# Speak to me only in Science Fiction **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 12, 2014, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621 "2014-06-12T13:28:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/241 "2014-06-27T22:49:12Z")
“Would Barrayar even accept a clone as your heir?” he asked doubtfully. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/242 "2014-06-27T23:21:36Z")
There’s no gene for fate. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/243 "2014-06-27T23:36:29Z")
Do you have the words straight? ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/244 "2014-06-28T15:35:23Z")
Her voice trailed into a whisper of fear. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/245 "2014-06-28T15:37:24Z")
Fear is the mind killer. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/246 "2014-06-28T15:54:25Z")
I neglected to tell you sir, I have a nervous fear of heights. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/247 "2014-06-28T16:15:59Z")
Got to find the future 'cause that’s where we want to be, Don’t know when we’ll get there but we’ll get there falling free. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/248 "2014-06-29T17:55:03Z")
Anything free is worth what you pay for it. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/249 "2014-06-29T22:37:13Z")
Tanstaafl! There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/250 "2014-06-29T23:02:44Z")
To be able to eat as much as you want, never gain an ounce and feel great. Please. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/251 "2014-06-30T00:26:57Z")
All this has happened before. All this will happen again. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/252 "2014-06-30T01:26:56Z")
It is not the end. It is not the beginning of the end. It is the end of the beginning. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/253 "2014-06-30T06:15:55Z")
When you use more than 5% of your brain you don’t want to be on Earth, believe me. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/254 "2014-06-30T12:46:39Z")
TEST CONDITIONS: ANY planet, ANY climate, ANY terrain ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/255 "2014-06-30T12:46:42Z")
Ladies and gentlemen, I can envision a day when the brains of brilliant men can be kept alive in the bodies of dumb people. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/256 "2014-06-30T13:02:57Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > It is not the end. It is not the beginning of the end. It is the end of the beginning. Churchill. Earth. 1942. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/257 "2014-06-30T15:35:03Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > Churchill. Earth. 1942. “Millennium.” Movie. (1989). (You didn’t go far enough down the Google page) ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/258 "2014-06-30T15:48:20Z")
“we can go anywhere, at any time in the universe! …But it’ll probably be London during the Blitz” ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/259 "2014-06-30T19:56:10Z")
Science ain’t an exact science with these clowns, but they’re getting better. You’re lucky you didn’t end up in ancient Egypt! ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/260 "2014-06-30T20:12:27Z")
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