Talk:2865: The Wrong Stuff - Revision history

Psychoticpotato at 21:07, 6 May 2024

2024-05-06T21:07:12Z

172.69.195.179 at 02:33, 19 January 2024

2024-01-19T02:33:41Z

172.70.247.146: bricks & spaceships

2023-12-12T22:59:43Z

bricks & spaceships

172.71.242.155 at 12:32, 12 December 2023

2023-12-12T12:32:18Z

162.158.146.125 at 17:48, 11 December 2023

2023-12-11T17:48:42Z

Chlang: /* What kind of bricks? */

2023-12-11T12:08:47Z

‎What kind of bricks?

Chlang: /* What kind of bricks? */

2023-12-11T12:08:03Z

‎What kind of bricks?

162.158.74.118: /* What kind of bricks? */

2023-12-09T20:05:29Z

‎What kind of bricks?

B for brain: B for brain moved page Talk:2865: the Wrong Stuff to Talk:2865: The Wrong Stuff: Title has since been changed to capitalise the "T" in "The"

2023-12-09T19:10:55Z

B for brain moved page Talk:2865: the Wrong Stuff to Talk:2865: The Wrong Stuff: Title has since been changed to capitalise the "T" in "The"

Ralfoide: that's no moon

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that's no moon

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 I don't understand why the Trojan Horse is considered an example of building something out of the wrong stuff. Within the legendary context of the Trojan War, the Trojan Horse succeeded at exactly what it was built to do, namely, transport the Greek warriors into Troy so they could sack the city. An actual horse made out of skin and muscle and bones would not have been able to fit the Greek warriors inside.{{cn}} That's like saying that Lunar Module Eagle from Apollo 11 was built of the wrong material because it didn't have feathers. --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.127.57|172.70.127.57]] 06:34, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
 : Humour comes in threes, perhaps Randall was struggling to come up with a third example (while saving the Brick Moon for the mouse over text)? :) [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 07:04, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
 What has happened to this wiki? It used to be when there were glitches and flubs, there would be evidence, screenshots, records for us to see, particularly for those of us who didn't see it before it was fixed. Now there's a passing mention in Trivia and for all we know someone could be mistaken or lying. Uhhh, we'd like to SEE this! I mean, when the anomaly is "It was posted super early/late", okay, not much to capture there, really, but a screenshot of the mis-capitalized title would have been easy! Every time the comic is uploaded 2x, a bot gives "here it is normal sized, which isn't special at all and you can see anyway because Randall fixed it by now". What happened to the recordkeeping here? (BTW, the text title here still says "the", not "The") [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]])

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	My first association when I read what the ghost said: “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.” – Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.247.146\|172.70.247.146]] 22:59, 12 December 2023 (UTC)		My first association when I read what the ghost said: “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.” – Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.247.146\|172.70.247.146]] 22:59, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
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		+	I had no idea who Edward Everett Hale was so I originally assumed Randall was talking about someone called 'Edward Everett', that the Material Phantom had visited half-a-century too early, and that the 'e' in 'Hale' was a typo. Probably just me tho. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.195.179\|172.69.195.179]] 02:33, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

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 :Within the Long Earth series (Pratchett/Baxter, and I'm not quite sure whose imagination/knowledge was initially used in this case as they both have(/had) a lot of the necessary for this kind of thing) there's a "Brick Moon" in 'The Gap' (a place where there's not an Earth at all, in the place where one should be) that's built almost 'simply', given then ability to avoid the need to 'launch' hardware into space like you would to access space above the Earth(s) as we do here. The structural requirements and materials available (basically, anything so long as it wasn't iron) made bricks (or similarly trivial materials) the ideal bulk material to be 'stepped' over from adjacent Earths into the Earthlike 'solar orbit' where things would happily sit. And, by proxy, become a staging point to easily launch off the 'missing' Earth from which other steppings could also be made. With a few caveats, of course. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.118|162.158.74.118]] 20:05, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
 :Look up SHIPtember![[User:Chlang|Chlang]] ([[User talk:Chlang|talk]]) 12:08, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
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 the design is very timeghost-esque [[Special:Contributions/172.71.167.165|172.71.167.165]] 21:42, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Bumpf
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		+	So today is the day I learned about the Habakkuk Project. Cool, weird, crazy ideas - and built in Canada! [[Special:Contributions/162.158.146.125\|162.158.146.125]] 17:48, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

	the design is very timeghost-esque [[Special:Contributions/172.71.167.165\|172.71.167.165]] 21:42, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Bumpf		the design is very timeghost-esque [[Special:Contributions/172.71.167.165\|172.71.167.165]] 21:42, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Bumpf

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	:...which would naturally lead to the obvious reply: "That's no moon!" [[User:Ralfoide\|Ralfoide]] ([[User talk:Ralfoide\|talk]]) 18:48, 9 December 2023 (UTC)		:...which would naturally lead to the obvious reply: "That's no moon!" [[User:Ralfoide\|Ralfoide]] ([[User talk:Ralfoide\|talk]]) 18:48, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
	:Within the Long Earth series (Pratchett/Baxter, and I'm not quite sure whose imagination/knowledge was initially used in this case as they both have(/had) a lot of the necessary for this kind of thing) there's a "Brick Moon" in 'The Gap' (a place where there's not an Earth at all, in the place where one should be) that's built almost 'simply', given then ability to avoid the need to 'launch' hardware into space like you would to access space above the Earth(s) as we do here. The structural requirements and materials available (basically, anything so long as it wasn't iron) made bricks (or similarly trivial materials) the ideal bulk material to be 'stepped' over from adjacent Earths into the Earthlike 'solar orbit' where things would happily sit. And, by proxy, become a staging point to easily launch off the 'missing' Earth from which other steppings could also be made. With a few caveats, of course. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.118\|162.158.74.118]] 20:05, 9 December 2023 (UTC)		:Within the Long Earth series (Pratchett/Baxter, and I'm not quite sure whose imagination/knowledge was initially used in this case as they both have(/had) a lot of the necessary for this kind of thing) there's a "Brick Moon" in 'The Gap' (a place where there's not an Earth at all, in the place where one should be) that's built almost 'simply', given then ability to avoid the need to 'launch' hardware into space like you would to access space above the Earth(s) as we do here. The structural requirements and materials available (basically, anything so long as it wasn't iron) made bricks (or similarly trivial materials) the ideal bulk material to be 'stepped' over from adjacent Earths into the Earthlike 'solar orbit' where things would happily sit. And, by proxy, become a staging point to easily launch off the 'missing' Earth from which other steppings could also be made. With a few caveats, of course. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.118\|162.158.74.118]] 20:05, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
		+	Look up SHIPtember![[User:Chlang\|Chlang]] ([[User talk:Chlang\|talk]]) 12:08, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

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	When I first read this comic, I was sure it meant LEGO bricks... --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.129.17\|162.158.129.17]] 11:33, 9 December 2023 (UTC)		When I first read this comic, I was sure it meant LEGO bricks... --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.129.17\|162.158.129.17]] 11:33, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
	:...which would naturally lead to the obvious reply: "That's no moon!" [[User:Ralfoide\|Ralfoide]] ([[User talk:Ralfoide\|talk]]) 18:48, 9 December 2023 (UTC)		:...which would naturally lead to the obvious reply: "That's no moon!" [[User:Ralfoide\|Ralfoide]] ([[User talk:Ralfoide\|talk]]) 18:48, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
		+	:Within the Long Earth series (Pratchett/Baxter, and I'm not quite sure whose imagination/knowledge was initially used in this case as they both have(/had) a lot of the necessary for this kind of thing) there's a "Brick Moon" in 'The Gap' (a place where there's not an Earth at all, in the place where one should be) that's built almost 'simply', given then ability to avoid the need to 'launch' hardware into space like you would to access space above the Earth(s) as we do here. The structural requirements and materials available (basically, anything so long as it wasn't iron) made bricks (or similarly trivial materials) the ideal bulk material to be 'stepped' over from adjacent Earths into the Earthlike 'solar orbit' where things would happily sit. And, by proxy, become a staging point to easily launch off the 'missing' Earth from which other steppings could also be made. With a few caveats, of course. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.118\|162.158.74.118]] 20:05, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

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	When I first read this comic, I was sure it meant LEGO bricks... --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.129.17\|162.158.129.17]] 11:33, 9 December 2023 (UTC)		When I first read this comic, I was sure it meant LEGO bricks... --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.129.17\|162.158.129.17]] 11:33, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
		+	:...which would naturally lead to the obvious reply: "That's no moon!" [[User:Ralfoide\|Ralfoide]] ([[User talk:Ralfoide\|talk]]) 18:48, 9 December 2023 (UTC)