Quote:===== Carmen Miranda's Ghost =====
Most old-time Fen, and more than a few of the younger generation, know that Carmen Miranda's Ghost Is Haunting Space Station Three. Signs of this haunting include calypso music and random fresh fruit where there should be neither of these things. But there's great dissent on exactly //which// station is Space Station Three.
A few die-hard and pedantic Fen go back to the beginnig, numbering Skylab as Space Station One, Mir as Space Station Two, and the [[ships:International Space Station] as Space Station Three. However, the ISS has never reported any fruit or unexplained music, and NASA's near-constant audio and video feeds from the ISS would make it difficult to cover up anything of the sort there.
Some Fen list only the oldest stations still in existance when trying to figure out which station Carmen Miranda's ghost is haunting. They list the ISS as Space Station One, [[ships:Starbase 1] as Space Station Two, and [[gazetteer:places:earth:New Yavin] as Space Station Three. The Warsies categorically deny the presence of any supernatural forces (other than The Force) on their first habitat... but nobody has been allowed to go in and look.
Another popular view is that only handwaved stations should be on the list. The Fen who hold this view consider Starbase 1 to be Space Station 1, New Yavin to be Space Station Two, and [[ships:Stellvia] to be Space Station Three. When asked, the Stellvians point to their contract with [[ships:Babylon .5] to supply fresh fruit, saying that's proof enough it doesn't magically appear on their station. True believers point out that Carmen Miranda's Ghost wouldn't be able to supply all the fruit that Stellvia needs, and refuse to budge.
A minority opinion among Fen is that the first station to call itself "Space Station Three" will be Space Station Three. As yet, no station admits to having that name...
Quote:Another myth, less spooky: Kaboomite is handwaved Pop Rocks and Cola.LOL
When Noah first hears this one, he'll make a single public statement: "I want to categorically deny the rumor that Kaboomite is handwaved Pop Rocks and Cola." After that, he'll say "no comment" whenever asked.
Since he said he wanted to categorically deny etc., some Fen will add "...but I can't because it's true" to his statement. Noah knows how the average conspiracy-theorist thinks...
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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