Seems like fertile ground for coming up with something fun and interesting … a whole shadow universe that barely touches ours … but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it.

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Jack Oneil kept calling them nintendos. 🤷

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O’Neill. Two Ls.

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“There’s another Colonel O’Neil with one L. He has no sense of humor at all.”

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yes, they’re an extremely common sci-fi presence in comics, movies, video games, pretty much any half-science dimensional thing you need to happen that can’t be explained.

the movie 2012 is about neutrinos going crazy after a solar flare, I’m having trouble finding the countless examples of neutrinos being used in comics because apparently a team called “the neutrinos” made their way into the TMNT universe at some point.

but yeah, it’s pretty popular to hear neutrinos did this or that in sci-fi premises because of their omnipresence and weird behavior and not really understanding them.

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apparently a team called “the neutrinos” made their way into the TMNT universe at some point

So the creators themselves named their (super?)hero team after particles that are so insubstantial and ineffective that 99.8% of the entire universe will never even acknowledge their existence?

Brütal.

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Professor Farnsworth teaches a course on the quantum fields they generate: https://youtu.be/3hvzmxarAh8

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Ah yes, wonton burrito fields

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Every episode of Star Trek: TNG that isn’t about tachyons.

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Neutrino disturbances are how they found the wormhole in DS9.

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Ha … maybe … I feel like they’re just all the other random particles that come up in TNG-era trek … maybe more so?

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In the later books of the three Body Problem series they use them for long range directional communications.

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