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To some people, geek speek sounds like this
Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 3:15 pm
by Nyamaza
http://www.engadget.com/entry/2768755886686398/
enjoy.
(PS, if anyone can tell me what he's saying, I'll be shocked and awed)
Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 4:25 am
by Hat-Kun
Hydrocoptic marzel veins. ^,^
Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 8:00 pm
by Cyril_Dran
Most of it is BS, I think. For example, he used "Logarithmic" to refer to a surface. I can't think of a way to apply log to metal, I'm sorry.
It was like listening to Geordi giving an engineering report in TNG, to me.
"Sir, the technobabble is failing!" "Add 6 syllables, Ensign"
(panel from some early 21st century fox somewhere. Don't feel like looking up the link. But it seemed appropriate to quote here)
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:09 pm
by Tegeran
About 80% of the words he uses that sound like nouns or verbs are complete fabrication, and there's not even a vague principle at work. It's meaningless babble. That video was not made to be taken seriously. I'd say it was Adams-esque, except it's not actually funny.
Cyril_Dran wrote:It was like listening to Geordi giving an engineering report in TNG, to me.
Most of Geordi's nouns either actually exist, or follow something resembling normal naming practices in science, and there's always some underlying semi-coherant principle involved, even if it doesn't work in the real world.
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:45 pm
by Allan_ecker
Yeah, man.
Star Trek science is, to be sure, a big, roundy, cartoony, primary-colored version of real science. But it isn't simply bullshit. There's a schematic somewhere behind all this, with some science fiction guys hemming and hawing over the four or five blocks in the system powered by IJW (It Just Works) technologies, trying to make what the writers said fit into Trek's inflatable paddlewheel version of real science.
No, it's not remotely realistic.
Yes, the mismatches between Star Trek and the real thing are sometimes hilarious.
But hey, you guys liked Umlaut House, right?
PS: My favorite bit of humor was when Janeway had a holographic boyfriend and she quipped "Oh, I'll tell him, look, I'm a woman, and you're a 10-deciwatt hologram." Ten deciwatts, by the way, is about what you use to power a vibrator.
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 1:01 pm
by Hat-Kun
Two hydrogen atoms walk into a bar. One says, "I think I've lost an electron!" The other says, "Are you sure?" The first replies, "Yes, I'm positive."
Then a neutron walks into the bar, and asks for a drink. "How much will that be?," asks the neutron.
"For you?" replies the bartender, "no charge!"
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 2:59 pm
by Allan_ecker
Another favorite of mine was the "baryon sweep", a process that was supposed to clean out radioactive particles deposited in the entire ship by the pervasive antimatter power systems. It's funny because all matter is made out of baryons, so not only would it be fatal to living beings as shown in the episode, but it would also completely destroy the ship!
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 4:14 pm
by Maximuscoolman
Hat-Kun wrote:Two hydrogen atoms walk into a bar. One says, "I think I've lost an electron!" The other says, "Are you sure?" The first replies, "Yes, I'm positive."
If it had lost an electron, then it would be a hydrogen ion, not an atom.
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:24 pm
by Allan_ecker
Well, it'd also be a bare proton, but then we'd just be splitting atoms, er, hairs.
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 6:24 pm
by Maximuscoolman
Not always, some hydrogens go around with a neutron. I'd say about 1% as my periodic table from Nottingham uni says it's relative atomic mass is 1.01
Although to be pedantic, that would be Deuterium, and Wikipedia says it has a natural abundance of 1 in 6500.
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 9:39 pm
by Fallwind
allan_ecker wrote:PS: My favorite bit of humor was when Janeway had a holographic boyfriend and she quipped "Oh, I'll tell him, look, I'm a woman, and you're a 10-deciwatt hologram." Ten deciwatts, by the way, is about what you use to power a vibrator.
dear god i couldnt stop laughing for 5 minutes
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 6:54 am
by The_Fox
allan_ecker wrote:PS: My favorite bit of humor was when Janeway had a holographic boyfriend and she quipped "Oh, I'll tell him, look, I'm a woman, and you're a 10-deciwatt hologram." Ten deciwatts, by the way, is about what you use to power a vibrator.
Well, they needed to break up. I'm pretty sure all that power went to his head...
- Jarylan
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:20 am
by Alfador
The_Fox wrote:allan_ecker wrote:PS: My favorite bit of humor was when Janeway had a holographic boyfriend and she quipped "Oh, I'll tell him, look, I'm a woman, and you're a 10-deciwatt hologram." Ten deciwatts, by the way, is about what you use to power a vibrator.
Well, they needed to break up. I'm pretty sure all that power went to his head...
- Jarylan
...
...BWAHAHAAAHAHAHAAHA*breathe*
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