Talk:space program

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Contents 1 Email Freeze 2 Bad 3 Bad Edit 4 Doo/Due 5 SB's Rank 6 No Open Mic Night? 7 Possible references for the video game 8 Anselmo? 9 Slide Show background music 10 Smoking= 11 ______ _____face? 12 Pong 13 When Sbemails cry

Email Freeze

Well, thank goodness for the wiki, 'cause I never would have known what happened at the end of the email. For me, the email froze after Homestar Runner says, "I knew I should've asked the Italian space program!" RadSkat3, 20:56, 14 November 2005 (CST)

Bad

Guys, I think this e-mail was kind of bad. I mean I know they only had so much time from one Monday to another, but I didn't laugh that much. H * R 7 0 0 13:08, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

There's the forum thread for talk like this. - Joshua 13:12, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Bad Edit

VolatileChemical, what was the deal with this edit? Why'd you delete all of my transcript with your own (less complete) version? The diff on the edit conflict page is there for a reason. --phlip ^T_C 13:27, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Wait, never mind, I made a few gaffes of my own with your stuff... I think we got it all in there together though. It seems the new edit conflict detector is more tolerant than I thought... --phlip ^T_C 13:49, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Doo/Due

In Coach Z's answer in the easteregg, should we write "Doo" instead of "Due", as that is most likely what the Coach means, or should we keep it the way it is? Lord-z 15:48, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Agreed and changed. - Joshua

SB's Rank

Any ideas on what Strong Bad's rank stands for in this one? LTNRL? LieuTenant NaTuRal? LieuTeNant in Real Life? Like, Totally Not Right, Left? What? --Jeff J. W.(Talk·Contribs)

How about "Lieuteneral," like the toon says? - Joshua

Ah. Didn't hear that when I watched it, missed reading it in the transcript. Sorry, and thanks for the info. --Jeff J. W.(Talk·Contribs)

No Open Mic Night?

I know it sounds random, but I was hoping for an Open Mic Night at Mission Control, just like in Puppet Jam: Mission Control with They Might Be Giants. -JesseLangham

I agree - it would have been a nice inside reference. Perhaps a good theme song? (Actually, can anyone verify if there are any recognizeable themes in the background music during the slide show?) - KieferSkunk 20:50, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Done! —AbdiViklas 03:50, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Awww... I really like the Puppet Jams... {shrugs} It woulda made an awesome themesong. MrsCommanderson

Possible references for the video game

I was just thinking about the video game pictured in the SBASAF Slide Show, and wondering if it was a reference to any game in particular. Here's what I'm thinking:

• Obviously, it appears to be a fighting game, so it parodies the genre as a whole. It's not specific enough to be a reference to any particular game.
  • The title "Food Fight" comes to mind...
• A bit of a stretch, but there could also be a vague reference to Burgertime in there.

Just blabbering. Don't mind me. :) - KieferSkunk 20:55, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

I dunno about any references, but the ghost bears a slight resemblance to the Bad Graphics Ghost, I think. --DorianGray

No, I'm pretty sure both ghosts just resemble basic "sheet" ghosts. Not each other. - Joshua

Anselmo?

I know Strong Bad seems like a Pantera fan, but we don't know that Anselmo refers to Phil. Could be a city in Nebraska, or Anselmo Baggio, or Anselmo Lorenzo, or San Anselmo California, or just a sweet Spanish sounding name Strong Bad picked.

He's more of a Limozeen fan. --The 386 ^{My talk} 21:54, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Wait... what were we talking about? I'm confused.

The fun fact that claims '"The Proud Anselmo" is named for Phil Anselmo.'

See STUFF - we're voting on this being a reference to Rene Anselmo, who helped start the commercial satellite industry. - KieferSkunk 22:00, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

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Slide Show background music

I'm not sure the Fun Fact, "The song that plays in the background of the slideshow is the song that plays when you roll over Store and Downloads on Main Page 19." is correct. It sounds similar, but they are definitely different songs. -JesseLangham

Smoking=

i think somthing about the narrarator talkign about "smooth and relaxing ciggerettes" should be put on the page. maybe as a reference to ciggerrete ads of the 60s and the propaganda and whatnot. its is a good reference...at least i think so..

Sounds good to me - go right ahead. (Real-World References) —  KieferSkunk (talk) — 01:19, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

______ _____face?

Anyone else think that the name Space Captainface was rather similar to Sir Hotbod Handsomeface, another nickname Strong Bad creates for himself in TGS issue 10? I'm ambivalent about whether this is a real inside reference or not, because there are a lot of similarities but, at the same time, it COULD just be coincidence. What do you all think? 01:49, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

• Nah, Strong Bad's just not entirely creative with name-creation, I think. Nor is Homestar, for that matter. --DorianGray

Pong

The comment about a sonar "pong" not sounding different from a sonar "ping" is incorrect. If the target is moving towards the pinger, the returning "pong" will be higher pitched than the initial "ping". If the target is moving away from the pinger the "pong" will have a lower pitch than the "ping". This is due to the dopplereffect. -StrongRad

The critical question, though is: is "sonar pong" a real term? Or is it just a conflation of "ping-pong" and "sonar ping"? —AbdiViklas 04:51, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

I don't know about sonar, but in computing, the reply to a "Ping", which is named after the sonar term, is often called a "Pong" (indeed, that is the official name of the packet in some protocols, like IRC). Whether this is the case for sonar, formally or informally, I don't know. The wikipedia article for Sonar contains "ping" but not "pong", if that means anything. --phlip ^T_C 05:16, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

A Google search for "sonar pong" (in quotes) yields only 24 results, mostly amateur fiction. Removing the quotes yields a lot more, but none that seem to me to indicate that the term "pong" is ever (accurately) used in connection with sonar. I'm going to go ahead and delete the part about the pong not sounding like the ping, which we've established is false, but it would be nice if we could also say that the term "sonar pong" doesn't really exist. Any Navy experts out there? —AbdiViklas 06:15, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

The people I know that use SODAR (a sound based radar that's usually just above human hearing) just call it a return. They didn't make any claims about speaking for SONAR people, but they said they thought it was just called a return there, too.StrongRad

When Sbemails cry

I'm waiting for someone to say that the opening song, "Email is the sound that we make when a young girl cries," is a reference to something. Is it simply to When Doves Cry? I suspect not. It might not be a reference to anything, but I have a hunch it's to something I just don't know. —AbdiViklas 04:56, 15 November 2005 (UTC)