If the Borg are so damn intellegent after assimilating so many

[chemenger]

different cultures then why are their starships cubes???

Everyone knows that a sphere contains the greatest volume inside the smallest surface area ... much more economical and more efficient use of construction materials.

[mikeytherat]

1. It's used as a test to determine who has not yet been assimilated.

Anyone asking what you just did would immediately be identified for assimilation. Congrats! You just made their list.

mikey_the_rat

[TZ]

2. ROFL!

Do I smell a geek war brewing..been awhile since we had a good one...:popcorn:

[mikeytherat]

3. Nope. All I know is that The Borg are a Star Trek thing (at least I think so).

mikey_the_rat

[Cannikin]

4. The Borg don't limt themselves to cubes...

They seem to like geometry.

The cube


The sphere


The queen's diamond


And the coffin shaped probe

[Deep13]

7. Holy shit! They assimilated Euclid! nt

[TZ]

8. LOL!

I think I know exactly what you are talking about there....:D

[chemenger]

11. The coffin???

This is probably the Borg ship that all the ST-TOS red shirts (you know ... the dispensible crew members; the ones who inevitably get killed whenever they are assigned to a landing party) who have been assimilated get assigned to.

[NewJeffCT]

5. True - and if they had used a sphere, geeks could speculate that

they had assimilated the Empire and their Death Star technology.

[meegbear]

6. Because non-spherical shapes can store more things efficiently ...

stack 27 squares and 27 spheres in a 3x3x3 arrangement - which one is more efficient?

Hah! I'm not even a borg (as far as you know).

[chemenger]

9. Aw, come on ... you know as well as I do that your statement

depends on the size of the object. If the container is measured in feet or meters then you would be right ... the curvature of a sphere would be pronounced. But if the container is measured in miles or kilometers then the curvature would barely be noticeable.


PS: You, meegbear, will NOT be assimilated.

[Squatch]

10. Spheres.

[KG]

12. also, a cube isn't very aerodynamic....

:hide:

[Javaman]

13. The death star was out for repair, so they had to go with a cube. nt

[Greyskye]

14. Have you ever tried hanging a painting inside a sphere?

Cubes are so much easier to decorate!