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--- Opens with uninteresting quipping and obscene exposition within a ridiculous context. They had worked together for 7 years but spoke like they just met.
--- How did the 1st officer not notice they were 'drawing' a 30m wide Starfleet symbol in the sand when seconds earlier she's estimating the arrival time of a storm to the second?
--- How did it not get blown away by the wind before they finished?
--- The element of stealthy interference/prime directive stuff ruined entirely by flying the ship dramatically through the clouds.
--- If they could see the symbol from space why'd they have to go down to find the crew members? If they couldn't see it from space so had to go below the clouds how did they end up in the right place?
--- If they could see the crew but couldn't 'get a lock' why not send a shuttle?
--- She states the planet formation around the binary stars will 'be a home for future generations'. It takes at least a million years for a planet to form. You're telling me just 200 years after the election of Donald Trump we're going to be planning millions of years into the future and the colonization of planets that haven't even formed yet? Fuck off.
--- During the ridiculous 'fire the 1st officer at that unknown object section' the computer states the object is 1,000 km away. She'd been flying for a while at that point and traveled the whole distance in under 10 minutes. Even a conservative estimate would require her to be travelling at 10,000 km/h in a space suit. She decelerates to a stop in around a second. That's 70-80 G of force. How?
--- And IF the suit had some 'inertial dampeners' then how was she knocked completely unconscious by the mild bump into the Klingon?
--- The rest of the episode is the Vulcan character crying and acting emotionally, exactly like a Vulcan would.
Government

YouTube Video Sends Guatemala Into Crisis 405

Several have sent word that a YouTube video of recently assassinated lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg has sent Guatemala into a tailspin. The video of Rosenberg claims that if you are watching, he has been murdered by President Alvaro Colom with help from presidential secretary Gustavo Alejos. "The video spread across the Internet after family members handed it out during Rosenberg's funeral on Monday. In the 18-minute tape, a seemingly calm Rosenberg, sitting behind a desk and microphone, alleges that Colom, the First Lady and two associates were involved in murder, corruption and money laundering. The group, he says, filtered public funds through a state-owned bank for personal gain and to finance drug traffickers. Rosenberg then claims that after Khalil Musa, a prominent businessman and bank board member, had learned of the Coloms' scheme, Musa and his daughter were shot to death in front of a shopping center in April. Rosenberg says the President signed off on the killings."
Medicine

Brain Decline Begins At Age 27 381

krou writes "The BBC is reporting that a new study suggests that our mental abilities start to dwindle at 27 after peaking at 22, and 27 could be seen as the 'start of old age.' The seven-year study, by Professor Timothy Salthouse of the University of Virginia, looked at 2,000 healthy people aged 18-60, and used a number of mental agility tests already used to spot signs of dementia. 'The first age at which there was any marked decline was at 27 in tests of brain speed, reasoning and visual puzzle-solving ability. Things like memory stayed intact until the age of 37, on average, while abilities based on accumulated knowledge, such as performance on tests of vocabulary or general information, increased until the age of 60.'"
Government

Commerce Department Pushing For New "Copyright Czar" 294

TechDirt is reporting that those all-too-familiar "stats" surrounding the cost of piracy are being trotted out in an attempt to push through a new "Copyright Czar" position. "In urging President Bush to sign into law the ProIP bill, which would give him a copyright czar (something the Justice Department had said it doesn't want), the US Chamber of Commerce is claiming that 750,000 American jobs have been lost to piracy. Yet, it doesn't cite where that number comes from."

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