For those that really don’t know: Star Trek TNG, episode “the inner light”, S5E25.
My first thought was outer wilds.
Thank you for your service.
It’s a must watch episode of the series. There’s a few that have to be seen but would serve as a poor introduction. This one and the Darmok one for sure.
Come to think of it: Doesn’t that flute look suspiciously like a 1st gen vape? Like… might the reason why he got the flute for real just be that he wasn’t zapped by some satellite but because he was high as a kite on some vapor coming from the “flute”? What if Q is just his version of white elephants?!
Pink elephants?
Or Pink elephants. IDK, I’m no flute player.
A drug that makes you hallucinate being on a dying planet where you learn to post memes and type into a little glowing box. When you wake up, you get to keep the glowing box.
Why would I want to keep that nightmarish box?
For Raid Shadow Legends™
Have you met my friend Outer Wilds?
Definitely my favorite 22 minutes to spend 80 years on! :)
Pretty sure that’s what ultra high concentrates of salvia do to you.
Actually had a friend who reported a somewhat similar experience on salvia. I watched him hit the pipe, giggle for a minute or so before his expression went stone cold. After he came down it took a while for him to get his bearings. Asked him what happened and he said he felt like he floated into the sky and landed on a giant clock face. He heard a voice tell him that he would be stuck on that clock forever, and said it felt like literal years that he was there. Said he wouldn’t do salvia again for a million dollars after that.
I on the other hand always had really delightful trips on it, so your mileage may vary from a five minute wacky giggle trip to eternity on the sky clock.
Part of me wonders if you could have a weight loss clinic that’s just a drug that puts people into a medical coma while raising their metabolism and then just keeping them in homeostasis until the weight eventually just sweats out of their system.
Fun fact: when loosing weight, you actually breathe the weight off. Fat is “burned” by your cells and the byproducts are transferred, via your bloodstream, to your lungs where you exhaust them.
Would the coma idea work though? I feel like it’d be an incredibly intensive process but for people willing to miss the time it’d probably be a godsend, go to sleep, wake up at a healthy weight and with a backlog of news to catch up on.
Just need to input fewer calories than you use. A body at rest still uses calories to maintain basic life. So just keep them hydrated and add certain nutrients that aren’t in stored fat. Unfortunately your body can also use muscle as stored energy. If you are inactive, it will burn muscle more than you’d like. It’s expensive to keep around. So if you’re on starvation diet and not using them. No reason to keep them. The body burns them up. So in the end you’ll be lighter, but also extremely weak. The effort of rehabilitation may be as bad as trying to exercise and diet not in a coma.
Well then it sounds like all you gotta do to get it off the ground is figure out a way to prevent the body from metabolizing muscle tissue
Keep using it. On a more serious note, if you were in s medical coma for something like this, I suppose electrical simulation of the muscles could be done. Idk, not a mad scientist treating rich obese people.
Lol, I’m just picturing all those YouTube videos of dancing frog legs
Exactly! Not a freaky place to work at all. Nope.
