The Random Image Thread
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Happy Passover to those who celebrate.
Ok, this took me a second to get, then i felt dumb.
I'd watch it... 
Happy Easter.
I caught the last half of it on Pluto the other night myself.
It's a national treasure.
I've always wondered about the Nerve Pinch. Do all humanoid species just happen to have convergently evolved a vulnerable nerve in the same place, or does it only work on humans? And if it only works on humans, why exactly do the Vulcans have a technique for specifically incapacitating us?
I can't speak to the first question, but as to the second, have you met humans? Learning how to turn them off, at least for a little while, HAD to be the Vulcan's first priority upon meeting humanity.
I forget if it was a novel or the show: but somewhere along the line spock tried to teach kirk repeatedly how to do the nerve pinch and always failed.
So yeah: I think it's just a vulcan quiet time maneuver.
So yeah: I think it's just a vulcan quiet time maneuver.
Another of the novels points out that most humanoids have an equivalent of the carotid artery, though the location varies a bit (so the nerve pinch has to be adapted for different species).
“J.R.R. Tolkien has become a sort of mountain, appearing in all subsequent fantasy in the way that Mt. Fuji appears so often in Japanese prints. Sometimes it’s big and up close. Sometimes it’s a shape on the horizon. Sometimes it’s not there at all, which means that the artist either has made a deliberate decision against the mountain, which is interesting in itself, or is in fact standing on Mt. Fuji.”
Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett