Bagpuss aside - I think Bobcat would suit this size of ship.
That's a good one actually!
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That's a good one actually!
Schrodinger?
This all well and good, but when do we get a manufacturer that uses shark names, so we can have sharks with frikkin' laser beams on them?
we have the Orca and Dolphin on the list of ships so sharks could be closer than you think
Maybe if it were a fighter and a freighter at the same time
we have the Orca and Dolphin on the list of ships so sharks could be closer than you think
My inner biologist wants to be pedantic about this.
Maybe if it were a fighter and a freighter at the same time
That'd be "Heisenberg". The Shrodinger works half of the times, the other half not.
Sorta- Shrodinger's cat was alive and dead at the same time due to quantum superposition, hence freighter and fighter at once (no ship is likely to do both best at once).
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle says that we can't know both the location and the direction of a subatomic particle, because the act of measuring one changes the other. Not sure how to turn that into a spaceship analogy :S
I thought it was a case that more accurately measuring one thing meant you knew less about the other, not that it changed it? But it's been a while since I read a dummies guide to quantum physics (In Search of Schrodinger's Cat) I must admit.
we have the Orca and Dolphin on the list of ships so sharks could be closer than you think
Stealing names from X? Tut tut.....
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I thought it was a case that more accurately measuring one thing meant you knew less about the other, not that it changed it? But it's been a while since I read a dummies guide to quantum physics (In Search of Schrodinger's Cat) I must admit.
My understanding goes something like this: A change is caused, because for example to know the location of a particle you have to reflect something, such as light, off the particle. When you're dealing with particles small enough to be directly influenced by photons, this means the particle gets nudged away. Your photon reflects back to your detector and shows you where the particle was, but not where it is now, and gives no hint as to the direction it was going.
This is based on half-remembered stuff from a molecular orbital theory class during my degree years. That's at least 10 years ago
So it's probably total nonsense.
Fer De Lance...?
Was the Fer De Lance supposed to be another Faulcon DeLacy ship? What with the snake theme and all?
I think the Bagpuss MK I is in the lead to be honest. Not sure how I feel about that.
Garfield
Haha, remember after Lion, Apple actually had a public poll to determine the name of the next OSX release. The internet responded in droves, and "lolcat" won by a landslide. Unfortunately, Apple reneged on their promise to let the public decide and named 10.8 Mountain Lion.
So there you go. The Zorgon Peterson lolcat.
So there you go. The Zorgon Peterson lolcat.
To be fair the animals had those names before X did so technically it's stealing from the mammals themselves.
Aside from being a little mischievous. (I remember when Josh and Ashley tried to convince people that the Cobra Mk III wouldn't be in the game), Josh makes the fine point of just where does Fer De Lance fit with ZP's supposed feline naming convention?
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