#Kelvinator repair

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وكيل ماركة كلفينيتور في مصر: كل ما تحتاج معرفته

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Using repair tool to fix Kelvin

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Kelvinator Repair Made Easy: SRC India Debuts Virtual Service Center in Noida

Highlights 

◽ Affordable Solutions: SRC India provides cost-effective Kelvinator appliance repair services with highly trained technicians.

◽ Online Convenience: Noida residents can now book Kelvinator appliance services online, ensuring hassle-free experiences.

◽ Comprehensive Repairs: SRC India covers a range of Kelvinator appliances, including air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines, and more.

Noida, India - January 9, 2024 - SRC India, a pioneer in Kelvinator appliance repair services, is thrilled to announce the launch of its online Air Conditioner service in Noida. With the increasing population in Noida and the growing demand for quality Kelvinator appliance care, SRC India aims to provide affordable and efficient solutions right at the doorstep.

In a city where residents are well-educated and actively working, the need for reliable and convenient Kelvinator appliance services has never been higher. Noida's population, residing in flats and nearby areas, can now breathe easy knowing that SRC India has established itself as a trustworthy partner in resolving Kelvinator appliance issues.

Transforming Kelvinator Appliance Care in Noida

SRC India's Kelvinator appliances service center in Noida stands out for its commitment to providing the lowest prices coupled with excellent service. The company has positioned itself as a pro-Kelvinator appliances brand, offering highly recommended and secure quality services to the residents of Noida.

You Can Call Our Customer Care Number O7906558724 And Get a Quick Response From Our Team. We'll Arrange an Expert Technician for the inspection And Installation of your Kelvinator Appliances, Visit arrange Within 2 Hours Certified Expert Will Call You To Get Appointment From Your Side And They Reach At Your Doorstep on Same Day," assures Mr Sameer, Contact Person, SRC India.

Online Convenience for Noida Residents

Understanding the need for convenience, SRC India allows Noida residents to log their Kelvinator appliance service requests online. Through SMS, email, or calls, customers can easily schedule services without the need to visit a physical service center.

"We want to make Kelvinator appliance care accessible to everyone in Noida. Our online processes make it convenient for people to book services from the comfort of their homes," adds Mr Sameer.

Comprehensive Kelvinator Appliance Services

SRC India's range of services includes the repair and installation of various Kelvinator appliances such as air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines, microwaves, and LED & LCD TVs. The company's team of highly trained and qualified technicians ensures a 24x7 customer support availability through the Kelvinator appliances service center in Noida.

"We cover a wide range of repair services, including tune-ups, maintenance, repairs for issues like refrigerant leaks, compressor failure, or electrical problems. Our goal is to keep Kelvinator appliances systems functioning properly and efficiently," explains Rinku Singh, a certified expert technician at SRC India.

Fast-Forward Services with Safety Measures

SRC India takes pride in its fast-forward services, promising expert technicians' visits within 2 hours of appointment scheduling. The company also follows strict precautions for COVID-19, ensuring safety measures are in place during home visits.

"Our commitment to safety is unwavering. We understand the importance of a healthy environment, and our technicians take necessary precautions while servicing Kelvinator appliances in customers' homes," assures Raj Kumar, a certified expert technician at SRC India.

Transparent Customer Satisfaction

SRC India emphasizes customer satisfaction over profit-making, making it a preferred choice for Kelvinator appliance repair services in Noida. The company encourages customers to provide feedback through a form on their website, ensuring transparency and continuous improvement.

"When you choose SRC India, you're not just getting Kelvinator appliance repairs; you're getting a transparent and customer-centric service that comes to your doorstep," concludes Jitendra Kumar.

About SRC India

SRC India is a leading appliance repair and service provider in Noida, dedicated to delivering quality solutions to its customers. Our company is not authorized by Kelvinator. With a team of highly trained technicians, SRC India focuses on ensuring customer satisfaction through transparent and reliable services. The company covers a wide range of Electronic appliances, offering repairs, installations, and maintenance services.

For press inquiries, please contact:

Mr Sameer [Contact Person]

SRC India

O7906558724 

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💫 Fun Fact! 💫 Using your repair tool, you can gently and harmlessly nudge your Kelvin into a less challenging area if he gets stuck.

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Quirks and features of the James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a ten billion dollar space telescope that weighs 14,000 pounds, is the size of a bus, and took decades to construct. It's been in the news recently, you might have heard about it.

The development, launch and deployment of the JWST were fraught with unexpected setbacks, terror and frights, 344 "single-point failures", any one of which that, if they failed during deployment, could doom the entire spacecraft to uselessness, since it orbits far out beyond where any current manned spacecraft could even attempt a repair job.

The fact that it came online as smoothly as it did was something of a surprise to the people in charge. Given the miracle of it making it to space at all, the press coverage of JWST has focused on the positives. But a stroll through the JWST user documentation by a curious reader reveals much that is interesting, or interestingly broken. Such as..

Fun and games with infrared

Specifically, the JWST is an infrared telescope, designed to collect light that's redder than red. The two dedicated imaging instruments are the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) collecting light from 0.6 micrometers to 5.0 micrometers and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) collecting light from 5.6 micrometers to 25.5 micrometers. (Though with significant light collected past 25.5 um by filter F2550W)

The wonderful thing about infrared astronomy is that everything emits blackbody radiation, and the hotter it is the more infrared it emits. The unfortunate thing about infrared astronomy is that everything emits blackbody radiation, including your telescope, and self-emission from your telescope can swamp the faint signal from astronomical sources. (Like building a camera out of glowsticks.)

The equilibrium temperature for an object in Earth orbit is about 300 Kelvin. (26C) Everything on the other side of the sunshield passively cools down to 40K, and MIRI is actively cooled by the cryocooler down to a chilly 6K (-267C, -449F) This extends MIRI's seeing range deeper into infrared.

But the mirror is still warm! At the far end, MIRI is significantly compromised by thermal self-emission: (Note log scale!)

This is more graphically illustrated by one of the MIRI commissioning images:

Check out that background glare!

(This is somewhat unfair: the calibration target here is a star, which emits comparatively little light in far-infrared. MIRI is really meant for nebulae and extra-galactic high-redshift objects)

("Why not actively cool the mirror?" Mechanical cryocoolers operate on the very limit of what heat engines are capable of. The MIRI cryocooler draws a fat 180 watts to move 78 milliwatts of heat. Previous infrared telescopes used a fixed amount of expendable coolant (liquid helium or solid hydrogen) to cool the entire instrument package... at the cost of a much smaller primary mirror and a telescope that flat out just stopped working when it ran out of coolant.)

There's something else you might notice about the above series of photographs...

Thanks a lot, Lord Rayleigh

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh was a typical early physicist in that he has a great big pile of "discoveries" by virtue of being the first person to 1) notice something and 2) actually write it down. One of them is the fundamental theorem for the angular resolution of an optical system, the Rayleigh criterion. It is dead simple:

Resolution is roughly equal to 1.22 times the wavelength of the light you're looking at, divided by the diameter of the aperture. Bigger the opening at the front of light bucket, the higher the resolution. Smaller the wavelength of light, the higher the resolution.

(Fun fact: the former Arecibo radio observatory, once the largest single telescope in the world with a 305 meter wide dish, had about the same angular resolution in radio waves as the human eye does in visible light.)

You can imagine the effect this has on an infrared telescope. And sure enough, in the user documentation for the two imaging sensors, it states a pixel scale of 0.031 arcseconds for 0.6 to 2.3 micrometers light wavelength, 0.063 arcsec/px for 2.4-5.0 µm, and a squishy 0.11 arcsec/px for 5.6-25.5 µm.

But this is just how many pixels are on the detector. The resolution gets much worse at long wavelengths, as you can see in the commissioning image, where the extra pixels oversample a progressively vaguer blob. The Rayleigh criterion holds that the 6.5 meter wide JWST primary mirror should manage 0.206 arcsec at 5.32 µm, falling to 0.42 arcsec at 10.85 µm, 0.747 arcsec at 19.29 µm, and an unfortunate 1.014 arcsec at 26.2 µm. One wonders why the designers went to heroic lengths to cool MIRI down to 7 kelvin, instead of using that cryocooler mass and power budget for more detector surface area.

Knowing this, you can spot how the JWST's press team works around the limitations of the telescope. Like how a "look at how good our infrared telescope" commissioning photo happens to use the 7.7 µm mode:

Or how if you browse the photos on the webbtelescope.org site, you will see lots of NIRcam output in the "oooh, ah, new desktop background" category, but not so much MIRI.

(Another amusing detail of MIRI is that bright objects leave afterimages ("latents") on the sensor, so once a week they warm the sensor up to a tropical 20 kelvin before cooling it down again, a "MIRI anneal". You can see when anneals are performed, as well as what the telescope is looking at right now, by viewing the public schedule.)

But this is Webb operating right up to its full specifications. How about something that's actually broken?

NIRSpec my beloved

The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) instrument takes incoming light and runs it through a diffraction grating to produce a spectrum. When scientists say that the Sun is 0.77% oxygen, 0.29% carbon, etc, it's not because someone flew a spacecraft over to it and collected a bucket of solar plasma, it's because you can look at the absorption lines in the spectra to figure out its composition.

Spectrometry is also used to measure redshift, a close proxy to distance. When a press release says that a galaxy is "ten million lightyears away", it's not because NASA has a really long tape measure they haven't told anyone about, it's because a spectrometer measured how much cosmological redshift has moved a spectrum line. Naturally, it's not quite as easy as pointing a sensor at a object and getting back a single, unambiguous result. Distant objects are also dim objects, so the spectra will be noisy and chewed up by dust and other contamination its endured in the millions of years its traveled to arrive at our telescopes. Bleeding edge astronomy is thus the practice of designing statistical models to fit to noisy, fragmented data, and then arguing with other astronomers about r^2.

In any event, it's a handy thing to have on a telescope. Naturally, JWST has more than one. In fact every instrument has a spectroscopy mode. Besides the dedicated NIRISS and NIRSpec instruments, both NIRcam and MIRI include diffraction gratings in their filter wheels that smear out incoming light, like looking through a prism:

Pointing the JWST at an object is relatively expensive, since it requires rotating ("slewing") the entire darn spacecraft, and an amusingly complex alignment procedure with the fine guidance sensor and fine steering mirror. Considering how long it would take to shoot a hundred spectra with a conventional fixed slit rigidly mounted to the telescope frame, you can see the appeal of gathering a hundred spectra in a single exposure with "slitless" spectroscopy.

(Longtime space telescope nerds might hear the word "slewing" and involuntarily twitch, recalling that the reaction wheels and gyroscopes were a problem point on the Hubble, requiring several servicing missions, and also significantly affecting operations on the Kepler space telescope. Fortunately, JWST switched to a gyroscope type that has no moving parts, and used some mass budget to install six reaction wheels, up from Hubble's four, giving it three spares.)

You can also see the big downside in the image above, which is there's a hard tradeoff between how long a spectrum can be (and thus its resolution!) before it'll overlap its neighbors and be useless. Most of the slitless modes therefore have two gratings at two different angles, (GRISMR and GRISMC above) but wouldn't it great if you could just block out all that other light?

Thus, the Micro Shutter Array, as seen above. The best of both worlds! Capture many spectra at the same time, while blocking off light you don't want from contaminating the field, using a configurable array of nearly a quarter million microscopic, individually actuated moving shutters.

Lots and lots and lots of tiny little moving parts, installed in the guts of a spacecraft that's orbiting out past the Moon, impossible to access or replace.

Yeah, a bunch of them broke:

When it was handed over to NASA for installation into Webb in 2007, the MSA already had 150 shutters that no longer responded to opening commands in just one of the four submodules.

By the time JWST emerged from commissioning and was declared fully operational in 2022, 15,893 shutters, 7% of the total, had "failed closed." Hilariously, 904 of those failed during post-launch testing, and the authors of that paper note that, on average, if you tell 100 shutters to close, 4 of them will jam shut and no longer work.

This is unfortunate, but fairly easy to work around. What's worse are the shutters that are stuck open:

These permanently open shutters then compromise big chunks of the sensor. Commissioning testing jammed two more of them open, taking the total up to 22. You can imagine that if a few dozen more of these fail-open during routine operation then the entire microshutter array observation mode won't be much more useful than regular slitless spectrography.

And this, right here, sums up the essentially "interim" nature of JWST. After all, it was only supposed to cost $500 million and take a mere nine years from design to launch. All becomes clear in that light. Why give it a shutter array that falls apart in use? Why have the mirror exposed to space, where it gets hit with micrometeoroids? Why only design it to carry ten years worth of fuel? Because it was supposed to be half the price of Hubble!

The 90s was the era of "faster, better, cheaper". JWST was going to be an incremental improvement on a long series of previous infrared telescopes, and a stepping stone to the next one. It wasn't supposed to be an eternal monument to Science, and a financial black hole consuming NASA's entire budget.

So what went wrong?

We shouldn't have built one JWST.

Those 344 single points of failure. Any single one of them can end the mission. There's just one telescope, no backups, no trying again. Bureaucrats are harshly punished for failure, lightly rewarded for success. It's always easier to wait, do more tests, delay the schedule a bit more at a hint of trouble. Engineers can get you to 90% reliable no problem, but getting to 99% reliable takes another decade and nine billion more dollars.

Our techne is just bad at producing flawless machines first try. For the price of one reliable JWST we could have put twenty into orbit... but the first five would have been embarrassing failures. Spars sticking in place, sunshields jamming, thrusters misfiring. To save the shame of $0.5 billion wasted, NASA happily spent $9.5 billion. Why not? Because money spent is invisible, but failure is painfully apparent.

A critical third party can draw unflattering parallels. The crowning achievement of NASA, the Moon Landing... required eleven Apollo launches and twenty Surveyor launches before a single man set foot on lunar regolith! Quite a few of those spacecraft pancaked into the Moon and exploded on the launchpad before we figured out this "space" thing. Three men died! But NASA was on a hard deadline, with a fixed budget, and the only way to get a home run is to take a lot of swings at the ball.

Another comparison is the Space Launch System, NASA's attempt to make the Saturn V again. So far $27 billion has been lit on fire to put exactly one test load into orbit, with the primary contractor now desperate to get out of its contact. Slow, careful, incremental development has completely failed to produce a working launch system.

Meanwhile, SpaceX produced a series of public, embarrassing failures... resulting in the world's only reusable launch system, and as a result has put far more mass into orbit than any country in the world.

The only way to develop a flight system is flight tests.

Space telescope deploy mechanisms meant to work in zero gravity can't be tested on the ground.

They can only be tested in space.

NASA administrators who didn't work during Apollo are too stupid to understand this. Fire them all!

These geriatrics have happily sacrificed science in order to play it safe and secure their own easy retirement. Do we want 15 risky JWST telescopes by 2010, or do we want one reliable one by 2022? The answer is obvious!

For the money we wasted making Webb more reliable, we could have launched a space telescope far outside the disk of dust in the inner solar system, allowing it to see deeper into space than Webb ever could. ESA put an astrometry space telescope just outside Earth orbit, measuring angles between stellar objects, which is the only way to directly measure the distance to the stars. Great first step. The obvious next step is to send more of these telescopes out past Neptune's orbit, to capture better observations with a vastly larger baseline, something that can never be done by an Earthly observatory. Are there any plans to do this? No!

Space exploration is paralyzed by boomers, mired in the mental tarpit of the 1970s, where each gram to orbit is terribly expensive and must be counted on punched cards and summed with slide rules. Meanwhile, SpaceX Starship is on its way to orbit, and each one can carry sixteen JWSTs with room to spare!

The old paradigm is done. Telescopes don't need folding mirrors and exotic materials, they need to be mass produced. There is no excuse not to have a hundred more JWST-class telescopes lined up next to the Texas launch pad waiting for Starship to come online. But as far as I know not a single space mission even mentions it-- that's how afraid they are of risk!

The JWST, with its myriad of fragile components and its staggering price tag, stands as a monument not to our ingenuity but to our inability to let go of outdated ideals.

We must abandon the notion that space is a realm reserved for the flawless and the infallible. Instead, we should embrace the chaos, the unpredictability, the sheer messiness of exploration. Let us launch a thousand telescopes, each a patchwork of parts, each destined to fail in its own spectacular way. For it is only in this embrace of the ephemeral that we can find out what actually works!

Let the JWST be the last of its kind, a relic of a bygone era. The future is unwritten, and it is ours to fill with a symphony of failures, each note a step closer to the stars.

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Kintsugi Kelvin

Even when Kelvin repairs himself, the mental scars manifest physically

QPR ship StarFruit, Kelvin belongs to me, Fizzle belongs to @blindseer707

(Pt. 2 of Adventure Time Cosmic Entity OC stuff I delayed posting)

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thank you star trek strange new worlds and kelvin timeline for making it cannon that the one thing that fucks up a timeline beyond repair is james t kirk being born somewhere thats not called iowa

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@fasciinating | for a new adventure

Space was an equally beautiful companion and a terrifying one not to be underestimated. Whenever comfort was found in the mundanity, a wrench was thrown in it.

It had been two weeks since their last mission, and the USS Enterprise was drifting in uncharted space at a pace that set everyone on edge.

Jim had already stopped Gaila from snapping at a younger ensign she was supposed to be training while they tweak and fixed one of their commlinks. He was now watching them carefully as they interacted and noticed the moment something shifted in the air between them. The set of their shoulders stiffened, and the Orion's fingers danced across the console as she caught Uhura's gaze, nodding to her. He watched the Lieutenant press the tips of her fingers to her earpiece, and close her eyes for a moment in concentration.

"It's a distress beacon. I think." She finally shared, once she was ready. There was something hesitant in her voice, lacking all the surety it normally did. "It's being picked up on an old channel though. I think we're only catching it because of the repairs."

"Can you tell where it's coming from?" Jim asked, but his tone is subdued - something in her expression when she turned to face him made him regret the question. It settled like a stone in his gut in an inexplainable way. It was the way the color had drained from her cheeks, and the solemn press to her lips. The way her eyes sought Spock's over Jim's shoulder versus keeping his gaze. "Lieutenant." He prompted, again.

"Captain...It's saying it's the USS Kelvin."

If she keeps speaking, Jim catches none of it, struck suddenly as if he's been tossed into a void. There is no sound but the ringing of his own ears. He's vaguely aware of the activities on the bridge, of the crew going through their usual protocols when it comes to picking up a distress signal, but ultimately, they all look to the captain for a decision. The captain who hasn't moved since the source was potentially identified and is currently white knuckling the arm rests of his seat.

Finally, he manages one word, barely audible. "Impossible." Then, he too looks to the one person who always grounds him. Spock. "It's impossible, right?"

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Star Trek: Bridge Crew

Original Release: 2017

Developer: Red Storm

Publisher: Ubisoft

Platform: PS4, PC

Bridge Crew was originally released as a VR exclusive, before being patched to allow people to play it without VR. The ideal experience is to play this in VR with motion controllers with three other friends playing it in VR with motion controllers. I have played this with friends, but the VR is way beyond my budget.

The game itself borrows heavily from Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator, a LAN game where you essentially create a starship in your house, with each person having a PC to represent their station (or the viewscreen for the captain). I’ve played it at a convention and it’s a great experience, and Bridge Crew is the closest thing that can be done online.

There are four stations in this game: Captain, Helm, Tactical and Engineering. Captain is the simplest role in multiplayer: you get told the orders to pass on to your crew, answer hails and push the red alert button. Most of this role is via the voice chat, giving commands to your crew (and hoping they pay attention).

Helm gets to fly the ship and set warp and “impulse” destinations (what the game calls in-system warp), and is probably the most involved position due to this.

Tactical gets to control the phaser and shield. There’s no phaser arcs or shield arcs, so unfortunately the combat is very basic. You can disrupt enemy weapons, shields or engines via hacking.

Engineering sets power levels and prioritises repairs, this is probably the worst role to have and you don’t even get a clear idea of what is happening due to not having access to sensor data like the other three roles.

In singleplayer, you play as the captain but can give orders to the crew. The AI is very basic and some actions can reset other orders. The helm officer won’t avoid obstacles, so for some situations, you can take over the station and control it directly (although you can’t give orders from there, you have to return to the Captain’s position). It’s not the ideal way to play, but it gets the job done and is far better than not having the option.

The main (and incredibly short) 6-mission story takes place on the USS Aegis, a ship from the Kelvin timeline. The bridge itself is wonderfully made and fits the aesthetic while adapting it to work for a game like this. The missions are fine, but after this all that’s left is random missions. There’s not a lot of content in this game.

The game does include additional ships you can use in the random missions: the prime timeline original TOS-style Enterprise and (as part of DLC) the Enterprise D. The TOS bridge absolutely looks the part and is very authentic, although you definitely need to use the help overlay to work out which buttons do what. It’s difficult to use, but it gets the feel of being in The Original Series really well.

The Enterprise D bridge takes a few more liberties in its interface, mainly making the LCARS displays more game-like to help it play a lot better. This also makes the engineer’s job (renamed as “operations��) better by improving the repair side of things by assigning damage teams.

Bridge Crew is a great start for a multiplayer Star Trek game, but would have been nice with more in depth gameplay for weapons and shields, as well as far more structured missions.

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Characters I want to use if/when I get another RPG group:

DND

An Orc/Dwarf Barbarian named Rory, based on my cat of the same name. Obsessed with fine food, fights people to get money for fine food.

Gold-River Fireheart, a Teifling Warlock who is actually the reincarnation of a "Small God", the Spirit of the Village that her parents lived in but was destroyed by natural disaster, with her parents fleeing. Is technically her own "Patron".

.............

40k

Jenny "Blasted" Blaszka. A Sister of Battle who is actually a former "guardsman", but was accepted (through trail and deed) to be worthy of the Order (given HRT and feminization treatment). Uses an Assault Shotgun despite being repeatedly offered a Bolter. Does "unofficial" side-jobs for the Sisters, including helping the Inquisition.

Roger "Rampage" Kirk (Lambda Fire-239), an Ironkyn who explores the Tau Empire. Has repaired themselves with Tau parts, and is slowly making their way back to their Creator Votann. Gets distracted easily, though, and has spent nearly a century getting sidetracked by quests and adventures.

..........

AOS

Kelvin Hussian An MtG Planeswalker (treasure hunter and former con-artist) who followed an old multiverse map thinking he would find "The Old World", but instead found The Mortal Realms. Is trying to find a way back to his original Multiverse, because his Spark is "Stuck". Is very tired but at the very least has magic to get by.

[biblioflyer]

Temporal Cold/Hot Wars Theorizing

Thinking about how most civilizations that range from moderately above to far beyond the 24th/25th century Federation's tech level have mellowed out and largely seem to not be expansionist for its own sake or prone to zero sum thinking, it leaves us with the problem of the Temporal Cold War. So here's a take, see what you make of it internet land.

Its clear that at some point prior to the Burn, the Vulcans and Romulans have mostly reconciled. Time Travel technology of a sort that was utilized and then abandoned in the later half of the 2Xth centuries was involved to some extent in policing and attempting to subvert the Prime timeline. The Romulan agent who attempted to assassinate Khan in Strange New Worlds is food for thought.

Her motive seems to be Romulan supremacism. Which in some sense is the typical motive of the Federation's anti-pluralist enemies. However, I have to wonder if the Temporal Cold War is 1. not intrinsically a thing that originates with the spread of temporal technology in the 2Xth centuries but rather is something that is happening all over the timeline just about as soon as someone figures out that they can go back in time by looping around a sufficiently large gravity well at warp.

And 2. that a lot of it, and this is more me having fun with the idea here, is motivated in large part by the gradual decline in overt great power competition and supremacist thinking and the implicit "victory" of the Federation. Whether they sign on the dotted line or not, the maturation and increased precision of temporal technology comes along at the same time that particular factions in formerly imperial minded polities, like the Romulans, are watching more and more of their people choose peaceful coexistence and reconciliation.

At that point the only way to avert this "decline" via peaceful assimilation, is to erase the Federation as a viable entity from history. The Sphere Builders for instance try to use the Xindi as a proxy for this.

Sera likely represents another attempt at this for the cause of Romulan ascension, although its equally possible, perhaps even more likely that she comes from an earlier point on the timeline using cruder methods of time travel (like warping around a large gravity well) since she appears to have been stranded in 1992 after failing to find and assassinate Khan and unable to return to her present to ascertain what went wrong.

Of course because the past wasn't what she expected, she may have also feared returning to a present/future in which she wouldn't be recognized by her handlers and unable to prove to their satisfaction who she was, or worse, they would accept her proof and then throw her in an oubliette for intensive study.

Finally, while the Federation and other parties to the armistice that "ended" the Temporal Wars may have destroyed their technology, it seems unlikely that that is actually the real end of it all so much as some outside neutral party is policing the advancement of the timeline such that as desirable as it may be to prevent avoidable catastrophes like the Burn or the destruction of Vulcan in the Kelvin timeline, it must be a tenet of the consensus among time traveling civilizations that nobody gets to go back and tinker Although it is interesting to speculate about when and how different intrusions that aren't repaired such as Narada starting the Kelvin timeline are permitted to spawn branching timelines.

[a-bucket-of-trash]

Crashing Trust – Kelvin x Neutral Reader – Part 1/?

Prompt: You trust Kelvin to the bone, but maybe he is not the person you believe he is.

Tag: Angst

Your eyes looked up at the sky for a moment, seeing the heavy gray clouds move and you hoped it wouldn't start to rain, not yet. You sighed, feeling a bit cold on your face, but at least not on your body, not after walking so much on the island. You thought, walking again, with some of your weapons on you, studying the place, alert for any danger, while your head wondered if Kelvin had caught something in your absence. You denied to yourself, you knew he had done it. His skills acquiredafter years as a Boy Scout prior to the army were evident, he took prey from any corner and knew the use of most plants, whether they were edible, medicinal or poisonous.

You trusted him, that clumsy boy who little by little had recovered some of his faculties, just a bit of hearing and speaking, although there was still something blank as far as memories of him were concerned. There was a great majority of things that he still did not remember, but sometimes he would get up shouting, happy, with a new memory. He was kind, funny, caring and had trusted you as much as you trusted him. And you guys had even half flirted once. It was an island in the middle of nowhere, it was to be expected that you would flirt a bit, you were too close sometimes.

Your steps followed a hare, in the distance, but the animal heard you before, escaping. You growled, pacing the place, looking around, seeing the chopper in pieces on the ground. You passed, on one side, giving the military salute to the grave of your partner Fisheye, and Walter, the pilot. You had buried them a short time after falling there, a few months ago already.

You kept studying the place. It was something you did frequently, to keep yourself busy. You looked at a tree, the one where the helicopter had given the last blow at that time, before falling to the ground, and that it had half split it. It had almost no leaves anymore, partly because the blow had damaged it beyond repair, partly because it was autumn.

But your eyes fixed on something that was dark between the branches, and that you had not seen before because of the foliage. You celebrated in silence to not attract enemies, you were sure it was a backpack. It could be that of one of your fallen comrades, or even of Kelvin, that detail was irrelevant, what mattered was the content. Those backpacks were loaded with useful things, precisely for cases like this.

It took you a long time to get it down, you were forced to climb a tree that didn't look very safe, and the last thing you wanted was to fall in there, break something, and die of gangrene. But you managed to climb a little, hook it with your spear and pass it a rope, before lowering yourself and pulling, tearing it from the branch where it had been.

When it was on the ground you celebrated again, checking it, seeing the label with a K. You knew that each backpack had the letter of their code names, and the only one with the K was Kelvin. You opened it, more than anything to make sure it had the contents, check that no dangerous animal had nested there, or rotted or something. Everything was fine.

Among the things you found a hermetic bag with some content, a notepad like yours, a pen, a tactical knife, matches, useful things. You were euphoric, there was even a lot of medicine. You checked the notebook, it would be good for you to write things down, since yours was running out of pages.

And turning the pages, distractedly, you saw something written in the middle. You turned the pages back and stayed reading a familiar letter.

“Helicopter 1: Pilot Hubble. Soldier Gore. Raven Soldier. Private Cory. Destination: Eliminate. Method: C4 Installed in rear compartment. Detonation by control. Status: Stable.

Helicopter 2: Pilot Walter. Fisheye Soldier. Soldier Bucky. Destination: Experiment. Method: Sleeping pills. Leave outside Cube. Status: Stable.

Radio code to SaThe 885 510 931 074 Password #Puffton#”

You stayed static, reading that. You didn't understand well, but you understood enough. Kelvin's code name wasn't there, but yours, Bucky, was. The word EXPERIMENT resonated in your brain like poison. You didn't know what the Cube was, but you had seen enough of the mutants to associate them with some kind of experiment on the island. “SaThe” disintegrated in your mind. You had read a few things in the bunkers where you had been, in classified papers, and the word "Sahara Therapeutics" appeared next to Puffton, too much.

Your blood boiled in anger and betrayal. Kelvin hadn't gone there as a member of the rescue team, he had gone undercover as the Pufftons' competition to get information, experiment on you, kill your team and who knows what else. The man you had believed was a good soldier, next to you, was a lie. You put everything together, with hate and quickly walked back to your cabin, with the darkness of a hundred cannibals in your steps.

As soon as you got there, you saw him near the campfire, next to some fish he had caught. His ears couldn't quite hear you, he turned to you and smiled seeing you close, but you kicked him hard, making him stumble and fall on his ass to the ground. You kicked his hip hard enough for him to shrink into himself, covering his head in fear. You crouched down a bit to punch his arms a few times, hearing him groan and say “Stop” several times.

"You are fucking trash!" You stepped away slightly, furious and anguished “Son of a bitch, traitor! Killer!"

"What…?" He barely looked at you, very scared, still defending himself on the ground "I don't understand"

“I don't care if you don't understand me! I hate you! And I thought you were my friend!" You half sobbed, your trust breaking into a thousand pieces, as well as your heart.

“I do nothing…” He shyly extended his hand towards you “Honey… Explain me”

"Not honey, not anything!" You threw his backpack at his head, watching him hold it, confused "Trash" You threw the notepad in his face "Take your damn notepad and check what YOU wrote"

His confused and somewhat hurt eyes went from you to the small notebook that he had gathered from the floor, turning pages. Until he found what he had written. He read and reread, knowing it was his handwriting. His confused expression dimmed slightly, as some memory fragments flitted back into his mind. Kelvin stood still, his mouth open, searching for words he didn't quite have in his vocabulary.

“I can…explain…” He looked at you with sad eyes.

“I don't want a fucking explanation, Kelvin! You put a C4 on our teammates! You were going to kill me along with Walter and Fisheye! What fucking explanation can justify that!? None!" You furiously kicked his foot “Double agent, traitor!”

“Please… let me explain…” He reached out to you, pleading “I…” But he stayed still, silent. Even if he explained, he wasn't going to undo the fact that he had actually planned that. That he had forgotten about it, and the reasons why he had decided to do so, no longer mattered.

"Get out of here!" You took the fish and threw it on him “Take your damn dinner, your stupid backpack and go! Go away because I'm about to chop off your head, you son of a bitch! I see you around the island and I swear I will attack you like a cannibal!"

"But..." He stood up awkwardly, despairing "I love you... And... We'll survive better... together"

“Do you love me now!? You didn't give a shit about that when you wrote me down in your stupid little notebook as an experiment subject!" You sobbed again “I will survive alone! And I'll make it easier knowing I don't have a bloody traitor living under my roof!"

“But…” He tried to get closer to you, sobbing too “I really love you… I don't want to leave… Forgive me… forgive me… please…”

"I'm not going to forgive you! I hate you! I do not want anything with you! Go away!" You took your axe, firmly, ready to attack him “Get out! I said get out, you ungrateful deaf asshole!”

He looked at you, crying, almost more than you. He lowered his eyes, holding his backpack better against his chest and turned, walking slowly, moving away from you with a slight limp, the product of the pain in his leg, caused by one of your kicks. He kept walking away, crying, listening to you cry hard, knowing that you must be really loud for his poor hearing to hear you so clearly.

Kelvin regretted what he had done long before he got on the helicopter, regretted his decisions, his betrayal of his squad, something that had led him to lose you, his mate and the only source of security and comfort on the island. He was now alone, at the mercy of enemies and even at the mercy of your anger.

Part 2

[disneybritton]

HOUSE DIARY: JUNE 2023

I retired for this place. It was a year ago that I made the announcement that I was moving to Key West. I loved my work in Indianapolis but I didn't want to go back there. This month, we are still installing that boatload of artwork brought down in May.

What Key West Taught Me in June?

Humidifiers are big, ugly, and essential in Florida.

Online framing works with Frame It Easy. Choose any size, any color, and any mat! It shipped to our door at 20% of the professional shop prices. Two others with more high quality and variety are LevelFrames and FrameBridge.

Apartment living in a new state can be complex. For $5, I used "Just Answer," an online attorney service who explained a question about water leaks, and Florida condominium laws. They provide round-the-clock access to 12,000+ verified Experts, including doctors, lawyers, tech support, mechanics, vets, home repair pros, more.

Artists: Quincy Owens, Romero Britto, Kehinde Wiley

Artists: Max Whalen (Cinti), Kelvin Burzon (Fort Wayne)

Artist Michael Cook (UK). Framed by Frame It Easy online.

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Preserving History Essential Repairs Completed at Paisley’s Kelvin House

The picture shows repair work being carried out by Renfrewshire Council in October 2024

In the heart of Paisley, efforts to protect two of the town’s most iconic historical structures—Kelvin House and a neighbouring building—have recently seen important progress. Renfrewshire Council has successfully carried out essential repairs to shield these architectural gems from the elements, helping to ensure they remain secure and weatherproof for the future. A Push to Preserve: The…

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[1812-1941-1974]

"Which hand can you live without?" "What do you mean?" Nola pulled out a cheese wire garrote. "I am going to cut off one of your hands. You get to choose which one." Casper lurched backwards, chair clattering across the tyrwood planks of the dimly lit room. He tipped backwards as the glint of candlelight in mid air flicked past. Warmth spread down his face from the tip of his nose as he lurched to a stop, the skin on his neck caving inwards, straining against some invisible foe. His eyes bulged, he clawed at his neck. The wire! He kicked frantically trying to find purchase but the cheese wire held him at a 45 degree angle to the ground. Nola sighed and pulled out a dagger. "Which hand, Casper?" The darkness started closing in. His stomach spasmed, trying to vomit with fear only to rebound at the kink in his neck. Stars, little needlepoints in multicolor bloomed across his finish. Spittle shot out from his lips, drool, snot, the pain was incredible. "You need to choose before you pass out." Casper thrust his left hand at Nola, trying to rip her face off. Nola caught it like one might pluck an apple, yanked it towards her, and deftly tied a little blue ribbon around it. The cheese wire snapped loose and Casper hit the ground like a pile of dropped meat, gasping in the darkness and dust. He immediately vomited. It went through his nose. Tears, vomit, snot, streaming from his face as he gasped. How badly did the air sting against his neck? How much did his nose burn? His nose was bleeding. Through the stream of tears he could see a little spot of shiny dull grey metal dangling from the ribbon on his wrist. "What..." "What is this?"

"It's a chunk of magnesium tied to a sillet ribbon. I find sillet ribbons do best for this sort of thing, they're difficult to cut or tear, and the color is very vibrant." "Why." "Well, the things you can't see think magnesium smells terrible and is unpleasantly noisy. Like a dripping faucet in a big sink, or a pile of rotting chicken meat. They'll investigate it. Usually try to pick it up and throw it away from them." "Does making them come toward me help?" "Well you wouldn't know if they were there otherwise. And they'll be close enough for you to hit them. Not that I would try that. But another interesting thing about magnesium is that it produces a lot of heat and light." "Doesn't magnesium take a lot of heat to ignite?" "Around 785 Kelvin if I remember. The fire is hotter. Having it this close to your hand will burn you beyond repair. It's more of a warning than a defense. Some will just tug at it a bit and leave. Some might be scared off by the light and heat if you ignite it. It's not every day someone sets their own hand on fire to intimidate you, many find that very discouraging. But the ones I'm worried about will simply take most of the arm below the elbow. You will be warned then, when your hand comes off, that what you can't see is very dangerous." "Why didn't you just tie it to a stick and put it on my backpack?" "It's a bit like a moving a plate with a glass on top. If the glass is on top of the plate and has some rotten liquid in it, you move the glass first. If you were to just pick up the plate, the glass might slide around and spill, getting gross stuff everywhere. If they're in different places you just sort of move them separately at the same time. A dirty plate is conceptually less offensive when there is a dirty glass of rotten liquid in the same area. They're going to do it either way with the same lack of passion you might reserve for smoothing out a gum wrapper, but there is an order of things." "I thought you said they weren't destructive?" "They aren't. To them you've always been dead, the entire span of your life like a character in a book on a shelf who dies at the end. A book you read ten years ago that everyone already knows the ending to. The hostility you perceive and fear you feel is more a failure of your own perception faced with something that understands much more than you do that you lack the information to invent reasonable motivations for."