Mister Dilsby Posted November 28, 2016 Author Share Posted November 28, 2016 For your continued discussion and amusement, and since I can't seem to attach a poll to an existing thread, I opened one up over here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkOwl57 Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 1 hour ago, Cydonian Monk said: English is weird...? May I direct your attention to a quote from the 3rd Percy Jackson book (The Titans Curse) "This language changes too much!" -Zoe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAL 9000 Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 Wait, I just thought of something to do with the Ghost... When there's something strange In your orbit... Who ya gonna call? Spoiler Ghostbusters! Actually, the OKSBACS! (Official Kerbfleet Supernatural Being Analysis & Control Squad) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkOwl57 Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 3 minutes ago, KAL 9000 said: Wait, I just thought of something to do with the Ghost... When there's something strange In your orbit... Who ya gonna call? Hide contents Ghostbusters! Actually, the OKSBACS! (Official Kerbfleet Supernatural Being Analysis & Control Squad) I actually made a (n) (Totally un-intentional) Ghostbusters reference in my story. Basically, there's a super-death-laser-thing, and..... Well, you're going to have to find out I know, I'm evil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenTurtle1134 Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 4 hours ago, Kuzzter said: (Snipped docking) (Snipped pronouncement woes) (Snipped Lisa's musings) (Snipped tactical analysis) About the pronunciation - I always pronounced it as Lay-the. Maybe add a poll? (was going to suggest a poll, but then I realized that one exists here.) (also) 2 hours ago, Chemp said: Because even if the Kerbals are able to outwit the Kerbulans in both the Jool and the Kerbin System, there's a whole planet of bad guys who are now aware of them. It has to be taken out of the picture somehow. I think Evil Val has their entire fleet, though. Or maybe her defeat causes Evil Gene to surrender, but that seems unlikely. Maybe the Kerbals incite a revolt on Kerbulus and take over the planet? But that also seems unlikely. I was thinking maybe Bill just glasses it using fourth wall powers when I realized... In the last panel of the Interlude - the Ghost (who I do remember, thank you very much) is orbiting a blue and green planet with clouds. Kerbin - or Kerbulus? Could they have tricked him into bombing his own planet? Or maybe he decided to turn on Evil Gene? It would resolve both hanging threats to Kerbin, so it might be true. Again... if this was @Kuzzter's actual idea... sorry. (later) 35 minutes ago, KAL 9000 said: Wait, I just thought of something to do with the Ghost... When there's something strange In your orbit... Who ya gonna call? Reveal hidden contents Ghostbusters! Actually, the OKSBACS! (Official Kerbfleet Supernatural Being Analysis & Control Squad) That... that's awesome! Repliked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrett Kerman Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 (edited) Spoiler @greenTurtle1134 This is Kerbin. Kerbulus is like Kerbin, except all the continents are backwards. Methinks the lack of connection between the two... parties will have somthing to do with it. Edited November 28, 2016 by Garrett Kerman Fixing stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSK Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 52 minutes ago, KAL 9000 said: Wait, I just thought of something to do with the Ghost... When there's something strange In your orbit... Who ya gonna call? Cheesebusters? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Dilsby Posted November 28, 2016 Author Share Posted November 28, 2016 1 minute ago, Garrett Kerman said: This is Kerbin. Kerbulus is like Kerbin but water and land are inverted (right, @Kuzzter?). No, not exactly; east-west are reversed, as Wernher learned when he visited a strange monument in the desert (in spoiler tag so as not to duplicate comic pages and disrupt the flow of the thread ) Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrett Kerman Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 @Kuzzter so you still can tell, those continents don't seem reversed. However, you could orbit in a really funky way... (insert maths) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Dilsby Posted November 28, 2016 Author Share Posted November 28, 2016 1 minute ago, Garrett Kerman said: @Kuzzter so you still can tell, those continents don't seem reversed. However, you could orbit in a really funky way... (insert maths) You mean, if the Ghost's ship were orbiting Kerbulus bearing west not east? Nope, I don't think so. For convenience of orientation let's call the continent Kerbin's KSC is on Kerbafrica. In the shot we can see the large knob projecting westward, where "Morokko" and the "Kote d'Ivoire" are located. The Kiberian penninsula is north of this knob. The orbit is irrelevant: the Ghost's ship could be going west-to-east, east-to-west, or polar for that matter--the planet still looks the same. So on Kerbin if the map is oriented such that north is up then Morokko is to the left and KSC is to the right. Look at the statue's right eye (which is on your left)--to put the Morokkan coast of Kerbulus on your left, as it is in the shot with the Ghost, you would have to rotate the whole image such that the Kape of Good Hope would be toward the top of the page. You can see in the picture you posted that it's not. Anyway, before this gets way out of hand, that's Kerbin. I have spoken. /wordofgod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenTurtle1134 Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 2 minutes ago, Kuzzter said: You mean, if the Ghost's ship were orbiting Kerbulus bearing west not east? Nope, I don't think so. For convenience of orientation let's call the continent Kerbin's KSC is on Kerbafrica. In the shot we can see the large knob projecting westward, where "Morokko" and the "Kote d'Ivoire" are located. The Kiberian penninsula is north of this knob. The orbit is irrelevant: the Ghost's ship could be going west-to-east, east-to-west, or polar for that matter--the planet still looks the same. So on Kerbin if the map is oriented such that north is up then Morokko is to the left and KSC is to the right. Look at the statue's right eye (which is on your left)--to put the Morokkan coast of Kerbulus on your left, as it is in the shot with the Ghost, you would have to rotate the whole image such that the Kape of Good Hope would be toward the top of the page. You can see in the picture you posted that it's not. Anyway, before this gets way out of hand, that's Kerbin. I have spoken. /wordofgod Yeah, flips cannot be matched by any set of rotations... so yeah! Me wrong! So how does Kerbin survive, eh? (Puts pressure on @Kuzzter) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dman979 Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 33 minutes ago, greenTurtle1134 said: So how does Kerbin survive, eh? Don't touch that dial! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StupidAndy Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 Spoiler 1 hour ago, Kuzzter said: and? and it turned out!?!?!? help!!!!!! I need info!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dman979 Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 (edited) It's from one of the interludes, IIRC. It should still be available. Edit- I say this thread's title as pronouns-mints. Edited November 28, 2016 by Dman979 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StupidAndy Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 i know but i don't feel like doing all that trouble, i mean, getting the mouse, clicking the buttons, scrolling! THEN the people designed the world that you have to READ! who's crazy idea was it to give us language? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dman979 Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 Just now, StupidAndy said: who's crazy idea was it to give us language? *whose And come on, it's not that hard. Somebody has to do it, and you're the one who's interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waterlubber Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 (edited) - --- / -... . / .... --- -. . ... - / .. / .--. .-. . ..-. . .-. / - .... .. ... Moderator translation: [To be honest, I prefer this] Anyway the problem with English is that it's not a phonetic language and there is no pronunciation for words that were started as text. See ".gif" or ".jif" Edited November 29, 2016 by Deddly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starhawk Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 16 minutes ago, StupidAndy said: Reveal hidden contents and? and it turned out!?!?!? help!!!!!! I need info!!!!!! This is from earlier in this book. If you read Kerbfleet: A Jool Odyssey from the beginning, you will see this page in context. It is part of an interlude (Zwischenspiel) which follows chapter nine. The very first page of this thread has links to imgur albums of the entire book up to this point. Happy landings! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenTurtle1134 Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 17 minutes ago, StupidAndy said: who's crazy idea was it to give us language? I can make no judgement on that without breaking rule 2.2b, but he/she/it/them did a very good thing. If you don't think so, then consider what we're talking in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Jim Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 (edited) Bask to the story... I can't stop thinking about how that egg fits into this... whether anyone knows it's on the ship or not... and the fact they're heading to Laythe, a moon mostly covered in oceans... Oceans where krakens might thrive.... is it all connected... or am I just grasping at straws??? Edited November 29, 2016 by Just Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenTurtle1134 Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 2 hours ago, Dman979 said: Don't touch that dial! (whirls that dial two revolutions to the left) I had to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dman979 Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 I think the egg is caviar. For a Red Herring. Which Clauselle will use to make a nice meal. Seriously, though. We don't have enough information to speculate on the egg. I think it's best to wait and see for a little bit. It's how the Scientific Method works, right? Observe. Then refine the hypothesis. Also, Occam's Razor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dman979 Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 On 9/23/2016 at 1:29 PM, Kuzzter said: I say "lay-thee" myself, but I'm already thinking the pronunciation of Jool's innermost moon may generate some sharp discussion among the multicultural crew of the Intrepid. It did! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Dilsby Posted November 29, 2016 Author Share Posted November 29, 2016 24 minutes ago, Dman979 said: It did! See? I do plan in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkOwl57 Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 14 hours ago, Dman979 said: Don't touch that dial! *Whirls dial 10,000 times in any direction and lands on an F1 Race* Well.... This is boring. *Crash* GO RICCIARDO!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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