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  • Date Created: 9 Oct 2013 3:00 PM Date Created
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Celebrating 200K Members with an Age-Old Debate - Who Wins?

Who Wins?

 

Help us answer an age-old sci- fi question:

 

Earlier this month the element14 Community reached its 200,000 member milestone. As a thank you to our members, we decided to have some fun and engage SYN/HAK, an Akron,Ohio-based Hackerspace to build models of the siOrg³ starship and the Lifeless Spherical Space Station. For years the science fiction community has debated what would happen if these two feats of engineering collided in the cosmos.Now it's time to take the spirited conversations about this topic we've seen in online forums, offline conventions and social media outlets to our community of over 200,000 engineers, makers and hobbyists. We hope you settle this intergalactic dispute once and for all!

 

Check out the video "Who Wins?", created by SYN/HAK which puts this spirited discussion into context using the element14 Community as a bridge between both universes. It starts innocently as two engineers turn to the Community to get answers to questions around Deep Space Engineering, but soon escalates into a virtual smack-off about the merits of each respective ship. The two engineers are forced to back up said smack as they inexplicably find themselves in the same sector of the galaxy.

 

 

Log in or Register (top right corner of the screen) to vote and comment on the "Who Wins?" video here.

 

 

The group of Hackers has also posted a blog about the project, which uses the Raspberry Pi   and Arduino boards here.

 


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  • DAB
    DAB over 11 years ago +5
    You have to go with the Borg. Self repairing unless totally destroyed. Took out the entire Federation Fleet at Wolf 359 and has hyperspace plus warp capability. Reuses space junk to build new ships and…
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to DAB

    I totally agree

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  • 4ringfan
    4ringfan over 10 years ago

    The borg would just scan the death star and adapt their shields.  The death star and its occupants would inevitably become part of the collective.  Resistance is futile.

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  • cncdan
    cncdan over 11 years ago

    Borg all the way

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  • kidiccurus
    kidiccurus over 11 years ago

    Death star wins. Remember, it wasn't finished in the films so a complete version should be pretty powerful.

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  • PaulMakesThings
    PaulMakesThings over 11 years ago

    I would favor the borg, but I don't think it's so cut and dry. It depends on how the encounter happens. If the death star happens to be pointing in the right direction (since it pivots about as fast as a cargo ship) and can get a clean shot with it's superlaser before the borg deploy anything, it could wipe out the entire ship. I think it's range is supposed to be pretty good. And I'm assuming their shields can't handle a superlaser because it's description includes every sci-fi destructive power term in the book such as "subspace rupture".

       But if the borg have any time to strategize or deploy anything the death star would be screwed.

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  • wendypreston
    wendypreston over 11 years ago in reply to DAB

    Completely agree with Borg, as suggested by DAB - I think most of the successes against the Borg involved a certain amount of trickery!

     

    Wendy image

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    DAB over 11 years ago

    You have to go with the Borg.

    Self repairing unless totally destroyed.  Took out the entire Federation Fleet at Wolf 359 and has hyperspace plus warp capability.

    Reuses space junk to build new ships and creates new troops with a few nanobots.

     

    The Death Star was taken out by one proton torpedo in the first battle and took out by one fighter and a a broken down freighter in its second fight.

     

    And I thought the Federation made junk.

     

    Just my opinion,

    DAB

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