[2:55
PM]
"Carnival
staff searched the ship, but it wasn’t until 5pm on Friday, May
13—a full 15 hours after her fall—Broberg’s husband alleges,
that Carnival summoned the US Coast Guard (USCG), which launched a
search and rescue mission. "
People
really need to sign a realism waiver when they come on.
[2:58
PM] Mr. Blue:
cruises
seem weird to me
it's
like the McDonald's of vacations
[2:58
PM] Mr. Brown:
uh
20 ft railings
un-climbable
[2:58
PM]
"I,
as a passenger, acknowledge that if I fall off this ship while it is
at cruising speed in even perfect conditions, I will almost certainly
never be seen again by the time anything can be done. (see: Nautical
Miracles)"
The
crew knew she was gone before they even picked up the phone to call
the deck officer. It's not like falling off a yacht
[2:59
PM] Mr. Brown:
Most
falls are accidents from people being stupid
unless
its murder, which sometimes happens
[2:59
PM] Mr. Blue:
I
assume a lot of those are newly married couples realizing they made a
huge mistake and seizing an opportunity to correct that mistake
[3:00
PM] Mr. Brown:
And
drunks
If
you're drunk move around the ship towards the inside
[3:00
PM] Mr. Blue:
Always
remind your loved one that you could've killed them many times and
gotten away with it
[3:04
PM] Mr. Brown:
they
should make bigger walls on the ships
or
make people catchers on the sides
Your
family member is missing? Lets check the people catchers.
Is
this yours?
lol
[3:37
PM]
[Lost
at Sea and Found Dept.]
"Ensign,
could you check in the box for a 40 year old balding male in a loud
shirt and Gilligan hat?"
"Uhhhh...heart
sunglasses or Venetian blind sunglasses, sir?"
"Blinds."
"Red
or green?"
"Green."
"YUP!"
Most
wouldn't survive the basic fall. At the heights of these cruise
ships, if you aren't a trained diver it might as well be a drop to
concrete at the bottom of a tall building.
Oh,
my early attitude of "forget it" came from a write-up on
topic from way way back in a short lived travel magazine I got.
It went into all the logistics of how long it would take trying to
stop the ship, let alone turn around in a 5 mile diameter loop, sending out
launches to search because they might not get back either if the ship
kept going, etc.
[3:48
PM] Mr. Blue:
Probably
get sucked into the rear rotor too
[3:50
PM]
Yes,
that too... If you somehow didn't expire on impact... And stayed
conscious... And didn't breathe in water and drown... And if the ship
didn't pull you under in passing... And you didn't get chopped up
passing the screws... It's probably because you fell off the stern
and will be 12 miles away before they can start looking even if people
were trying to mark your position in the wake.
[3:52
PM] Mr. Brown:
crab
fishermen have better luck
[3:52
PM]
“They
waited 15 hours!”
"Yes, sir.
Longer than she could tread water or remain uneaten if she survived. 15 hours so we
CAN'T find anything. It's better that way."
[3:52
PM] Mr. Brown:
You
should hope they die when they hit
Being
stuck out there treading for awhile then dying would suck a lot
[3:53
PM]
Yes
[2:55
PM] Mr. Blue:
One
of the windows in the atrium, near where that one window is still
shattered, has a weird circular spiderweb crack in it
like
a meteor hit it
[2:56
PM] Mr. Brown:
oh
yeah
plink
[2:58
PM]
What
colour was the crack pattern?
Silly
me
(facepalm)
Mr.
Brown already answered
"Plink"
(“The
Colour Out of Space” if it took place now)
"That
color on that fragment you brought in! That's...WOW... Does it
photograph? AWESOME!”
“Get
me a patent application from my top left desk drawer and we need to
get this thing to pigment chemistry like NOW!"
Everyone
dies on farm...dam built... DuPont makes $30 Billion in 2019
marketing "Plink"
DuPont
sues county for copyright infringement as mystery illness/colour
spreads.
[3:38
PM] Mr. Brown:
We
only made it out of radium rich cement with trace amounts of
lead...come on
[3:39
PM]
In
the story they couldn't make any sense of it at all.
I
read about that as a sci-fi trope that long outlived validity
(scientist
interviewed) "There aren't any materials of unknown composition
any more. Haven't been for a long time. Seriously, it
doesn't matter what alien planet with what weird technology they
have, we've been able to break down any sample of anything for
decades."
[3:41
PM] Mr. Blue:
What,
mystery materials?
[3:41
PM]
Conclusion:
"Stop writing about mystery materials sci-fi folks"
I
don't really agree with that section of the article, but it would
have to be...like...extra dimensional, magic, or solid energy or
something.
[3:43
PM] Mr. Blue:
I'm
dumb with chemistry but i feel like a super advanced civilization
could make a material that we just can't figure out its basic
elements
[3:44
PM]
2018,
the "colour" meteor would have an elemental composition
breakdown in a couple hours.
Probably
have to argue longer about molecular structure a good bit longer.
[3:44
PM] Mr. Brown:
But
we could identify its properties
[3:45
PM] Mr. Blue:
Do
you think we've discovered all the elements there are in the
universe?
[3:45
PM] Mr. Brown:
In
the vast universe there could be a element that we have not come
across yet
[3:45
PM] Mr. Blue:
There
could be processes that create others that just weren't present in
our neck of the galaxy
[3:46
PM]
The
ones at the very end of the chart that have been made tend to require
high energy physics to make and have half-life's of milliseconds
Now
if you could make a stable isotope...
I
think that was the 113 argument...
(sec)
Element
115
[3:47
PM] Mr. Blue:
Would
it be possible to *invent* elements?
[3:48
PM]
The
guy that claimed to work as a reverse engineer at Area 51 said it was
used to power the ships
[12:51
PM]
Now
this...I've wondered this...
Do
people of American descent have "Ethnic Festivals" in other
countries?
USA
crafts, music, dance, food, sports?
"Come
Out To The New Country!"
Are
there “Little Americas”?
[12:56
PM] Mr. Blue:
i
don't think we have a culture to export
[12:58
PM]
Well...I
mean we DO...
[12:58
PM] Mr. Blue:
That
hasn't already been exported like Starbucks and McDonald's and our
pop music
[12:58
PM]
I've
seen shorts of ex-pats getting together and such
Just
never a festival
I
guess we never leave in large enough numbers...hehe
"Italian
Festivals" et al in the US are interesting to me from an
anthropology POV
They're
kind of like the SCA
The
SCA is the modern world's attempt to imitate the food, clothing,
mannerisms, speech and all sorts of other cultural elements of "The
Middle Ages"
A
Euro-asian period covering vast areas and huge amounts of time.
Meanwhile,
you have an actual Italian look at American "Italian" and
they don't know a lot of it's supposed to be Italian
"Nobody
eats this stuff in Italy... maybe in (distant Cleveland vs Pittsburgh town)."
Tales
of travelers unable to find good pizza when they went "home" to visit relatives
[1:09
PM] Mr. Blue:
Like
lederhosen
They're
not “German”. They are Bavarian. Wear it in Stuttgart and
you'll look like a tourist
[1:12
PM]
Dirndls
and Landhausmode were abandoned for a while after World War
II. While the wearing of the corresponding garments was scarcely
popular in the 1970s, it has grown strongly since the 1990s
It's
a costume. Heh
Pinning
down American Culture would be pretty hard.
Too
big and too "the present", I guess.
Just
like these clothing references, you have to drop down to regional
levels to get anything
Otherwise...broad
stereotypes
Nothing
to make a cultural festival out of
Maybe
in a few hundred years
[1:19
PM] Mr. Blue:
Yes
We're
not ethnically homogeneous
Probably
by then at least regional things will be nailed down
[1:19
PM]
Cowboy
hats and ball caps mixed in with confederate caps and tricorns
[1:20
PM] Mr. Blue:
pizza
& burgers
Lots of guns
[1:20
PM]
(At
a USA Historical Recreationist Society, 2518)
"What
period is your persona?"
(Bad
accent) "20th century BASS-ton"
"Wrong
shoes"
"I
know, but the buckles look good...red socks though."
"That's
a myth"
[1:30
PM] Mr. Brown:
hahaha
That IS ingrained in all our heads
