Conversation started Aug 9, 2018 at 13:14.
Aug 9, 2018 13:14
My carrier pigeons have been replaced by spoons: how can I send messages?: "Yup. All my pigeons are now spoons." <- a normal day on WorldBuilding.SE :D
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I had an edit, then Separatrix did a new edit, and mine got rejected.
I guess he just had a slightly different style for the PS.
"but at least my horses aren't forks"
I'm strongly tempted to write an answer saying to tape a message to the spoon and send it off.
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gosh, you was supposed to make gold out of lead, not spoons out of pigeons
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@Hosch250 yup, they are spoon-shaped, but it isn't stated that they can't fly...
@Kepotx You have to start somewhere :D
I've got to say, that new user has a very interesting sense of humour: "i try to make them fly, pigeons were better at it. Even with the trebuchet, the distance is to short be useful ( unless i create a network of trebuchet all around my kingdom)"
Aug 9, 2018 13:39
boom, HNQ
Obviously. One of the best clickbait titles I've seen in some time.
And a funny question that is actually completely on-topic.
"I need a system to relay short messages over longer distances in a medieval time - but I can't use pidgeons because of this specific change in my world."
Hmmm.
Now I'm thinking about an answer that keeps the privacy of pigeons while transferring messages.
Because, the best idea proposed so far (polish the spoons and invent morse code) has the same problems as telegraph operators.
The message can be intercepted or leaked.
Anyone else thinks this sounds like a worldbuilding question?
in The Awkward Silence, 3 mins ago, by Tinkeringbell
@apaul I really don't know why you'd make a catapult out of excrement. Doesn't sound very sturdy to me.
@Hosch250 Why you use code. Even a pigeon can be brought down with a hawk or arrow and intercepted.
@AndyD273 or by a flying spoon.
Aug 9, 2018 13:51
@AjnatorixZersolar They don't fly very well though.
@Secespitus I guess...that would be an interesting question, "best way to make spoons fly using X materials/technology."
@AjnatorixZersolar How high can one launch a spoon, while maintaining enough accuracy to have a >50% chance of striking a target the size of a pigeon, using only medieval materials and engineering?
@Secespitus That's why you have to bundle the spoons up, so it becomes a flying cloud of spoons when launched by trebuchet. It also helps to sharpen the edges of the spoons.
@Gryphon You hire an alchemist to turn your spoons into falcons.
@AndyD273 Yes, perfect to deliver messages. Messages of the form "You die today!"
Aug 9, 2018 13:55
@Gryphon @AndyD273 fun with spoons :D
OK, now our spoons have an identity crisis. They have to prey on their ex-brothers.
@Hosch250 Poor spoons...
@Hosch250 Great, we've invented cannibal spoons.
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this is when i imagine a random person walking into this room and going "what the!?"
Aug 9, 2018 13:56
@Gryphon Now that's one hell of a
Also, obligatory xkcd:
Their biggest mistake was bringing Rachael Ray and Emeril to tour the lab and sign off on the project.  That's when Spielberg caught wind of it.
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Anatomicly correct "spoon demon" or "demonic spoon"?
@AjnatorixZersolar The normal Factory Floor craziness
Anatomically correct cannibal spoon pigeon?
Aug 9, 2018 13:58
@Gryphon There's always an obligatory XKCD
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is it a demon in a spoon, or a demon that is a spoon? Or a spooning demon...
@AjnatorixZersolar Believe it or not, there've probably been worse times to walk into here.
@AndyD273 I would instantly favourite something like that.
@Gryphon like the sharp-pine-needle conversation?
@AjnatorixZersolar Nah, the discussions about secespitalizing posts were far worse
LOL.
Aug 9, 2018 14:00
@Secespitus Yes, that would have been a bad time to walk in.
Apologies to any government-organisations, but spoons are fun (demonic smile)
@AjnatorixZersolar Or even a non-random person. That's my response when I walk in here every morning.
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@Secespitus I tried to do a google search to figure out what that word meant, which brought up the original forum post, at which point I remembered I was part of that conversation...
ah, If worldbuilding SE had news headlines...
@AndyD273 :D Nice
The "assassin NGO" discussion was also quite fascinating
Aug 9, 2018 14:03
Do we have a "Greatest Hits" list of the wackiest conversations in here? We should.
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+1 for that.
@HDE226868 Yeah, I got five stars for: "I check to see what's going on, and see a long discussion about exactly how sharp evergreen needles are."
"pigeons terrorised by flying cannibal spoons"
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We should bookmark them.
@AjnatorixZersolar Strike imminent.
 
Conversation ended Aug 9, 2018 at 14:04.