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  • Very far. We’re not given numbers, but Deanna’s range might actually be on the lower side, because she’s not wholly Betazoid, and her empathic abilities are due to her telepathic abilities only being semi-functional.

    If the books and extended media are to be believed, Betazed passed First Contact restrictions because they were already reading minds for light years around.

    It’s likely that most of the time, all the nearby minds just get drowned out or metaconsciously tuned out. So unless you have a condition that impairs that, you’re not picking up every thought for light years.

    But type of telepathy matters too. Vulcan-type telepathy doesn’t have nearly as large a range, and is good for about a few metres, or requires physical contact, for example.

    Tin Man’s telepathy was able to reach across at least a whole star system.





  • Basically, Lemmy works by having a whole.bunch of different server-computers chitchat to each other. Hence how I can post a reply to you, even though you’re on Aussie.zone, and I’m on Lemmy.world.

    The problem was that because Lemmy.world was big, and there were a lot of people in Aussie.zone who had feeds over there, Lemmy.world couldn’t fire stuff off quickly enough.

    Analogically, you’re basically getting a telegram to your house every day, saying what’s on the news. Except that there are a lot of people, so the telegraph operator can’t write and send the telegrams out quickly enough, and the message started backing up.

    Lemmy.world basically enabled multi-threaded sending, which works like hiring more telegraph operators. While they could now keep up, there was still a huge amount of backlog that they had to send.

    It’s only until this post that they finally caught up.