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## Star Trek: The Original Sequences
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* Author: u/traverseda *With dread but cautious optimism**
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* URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/929801
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* Score: 13
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* Created: 2015-09-04T18:48:44
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### Post:
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[Link to content](https://archiveofourown.org/works/929801)
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### Comments:
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> **u/None** [+4] (6 hours later)
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> To quote M de Bergerac: It is a little short, young man. One could have said, god, so many things...
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> **u/scruiser** [+5] *CYOA* (2 hours later)
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> I enjoyed it. I remember another snippet with a similar chain of events but a different outcome. In response to the challenge on the sig figs of his percent, Spock quoted a huge variety of relevant statistics he had memorized to come up with the most accurate estimate possible. Does anyone remember the link to that snippet?
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>> **u/eaglejarl** [+2] (8 hours later)
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>> Footnote of [this Leftover Soup comic](http://leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=201).
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> **u/ArgentStonecutter** [+1] *Emergency Mustelid Hologram* (30 minutes later)
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> "Never tell me the odds."
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> Edit: also, "maximum safe radius"? How does that even work?
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>> **u/Transfuturist** [+2] *Carthago delenda est.* (4 hours later)
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>> A bubble effect they're trying to place themselves in, with an extra hazard they're trying to avoid.
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> **u/want_to_want** [+1] (22 hours later)
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> Nice riff on Eliezer's ["tragic fool" quote](http://lesswrong.com/lw/go/why_truth_and/), but technically, that fic is the opposite of correct. As Shalizi [noted long ago](http://bactra.org/weblog/612.html), an actual Bayesian would give you as many significant digits as you have time for.
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