{"id":16355,"date":"2021-10-25T14:15:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T18:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=16355"},"modified":"2021-10-25T14:15:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T18:15:46","slug":"james-t-kirk-physics-thought-experimental-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/25\/james-t-kirk-physics-thought-experimental-monkey\/","title":{"rendered":"James T. Kirk \u2013 Physics Thought Experimental Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I started watching and reviewing Season Three of Star Trek (The Original Series) I\u2019ve found myself becoming openly hostile and irritated at the thought of having to get through the remaining fifteen or so episodes.\u00a0 But I feel that I need to do something to improve the situation.\u00a0 After all I started the exercise because I remember enjoying the show when I was a kid and maybe somehow, I could regain that youthful exuberance toward this venerable enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>So, I looked around to see something on the web that would provide a fun Star Trek experience and what I found was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oR9Na0Q0maQ&amp;t=589s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Does Kirk die when he goes through the transporter<\/a>?\u201d by a German lady physicist named Sabine Hossenfelder.\u00a0 She has a soothing voice and pleasant appearance and I thought this just the type of woman scientist that James T. Kirk would be putting the moves on minutes into his introduction to her.\u00a0 How perfect that she would be theorizing on the death of Kirk in her video.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always thought that the concept of the transporter was the most absurd of the various technical absurdities in the Star Trek storyline.\u00a0 If it also kills Kirk, all the better.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, take a look and tell me what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I started watching and reviewing Season Three of Star Trek (The Original Series) I\u2019ve found myself becoming openly hostile and irritated at the thought<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,4,244,2149,240],"tags":[839,293],"class_list":["post-16355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-sff","category-sff-tv-reviews","category-star-trek","category-tv-reviews","tag-james-t-kirk","tag-star-trek"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>James T. 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