Imagine training cadets for post-crash survival, and having to drill into their heads that "food spoils if it sits around for long enough."
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I've been without a fridge for close to a month. I got a countertop ice maker for next to nothing at Goodwill the next day. Really it's all I need. I've I buy strawberries I just put some ice on them every few hours, and they last a week.
It also doesn't hurt my city is known for having some of the best tap water on earth.
every few hours
There is simply too much ADHD in this household to pull that off. We'd wind up with tepid strawberry-water, every time.
The container has holes as it is. It also doesn't hurt that they normally don't last more than a few days. But I feel you on the ADHD. I'm terminally without attention.
Oh of course, you meant an electric counter top ice maker. For some reason you said "I don't have a fridge" and my brain translated that to "I have no electricity and live in a cabin in the forest".. I was eagerly googling how to make home made ice using some fancy old process... Yes, I am quite dumb at times.
Is... Is this a bit?
Nope, this is genuine homegrown fuckery
Of course, I can't let them know that it is because every day is the same... inside the pattern buffer. 😶
It's all starting to add up... I mean... no! Let me stay! The real real sucks!
Wishing you'd taken the blue pill aka not watched Star Trek eh...?
I'd rather be woke than happy... wait, wtf am I saying?! YeS I wAnTs To PlAy ThE sPoRtS pLeAsE 🥺 aNd MaKes AlL tHe MoNiEz, YeAh...
On the contrary: I welcome the glory of the buffer. It's cozy and marginally safe.
Pro: it increases Miles suffering.
Con: Julien is not in it. (See above).
Conclusion: there is a God. (See above again).
there is a ~~God~~ Koala.
Way to tie the room together.
"Morn, shut the fuck up!"
No no no, the trick is you have to queue and schedule the replication order a day or two in advance. The ensigns on Deck 8 swear it tastes different.
Replicate yourself a bunch of ice, a cooler, and a fresh stew, and...
The answer to replicator problems is always MORE REPLICATION!
I always knew it could make hot food, but can a replicator create ice?
It's easy to put energy into a system, but removing it usually takes time.
Why would it remove energy? It doesn't create liquid water and then freezes it. It creates matter with a certain energy level. Creating ice would probably just cost a minuscule bit less energy than the same amount of liquid water
For some reason I always assume the matter is created at ambient temperatures, but then it could just use the outside space for freezing ambient temps.
Just replicate day old stew
Oh... you mean instant.
I guess post scarcity go BRRR, but if I was Chief Engineer and caught some flunky using my precious reactor output to replicate ice there’d be a pointed discussion on thermodynamics
Replicator, replicate me a flunky to sit through the Chief's lecture again I want piña coladas
This has me wondering about the semantics of potentially replicating a bunch of high capacity batteries.
this is why every replicator has a bucket of sand stored underneath
That's a good point. Could we set a phaser to "cold?"
What about a stew pot sized heatpump cooker/cooler?
Maybe if we tuned the transporter’s annular confinement beam to match the warp core’s frequency we could slow down the particles in the stew, cooling it appropriately!
Use the transporter to make smoothies you say? Surely nothing could make anything more finely mixed than a transporter
A week in the transporter buffer should be roughly equivalent to overnight in the fridge
ahh, I miss Scottie's transpobuffer hooch
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