I guess that means we need... NUCLEAR jet packs!!!
8? Are there other codes for 7 & 9, that we need to be counting? What if we were sleeping and unsure of how many blasts we heard? :)
Really just morphs the troubles into balancing work (for food/energy consumption), and "premature" death (can you imagine your spouse living their whole life in a day/week?).
Seems like something that might get vetoed.
I get the feeling that if this were on a globe, it would appear as a long, thin, and nearly empty circle.
Probably exclusivity agreements...
One emitter at a time...
...and you think noise pollution is bad now? Just you wait.
The certainty that romulan had, that asked geordi to connect disparate tech (his visor to his tricorder)... like it was just a given that all tech is composable, and that they use singularities for power... i would accept it as canon that romulan tech is superior.