# 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:** 17
**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:** [July 7, 2014, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/321 "2014-07-07T21:18:00Z")
I was wonderin’ when El Capitan was gonna get a chance to use his popgun. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2014, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/322 "2014-07-07T22:14:39Z")
Phasers on stun. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2014, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/323 "2014-07-07T22:41:48Z")
His head struck something, and darkness swirled over him. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2014, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/324 "2014-07-07T22:57:04Z")
I know how alone you feel… alone in all that cold blackness… but I’m there in the dark with you. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2014, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/325 "2014-07-08T03:41:58Z")
Tell me, did you run away from your parents, or did they run away from you? ---
**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:** [July 8, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/326 "2014-07-08T13:24:17Z")
“Dad,” I said, “I want to go to the Moon.” “Certainly,” he answered, and looked back at his book. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2014, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/327 "2014-07-08T15:15:54Z")
I’m afraid you’re too late, son. NASA isn’t sending the monkeys anymore. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/328 "2014-07-08T15:44:42Z")
Younglings! You killed the younglings! ---
**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:** [July 8, 2014, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/329 "2014-07-08T22:32:22Z")
If they ever find out you are not of Earth, you will die. Keep your feet on the ground. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2014, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/330 "2014-07-08T22:59:31Z")
On the contrary – gravity is the foremost thing on my mind. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2014, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/331 "2014-07-09T03:55:26Z")
Professor, whatever possessed you to create a machine to reverse gravity? ---
**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:** [July 9, 2014, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/332 "2014-07-09T12:18:15Z")
In the interest of industry. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2014, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/333 "2014-07-09T13:05:37Z")
That’s about as patriotic as it gets around here. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2014, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/334 "2014-07-09T13:23:58Z")
At last they orbited Beta Colony, and she haunted Nav and Com for a glimpse of home. “There’s the old sandbox at last.” ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/335 "2014-07-09T20:46:40Z")
“prepare for orbital bombardment” ---
**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:** [July 9, 2014, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/336 "2014-07-09T22:50:22Z")
Any war, in modern times, would have seemed strange enough. But a full-scale war between parents and children on a planetary scale was a little too much to grasp in all its implications in a hurry. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2014, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/337 "2014-07-10T12:56:47Z")
All right, this is it. These crummy aliens stole our parents, it’s time to show them what we’re made of. We’re tough, we’re mean. Darn it, we’re carbon based life forms! So, who’s going to kick buttocks? ---
**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:** [July 10, 2014, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/338 "2014-07-10T13:33:44Z")
“Mark’s a little guy, but not like you,” said Elena. “And he almost killed a man in Vorbarr Sultana with a kick to the throat.” ---
**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:** [July 10, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/339 "2014-07-10T13:35:49Z")
“I am too a Vorkosigan. The one who was trained as a deep-penetration mole and assassin. It really pisses me off when people underestimate me, y’know?” ---
**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:** [July 10, 2014, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/340 "2014-07-10T15:52:19Z")
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