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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Saturn2004 on April 30, 2005, 04:39:36 am
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heya folks im back again and i was just wondering what you think of these two magical mythical objects
Q playing around with Captain Janeways Universe or seeing some one getting smashed and turned into pulp by "Thor's Hammer"
Basically im asking of what you think of Q and his immature and ungodly use of his power
I know at least some of you guys have seen "Q" in Star Trek TNG or Star Trek Voyager
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:wtf:
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LOL sandwich
your up this late?
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As far as Q is concerned, I wish Sisko had just beat the living crud out of him instead of just one punch ;)
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Originally posted by Saturn2004
LOL sandwich
your up this late?
Have you ever considered the possibility that I may not be located in the same timezone as you?
....you do know what a timezone is, don't you? :rolleyes:
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pwnt
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Mythical Objects:
A vodka that is palatable.
A reply to this thread that would give it legitimacy.
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Apologesia, me se no hablo bollocks.
Efff-fff, criswaddle.
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Originally posted by aldo_14
criswaddle
i don't know what it means, but it sounds awesome.
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Okay, to get this back On Topic(such as it is)
Originally posted by Saturn2004
Basically im asking of what you think of Q and his immature and ungodly use of his power
Q is not now, nor has ever been, God. He, and his ilk, are omnipotent aliens. But he is no deity and is not bound by such rules.
Besides, Q is a prankster who loves to start situations and see how people get out of them. He's just as likely to go *snap* and dump you is a cream pie as he is to *snap* you into some kind of spatial anomoly.
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Originally posted by Liberator
Okay, to get this back On Topic(such as it is)
Q is not now, nor has ever been, God. He, and his ilk, are omnipotent aliens. But he is no deity and is not bound by such rules.
Well technically since a deity isn't human, and a deity is omnipotent, they fall under the "omnipotent alien" category. :p
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Originally posted by vyper
A vodka that is palatable.
Wuss.
I drink neat vodak all the time :D
Yes I noticed the typo but I figured it was funnier to leave it in
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Originally posted by aldo_14
Apologesia, me se no hablo bollocks.
Efff-fff, criswaddle.
Bwahaha!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
I had completely forgotten about that!
Ummm... anyway my favourite mythical objects are:
The One Ring
A Lightsaber
Excalibur
Thor's Hammer
Loafers made from Gophers
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Originally posted by Carl
i don't know what it means, but it sounds awesome.
It is if you're a German goalkeeper in the 1990 world cup semi-final..... or a Scot watching it on the telly :drevil:
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Originally posted by Sandwich
Have you ever considered the possibility that I may not be located in the same timezone as you?
....you do know what a timezone is, don't you? :rolleyes:
sorry sandwhich i was half sleeping and brainless ...
what time zone are you in anyways?
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+4 GMT, or somewhere around there if i'm not mistaken.
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+2
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Q was fun in TNG... but nontheless I allways hated the omnipotnt alien thing rutine.
Just why do people think aliens will have ANY kind of mental/mystical powers?
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q is bored ... hes prorobly lived for quadrillionsof billions of years ... (from the universe start neway maybe even longer between dimensions as such :))
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Originally posted by TrashMan
Q was fun in TNG... but nontheless I allways hated the omnipotnt alien thing rutine.
Just why do people think aliens will have ANY kind of mental/mystical powers?
Because telepathy / empathy / telekenisis / precognition etc all make for very cheap TV.
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We can't convince half the world that humans don't have some kinds of mental/mystical powers. What chance have we got of convincing them that aliens don't.
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Originally posted by karajorma
We can't convince half the world that humans don't have some kinds of mental/mystical powers. What chance have we got of convincing them that aliens don't.
lol nice one karajorma but, does anyone have any comment about Thor's Hammer?
i heard about it on stargate but not any where else...
what was it about? what was its purpose?
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Heh. My favourite mythical object is money. Everytime I get it, it mysteriously disappears.
And I hate Q and his omnipotent pranks. They're airing TNG here now. It's damn funny show after seeing the movies, which are much better than the show. :p
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http://www.pantheon.org/articles/t/thor.html
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Heh, I never knew Thursday is actually "Thor's day."
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IIRC all the days of the week are named after norse gods with the exception of Sunday and Monday (Which I'll leave you to figure out for yourself since they are pretty obvious :D )
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and saturday...
According to wikipedia, all days except saturday are named after gods of saxon origin
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Actually, if you take a look at one of the Romance languages (French, Spanish, etc.), you'll see that they derive the names of weekdays from the names of the Roman gods (Mercredi=Mercury=Monday in French, for instance). English, being a Germanic language, derived the weekdays from the Norse gods (Wednesday=Odin's Day). It's the same concept either way; in both cases, the days were named after the seven visible objects in the sky that wandered amongst the stars (the Sun, Moon, and five planets visible to the naked eye).
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Sounds to me like everyone got the names of the days from their mythologies, which results in slight confusion, but in general are nearly the same. Interesting how they are derived from pagans.
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Well, I do know that Juy and August were named after Julius Augustus, the Roman Emperor. Annoying really, for the people that more or less standardised '10' as a base number, one Emperor's ego gave us 12 months.
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Flipside, as far as I know, there were already twelve months; two of the months were renamed after Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus, respectively. Having twelve months stems from the fact that the Moon's cycle takes around 30 days to complete; divide a year by 30, and you get about twelve months.
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My mistake their, you're right about the names, I remembered as soon as you posted :D
IIRC the Romans rounded that down to Ten to fit in with everything else they decimalised. Then tagged the 2 months back on later. Possibly it was to fit in with the fact that everyone they occupied was using 12 months, but I'm not sure. ;)
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Originally posted by aldo_14
Apologesia, me se no hablo bollocks.
Efff-fff, criswaddle.
Damnit I have to know where this is from.........
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you know I had an idea of makeing a metric clock, ten (as opposed to 24) hours, each made of 100 minutes, each made of 100 seconds.
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I once thought about a 30-hour standard day, but the only way we'll ever change the way we keep time is if we get shot into space where we have nothing to refer to for time.
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why, just change the definition of hour
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Why change a time system that's worked fine for a few hundred years and that practically everyone on the planet is intimately familiar with? :p
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Because everyone always complains that they don't have enough hours in one day, but they have no excuse with an extra six hours. Well, it sounds good on paper. :)
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because.. have you ever tryed to fillout payroll? the answer to your question should come to you quickly
here, lets try one example
in: 10:43am
out: 11:55am
in: 12:12pm
out: 5:47pm
in: 10:24am
out: 12:05pm
in: 12:13pm
out: 7:37am
in: 10:52am
out: 11:43am
in: 11:57am
out: 9:26pm
if I get payed $7.75 an hour, how much do you owe me?
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*shudder*
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We need to start using metric time :)
10 seconds per minute, 10 minutes per hour, 10 hours per decahour, 10 decahours per day, 10 days per week, 10 weeks per month, 10 months per year, etc.
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There is that little problem of the year actually being 365.24 days long. You go off of that, and all hell breaks loose with the weather and your months, etc.
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*cough*stardates*cough*
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okay, two mythical things
Freespace 3 as made by volition
Duke Nukem Forever
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we can't unfortunately get around the 365 days in a year thing, but everything else yeah. unless we like built a set of HUGE giant rocket engines and straped them paralel to the surface of the earth on opposite sides of the equater both pointed opposite to the rotation of the earth and blasted the hell out of them for a long time. then we might get nearly 4 times as long days that would fit into a 100 day/year system
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Hmm, what about basing time off the atom instead of the sun?
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What about seasons? What would happen to them?
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Hell if I know. This is all hypothetical. We're not actually going to attempt this.
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Originally posted by Bobboau
we can't unfortunately get around the 365 days in a year thing, but everything else yeah. unless we like built a set of HUGE giant rocket engines and straped them paralel to the surface of the earth on opposite sides of the equater both pointed opposite to the rotation of the earth and blasted the hell out of them for a long time. then we might get nearly 4 times as long days that would fit into a 100 day/year system
Hmmm... I see your plan is well underway ;)
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Originally posted by EtherShock
Hmm, what about basing time off the atom instead of the sun?
because then light and dark won't match day and night.
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Originally posted by Raa
Damnit I have to know where this is from.........
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/fastshow/characters/chanel9.shtml