for a real space freighter. Sure it hauls cargo, but damn, all the steelwork would be hard to get into orbit. Points for originality.
Millenium [sic] Falcon (should be Millennium Falcon from STAR-WARS I-VI) No true sci-fi underpinnings. Just a conveyance in a Space Opera. Even manages to mangle scientific distance and time measurements. Points for cool functional asymmetric look.
Tardis from Dr. Who. Functions on Technobabble. Just a plot device for time travel paradox stories. Points for originality, but very weak on science.
Moya from Farscape. Not sci-fi but fantasy. Ship is alive and organic. Really just a PC sop to environmentalist. Not to the first to propose organic ships. Some Points for sci-fi elements involving wormholes and advanced species monitoring less evolved species. Pretty small crew for such a big ship, very similar to LEX which I'm pretty sure came first.
NCC-1701-D from STNG, totally derivative, nothing new but the Holo-Deck and that's just suppose to be for recreation, oh and doing what-if episodes.
Battlestar Galactica from the show of the same name. The re-imagined Universe is gritty and real on a interpersonal level. The ship has a militaristic utilitarian look that fits well with its imagined universe. They throw out hard relativistic science, though the jumps are a reasonable surmise about possible FTL, if FTL is someday achievable. They often get the physical sciences right with concerns about basic supplies and human needs. This was almost my winner. The "what it means to be human" basic premise is as good as sci-fi gets, but the ship itself isn't part of the hard-sci-fi.
NCC-1701 from TOS. Cool look. Attempt to hypothesize the consequences of FTL in a universe with other inhabitants we can interact with. Transporters may have been a plot device, but one based on some good scientific speculation. Kudos on predicting our long range exploration and trade in space would be spearheaded by military vessels. This one pretty much invented the sci-fi genre on TV and has never been surpassed for the hard-sci-fi elements it often brought to bear. My vote is for this one.
Don't know the hard-sci-fi elements of H.M.S. Cowboy Neal. Scared of mentioning Hard and Cowboy Neal in same sentence.
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That would be a joke materializing over your head
(awaits the inevitable corrections on how the tardis noise should appear in prose).
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ST: Voyager (Score:3, Insightful)
Show some respect for Voyager, punk. Without Voyager, we never would have had *the* *greatest* *thing* to *ever* come out of the Trek universe: Captain Proton.
Reckonize!
I thought Enterprise got a lot more interesting in its last season. Certainly it was better for its entire run than, say, most of the first two seasons of ST: TNG. Have you actually *watched* those episodes lately? Yikes. The latter seasons tended to make us forget how awful many of th
Re:ST:TNG Movie Ships (Score:5, Insightful)
While I like the Enterprise-E, I definitely agree that killing off the D in the first TNG movie was a big, big mistake. It felt forced, as did Kirk's death, like they had to contrive something to make the movie a real "event" rather than the obligatory crossover. It would've had a much greater impact on the audience if, say, they had lost the ship to the Borg in the next movie, rather than risking the shiny new ship that we all know is going to come out unscathed.
And the Trek universe would be a bit more credible if they kept the flagship around for something closer to its design lifetime rather than crashing it into the dirt after 8 years. During a scenario like the Dominion War, sure, I can accept relatively young ships being blown up left and right... but during a random battle with a Klingon junkyard special? That's why I hope they keep the Enterprise-E around if they ever revisit TNG, even though the ship is controversial among fans.
Re:It was my favorite... (Score:4, Insightful)
Yeeaaaaahhhh. Retro and stuff.
How to Make a "Retro and Stuff" Starship
1. Load the Akira model in your favorite 3D modeler.
2. Flip the stardrive section upside down.
3. Cut a notch for the deflector array. All trek ships need deflector arrays, even though force fields haven't been invented yet!
4. Remap the textures with a cool industrial look. Nevermind that such a look makes no logical sense. It's steampunk "retro", man!
5. Since phasers haven't been invented yet, load the ship with torpedos. But don't bother to put any actual warhead on the torpedo. After all, if the torpedos did any actual damage (or were *gasp* nuclear!) then we wouldn't have a reason to show a montage of the main characters "inventing" phasers!
6. Doh! No shields! We need to save those for another "first"! How are we going to stop the badguys who *do* use nuclear weapons? Oh, I know! They don't use nuclear weapons! All the bad guys are more sophisticated than us. Yeah, that's the ticket. They can have... um... energy weapons! And since we already know that they're going to have energy weapons (B&B axiom: All the bad guys are st00pid) we can... um... polarize the hull plating! Yeah, that's it. Just like when we reroute the EPS conduits through the main deflector array to create a quantum inversion singularity to make a great cup of coffee!
7. Do we still have our standard Deus Ex Machina? Check. Ooo, but we need sex somewhere. Hot, kinky, completely juvenille sex. Ah, I got it! The transporter is... um... dangerous. Yeah, that's it! It's certified for human use, but they prefer to use tiny little spacecraft so they can go through decontamination and rub kinky *huff* gels all over *huff* each other and.... *huff*... will you excuse me for a minute?
(Note to self: build shirt-grabbing gizmos into the ship's vents so that Hoshi loses her shirt.)
8. You know, in the original series they had huge-ass shuttlecraft. It wasn't until the Next Generation that they had the technology to make smaller shuttlecraft. Therefore, it makes sense that the shuttlecraft should be smaller. (WTF?) In fact, they could be pods. Yeah, pods, that's it. Because if it's retro, it's automatically smaller! Nevermind the physics of the situation; we have magical anti-whatever drives to make it work! Damn, Paramount is so gonna give me a raise for this one! (What do you mean that the magical anti-whatever drives shouldn't have been invented yet? Who cares if I'm being logically inconsistent, the magical anti-whatever drives exist, and the Romulans can cloak! So there!)
9. ??? (Get millions of fans pissed off at your complete disregard for canon and mere logic.)
10. Profit! (Huh huh. Huh. Beavis, he said... "Profit". Huh huh.)
There you go. One "Retro and Stuff" starship. Worst. Starship. Ever.
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Just like when we reroute the EPS conduits through the main deflector array to create a quantum inversion singularity to make a great cup of coffee!
You reminded me of the chorus to Voltaire's "The USS Make Shit Up":
And I say,
Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish
Thats the way we do things, lad, we're making shit up as we wish
The Klingons and the Romulans pose no threat to us
'Cause if we find we're in a bind we just make some shit up
(Archive.org Link [archive.org])
Re:It was my favorite... (Score:4, Funny)
So, just to clarify, I agree with you one hundred percent, but I cannot help reading that post in the voice of Comic Book Guy.
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The deflector moves particles out of the way of the ship while the ship is traveling at speed. Otherwise, the particles would wreak havoc on the systems and crew as they tore through the ship at ludicris speed...
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How exactly do you think they sweep the particles out of the way? Magic?
From Memory Alpha: "The deflector commonly takes the form of a dish-shaped force beam generator containing heavy-duty subspace accelerators at the extreme forward end of the vessel's secondary hull. It performs its primary function by emitting low-power deflector shields to deflect microscopic particles and higher-powered deflector beams and/or tractor beams to deflect larger
Re:ARE /.ERS INSANE OR JUST PLAIN SOMETHING ? (Score:5, Insightful)
Basically, it goes like this: 1977 - Star Wars IV is released. The movie's special effects were mind boggling. In the opening scene, there is a block of text that explains the context of the movie. Now, lots of movies have intro text, but this is different. This intro text doesn't simply scroll off the top of the screen. It scrolls away from the screen into the depths of space. Peoples jaws dropped and chills ran up and down their spines over text! Then the camera pans down to reveal a planet, and just when you get your mind wrapped around that, a space ship tears across the screen, laser cannon firing. Your excitement level is hitting peaks it never has at a movie before. Then the pursuing ship comes into view. It is dark, and menacing, and ominous. It keeps coming, and coming. It is blocking out the stars. It fills half the screen, and still it keeps coming, and coming. Finally, there's the end of the ship... No, wait! That's some sort of cargo hold. Around you are the gasps of your fellow movie goers as their minds snap. The rest of the ship shoves its way onto the screen, and you see the ship's three engines. The film has earned it's admission price in the first two minutes, the rest of the movie is gravy.
Over the course of the next two hours, you are introduced to robots, knights, scavengers, an evil empire, and most importantly for this discussion, a smuggler with a really fast ship, a man who runs in dangerous circles, who shoots first and asks questions later. His ship is just the sort of thing that a smuggler would use. It looks like a shabby freighter on the outside, but it is a performance machine, with amazing laser turrets, secret compartments, speed and maneuverability.
Where it all falls down, is not with the original trilogy, but with the prequel trilogy, and most especially, with the special edition releases. They lacked the spirit of the earlier films, and tried to knock the edge off of our smuggler/hero. Furthermore, the dialog was cheesier, and there was too much reliance on sight gags and slapstick. The good guys didn't win because of superior skill, or righteous behaviour, but by dumb luck. For those of us who saw the original episodes in the theatres, who watched a cultural phenomenon take place (Star Wars ran for 72 weeks straight in my home town movie theatre.) the prequels jump the shark. For me, it was when R2D2 flew. It was just too much. From that point on, the movies are a blank to me. I know I've seen them all, but I couldn't tell you much about the prequels after that point./p> So, there is a love/hate relationship when it comes to Star Wars. We love what it started out as, and hate what it became. One thing hasn't changed, though: The Millennium Falcon is one cool ship.
Re:ARE /.ERS INSANE OR JUST PLAIN SOMETHING ? (Score:5, Informative)
FWIW, when General Dynamics was competing against McDonnel-Douglas for the contract to build the experimental SSTO prototype back in the early 90s, McD called theirs Delta Clipper, echoing both their Delta lauch vehicle and their DC series of airliners. General Dynamics called their proposal "Millenium Express" -- in part a deliberate echo of the Millenium Falcon, although I don't know that GD's management was ever made aware of that thought process on the part of those proposing the name (also named after the then impending turn of the millenium.)
That said, I'm sorry, but the Falcon just looks too much like a flying saucer.
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You're forgetting the obvious /. connection: (Score:3, Insightful)
The Falcon started off as a simple light freighter that was aggressively modified up to break blockades, outrun the empire, and smuggle all kinds of stuff. It breaks down frequently because of it's "personality" of being built of so many hacked together components. Han and Chewie made that ship work, and I'd argue that it would be unmaintainable in anyone else's hands.
Now compare this to the
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