A) Pebbles don’t _vote_ either, literalist. Listen to yourself…
B) Obv. I know a little more than you do.
C) Much older versions of this quote existed before long Kosh spoke it or more precisely, before David Gerrold had Kosh say it.
Gifted as he is, David Gerrold didn’t appear in the Sci-Fi biz from nowhere; for good, historical reasons, Jewish wisdom is anti-authoritarian. This quote and the various versions of it, came straight out of Eastern Europe in the nineteen thirties, fleeing the brownshirt shenanigans we just got to see for ourselves this week. Growing up visiting the Deli across from my grandfather’s shop, I heard it more than once in different translations.
Learn history, or watch it repeat.
We seem to like to watch it repeat.
“Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who [i]do[/i] study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it.” From a cartoon I read one time. It sums it up nicely. I’ve also read “History may not repeat, but it does rhyme.”
Can someone pull back the decoherence curtain and make that coherent for the rest of us who aren’t fluent in technobabble? I mean, I watched a LITTLE bit of Star Trek, so my probably-wrong translation is… “I need a seven dimensional peek-box and an Invisibility Cloak.”
Basically, she wants to set up an interdimensional analogy to a diffraction grating experiment, in order to test her theories that what appear to be inert particles are in fact very active but only with other things that don’t interact with ‘normal’ matter.
Or, for the more Felis sapiens, among you, she wants a magic tv that can get the otherworldly channels.
But when Zaphod looked into the Total Perspective Vortex, he was unperturbed, due to his already knowing he was the most important person in the Universe.
Your paper is pre-emptively classified, as is your report card. You will receive it in a plain brown envelope at a mail drop to be specified via encoded text later. Oh, and if some day you graduate, your ceremony will take place at a secure location known only to MIB high operatives.
The “Dirichelet Membrane” intrigues me. A dirichlet distribution is a multivariate and vector-parameterizeable version of a beta probability distribution, which is itself parameterized for shape. The fact that she refers to *the* Dirichlet Membrane suggests that it has fixed parameters and at least seven dimensions…she is after a very specific kind of grid anchor trap for them X-based beings.
So even if it sounds like a techno-babble word soup, at least some of the wording is consistent with the kind of experiment she wants to perform, mathematically speaking.
Oh, and it looks like she blew right through intern status to full-blown MiB investigator. I just hope that she doesn’t inadvertently release the Kraken
Welcome to the MIB, Scar.
Remember that you wanted this.
Yep, you want it, you got it.
Your new Toyota is waiting for you outside the school.
yay you won…
bet you didn’t know that you just became MIB..
*wham* welcome to the party.
But can she still get together with Timmy?
As long as the pillow-talk isn’t of the classified variety.
*kaboom!*
“We need a new Timmy!”
There was that one in the alternate universe, the one that liked alternate Daylla…
Scar looks like she got hit by either an anvil or took a bat upside the head the way Bud took control
And this is *why* the Ancient Lanthian Farmgirl is in charge of MIB…
Well, in the words of Kosh, “The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.”
it is too late for the pebbles to vote… except with their feet.
erm pebbles don’t have feet… obv. you do not know B5.. :/
when you are *under* the avalanche, it is impossible to move..
A) Pebbles don’t _vote_ either, literalist. Listen to yourself…
B) Obv. I know a little more than you do.
C) Much older versions of this quote existed before long Kosh spoke it or more precisely, before David Gerrold had Kosh say it.
Gifted as he is, David Gerrold didn’t appear in the Sci-Fi biz from nowhere; for good, historical reasons, Jewish wisdom is anti-authoritarian. This quote and the various versions of it, came straight out of Eastern Europe in the nineteen thirties, fleeing the brownshirt shenanigans we just got to see for ourselves this week. Growing up visiting the Deli across from my grandfather’s shop, I heard it more than once in different translations.
Learn history, or watch it repeat.
We seem to like to watch it repeat.
“Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who [i]do[/i] study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it.” From a cartoon I read one time. It sums it up nicely. I’ve also read “History may not repeat, but it does rhyme.”
Heh. From a story blurb in Astounding Science Fiction, sometime in the Fifties:
Regarding the learningof history: And those that write the history control what can be learned from it.
Congratrulations Scar! You’ve just entered the major league. Batter up!
Can someone pull back the decoherence curtain and make that coherent for the rest of us who aren’t fluent in technobabble? I mean, I watched a LITTLE bit of Star Trek, so my probably-wrong translation is… “I need a seven dimensional peek-box and an Invisibility Cloak.”
Watchin’ stargate Sg1 helps a lot. A decoherence curtain probably means a way of watchin quantum entangled stuff with the naked eye.
she has already described its capability..
‘allow for visualization of lifeforms across seven dimensions’
you know that ‘cohrence’ means ‘solid’ so… its a bit like an infra red camera.. 😛
Nitpick:
Actually “coherent” means “solid” {sort of – actually, it means “hangs together”}.
“Coherence” means “the property of being correlated or of hanging together”.
Basically, she wants to set up an interdimensional analogy to a diffraction grating experiment, in order to test her theories that what appear to be inert particles are in fact very active but only with other things that don’t interact with ‘normal’ matter.
Or, for the more Felis sapiens, among you, she wants a magic tv that can get the otherworldly channels.
Ah, a #6, and a TN, clockwise. Gotcha. Amazon has them in stock with two day shipping.
That look on Scar’s face in the last panel just screams “Bloody hell, what have I done?”
“You’ve just talked yourself into the Laundry. May whatever deity you believe in have mercy upon your soul.” >:)
a bit like Zaphod, when he looked into the infinite perspective vortex… :O 😮 :O 🙂 :p
But when Zaphod looked into the Total Perspective Vortex, he was unperturbed, due to his already knowing he was the most important person in the Universe.
Scarlet does not look unperturbed.
Ha ha I love how “wall of technobabble” meets “wall of cryptobabble”
Damn. Bud doesn’t half-step around.
She is a dancer you know.
Your paper is pre-emptively classified, as is your report card. You will receive it in a plain brown envelope at a mail drop to be specified via encoded text later. Oh, and if some day you graduate, your ceremony will take place at a secure location known only to MIB high operatives.
show-off!
Well..shit…
Hur ya go-. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/the-curious-observers-guide-to-quantum-mechanics/
A “no math” (but seven-part) guide to modern quantum mechanics
The “Dirichelet Membrane” intrigues me. A dirichlet distribution is a multivariate and vector-parameterizeable version of a beta probability distribution, which is itself parameterized for shape. The fact that she refers to *the* Dirichlet Membrane suggests that it has fixed parameters and at least seven dimensions…she is after a very specific kind of grid anchor trap for them X-based beings.
So even if it sounds like a techno-babble word soup, at least some of the wording is consistent with the kind of experiment she wants to perform, mathematically speaking.
Oh, and it looks like she blew right through intern status to full-blown MiB investigator. I just hope that she doesn’t inadvertently release the Kraken
Nah – Stinky would check with Bud before he got frisky.
hehehe that ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
What Scarlet is describing sounds like a ‘magical’ ghost trap; why do I get the feeling she’s going to be on the MIB investigation squad soon?
Scarlet must be related to Egon Spengler.
granted a bit late to the party but this scene comes to mind…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTx-sdR6Yzk
wrong clip… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5WfxwnLlLU
And this is why she’s the tactical director.