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Please drive carefully: scientists plan to transport volatile antimatter for first time (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] kieron115@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I was just about to post this! Now I really want to know if Data's neural network was banana powered.

"If one crunches the numbers (as they do in the original article), it turns out that bananas pop out a positron every 75 minutes or so."

[–] knightly@pawb.social 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

From the Memory Alpha wiki:

He did not require sustenance, but occasionally ingested semi-organic nutrient suspension in a silicon-based liquid medium to lubricate his biofunctions. (TNG: "Deja Q") Though capable of consuming more traditional food and drink, Data had no sense of taste and therefore tended not to bother eating. (TNG: "Hero Worship")

So, you could probably derive some of the organic components from bananas, but generally no. He's not really banana-powered.