The Five-Minute Forums  

Go Back   The Five-Minute Forums > FiveMinute.net > Science Fiction

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 10-11-2007, 09:04 AM
Burt's Avatar
Burt Burt is offline
Hobbesian
Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: We're......Everywhere! Wait wait wait... That's the Founders. No, I'm just in Hastings
Posts: 452
Send a message via MSN to Burt
Default Sci-Fi crap in everyday life (aka How bored do you think I am?)

I did put down a few weird Sci-Fi things I'd come across while at work on a thread somewhere. I forget where or which one now, so I started a new thread. Because I'm bored. And you should never be bored at work!

At work:
-A series of servers called D.WHO 1-10 (Actually it stands for 'Doncaster')
-A robot called a 'Cravoc' Unit
-Area I work in is called 'Operations' or 'Ops'
-Specific area is called ....The Bridge
-A tape drive called D'Kora
And we've just commissioned an orbital spacestation called EarthDock.
ahem
-Plus I found a packet of bonbons the other day, by none other the THE DOMINION tm Nice to see the Founders branching out?
__________________
Fate: Protects fools, little children and ships named Enterprise...
Fate: Also beats the merry hell out of the Battlestar Galactica.
--------------------------------------------------
House Quote of the Day!
"I was curious. But since I'm not a cat, that's not dangerous to me." Dr House MD
I don't think that metaphor was actually designed to warn cats.
Dr Wilson MD (Just)
-------------------------------------------------
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 10-11-2007, 09:08 AM
Burt's Avatar
Burt Burt is offline
Hobbesian
Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: We're......Everywhere! Wait wait wait... That's the Founders. No, I'm just in Hastings
Posts: 452
Send a message via MSN to Burt
Default

Oh yeah, forgot to say, add stuff to the list. Sci-Fi stuff. If you can be bothered. Not that important. We'll live if you don't.
__________________
Fate: Protects fools, little children and ships named Enterprise...
Fate: Also beats the merry hell out of the Battlestar Galactica.
--------------------------------------------------
House Quote of the Day!
"I was curious. But since I'm not a cat, that's not dangerous to me." Dr House MD
I don't think that metaphor was actually designed to warn cats.
Dr Wilson MD (Just)
-------------------------------------------------
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 10-11-2007, 04:08 PM
NAHTMMM's Avatar
NAHTMMM NAHTMMM is offline
Noodles And Hot Tofu! MMM
Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: St Louis, MO, USA, . . .
Posts: 2,959
Send a message via Yahoo to NAHTMMM
Default

The professor with whom I work in the microscopy lab has referred to the spinny-quasi-airlocks* separating the microscope room from the hallway as "transporters".


*They're like revolving doors, except instead of having revolving glass panes radiating out from a central post, there's a revolving black plastic panel that encloses about 4/5 of the "airlock" space. Result being you can't see inside the room when you're in the hallway and vice versa, just like with a transporter.
__________________
My 5MV webpages My novel fivers list

Yup

“There must have been a point in early human history when it was actually advantageous to, when confronted with a difficult task, drop it altogether and go do something more fun, because I do that way too often for it to be anything but instinct.” -- Isto Combs
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 10-11-2007, 04:22 PM
Chancellor Valium's Avatar
Chancellor Valium Chancellor Valium is offline
Reasonably priced male pills
Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Rhen Var, sitting on a radiator...
Posts: 4,595
Send a message via MSN to Chancellor Valium
Default

I have an image of those DS9 airlock-doors that are shaped like cogs. Getting warm?
__________________
O to be wafted away
From this black aceldama of sorrow;
Where the dust of an earthy today
Is the earth of a dusty tomorrow!
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 10-12-2007, 06:31 AM
Burt's Avatar
Burt Burt is offline
Hobbesian
Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: We're......Everywhere! Wait wait wait... That's the Founders. No, I'm just in Hastings
Posts: 452
Send a message via MSN to Burt
Default

They are so cool. Rather impractical, probably dangerous, but look wicked!
We have a weird glass tube thing where I work. The first half slides open, to let you in, then slides shut. You stand there will it clicks and checks your ID badge and to make sure you've no bad stuff with you, then the other side slides open. Thats a little weird. Again, its cool though.
__________________
Fate: Protects fools, little children and ships named Enterprise...
Fate: Also beats the merry hell out of the Battlestar Galactica.
--------------------------------------------------
House Quote of the Day!
"I was curious. But since I'm not a cat, that's not dangerous to me." Dr House MD
I don't think that metaphor was actually designed to warn cats.
Dr Wilson MD (Just)
-------------------------------------------------
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old 10-12-2007, 06:33 PM
Sa'ar Chasm's Avatar
Sa'ar Chasm Sa'ar Chasm is offline
Our last, best hope for peace
Staff
 
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Sitting (in Ottawa)
Posts: 3,425
Default

There was one of those things at the entrance to the darkroom in my highschool, except I called it a turbolift rather than a transporter (because from the outside, the door itself bore a passing resemblance to a turbolift door on the Enterprise). The idea was to let people in without letting light in.
__________________
The first run through of any experimental procedure is to identify any potential errors by making them.
Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old 10-13-2007, 03:51 PM
PointyHairedJedi's Avatar
PointyHairedJedi PointyHairedJedi is offline
He'd enjoy a third pie
Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: The Scotlands
Posts: 4,354
Send a message via ICQ to PointyHairedJedi Send a message via AIM to PointyHairedJedi Send a message via Yahoo to PointyHairedJedi
Default

Was that so that they then wouldn't be able to see the huge spike-lined pit on the other side?
__________________
Mason: Luckily we at the Agency use use a high-tech piece of software that will let us spot him instantly via high-res satellite images.
Sergeant: You can? That's amazing!
Mason: Yes. We call it 'Google Earth'.
- Five Minute 24 S1 (it lives, honest!)

"Everybody loves pie!"
- Spongebob Squarepants
Reply With Quote
  #8  
Old 10-13-2007, 06:12 PM
Sa'ar Chasm's Avatar
Sa'ar Chasm Sa'ar Chasm is offline
Our last, best hope for peace
Staff
 
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Sitting (in Ottawa)
Posts: 3,425
Default

*shiftyeyes* Nnnnnooooooo...
__________________
The first run through of any experimental procedure is to identify any potential errors by making them.
Reply With Quote
  #9  
Old 11-09-2007, 05:38 PM
Burt's Avatar
Burt Burt is offline
Hobbesian
Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: We're......Everywhere! Wait wait wait... That's the Founders. No, I'm just in Hastings
Posts: 452
Send a message via MSN to Burt
Default

We've got a online service desk called Peregrine... Like the 'Peregrine class' the Maquis use...
__________________
Fate: Protects fools, little children and ships named Enterprise...
Fate: Also beats the merry hell out of the Battlestar Galactica.
--------------------------------------------------
House Quote of the Day!
"I was curious. But since I'm not a cat, that's not dangerous to me." Dr House MD
I don't think that metaphor was actually designed to warn cats.
Dr Wilson MD (Just)
-------------------------------------------------
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On

Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 08:51 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.2
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.