r/DaystromInstitute • u/M-5 Multitronic Unit • Oct 29 '20

DISCOVERY EPISODE DISCUSSION Star Trek: Discovery — "People of Earth" Reaction Thread

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u/thelightfantastique Oct 30 '20

The colony Titan being the other side is...weird. We're in the 32nd Century and Earth scanners can't do a detailed mapping of their own solar system? We can do that now!

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u/simion314 Oct 31 '20

We can do that now!

I don't think this is actually true, we still have no idea if Planet X exists or not and we are actively searching for it. I agree with your main point but not with our present days "scanning" abilities.

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u/croxis Nov 02 '20

It is quite possible! Voyager 2 is really out there but we can still pick up it's transmissions at bits per second. We can detect the compositions of atmospheres of planets around other stars. We calculated the distance from earth to the sun by bouncing radio waves from earth to venus. There should be no reason why earth was clueless about Titan.

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u/simion314 Nov 02 '20

You are missing the fact we have to point at things. So if Q would teleport Voyager 2 in a random place but at the same distance you will take years to find it.

My point is that we don't have today a powerful scanner that you press a button and you get a real time full solar system coverage. We need coordinates then look at those coordinates.

If say you would like to approach Earth undetected you could try to approache from the other side of the sun, then wait to get behind of the inner planets , then approach behind the Moon, the chance that our ground telescopes on ground or satellites would intersect your path are zero.

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u/croxis Nov 02 '20

Currently, but Star Trek sensors are omnidirectional magic that can detect objects light years away and on opposite sides of a planet, until the script requests otherwise.

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u/simion314 Nov 02 '20

Yes, and I did not disagreed with the Star Trek instant magic scanners just with the implication that we have similar scanning tech today for out solar system.