Suspension of Disbelief

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UPDATED: Friday, January 20, 2006 12:03
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HAEKELDRACHE

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 2:24 AM

@FINN MAC CUMHAL & Citizen:

Thx for that

@Citizen: We seem to have different Numbers... I think that is the danger of googling around ;)

"Burn the land and boil the Sea, you can´t take the Sky from me..."

Haekeldrache is german for Crochetdragon

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 2:27 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by ritak7:
Finn Mac Cumhal a quick question regarding your quote what does it mean? It takes quite a man to speak the unspoken language of Latin. Unfortunately i only speak those poor living languages of Spanish, French and of course English so i have ever so roughly translated your quote as Qui He or whom, desiderat desires. peace pacem, prepares praeparet, for war bellum. War is guerra or guerre in F or Sp respectively but i can infer from the context clues as well as words like bellicose and belligirent that bellum is probably war. Is that it? If it is then yay for me, if not well gosh durn it i sure did try.
Qui

That’s pretty much it.

It’s a fourth century quote from a Roman military treatise, called De Rei Militari III. The author is a man named Flavius Vegetius, a late Roman military strategist.

Oh, he's so full of manure, that man! We could lay him in the dirt and grow another one just like him.
-- Ruby

RITAK7

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 2:44 AM

Thank you it is gratifying to be correct for once.

RITAK7

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 3:02 AM

okay now your lil' bit of latin is completely beyond me
i got hoc this, legere, if it is at all like the frech, light, nimium excessive, eruditiones eruditions,habes you have or you will have or you must have
put it all together and i'm not caffienated enough to have a clue. so help a firefly lovin' sister out

SHINY

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 3:11 AM

Has anyone commented on the fact that when Mal tells the crew to tie some of the bodies to the nose of the ship, he tosses Simon *ROPE*?!?!

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I don't need a gorram back-spaceship driver!!!

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 3:45 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by ritak7:
okay now your lil' bit of latin is completely beyond me
i got hoc this, legere, if it is at all like the frech, light, nimium excessive, eruditiones eruditions,habes you have or you will have or you must have
put it all together and i'm not caffienated enough to have a clue. so help a firefly lovin' sister out

He’s being cute. Legere means "to read" in this context.

Oh, he's so full of manure, that man! We could lay him in the dirt and grow another one just like him.
-- Ruby

RITAK7

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 3:53 AM

Thank you again Finn.
Shiny I made the mistake of opening a bag of scrumptious Newman's Own Organic Spelt Pretzels, yum yum, before reading your post. I laughed so hard with a full mouth and well you know. Now i must go clean and pray at the altar of the computer gods in supplication so that the screen may come clean.

RITAK7

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 6:06 AM

oh i think i get it if you read this you will learn alot

NOSADSEVEN

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 6:52 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by citizen:
If you enter the atmosphere at a lower velocity, and slow down more gradually with a smaller profile to the atmosphere the heating will be dramatically reduced. We can't do this today because all the fuel a space craft can carry is used to get it in to space, there's none left for breaking manoeuvres.

Breaking manoeuvres such as we see when Serenity breaks atmo in the title sequence...

Quote:
Originally posted by Shiny:
Has anyone commented on the fact that when Mal tells the crew to tie some of the bodies to the nose of the ship, he tosses Simon *ROPE*?!?!

Am I crazy, though, or do I remember seeing the skeletons actually bolted to the ship with metal brackets? 'Course, that still wouldn't explain the tendons...

Semper ubi sub ubi.

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Ain't. We. Just.

RITAK7

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 7:01 AM

so maybe Simon hauls the bodies with the rope and then the cadavers are bolted on and then perhaps use some advanced fricition resistant or defritifying.....
okay it is like two in the morning and now i am going to try and go to sleep sheesh let the nightmares begin.

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