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WCDT: 2161-2165 (9-13 April 2012) QC: Back To Earth
Border Reiver:
--- Quote from: Akima on 09 Apr 2012, 15:52 ---
--- Quote from: Border Reiver on 09 Apr 2012, 07:22 ---And we still need 10.21 Giga-watts of power.
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Not to mention some gigagrammes of mass, gigajoules of energy, gigalitres of volume and other tautologies...
I had to google Richard Marx, and I have no idea what the reference is, so... Moob?
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The movie Back to the Future - although my memory was faulty - the flux capacitor only required 1.21 Gigagwatts of power to function...
Method of Madness:
I remember being so disappointed when I found out that he was just mispronouncing "giga-" rather than using a fictional prefix that would mean significantly more.
Schmorgluck:
Oh, he mispronounces it in the original, too? I thought it was a goof in the French dub.
Near Lurker:
Actually, he was pronouncing it correctly - it's only when the word "gigabyte" entered common parlance that a mispronunciation stuck, and is now standard.
jwhouk:
Possible Teh Funny ending:
HEC's little all-nighter causes Station to "short out", causing Hannerdad to get angry at Station - and "fire" him.
Hanners offers to take him down to Earth in the old "robot boyfriend" chassis, which Hannerdad accepts.
They return to earth - and hilarity ensues.
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