PEEL Shipping Statute 437-B

[Reply #560 on:]

I think the importance of maths to science and technology is exaggerated. I can't believe they really needed maths to go to the moon. Look up in the sky! See the big round thing? Right, good. Point the bloody rocket at it and light the bloody fuse.

NASA should hire me to streamline their budget.

[Reply #561 on:]

You gots skills, Coldy.  Do us Americans a favor & let ol' "Dubya" know how to trim the US budget as well, would you please... 

[Reply #562 on:]

NASA's budget is a fraction of what people think it is. You could pay it ten times over out of the education budget, for instance...

And, frankly, it'd be better spent considering the state of most public schools in the US. They're as bas as our comprehensives. Yikes.

On which subject: Fry should totally have tried to convince Leela to go to university with him.

[Reply #563 on:]

Yeah but if you look at the big picture, when the sun burns out or the planet turns to mush, we're gonna really wish we'd spent that mulah on space exploration.

Beyond the blue sky lies humanity's future.
Space... the final frontier...

[Reply #564 on:]

Oh, I absolutely agree. Looks like we'll just have to start a private company and do it ourselves.

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Originally posted by SpaceCase:
[*Sigh*]

Allow me to say this a plainly as possible: "B" is a letter, not a number; a letter.
Yes, it is used in Hexidecimal notation to represent a number.

Are you saying that 11 IS eleven while all its other written forms (eg Hexadecimal (B), Octal (13), Binary (1011), Roman (XI), talley marks, Chinese, Babylonian, Braille, etc) are NOT eleven but merely representations of it?

Number [Noun]
...
4 a: a word, symbol, letter, or combination of symbols representing a number
b: a numeral or combination of numerals or other symbols used to identify or designate

Numeral [Noun]
1: a conventional symbol that represents a number

Digit [Noun]
1 a: any of the Arabic numerals 1 to 9 and usually the symbol 0
b: one of the elements that combine to form numbers in a system other than the decimal system

Arabic numeral
any of the number symbols 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

(Definitions taken from  www.merriam-webster.com )

Your argument seems to be taking particular aspects of the various definitions listed above and conveniently ignoring the rest.

 

Yes, I'm done now...

Is that a promise?

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Originally posted by hobbitboy:
Is that a promise?

Nope.
But I've already dragged this thread too far so, I'm goin' back to discussing-
Uh...
What were we talking about again? 

[Reply #567 on:]

The dassault rafale.



It lets them run away faster.

[Reply #568 on:]

I love the delta-canard configuration. I wish my pissweak yank-worshiping country would purchase something like the Rafale, Typhoon, or jets from the Su-27 family.
American warplanes are boring and overpriced.

[Reply #569 on:]

The F15 isn't so bad. You can land it with one wing missing. Like to see a Eurofighter that can do that...

The Rafale is what the eurofighter should have been.

[Reply #570 on:]

 

Originally posted by coldangel_1:
American warplanes are boring and overpriced.

Quality at any price Coldy but boring? I scoff at you, sir.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW2Hvu_mUdU

 

Originally posted by Archonix:
The F15 isn't so bad. You can land it with one wing missing. Like to see a Eurofighter that can do that...

A-10 can beat that.
 http://www.tonyrogers.com/images/weapons/a10/index.htm

Archonix's Law stikes again!

[Reply #571 on:]

Most obviously the degeneration of this thread is symbolic of the deterioration of the relationship dynamic as found in BBS.

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For everyone's edification, here is a partial list of some of the recent topics in this thread:


• aircraft
• Trek slash
• whales
• siblings
• launching cats
• clothing
• numbers and letters.

I may be forgetting a couple.

[Reply #572 on:]

USAF should resurrect the XB-70 Valkyrie. That thing gives me a boner...

[Reply #573 on:]

Somebody just had to mention Trek.

[Reply #574 on:]

Hahaha, that's awesome. 

Kirk and Uhura's kiss in Season 3's 'Plato's Stepchildren' was supposed to be the first on-air interracial kiss in history, but I remember the above episode (forget the name) aired earlier. Uhura is kissing a white woman. Hot.

[Reply #575 on:]

 

Originally posted by coldangel_1:
Hahaha, that's awesome.   

Kirk and Uhura's kiss in Season 3's 'Plato's Stepchildren' was supposed to be the first on-air interracial kiss in history, but I remember the above episode (forget the name) aired earlier. Uhura is kissing a white woman. Hot.

Is that the episode that Nichelle refeered to in Where No Fan Has Gone Before?

Nimoy: We've done heroic things too!

Nicholes: Yeah, in the 3rd season I kissed Shatner!

[Reply #576 on:]

The very same.

Oooh, I mention William Shatner's head in my my next fic! Which is... still coming.

[Reply #577 on:]

Nimoy in real life is something like a 3 pack a day cigarette smoker.  I found it more hilarious that the women were kissing and Spock was smoking on the bridge.  Probably the same time Kirk was shagging the green woman.

Which may explain a sign I saw on the bridge of the Enterprise in TWOK - NO SMOKING ALLOWED ON THE BRIDGE.

It really exists.

[Reply #578 on:]

If I had a Starship, I would so smoke cigars on the bridge.

[Reply #579 on:]

And now we are back to the Trek slash discussion, adn newly added is Nimoy's smoking.

That is random that Spock is sitting there while the 2 women kiss but then again it's Spock he has no emotion...

I have no doubt colds.

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Well, it's a ship...

[Reply #581 on:]

On a ship, no less.

[Reply #582 on:]

 

Originally posted by Ralph Snart:
[Trekslash image]

[Reply #583 on:]

 

Originally posted by coldangel_1:

If I had a Starship, I would so smoke cigars on the bridge.

On my ship, cigar smoking would be mandatory for all the Command Crew.  The support crew would have to abuse narcotics for their jollies.  With me as the Commander, they would have to abuse narcotics to survive.

@ Spacey:

Haven't you learned in our two year friendship that I can pull the most arcane and inane things out of thin air?

I won't put the pic of Leon and myself hugging when he came to visit Kelly when she was hospitalized.  I don't think PEEL would survive...

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Originally posted by Ralph Snart:
Haven't you learned in our two year friendship that I can pull the most arcane and inane things out of thin air?

Still, hope springs eternal...

Originally posted by Ralph Snart:
I won't put the pic of Leon and myself hugging when he came to visit Kelly when she was hospitalized.  I don't think PEEL would survive...

[SC sets down own breakfast]
Uh huh. Well... there goes my appetite...
Suddenly, I have an urge to go on a starvation diet...   

[Reply #585 on:]

Let's see... Coldy ranting, Archonix and Frisco debating aeroplane merits, Ralph posting Trek slash, Spacy oozing...

Yep, nice to see the 'Ship thread remains running at its finest.

I can't take you people anywhere!

[Reply #586 on:]

I wasn't ranting, I was babbling. I'm on happy pills now so I no longer rant. I just gibber in a delighted and nonsensical manner.

[Reply #587 on:]

Xan how long did you think it was going to be until someone brought up Trek Slash? These is compltely normal and I can't decide if that is a good thing....

No coldy can't gibber in a nonsensical delighted manner. What is the world comin' to?

[Reply #588 on:]

Remember when this thread was about Fry and Leela?

[Reply #589 on:]

Back when I first registered it was about a lot more than Fry and Leela. Not that I hung around much to see how it developed...

[Reply #590 on:]

 

Originally posted by Xanfor:
Let's see... Coldy ranting, Archonix and Frisco debating aeroplane merits, Ralph posting Trek slash, Spacy oozing...

Yep, nice to see the 'Ship thread remains running at its finest.

I can't take you people anywhere!

At risk of dragging the thread further off-topic:
Yer stealin' my lines again... 

[Reply #591 on:]

In Xanfor's defence, he wasn't due to register for about another year at that point.

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Originally posted by Archonix:
In Xanfor's defence, he wasn't due to register for about another year at that point.

>.<
Thank you for pointing that out.
Now I'll do everyone the best favor I can...
[*SC bites own tongue*]

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Originally posted by coldangel_1:
USAF should resurrect the XB-70 Valkyrie. That thing gives me a boner...

The basic concept of that thing was flawed. The B-1B follows the same idea and look how that turned out. Ok, I'm done with the planes now.

 

Originally posted by Vanguard20:
Remember when this thread was about Fry and Leela?

Everything we can think of seems to have been said over the years. I'm sure we'll start talking about it again when BWABB comes out, just like we did with BBS.

[Reply #594 on:]

Flawed, schmawed. They basically designed the concorde around it... okay, bad example... but still!!

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[Off-off-topic]
At the risk of provoking coldangel_1 to relapse* I'd like to ask...

If, in the Put Your Head on my Sholders episode, Fry had somehow been mature enough to not react negatively to Amy's "hanging out" comment, could their relationship have lasted significantly longer? Did it have the potential to go anywhere? How would it have (eventually) ended?

* By posting (in a noob-like fashion) questions and/or observations that have undoubtedly already been covered many times in the past.
[/Off-off-topic]

[Reply #596 on:]

I'm pretty sure it has been discussed before but not for quite a while. Also, there are new people who weren't here for the previous ones who can discuss it and learn from the vast and useless knowlege of us old members.

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Originally posted by hobbitboy:
If, in the Put Your Head on my Sholders episode, Fry had somehow been mature enough to not react negatively to Amy's "hanging out" comment, could their relationship have lasted significantly longer? Did it have the potential to go anywhere? How would it have (eventually) ended?

That's a good question, but not necessarily one that can be deeply analyzed.

Since the beginning of the Fry/Amy relationship, the two seemed to get along modestly. That kind of relationship is more suited for temporary boyfriend/girlfriend and not husband/wife. Though their relationship probably wouldn't have any problems, it would just get boring after a while and the two would move on.

Amy has also expressed many a time how Fry is lackluster in bed. Either way, the relationship would have ended with boredom.

[Reply #598 on:]

Yeah. Amy would have gone off with some other guy eventually. She falls in and out of relationships as easily as I fall in and out of homicidal rage.
Besides which, the thing between her and Fry isn't something she appeared to take very seriously - she just seemed to be having some fun.

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Hello everyone. Just stopping in to say hi, and perhaps add my own two cents.


Even if these pics have been posted on peelified before, enjoy them anyway