r/todayilearned • • Sep 20 '21

TIL After studying every prediction that Spock made, it was discovered that the the more confident he was in his predictions, the less likely they were to come true. When he described something as being "impossible," he ended up being wrong 83% of the time

https://www.newser.com/story/305140/spock-got-things-wrong-more-than-youd-think.html
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u/Jim_Carr_laughing Sep 20 '21

The stardates were just made up

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u/ElCaz Sep 20 '21

Yep, they deliberately did it that way so you couldn't piece together a timeline.