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- Bob Schroeck - 12-18-2008
Well, geeze. What could someone do with a tank of 'wavium and http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/18 ... away_plan/]one of these?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- Ebony - 12-18-2008
Quote: Bob Schroeck wrote:Paint it yellow and black and make it the PS238 school bus?
Well, geeze. What could someone do with a tank of 'wavium and one of these?
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com
"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."
- Norgarth - 12-19-2008
hmm that reminds me, now where was that link...
ah. posted in the general thread by Bob a few weeks back, the robot triceratops for kids.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/video?id=621
Imagine the results from waving one of those. 8)
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"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin
- Bob Schroeck - 12-19-2008
Oh, btw, the local BJ's Warehouse Store had one of those triceratops out on the shelf a couple nights ago. Pretty damned impressive toy. Even without being 'waved.
Ebony Wrote:Paint it yellow and black and make it the PS238 school bus?Maybe, when we finally get around to establishing it. (Circa 2013-14, maybe?)
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- robkelk - 12-19-2008
Quote:Maybe, when we finally get around to establishing it. (Circa 2013-14, maybe?)Ah, you're just waiting until 2014 so you can get some financial backing from Noah for the school... (Although, by that point, brand-new Shuttles will be available from the VVS.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
New Google Earth Includes Google Mars - Bob Schroeck - 02-04-2009
Reg story here.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Apparently, "A.C." stands for "Hiroaki Koike" - robkelk - 02-12-2009
The Inquirer: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/new ... bot-clones]Hiroaki Koike is making robot "clones" of people - allow six months for delivery, and call it "Mini-Me".
Add handwavium, and ... you know the rest.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Break out the orbital dustpan and brush... - Cobalt Greywalker - 02-12-2009
...things are getting messy up there.
BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7885051.stm]Russian and US satellites collide
- Black Aeronaut - 02-12-2009
Hrm... I'd think that by 2010, at least, some Dane-side organization would have hired out Fen to clean things up. That, or maybe the Fen simply took it up
themselves because, hey, who wants a loose bolt from a satelite to scratch your new paint job? Or taking off your head for that matter.
- Ebony - 02-12-2009
Quote: blackaeronaut wrote:"Planetes" anyone?
Hrm... I'd think that by 2010, at least, some Dane-side organization would have hired out Fen to clean things up. That, or maybe the Fen simply took it
up themselves because, hey, who wants a loose bolt from a satelite to scratch your new paint job? Or taking off your head for that matter.
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com
"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."
- itsune9tl - 02-13-2009
Quote: Ebony wrote:That would be where the Quark make a lot of their
Quote: blackaeronaut wrote:"Planetes" anyone?
Hrm... I'd think that by 2010, at least, some Dane-side organization would have hired out Fen to clean things up. That, or maybe the Fen simply took it
up themselves because, hey, who wants a loose bolt from a satelite to scratch your new paint job? Or taking off your head for that matter.
money.
At this rate we may have to go there for real.
- Ebony - 02-13-2009
Quote: Manytales00 wrote:
Quote: Ebony wrote:That would be where the Quark make a lot of their
Quote: blackaeronaut wrote:"Planetes" anyone?
Hrm... I'd think that by 2010, at least, some Dane-side organization would have hired out Fen to clean things up. That, or maybe the Fen simply took
it up themselves because, hey, who wants a loose bolt from a satelite to scratch your new paint job? Or taking off your head for that matter.
money.
At this rate we may have to go there for real.
Given the story I heard about tiles coming off one of the Space Shuttles with paint chips embedded in them, you may be right.
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com
"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."
- Norgarth - 02-14-2009
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
-- Walt Disney
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"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin
- Black Aeronaut - 02-15-2009
*snerts* Walt Disney would have loved Handwavium.
- Foxboy - 02-15-2009
But, I think, he would have hated the fen.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
- Bob Schroeck - 02-15-2009
Maybe, maybe not... Walt had the same kind of childlike adoration of the future and its potential that seems to be a component of most Fen mindsets...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- Foxboy - 02-15-2009
I'm not saying Walt wouldn't fit in AS a Fen. It's part of his backstory as to why Copyright lasts as long in the US as it does. He got shafted on
what ownership he had on "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit" pre-sound.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
- Bob Schroeck - 02-16-2009
Ah, I see what you mean. Mmm. I'd have to look it up, of course, but I have the impression it's the posthumous management of the WDC who's
responsible for the perversion of copyright durations, not Uncle Walt.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- Black Aeronaut - 02-18-2009
Agreed. When Disney Land first opened, Walt wanted it to be a place that pretty much anyone with a half-way decent job in America could enjoy. Now... *Sighs*
- itsune9tl - 02-18-2009
My Problem is "In My Book" People like Walt Disney, Tex Avery, and the Warner Bros. Are Pre wave Fen that made their "Hobbies" profitable.
- Norgarth - 02-19-2009
Quote: Manytales00 wrote:
My Problem is "In My Book" People like Walt Disney, Tex Avery, and the Warner Bros. Are Pre wave Fen that made their "Hobbies"
profitable.
Why's that a problem?
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"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin
- robkelk - 02-20-2009
Likewise on the "huh?" reaction. In Fenspace, Noah's making his hobby profitable, and nobody thinks the worse of him for it. (Many folks don't like him for other reasons, but that one's okay...)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- itsune9tl - 02-21-2009
My bad I was interpreting the thread direction as looking for reasons that Walt Disney wouldn't be considered Fen.
Getting back to the "Inspirational, Meta &c."... - robkelk - 02-21-2009
So, who wrote the Fenspace version of http://e23.sjgames.com/item.html?id=SKP0702]this ebook - Nagato, "Nanoha", or both in collaboration?
(One simply has to like a book with the disclaimer "Unless this publication states otherwise, masculine nouns and pronouns do not refer exclusively to human males."...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- Black Aeronaut - 02-22-2009
robkelk: The hell? USSMC FM 7-22: Space Boarding Operations? Is that what you meant to link us to? (I can't think of the Fenspace version being any
different, really. Hell, the Sammies would probably have directly lifted that one directly as one of their manuals.)