Spaceshiptember 2023, Day 18: Mining - "Dilithium Prospecting"
Above one of many asteroids in the Vlugta field, a lone Ferengi Marauder - the Nerrak - performs prospecting scans, soon to be a staging area for further dilithium miners.
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Spaceshiptember 2023, Day 18: Mining - "Dilithium Prospecting"
Above one of many asteroids in the Vlugta field, a lone Ferengi Marauder - the Nerrak - performs prospecting scans, soon to be a staging area for further dilithium miners.

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I need to know...
is dilithium just... two lithiums? like how monoxide is one oxygen? did star trek not actually just create a new element???
Dear Vector Prime, Not long ago I learned of a universe where an incident on Cygnus Seven ended with Megatron and a number of his Decepticons in the custody of the Klingon Empire. Could you shed some light on the long term consequences of this arrangement?
Dear Technical Trekkie,
Ah, yes! I know the universe of which you speak—one of several universes recently afflicted by a higher-dimensional brush with the wider Omniverse. I should warn you, however, that the effects of the Shroud and general omniversal interference make it difficult to clearly view events in this timeline; from my current vantage point, I can only see glimpses of one branching timeline…
With the Decepticons under lock and key, the Klingons eventually turned their attention to studying the mechanical physiologies of their captives and attempting to reverse-engineer their weapon systems. Indeed, the aliens soon developed a frightful array of experimental weapons—although the need to synthesize an artificial dilithium-energon mixture to power these weapons of war made them impractical for long-term military use.
By the 24th century, these lines of experimentation had largely ceased after the ratification of an official peace treaty between the Klingons and their neighbors in the Federation robbed them of an immediate enemy to use them against. Over the years, however, unsavory elements within Klingon society would occasionally turn a tidy profit by selling these “classified military secrets” to other galactic powers, such as less scrupulous members of the Ferengi Alliance.
Scientists have figured out how to use nuclear waste as an energy source, converting radioactive gas into artificial diamonds that could be used as batteries.
Well, if this doesn’t remind you of dilithium crystals, I don’t know what will.
Star Trek Online Dilithium Mine Ground Concept Art by FBOMBheart

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Cybersecurity in the Quantum Age: Post-Quantum Crypto & Q-Day Preparation
Every era has its defining cybersecurity challenge. In the early 2000s, it was worms and viruses. The 2010s brought ransomware and state-sponsored intrusions. Now, the 2020s have begun a race against time toward what experts ominously call Q-Day—the moment when a sufficiently powerful quantum computer could break widely used public-key cryptography. This is not science fiction. Algorithms like…
NIST 選出了四個 Post-Quantum Cryptography 演算法
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