# 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:** 8
**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 18, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/141 "2014-06-18T16:04:11Z")
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. ---
**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 18, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/142 "2014-06-18T16:33:21Z")
In space, no one can hear you scream ---
**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 18, 2014, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/143 "2014-06-18T22:52:27Z")
No, I’m from Iowa. I only work in outer space. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/144 "2014-06-19T07:32:36Z")
Ah, the wonders of a redundant nervous system, eh? ---
**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 19, 2014, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/145 "2014-06-19T12:54:20Z")
Brain and brain! What is brain? ---
**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 19, 2014, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/146 "2014-06-19T13:18:01Z")
Noooo! No! No, I can-can-can-cannan-cannot be-be-be-beaten! I am Braaaaainiac! Brai-brai-brai-brai-brai-Brainy Brainiac! ---
**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 19, 2014, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/147 "2014-06-19T13:25:54Z")
Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnn! ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/148 "2014-06-19T13:47:42Z")
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad. ---
**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 19, 2014, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/149 "2014-06-19T14:01:12Z")
THAT’S RIGHT! THAT’S RIGHT! That’s what you get! Look at you, ship all _banged_ up! Who’s the man? Huh? Who’s the man? Wait till I get another plane! I’m-a line all your friends up right beside you! Y’know, this was supposed to be my weekend off, but noooo. You got me out here draggin’ your heavy ass through the burnin’ desert with your dreadlocks stickin’ out the back of my parachute. You gotta come down here with an attitude, actin’ all big and bad… ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/150 "2014-06-19T14:20:48Z")
Peace through superior firepower. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/151 "2014-06-19T14:37:04Z")
This station is now the ultimate power in the universe. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/152 "2014-06-19T14:47:22Z")
to wound the autumnal city. ---
**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 19, 2014, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/153 "2014-06-19T15:08:00Z")
It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea. ---
**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 19, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/154 "2014-06-19T15:46:25Z")
If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns. ---
**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 19, 2014, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/155 "2014-06-19T20:34:26Z")
The star was old–as old as it was possible for a star to be. ---
**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 19, 2014, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/156 "2014-06-19T21:09:54Z")
How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased? ---
**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 20, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/157 "2014-06-20T02:01:41Z")
Don’t worry, she’ll hold together… You hear me, baby? Hold together! ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/158 "2014-06-20T02:09:40Z")
“That’s my girl. That’s my good girl.” ---
**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 20, 2014, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/159 "2014-06-20T02:24:23Z")
That’s not a baby, that’s a Mr. Potato Head! ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-science-fiction/690621/160 "2014-06-20T04:10:58Z")
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