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->'''Lt. Regurge:''' If we manoeuvre around the Makular ship while firing simultaneous blasts of UV radiation and enhanced zeno-treknoan beams, we should take out the pustular emitters ''and'' disable their Disbelief Suspension field!
->''[Captain Pinchhard beckons Commander Piker closer]''
->'''Pinchhard:''' ''[quietly]'' I didn't understand a word of that.
->'''Piker:''' ''[enthusiastically]'' Sounds good to me!
-->-- ''Sev Trek: Pus in Boots''
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->I remember [[Creator/TerryNation Terry]] telling me in the bar one time, that whenever he got letters from people complaining about scientific inaccuracies, he would just send back this standard letter, which would say, “you will be aware of the formula XYZ to the power of 17...” He said it was all total bullshit and he didn't know what it meant, but he would just bung it off and they loved it!
-->-- Interview with Creator/ChrisBoucher
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-->-- '''B'Elannarella'''

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-->-- '''B'Elannarella'''
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-->-- '''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'''

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-->-- '''Plan ''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'''
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->"Yes, definitely held up by wantum superstrings," babbled Johnny. "I'd postulate a Handwavium Drive generating a Flangium Field of pure Gaffleblab suspended in Piller Filler, drawing its power from a cubic foot of Buzzwordium__"
->"You're just making that shit up, aren't you?" snapped Constance.
->"Err...yes."
-->-- '''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'''
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->I bet I just need to calculate the relative orbits of Argo and Earth. Then, if I can fly high enough to make it into orbit, I can probably use the gravitational forces of this planet to slingshot me back into quasi-space! It's foolproof!
-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}''', ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade''
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->'''Jacobi:''' So... What do you do?\\
'''Maxwell:''' Oh, I uh... I do machine computational thought experiments and hyperconductive artificial nervous design.\\
''({{Beat}})''\\
'''Jacobi:''' ...I'm gonna ask you that again, and we're gonna try that one more time, okay?\\
'''Maxwell:''' Okay!\\
'''Jacobi:''' So! ''(clears throat)'' Alana Maxwell! What do ''you'' do?\\
'''Maxwell:''' [[LaymansTerms I do cool stuff with robots!]] You?\\
'''Jacobi:''' [[StuffBlowingUp I make very big things blow up!]]
-->-- ''Podcast/Wolf359'', "Brave New World"
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->Slinging B'Elanna's unconscious body over her shoulder, Seven climbed the ladder to the next level to escape the slowly rising flood of technobabble.
-->-- ''No Ordinary Spoof''
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->'''TheFlash:''' How are we supposed to get in again?\\

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->'''TheFlash:''' ->'''ComicBook/TheFlash:''' How are we supposed to get in again?\\

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-->--''{{Series/Farscape}}'', "Could'a, Would'a, Should'a"

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-->--''{{Series/Farscape}}'', -->-- ''{{Series/Farscape}}'', "Could'a, Would'a, Should'a"
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->"One more word of technobabble out of you and I'm gonna cut out your tongue!"
-->-- '''John Crichton''', ''{{Series/Farscape}}'', "Coup by Clam"
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->'''Riker''': Okay, Morta. The Enterprise computer system is controlled by three primary main processing cores, cross-linked with a redundant melacortz ramistat. Fourteen kiloquad interface modules. The core element is based on an FTL nanoprocessor with twenty five bilateral kelilactirals, with twenty of those being slaved into the primary heisenfram terminal. Now you do know what a bilateral kelilactiral is?\\
'''Morta''': Well, of course I do, human. I am not stupid.\\
'''Riker''': No, of course not. This is the isopalavial interface which controls the main firomactal drive unit. Don't touch that. You'll blow up the entire firomactal drive.\\
'''Morta''': What? Wait. What is a firomactal drive? Just explain it to me.\\
'''Riker''': That is the firomactal drive unit. It controls the ramistat core and also keeps the ontarian manifold at forty thousand [=KRGs=].
-->-- '''William T. Riker''', bullshitting a member of an enemy boarding party, StarTrekTheNextGeneration: [[Recap/{{StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E7Rascals}} "Rascals"]]
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->It might as well be Shakespeare. It's so highly-stylized. To be able to spin that language out and make it accessible to the audience at large is a gift not a lot of actors have.

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->It might as well be Shakespeare. It's so highly-stylized.highly stylized. To be able to spin that language out and make it accessible to the audience at large is a gift not a lot of actors have.
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->'''Doctor:''' Looks like a spatio-temporal hyperlink.\\
'''Mickey:''' What's that?\\
'''Doctor:''' No idea, just made it up. Didn't want to say "Magic Door."
-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Girl in the Fireplace"
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->'''Neeyala''': We were regaining dimensionality when our ships collided and must've been subjected to a massive burst of photonic distortion. Once the phaztillon generator is repaired, we'll dose ourselves and hope your living ship doesn't interfere with the non-thermal dimensional forces.\\
'''Aeryn''': Do you understand any of those words?\\
'''John''': : Yeah, I watched all kinds of Star Trek, it's just the order that they're in.
-->--''{{Series/Farscape}}'', "Could'a, Would'a, Should'a"
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->''"My Implausible Translator doesn't do technobabble!"''

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->''"My ->"My Implausible Translator doesn't do technobabble!"''technobabble!"
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-->-- '''Sev Trek: Pus in Boots'''

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-->-- '''Sev '''Commander Willing Piker''', ''Sev Trek: Pus in Boots'''
Boots''
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->'''Maya:''' ''(talking very fast)'' Hold on! I detect an exponential increase in photon energy levels!
->'''Misato:''' Say that again?
->'''Makoto:''' She said the photonic energy levels are rising.
->'''Misato:''' IN ENGLISH!
->'''Maya:''' WE'RE FUCKED!
-->-- ''WebVideo/EvAbridged 3.0 Rei is (not) Pleased''
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->'''Gauss:''' Here we are, she vanished from here did she not? Ah yes, the site of an earlier bombing, that is very important. It allows us to use recursive analysis you see, with an asymptotic expansion to truncate the series. Now, any real number is said to be computable when there is a computable sequence converges effectively to it. So, with the abduction taking place at the same point as the bombing, we have our convergence point. This is very fortunate for a coincidence of position between these two coordinates allows us to modulate any desired level of accuracy. You follow me so far?\\
'''Lemuel:''' ''[lying]'' I follow you, yes.\\
'''Gauss:''' Well, you will understand than that a recursive natural number has an inherent error function that indicates exactly how far through the sequence of data we must progress in order to guarantee that the sequence has converged with the desired level of precision. Now, all the bombings over the last few weeks give us an exemplary data set. I assume that you realize that any real number which happens to be rational is, on this definition, straightforwardly computable, but not every computable real number need be rational? And from this it follows naturally that by plotting the positions of the bombings, we can calculate the convergence point at which the command facility must be located.\\
'''Lemuel:''' ''[trying not to look dazed]'' Of course.\\
'''Gauss:''' Very well then. Intuitively, a real number is computable if it can be approximated to an arbitrary degree of accuracy by an algorithmic method. By doing so, we create a series of paralexic synchronizations that define the intersection of the calculus and geometry of the statistical universe. Within those amphibolic subluxations, the set of all computable real and definable locations are intimately related to a set of rational conclusions that are, of course only denumerably infinite, while the set of all real locations is uncountably infinite. Since all real locations are either computable or noncomputable, this means that 'most' locations are noncomputable and can therefore be discarded from the calculations. Thus, eliminating the noncomputable from the denumerably infinite, we are left with only the computably rational. In fact, as is always the case with such non-metachorindal data sets, there is only one possible location that fits both the statistical universe and the paralexic homeomorphism. The young angel must, mathematically, be here. ''*points to spot on map*''\\
'''Michael:''' Right, now we can get moving. Lemuel, go to the Headquarters of the League of Holy Court and assemble a strike team. ''*waits until Lemuel is gone*'' Johann, I've got to ask. How much of that little speech made any kind of sense?\\
'''Gauss:''' Michael-lan, it wasn't just nonsense, it was demented nonsense. It sounded good though, yes?
-->-- ''Literature/TheSalvationWar: Pantheocide''
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->'''Major Kira''': Perimeter sensors are picking up a subspace oszillation. [[LampshadeHanging ...The hell does that mean?]]
-->--''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "If Wishes Were Horses"
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->Doctor Akagi was deep into some lecture about the Angel. Shinji tried to listen, hoping she'd offer something to give him hope, but the advanced mathematical diagrams and jargon-laden explanation went mostly past him. The Angel was three nanometers thick? Inverted AT-Field? Imaginary space? The floating sphere was its five-dimensional shadow? What the Hell was a 'Sea of Dirac'? He shook his head.
-->-- '''Shinji''', ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust''


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->She held her breath to dull the pain, and for the second day there was light, oh so much light, and she heard the technicians babbling their coded language of feedback loops and neural connections and the Eva went dark, overwhelmed.
-->-- '''Rei''', ''Fanfic/LastChildOfKrypton''
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'''Galatea:''' Impossible! I've quantum destabilized the [[TazMania blah blah blah yakkedy shmackedy blah blah]] [[Series/DoctorWho polarity of the neutron flow!]]

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'''Galatea:''' Impossible! I've quantum destabilized the [[TazMania [[WesternAnimation/TazMania blah blah blah yakkedy shmackedy blah blah]] [[Series/DoctorWho polarity of the neutron flow!]]
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--> -- ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya]]''

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--> -- ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya]]''
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]''
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-->-- '''Creator/JossWhedon''', on making ''Film/TheAvengers''

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-->-- '''Creator/JossWhedon''', on making ''Film/TheAvengers''
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->'''Chief O'Brien''': Maybe there's a pointer fault in the holosuite's parameter file.\\
'''Cicci''': [to Frankie Eyes] What's a hollosweets?
-->--''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang"
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-->-- ''KeychainOfCreation'' [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0148.html #148]]

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-->-- ''KeychainOfCreation'' ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'' [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0148.html #148]]

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->''"My Implausible Translator doesn't do technobabble!"''
-->-- '''Sev Trek: Pus in Boots'''



->''It was for moments like this that Anna had spent endless minutes strapped into Brain chairs at the Space Academy. She leapt to her feet. "Adjust the interspacial temporal effectance frequency to a non-covariant ratio immediately! Set the port parallel thrusters to interlinked harmonistic bursts! Broadcast our space/time index on a rotating subspace transmodulation! Dump the linear convection fluid from the hyper-xoduliser's primary core! Bring the secondary astrogation sensors out of their cryogenic storage tubes and deploy them to a quasametric spread! Raise the gravity repellence shields to a nonuple setting of 9.7835 megacomputations!"''

->''Tom was still trying to decypher all this garbage when they slammed into the planet's surface.''
-->-- '''B'Elannarella''' by Odon

->''"My Implausible Translator doesn't do technobabble!"''
-->-- '''Sev Trek: Pus in Boots'''

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->''It was for moments like this that Anna had spent endless minutes strapped into Brain chairs at the Space Academy. She leapt to her feet. "Adjust the interspacial temporal effectance frequency to a non-covariant ratio immediately! Set the port parallel thrusters to interlinked harmonistic bursts! Broadcast our space/time index on a rotating subspace transmodulation! Dump the linear convection fluid from the hyper-xoduliser's primary core! Bring the secondary astrogation sensors out of their cryogenic storage tubes and deploy them to a quasametric spread! Raise the gravity repellence shields to a nonuple setting of 9.7835 megacomputations!"''

->''Tom was still trying to decypher all this garbage when they slammed into the planet's surface.''
-->-- '''B'Elannarella''' by Odon

->''"My Implausible Translator doesn't do technobabble!"''
-->-- '''Sev Trek: Pus in Boots'''
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->'Twas quantum, and the gravitons\\
Did flux and fracture out of phase\\
All temp'ral were the chronitons\\
As the verterons decayed.
-->-- '''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1039834/1/Babbletechy Babbletechy]]''', with apologises to Creator/LewisCarroll.
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'''LexLuthor:''' Multi-frequency band encryption analyzer replicator pack.\\

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'''LexLuthor:''' '''ComicBook/LexLuthor:''' Multi-frequency band encryption analyzer replicator pack.\\
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--> -- '''[[ColonelBadass Colonel Tigh]]''', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}''

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--> -- '''[[ColonelBadass Colonel Tigh]]''', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}''
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-->-- '''Q''' to ''Sisko''', ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' - "Q-Less"

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-->-- '''Q''' to ''Sisko''', '''Sisko''', ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' - "Q-Less"
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--> -- ''[[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya]]''

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--> -- ''[[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya]]''

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