Artabax wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2019 7:23 pm
Railway Trains (USA railroad) used to have that notice because the used to empty directly onto the track, And you don't want that in a station.
Actually that makes sense only in a railway station and NOT in space dock. A train is only at the station for a few minutes and then moves on.
Yes, this is the answer. That sign is supposed to be a joke relating to rail-travel. It's become less relevant as rail travel has become less common.
It makes no sense when a ship can spend months or years in space dock-you're not going to have people teleporting off the ship every single time they need to use a toilet. Besides that, it's the future. If a shipyard in space has the means to deal with waste management, any starship bigger than a shuttle is likely to have its own means as well. A ship with a thousand people on it isn't flushing all of its waste out into space.
Train in railway station is there for a couple of minutes and moves on.
Contrariwise car at petrol station is there for a couple of minutes and moves on, but petrol station has toilets one can use.
Space-ship at Space-dock will be there for hours or months, you can't hold it in. The analogy is Railway maintenance Yards (RmY) but even in RmY, the train is a long thing, you can get off and go to the toilet.
Spaceship is HUGE.
They didn't fink it frew.
Self sealing stem bolts don't just seal themselves, you know.
TheStarWarsTrek wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2019 1:41 pm
Not sure if this is related, but I wasn't sure where else to put it:
I had an epiphany last night. I re-watched the Star Trek 5 review. Chuck comments on how the toilet has a sign on it saying to not use in space dock, but that the joke dosn't make any sense. I think I finally got it: the joke is that the toilet just flushes all the poo into space, and they don't want it getting all over spacedock.
That makes sense don't get me wrong. But we learn in ENT that by the 22nd century, Starfleet can recycle waste products and pipe them into primitive synthesizers that produce boots and energy
and things.
So in retrospect, its not a good design.
Um... rewatch "The 37's." He clearly explains why that joke is a thing.
"A culture's teachings - and more importantly, the nature of its people - achieve definition in conflict. They find themselves, or find themselves lacking."
— Kreia, Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords
ProfessorDetective wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 10:37 pm
That bit from Doctor Who 303: Gridlock where he's going 'Hey, buddy! See this hand? It is mine. See this chick? She is mine.' Like, what?
It might be surprising, but Gridlock was actually the third Doctor Who video I ever did, eight years ago. That was when I was re-editing and uploading Red Dwarf onto Blip, so that routine by Cat was fresh in everyone's minds.
“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
