Spaceship quiz meme from dafydd

[unixronin]

The Detailed Starship Quiz LiveJournal Username Spaceship Name Spaceship Size VW Bug Sedan Jet Fighter Fishing Yacht Tractor-Trailer Attack Submarine Nuclear Missile Submarine Aircraft Carrier Queen Mary Luxury Liner Manhattan How is the spaceship piloted? Yoke Stick As above, plus plenty of two-pole switches and buttons that light up when pressed Touch screens There's one guy with a joystick in each hand, and we all just watch him Neural interface A full-body harness The pilot must be suspended in goo Some inscrutible alien attached to the ship does it Rock Music Marvin Gaye's Sexual Piloting The main control is a teddy bear; piloting is by strategically hugging it Passive-aggressive banter with ship's computer The Time Lords or Somebody tells us where to go Thinking really hard about the destination How is the spaceship powered? Fission Fusion Antimatter Irradiating Crystals Rock Music Coal-fired Steam Wood-burning Steam Gasoline Love Forcing two people who can't stand each other to make out on the bridge Baby seals Smiles Dimensional Anomaly By feeding the alien creature that's the engine Sexual Frustration Earl Gray Tea Milk Water Garbage Tickling a member of an alien species while it's hooked up to the reactor Ostrich or Chicken Critters on Treadmills What's the upholstery like on the seats? Hard Plastic Soft Plastic Cloth Upholstery Leather Upholstery Cloth like a Louis XIV Couch That gel stuff they put on bike seats Beanbag chairs Inflatable chairs Vinyl Baby Seal Brushed Aluminum How do you see outside the spaceship? Portholes Large, hopefully sturdy windows Big flat screen Holographic projector in center of bridge Small screens near each station Wristwatch TVs The power of imagination The computer narrates like a movie for the blind The computer sings an Australian songline What's the spaceship's primary purpose? Pleasure Exploration Combat Cargo Hauling Garbage Disposal Science Agriculture Raw Materials Extraction Transportation Communications Smuggling Gambling Spreading Love and Happiness Rock Music Other What's the Captain's catchphrase? Main Weapon System: "Homing Lasers" Main Defensive System: Magnetic Shield Chance of catastrophic failure at critical moments 56% Voice of the ship's computer: wolfspaw Finds mandatory uniform unflattering: cymrullewes Looks sexy in mandatory uniform: felinecanine Ripped sleeves off mandatory uniform: novel_tharkun Spends an unhealthy amount of time in the weapons locker: mrquacker This Fun Quiz created by Akhmed at BlogQuiz.Net

Comments:

• This guy needs to be kicked in the nuts, he uses far too many nested tables and divs in his HTML and I'll bet most of'em aren't actually necessary at all.  Go look at the source for yourself, he has tables nested five deep in one place.  But I didn't feel like taking the time to go through and rewrite it all in sane HTML that doesn't make my brain bleed.
• I'd have selected "Exploration" as primary purpose, but that came up with some stupid primary weapon system like "bags of hockey pucks".  "Science" was even worse.  "Homing lasers" as a weapon system isn't a lot better, but at least it's plausible bad-SF technobabble.  It also came up with a 93% chance of failure at critical moments.  (Well, DUH!  What do you expect from a technology that uses primary weapon systems based on throwing hockey pucks?  Even assuming relativistic-railgun armament, there's gotta be much better ammunition choices than hockey pucks.)
• Speaking of chance of critical failure, I had to repair the HTML in his failure bar because it didn't work right; the bar always displayed 100%, whatever the labelled value.
• I think "aircraft carrier" is about the right size for an ROU Sharp Difference of Opinion.  It was that or go for a GSV the size of Manhattan Island, but that'd be a very old, small and limited GSV, and I don't have a good name for a GSV yet anyway.

Comments

[sierra-nevada.livejournal.com]

I still think one of the best weapons system jokes was Reason (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_%28weapon_system%29).

"I'll reason with him."

"I'll make him see reason."

"Let us reason together."

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhhh, yes. I love Reason.

There was some nickname generator meme thing going around a while back, some kind of <mumble>tarian Name thing, that I poked at and got "Brother Railgun of Reason". I liked it. :)

Oh, wait, I found it -- the Unitarian Jihad (http://homepage.mac.com/whump/ujname.html).

[sierra-nevada.livejournal.com]

Brother Dagger of the Desireable Mindfulness (http://ambar.livejournal.com/118443.html?thread=452267#t452267).

I am quite fond of reading Jon Carroll (http://sfgate.com/columnists/carroll/).

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

How about the despongification gun? http://www.jihad.net

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

interesting ship ya got there, need a viking for security? ~grinz~

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Hey, i'm all in favor of Vikings. :) Vikings an' Hielanders taegether FTW, laddie! ;)

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

~swaps you a mead for your ale!~ aaarrrrggghhhhhh!