Is it better to starve for scraps in a dead world of dwindling resources or to strive to find a new one?
Realistically irl, it's way easier to teraform a mostly fine planet with a working magneto sphere and liquid water as opposed to going to another planet where you'd have to do all that yourself, but sci-fi likes to pretend there are thousands of lush green worlds out in the endless black waiting to be colonized.
The larger issue would be the lack of easily available fuel to rebuild earth with, an issue only made infinitely harder by being light-years away from home and starting on a new dead rock instead of a mostly dead one.
They wore the guise of one for longer than many live. In that time he would have been treated and lived as one with mortals who wouldn't know enough to think otherwise. If this is how he choose to live I see no reason to question it.
I am not defending this practice at all, but I do think that they have sending written on them in black that the camera and compression have hidden. You don't want to give the plebs a black and white reason to revolt.
Edit: zoomed in on the hi res version, they are holiday off.
If a cop can take your property with no consequences and you will be arrested or killed if you defend yourself and your property, then what the law says doesn't matter as the defacto state of reality isn't concerned with such petty things as laws.
Do you mean sapient? Because plants are also sentient; all sentience is is the ability to react to senses. Sapience on the other hand is the ability to have higher thought, like tool use, teaching, recognizing yourself in a mirror, etc... Finally there is the ability to feel pain which I do not think has a word. Plants from what we can tell cannot process pain, but can process negative stimuli.
I played this game around when it came out as a kid at a family members house we were visiting while sick.
My only memory was beating it and about an afternoon, that it's story was completely nonsensical, and that it was basically just a mediocre call of duty clone but achieved my goal of killing an afternoon quite well.
In addition to what @Pons_Aelius replied, it is also used as a benchmark/flex for computers, as to who can build a beefy enough machine or good enough card to calculate more digits of pi.
The answer to your question is as simple as it is unsatisfying. Additional degrees of precision in construction are only as useful as your means to use them.
If you using your saw can only cut to an accuracy of 1/8 of an inch, than any precision beyond that point is lost as you are unable to actualize it
However if you are using a saw and you're now at the point of your personal skill that you're measuring to the inside or outside of the mark on a ruler, then it is likely time for you to graduate between more precise form of measurement.
This video covers a lot of the interesting points around measurement and how we can never truly be perfectly accurate with any measurement of any non-discreet metric.
To give a real world example if you are off by a millimeter diameter when building a car engine cylinder it will likely fail.
Is it better to starve for scraps in a dead world of dwindling resources or to strive to find a new one?
Realistically irl, it's way easier to teraform a mostly fine planet with a working magneto sphere and liquid water as opposed to going to another planet where you'd have to do all that yourself, but sci-fi likes to pretend there are thousands of lush green worlds out in the endless black waiting to be colonized.
The larger issue would be the lack of easily available fuel to rebuild earth with, an issue only made infinitely harder by being light-years away from home and starting on a new dead rock instead of a mostly dead one.