# 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:** 18
**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 10, 2014, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/341 "2014-07-10T17:12:48Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > I am Iron Man. The Metal Man stands in a dark, dusty corner of the Tyburn College Museum. ---
**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 10, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/342 "2014-07-10T17:22:17Z")
I’d like to know what a place is like when I’m not there. I’d like to be sure. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/343 "2014-07-10T17:32:05Z")
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure. ---
**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, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/344 "2014-07-10T19:58:45Z")
He hit, and the Foe burned. The encroaching Night was thrust back by the intensity of the fire. ---
**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 10, 2014, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/345 "2014-07-10T20:22:57Z")
More color commentary from the space janitor. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/346 "2014-07-10T20:53:09Z")
“And then we just float away.” “With the rest of the garbage.” ---
**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 11, 2014, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/347 "2014-07-11T03:18:28Z")
Well, they’re good with garbage, but what can an emotional transmute, a homemade robot, a Betty and her clone, and a plant do against a Gorgon’s doomsday ship? ---
**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 11, 2014, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/348 "2014-07-11T03:40:36Z")
Well, look on the bright side. We’ll all have high schools named after us. ---
**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 11, 2014, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/349 "2014-07-11T14:21:42Z")
Miss Kinnian says maybe they can make me smart. I want to be smart. ---
**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 11, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/350 "2014-07-11T16:33:32Z")
[_Flowers for Algernon_ always makes me cry.] Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to take you to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? 'Cause I don’t. ---
**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 11, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/351 "2014-07-11T22:39:38Z")
(Me too, Professor. Me, too.) “I can’t _stand_ it!” “Yes, you can.” ---
**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 12, 2014, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/352 "2014-07-12T16:08:10Z")
Can’t you understand what it means to me? To get out of this horrible prison in my own head? To be a man again–hearing your voice, smelling smoke? To _feel_ again–to feel my feet on the ground, to feel the air move against my face? Don’t you know what it means? ---
**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 12, 2014, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/353 "2014-07-12T16:17:06Z")
I want my body back. And I want my freedom and my privacy. And most of all, I’d like to be able to take a leak without being fondled. ---
**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 13, 2014, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/354 "2014-07-13T11:19:45Z")
“There’s no need for us to anger ourselves,” he said oilily. “I think you are stubborn, but I don’t hold it against you. I know how you feel. You’ll be left alone; you have my promise.” ---
**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 13, 2014, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/355 "2014-07-13T13:12:45Z")
Let’s just bug out and call it even, mat! What are we even talking about this for? ---
**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 13, 2014, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/356 "2014-07-13T13:27:58Z")
Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution; the Bug commisars didn’t care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo. Perhaps we could have figured this out about the Bugs by noting the grief the Chinese Hegemony gave the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance; however the trouble with ‘lessons from history’ is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/357 "2014-07-13T17:45:18Z")
Nevertheless he was out of the _Tranquil Hegemony_’s reach, at least for the time being. Any death was preferable to the one Nick Succorso had intended for him. And according to the screen, he now had nearly six more hours to live. ---
**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 13, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/358 "2014-07-13T19:15:11Z")
_I didn’t do anything to die for–I didn’t_ do _anything-_- ---
**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 13, 2014, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/359 "2014-07-13T20:32:13Z")
New people die everyday. ---
**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 14, 2014, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/360 "2014-07-14T12:14:40Z")
The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. “There could be love,” Jonas whispered. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621.md?page=19)