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@futurebird i didn't really feel like i had an "a-ha" while doing this, it only felt like i had the right answer when i sorted them all and realized there were no gaps in the "base 4" ordering, that was the point at which it felt like I had a satisfying answer rather than an arbitrary one

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▷ : 0 or 3
□ : 1 or 4
▣ : 2 or 8
■ : 3 or 4
□▷ : 10 or 7
□□ : 11 or 8
□▣ : 12 or 12
□■ : 13 or 8
▣▷ : 20 or 7
▣□ : 21 or 12
▣▣ : 22 or 16
▣■ : 23 or 12
■▷ : 30 or 7
■□ : 31 or 8
■▣ : 32 or 12
■■ : 33 or 8
□▷▷ : 100 or 10
□▷□ : 101 or 11
□▷▣ : 102 or 15
□▷■ : 103 or 11
□□▷ : 110 or 11
□□□ : 111 or 12
□□▣ : 112 or 16
□□■ : 113 or 12

the numbers are my two guesses at a "number value

@futurebird It is well known that if a cat is sitting in your lap it is impossible to stand up. What was not realized until recently is that this is also true of the particles and antiparticles that fall into the Snuggly Zone surrounding the cat. In each instance of a human with a cat sitting in their lap, two jets of hawking radiation can be observed emitting perpendicular to the orbital plane of the cat's spine spiral

@phooky @futurebird @JeremyMallin Applying this to the captain problem— if earth is what canon claims it is, the people who live there have socially progressed to where they could have 3 captains on 8 hour shifts in a power sharing arrangement (or even 6 captains, for 4 hour lead shifts and 4 hour copilot shifts, so there's no discontinuities of command at handover) and have organizational continuity. But the people who join Starfleet don't have that social skill set.

@phooky @futurebird @JeremyMallin okay so a theory I have is that the function of Starfleet is to serve as a kind of containment pool for people who are only able to live in atavistic situations

The federation is a post scarcity socialist utopia. But in such a society there would be people who are workaholics, hierarchal thinkers etc and can't function in that environment. Starfleet is a sort of SCA of the twentieth century. You can act out what being in a military was like when we had borders.