Law of Inertia? What's That?

ClaysGhost · Post by **ClaysGhost** » 2003-02-28 04:01pm

Darth Servo wrote:And when did I ever claim to enjoy SG-1?

Is that relevant? I picked a show I'd seen recently. I was illustrating a point about technobabble being widespread in sci-fi shows - respect mah authoratah, dammit!

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2003-02-28 04:06pm

ClaysGhost wrote:
Darth Servo wrote:And when did I ever claim to enjoy SG-1?
Is that relevant? I picked a show I'd seen recently. I was illustrating a point about technobabble being widespread in sci-fi shows - respect mah authoratah, dammit!

Then go right ahead and criticize it. The wide spread technobabble can in large part be traced right back to the Trek monster, so why shouldn't I give it a hard time.

Shut up, fat-ass. *smacks Cartman across the face*

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-02-28 04:13pm

ClaysGhost wrote:Other shows do often turn to technobabble. For instance, (film) Stargate uses technobabble to convince people that an essentially stupid and useless coordinate system works, and I'm pretty sure that most (SG-1) episodes I've cared to watch recently have involved either time travel or parallel universes, helped along with a bit of hand-waving from Carter (annoying).

Ah yes, I remember that. When I rewatched it a few months back, I laughed out loud at the concept of Hubble expansion affecting indivudual solar systems in a galaxy. The writers failed to realize that the expansion constant has units of kilometers per second per megaparsec.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2003-03-01 06:47pm

Darth Servo wrote:And when did I ever claim to enjoy SG-1? I think I wateched ONE episode and was disgusted. My current TV viewing consists of MST3K (obviously), South Park and The Man Show.

You horrible person you, you have some problem with full frontal nudity?

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2003-03-01 06:49pm

ClaysGhost wrote:Er, yes, zero still equals zero. However, bashing Voyager for abusing scienific accuracy is daft when every other show does it too (sound in space, engines always on, slapping footage of firecracker explosions in atmosphere onto space fights, pasting Hubble images into background scenes that required integration times of days, not milliseconds (I'm talking to B5, here)). I think you cannot pick and choose which bits of science to apply and complain when some show doesn't do it, because evey show falls down somewhere. There are far better reasons to bash voyager, like it having the consistency of mud, the scripting finesse of a gerbil and a deus ex machina every week.

Star Trek OTOH has made a big deal about being scientific and all, many people believe the hype that it's scientifically accurate and whatnot.
And when itself is one of the worst offenders, it ought to get chewed up.

ClaysGhost · Post by **ClaysGhost** » 2003-03-03 05:25am

His Divine Shadow wrote: Star Trek OTOH has made a big deal about being scientific and all, many people believe the hype that it's scientifically accurate and whatnot.
And when itself is one of the worst offenders, it ought to get chewed up.

I'd suggest chewing it up for something uniquely Trek, then (like reversing the polarity every damn show!). Electromagnetism and inertia are pretty much abused whenever they're depicted or mentioned in sci-fi.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-03-03 09:33am

ClaysGhost wrote:
His Divine Shadow wrote: Star Trek OTOH has made a big deal about being scientific and all, many people believe the hype that it's scientifically accurate and whatnot.
And when itself is one of the worst offenders, it ought to get chewed up.
I'd suggest chewing it up for something uniquely Trek, then (like reversing the polarity every damn show!). Electromagnetism and inertia are pretty much abused whenever they're depicted or mentioned in sci-fi.

What you mean I can't reverse the polarity on my fuel injectors to make my car go faster? Uh oh. *Runs out to his car.*

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2003-03-03 12:10pm

His Divine Shadow wrote:
Darth Servo wrote:And when did I ever claim to enjoy SG-1? I think I wateched ONE episode and was disgusted. My current TV viewing consists of MST3K (obviously), South Park and The Man Show.
You horrible person you, you have some problem with full frontal nudity?

??? WTF? Could you please elaborate on what the hell you're talking about?

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2003-03-04 02:00am

Darth Servo wrote:
His Divine Shadow wrote:
Darth Servo wrote:And when did I ever claim to enjoy SG-1? I think I wateched ONE episode and was disgusted. My current TV viewing consists of MST3K (obviously), South Park and The Man Show.
You horrible person you, you have some problem with full frontal nudity?
??? WTF? Could you please elaborate on what the hell you're talking about?

No, you'll just have to go see Stargate SG1 pilot episode.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-03-04 02:13am

His Divine Shadow wrote:
Darth Servo wrote:
His Divine Shadow wrote:You horrible person you, you have some problem with full frontal nudity?
??? WTF? Could you please elaborate on what the hell you're talking about?
No, you'll just have to go see Stargate SG1 pilot episode.

Hehe. C'mon full frontal nudity for a second, that's just sad. Though she was hot.