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2012-05-03, 09:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Darths And Droids 2: Should've Gone to Naboo
Ben's dialogue is rather odd in these strips While it's an excellent echo of Obi-Wan's lines in the film, it just doesn't seem to flow well from the previous dialouge. This could, however, be a setup for a joke on the different style of writing in the OT compared to the PT.
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2012-05-03, 10:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-05-04, 01:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Darths And Droids 2: Should've Gone to Naboo
Does feel a little odd, doesn't it? I suspect it's intentional; Ben has just returned from his journey of self-discovery and finding himself, complete with long beard and slightly spacey attitude. Or maybe it's just been a while since he gamed and he's trying to get back in-character, I don't know. We'll see.
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2012-05-04, 08:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Darths And Droids 2: Should've Gone to Naboo
I'll just leave this here- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bocmVZXXY8w
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2012-05-04, 12:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Darths And Droids 2: Should've Gone to Naboo
I'll just leave this in response http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUtRi011FLY
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2012-05-06, 04:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Darths And Droids 2: Should've Gone to Naboo
I nerdgasmed a little bit at at today's author comments.
Though I was again reminded how confusing it has to be to be an English speaking chemistry student... Sodium is Na, potassium is K... okay, we Germans got issues with other element, maybe it's just a matter of getting used to it.
But hey, we learned something about nuclear power today!
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2012-05-06, 04:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, now what to do with this new knowledge...
Fallout RPG? Tomb of Horrors: Nuclear Meltdown Edition?
Or we could try to build a huge bomb, threaten all the major countries and hope for a big ransom for not destroying the earth. Or sell the bomb to the highest bidder.
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2012-05-07, 05:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Darths And Droids 2: Should've Gone to Naboo
Ben seems to be very spaced out.
And I admit, I giggled at "Can it!"Awesome fremetar by wxdruid.
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2012-05-07, 09:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Darths And Droids 2: Should've Gone to Naboo
Yeah, you pretty much get used to the element abbreviations not making any sense whatsoever in English, since they mostly come from Latin and English is two or three steps removed from that.
For great fun, ask an American eighth grader to find lead on the periodic table. They'll be at it for hours.Spoiler
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2012-05-07, 12:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-05-07, 01:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-05-07, 02:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Darths And Droids 2: Should've Gone to Naboo
I do. Well, in chemistry class anyway. It's easier to find in the tables if you just call it how the tables call it. So Hg is hydrargyrum, not mercury. Even quicksilver makes more sense than mercury. It looks like silver, it's quick, but what has it to do with mercury? Nothing.
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2012-05-07, 02:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-05-07, 03:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Darths And Droids 2: Should've Gone to Naboo
I might have been lost in 8th grade, but thats because for me chemistry was, I think, 10th grade. Up till then it was mostly "earth sciences" and stuff like that. General overview of all different fields from biology to molecular bonds, to geology to whatever. Learning the table of elements wasnt really on the table until we started doing chemistry work in the labs. But even now, 18 years after I learned it, I can still find lead on the table, or really, any element in 30 seconds of looking or less.
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2012-05-07, 03:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-05-07, 03:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Darths And Droids 2: Should've Gone to Naboo
Since one was named for the other, that connection is made explicit in every chemistry text I've ever read.
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2012-05-07, 04:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Darths And Droids 2: Should've Gone to Naboo
I'm pretty sure it's all the alchemist's fault. In short, mercury is named after Mercury because Mercury got named after Mercury and yo dawg...
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2012-05-07, 05:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-05-07, 06:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-05-07, 06:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, that was not one of their brighter long-term decisions.
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2012-05-08, 01:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Darths And Droids 2: Should've Gone to Naboo
It was used for their sewage pipes mostly. Hence the word plumber and lead being related
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2012-05-08, 06:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Darths And Droids 2: Should've Gone to Naboo
Okay guys, aren't you kind of mixing up cause and effect if you justify calling the element plumbum because your language later decided to use 'plumber' for a job... probably centuries later as well, since I guess plumbing was still not that common in England for a while...
(Also, damn you French for ruining my argument.)
Well, we really can't blame the people back then for not knowing lead is poisonous... it's so slow acting most of the time. But yeah, I guess it caused quite a few deaths.
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2012-05-08, 07:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-05-08, 07:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Darths And Droids 2: Should've Gone to Naboo
I am aware of that but as I said, the posts before seemed to me like explaining it's fine if the elements name is plumbum since plumbers are called plumbers for the lead pipes they work with. But the element can obviously not be called after plumbers since they are older so they must have another reasoning for the stupid name.
I mean... you know what I mean?
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2012-05-08, 08:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Darths And Droids 2: Should've Gone to Naboo
No, we don't know what you mean.
In Latin, lead was called Plumbum. Latin is where the elemental symbol comes from (just like gold=Au, silver=Ag, iron=Fe, etc.) The elemental symbol is Pb because of the Latin name for the metal.
Now, in English, and many other languages, the name of the metal is lead. However, the names of things relating to pipes - plumber, plumbing - derivce from Latin, the same as the elemental symbol. So by knowing some obscure trivia about the origins of words, you can remember that Pb=plumbum=pipes=lead.
At that point, though, it's easier just to memorize two letters.Spoiler
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2012-05-08, 09:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-05-08, 10:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Darths And Droids 2: Should've Gone to Naboo
...Latin is older than English. The element is not named after plumbers, plumbers are named after the element, because the element was named first and became associated with pipes before they had an English word to describe 'plumbing', and then 'plumber'.
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2012-05-08, 10:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-05-08, 12:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Others have already explained why you are the one who is backwards. What I would like to know is where this idea that "plumbum" is a stupid name came from. Does it sound funny? Perhaps it makes you giggle to hear "bum" in a serious scientific term? Is it the repetition "um...um" that gives it a comical aspect? It could be the "p"; I've heard that letter is undignified. I guess "plumb" looks sort of like "dumb".
The real reason you think it's stupid is that you think the alternative is that you are stupid for not getting it. As you can see, the reason is just that it's an obscure term with two millenia of history, so it's not a matter of being smart on either side.
Am I overreacting? Probably; I'm an elitist. But this tactic of yours is usually reserved for children.
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2012-05-08, 12:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Darths And Droids 2: Should've Gone to Naboo
What about the profession named after the current English appellation of the element? Leader?!
Which explains why english-speaking head of states always drag you down and become toxic over time...