To some people, geek speek sounds like this

Nyamaza · Post by **Nyamaza** » Sat May 28, 2005 3:15 pm

http://www.engadget.com/entry/2768755886686398/

enjoy.

(PS, if anyone can tell me what he's saying, I'll be shocked and awed)

Hat-Kun · Post by **Hat-Kun** » Sun May 29, 2005 4:25 am

Hydrocoptic marzel veins. ^,^

Cyril_Dran · Post by **Cyril_Dran** » Tue May 31, 2005 8:00 pm

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)

Tegeran · Post by **Tegeran** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:09 pm

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.

Allan_ecker · Post by **Allan_ecker** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:45 pm

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.

Hat-Kun · Post by **Hat-Kun** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 1:01 pm

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!"

Allan_ecker · Post by **Allan_ecker** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 2:59 pm

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!

Maximuscoolman · Post by **Maximuscoolman** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 4:14 pm

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.

Allan_ecker · Post by **Allan_ecker** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:24 pm

Well, it'd also be a bare proton, but then we'd just be splitting atoms, er, hairs.

Maximuscoolman · Post by **Maximuscoolman** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 6:24 pm

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.

Fallwind · Post by **Fallwind** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 9:39 pm

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

The_Fox · Post by **The_Fox** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 6:54 am

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

Alfador · Post by **Alfador** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:20 am

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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