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DSSV Pressure Drop sounded like a Culture ship name to me so I looked that up. It's not, but the name of the DDSV, "Limiting Factor", is. Apparently they also n
by terlisimo 3y ago
DSSV Pressure Drop sounded like a Culture ship name to me so I looked that up. It's not, but the name of the DDSV, "Limiting Factor", is. Apparently they also named their utility boats after Culture ships.
To those who don't know: "The Culture" is a... society(?) of godlike AI ships/minds from the series of SF books by Ian M. Banks.
SpaceX named their landing barges after Culture ships too, the "Of Course I Still Love You", "Just Read The Instructions" and "A Shortfall of Gravitas".
https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_spacecraft https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_spacecraft
- rowanG077 3y ago[flagged]
- Kaibeezy 3y agoAh, thought you were talking about Tangents, the Greg Bear short story collection.
- felixyz 3y agoThe Incredibly Tangential Information must be another Culture ship?
- jallen_dot_dev 3y agoGCU Low Quality Tangent
- sangnoir 3y agoGCV I'm Getting Fed Up sounds like a ship that was involved in more than a few skirmishes during the Idiran war.
- prawn 3y agoI don't agree that this is low quality, but if you haven't already, maybe upvote the other top level comments? (At time of my comment, this is the top thread on the page.)
- happytoexplain 3y agoThis is the rare kind of comment that I can't relate to. I disagree with lots of things people say, sometimes diametrically - I might even consider some of them immoral, or feel angry about it. But I still can comprehend the frame of mind that can produce their point of view. But once in a while I can't even do that, even if the comment itself is not particularly wild.
- darksaints 3y agoIt must be seriously exhausting to be bothered by such inconsequential things.
- andrewflnr 3y agoThere's definitely an MSV Pressure Drop on that page, under the list of ships in Hydrogen Sonata. :)
- cpeterso 3y agoAnd that wiki directly mentions DSSV Pressure Drop because the expedition support ship of the Five Deeps Expedition has utility boats named after Culture ships: Little Rascal, Liveware Problem, and Learned Response.
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