# 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:** 21
**Author:** ![DingoelGringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DingoelGringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DingoelGringo)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/401 "2014-07-20T00:11:58Z")
Yes, you are more likely to splash on your ass while using a toilet in low gravity here on the moon. It is just the way it is. ---
**Author:** ![DingoelGringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DingoelGringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DingoelGringo)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/402 "2014-07-20T00:21:09Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > The farther in you go, the bigger it gets! I knew a girl like that once. ---
**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 20, 2014, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/403 "2014-07-20T00:55:53Z")
They’re still using money. We’ve got to find some. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2014, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/404 "2014-07-20T01:17:36Z")
Do you believe that my being stronger or faster has anything to do with my muscles in this place? Do you think that’s air you’re breathing now? ---
**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 20, 2014, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/405 "2014-07-20T14:16:06Z")
I’m what you would call a teleological, existential atheist. I believe that there’s an intelligence to the universe, with the exception of certain parts of New Jersey. ---
**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 20, 2014, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/406 "2014-07-20T14:21:43Z")
May I pass along my congratulations for your great interdimensional breakthrough. I am sure, in the miserable annals of the Earth, you will be duly enshrined. ---
**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 20, 2014, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/407 "2014-07-20T14:44:04Z")
I’ve almost cracked “Wormholes for Dummies”. ---
**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 20, 2014, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/408 "2014-07-20T17:47:16Z")
l passed through a time sphincter to get here. ---
**Author:** ![Jsei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Jsei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jsei)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/409 "2014-07-20T18:30:56Z")
I’ve booked passage home on the Empress of Rigel. It’s been far too long since I’ve seen my mucus-kin. ---
**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 20, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/410 "2014-07-20T18:35:13Z")
“After intensive investigation (comma) of the markings on the alien pod (comma) it has become clear (comma) to me (comma) that we are dealing (comma) with a species of awesome intellect (colon).” ---
**Author:** ![Jsei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Jsei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jsei)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/411 "2014-07-20T19:02:02Z")
I wanted to go to the window to look, but remembered Daddykins said never to let the Skylings see 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 20, 2014, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/412 "2014-07-20T19:20:38Z")
Has anyone tried looking out the window? ---
**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 21, 2014, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/413 "2014-07-21T22:26:18Z")
Our spectro-readings showed no contamination, no unusual elements present. ---
**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 21, 2014, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/414 "2014-07-21T22:45:07Z")
Hank’s been around all that uranium or thorium or whatever it is all these years. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2014, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/415 "2014-07-21T23:11:39Z")
Corporal Mandella, this guys a deader. ---
**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 22, 2014, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/416 "2014-07-22T00:47:52Z")
They can bill me! ---
**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 22, 2014, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/417 "2014-07-22T01:20:59Z")
Are you the keymaster?" ---
**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 22, 2014, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/418 "2014-07-22T14:48:49Z")
Enter the Carousel. This is the time of renewal. ---
**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 22, 2014, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/419 "2014-07-22T22:38:42Z")
Tomorrow began the new world, and the work thereof. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/420 "2014-07-22T22:39:09Z")
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