#holograms

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Raven hologram stamp

🐦‍⬛ Hiddeninlight2_ on IG

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portable holograms

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[C] Late-night Tinkering

Even though the ship dims the lights for a balanced day/night cycle, Floof keeps working, tinkering away and fixing stuff in the old engineering department. _ Scene Illustration for Floof! This project really pushed all my buttons x3 Bugs in old spaceships...

[jlinebeck]

Lately I've been listening to the Red Dwarf audio books again, and the concept of Holograms is honestly kinda messed up.

To explain, 1000 years into the future they've invented technology that allows a person's complete personality and memories to be saved onto physical storage. Then when that person dies they can "come back" as a hologram. Essentially they're a computer simulation of their living selves, still dead and technically not them, just acting based on probabilities determined from the saved data of them. This is usually done on dangerous jobs that have required personnel, so in the event of them dying they can be brought back. Because even in the future they ain't gonna let workers rest even if they're dead, even if it technically isn't them being brought back, just a simulation but you get the idea.

Now, the drawback of Holograms is that it takes a supremely high amount of CPU processing power to run just one, as well as consuming enough power to illuminate Paris for 3 years every second. Therefore most of the time they can only have 1 active at a time. Plus the fact that because they're made of light they can't touch or hold any physical objects, not even being able to sit down in normal chairs.

And that's just the physical aspects, because the other catch is due to how they simulate the person so well, some Holograms of tend to suffer from an existential crisis because they're technically dead. They see their loved ones moving on even though they're still there, and a lot of them are unsure of their own existence because to them they feel real but they're computer simulations, so they don't know if they feel real or if it's the computer making them think they're real.

Makes me wonder how we'd all react to it if it were a thing IRL.

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Hatsune Miku dancing hologram projected on a fog machine

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Interpretations of the Hermeneutic Oath differ.

Professional Oaths [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[8 Panels in a grid.]

Hippocratic Oath [Ponytail in a doctor's coat with her arm raised in pledge.] First, do no harm

Hyperbaric Oath [Cueball shaking.] First, acclimate to the pressure

Holographic Oath [A hologram of Ponytail fitzing in parts.] First, shimmer intangibly

Histrionic Oath [White Hat yelling, fists upraised.] First, whine and complain

Hydroelectric Oath [Megan sat in the cut-out wall for a giant turbine.] First, maintain your turbines

Hippodromic Oath [Ponytail in a chariot pulled by a horse.] First, race your chariot well

Hypnagogic Oath [Cueball, half-risen from bed in shock.] First, jolt awake just as you're drifting off

Hypergolic Oath [Cueball on fire.] First, burst into flame

[itsyourvoiceuseit]

This is a completely different topic, but I hope the topic of how holograms(or photonics, to use SAM's term) actually work in the 32nd century get brought up. For those who never saw Star Trek: Voyager, a huge part of the Doctor's story was the fact that he couldn't leave Sick Bay, unless it was to go to the Holodeck, because his matrix needed to be maintained by holo emitters, which apparently weren't easy to set up. Eventually he got his hands on an advanced portable holo emitter from the 29th century(Voyager was set in the 24th), but he still needed to have it attached to go some place without holo emitters, and he couldn't just teleport places without being transported the way both he and SAM seem to be able to in the 32nd century. I wouldn't need a whole episode devoted to it or anything, just a brief explanation would be enough, given how important it was for the Doctor to have freedom of movement and how anxious his attachment to his portable holo emitter was.