Talk:Vacuum Accelerator - Revision history

https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Talk%3AVacuum_Accelerator Talk:Vacuum Accelerator - Revision history 2026-09-12T13:03:37Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.45.3 https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Talk:Vacuum_Accelerator&diff=859275&oldid=prev Sabrblade: Sabrblade moved page Talk:Teleporter to Talk:Vacuum Accelerator: formal name 2014-03-04T17:07:27Z

<p>Sabrblade moved page <a href="/index.php?title=Talk:Teleporter&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Talk:Teleporter (page does not exist)">Talk:Teleporter</a> to <a href="/index.php/Talk:Vacuum_Accelerator" title="Talk:Vacuum Accelerator">Talk:Vacuum Accelerator</a>: formal name</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="1" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="1" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 17:07, 4 March 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-notice" lang="en"><div class="mw-diff-empty">(No difference)</div> </td></tr></table>

Sabrblade https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Talk:Vacuum_Accelerator&diff=859067&oldid=prev Abates at 06:11, 4 March 2014 2014-03-04T06:11:56Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 06:11, 4 March 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l8">Line 8:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 8:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:::::::When has the first thing something has been called dictate what an article is named? Josie Beller's article is at Circuit Breaker precisely because it's her most prominent name, not because it's her first. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 23:38, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:::::::When has the first thing something has been called dictate what an article is named? Josie Beller's article is at Circuit Breaker precisely because it's her most prominent name, not because it's her first. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 23:38, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::::::::And what proof is there that "teleporter" is any more formal and proper a term than "Vacuum Accelerator" when thousands of uses of the word in fiction show that the word is anything but formal and proper? Otherwise, wouldn't we have just named the Temporal Station page as just "Time machine"? Or even the Charlie Burns and Luskey pages as just "Chief" and "Mayor" (since those are the most common terms that they're referred to)? --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 23:58, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::::::::And what proof is there that "teleporter" is any more formal and proper a term than "Vacuum Accelerator" when thousands of uses of the word in fiction show that the word is anything but formal and proper? Otherwise, wouldn't we have just named the Temporal Station page as just "Time machine"? Or even the Charlie Burns and Luskey pages as just "Chief" and "Mayor" (since those are the most common terms that they're referred to)? --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 23:58, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">:::::::::I give up. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 01:11, 4 March 2014 (EST)</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

Abates https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Talk:Vacuum_Accelerator&diff=859055&oldid=prev Sabrblade at 04:58, 4 March 2014 2014-03-04T04:58:56Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 04:58, 4 March 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l7">Line 7:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 7:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::::::''Why''? That doesn't make any sense. How much science fiction have you seen? The word "teleporter" is so abundantly common and generic a word that it holds about as much weight in formality as the word "blaster" does. Also, "Vacuum Accelerator" is the first thing that the device is ever even called, and as its official given name by Doc and Boulder. Shouldn't that alone give it precedence over any eventual nicknames and layman's terms? --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 22:18, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::::::''Why''? That doesn't make any sense. How much science fiction have you seen? The word "teleporter" is so abundantly common and generic a word that it holds about as much weight in formality as the word "blaster" does. Also, "Vacuum Accelerator" is the first thing that the device is ever even called, and as its official given name by Doc and Boulder. Shouldn't that alone give it precedence over any eventual nicknames and layman's terms? --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 22:18, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:::::::When has the first thing something has been called dictate what an article is named? Josie Beller's article is at Circuit Breaker precisely because it's her most prominent name, not because it's her first. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 23:38, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:::::::When has the first thing something has been called dictate what an article is named? Josie Beller's article is at Circuit Breaker precisely because it's her most prominent name, not because it's her first. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 23:38, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">::::::::And what proof is there that "teleporter" is any more formal and proper a term than "Vacuum Accelerator" when thousands of uses of the word in fiction show that the word is anything but formal and proper? Otherwise, wouldn't we have just named the Temporal Station page as just "Time machine"? Or even the Charlie Burns and Luskey pages as just "Chief" and "Mayor" (since those are the most common terms that they're referred to)? --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 23:58, 3 March 2014 (EST)</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

Sabrblade https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Talk:Vacuum_Accelerator&diff=859054&oldid=prev Abates at 04:38, 4 March 2014 2014-03-04T04:38:12Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 04:38, 4 March 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l6">Line 6:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 6:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:::::I disagree that they're using "teleporter" in a generic sense. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 21:00, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:::::I disagree that they're using "teleporter" in a generic sense. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 21:00, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::::::''Why''? That doesn't make any sense. How much science fiction have you seen? The word "teleporter" is so abundantly common and generic a word that it holds about as much weight in formality as the word "blaster" does. Also, "Vacuum Accelerator" is the first thing that the device is ever even called, and as its official given name by Doc and Boulder. Shouldn't that alone give it precedence over any eventual nicknames and layman's terms? --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 22:18, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::::::''Why''? That doesn't make any sense. How much science fiction have you seen? The word "teleporter" is so abundantly common and generic a word that it holds about as much weight in formality as the word "blaster" does. Also, "Vacuum Accelerator" is the first thing that the device is ever even called, and as its official given name by Doc and Boulder. Shouldn't that alone give it precedence over any eventual nicknames and layman's terms? --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 22:18, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">:::::::When has the first thing something has been called dictate what an article is named? Josie Beller's article is at Circuit Breaker precisely because it's her most prominent name, not because it's her first. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 23:38, 3 March 2014 (EST)</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

Abates https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Talk:Vacuum_Accelerator&diff=859049&oldid=prev Sabrblade at 03:19, 4 March 2014 2014-03-04T03:19:39Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:19, 4 March 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l5">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::::Same with the Temporal Station. It's called a "time machine" more than anything else, yet we know it has a proper name. It's also like how people say "car" more than they say what specific type of car it is because it's easier to just say "car" like how it's easier to just say "teleporter". But "car" isn't a specific car's proper name, and nor is "teleporter" the proper name of the Vacuum Accelerator. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 20:06, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::::Same with the Temporal Station. It's called a "time machine" more than anything else, yet we know it has a proper name. It's also like how people say "car" more than they say what specific type of car it is because it's easier to just say "car" like how it's easier to just say "teleporter". But "car" isn't a specific car's proper name, and nor is "teleporter" the proper name of the Vacuum Accelerator. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 20:06, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:::::I disagree that they're using "teleporter" in a generic sense. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 21:00, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:::::I disagree that they're using "teleporter" in a generic sense. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 21:00, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::::::How much science fiction have you seen? The word "teleporter" is so abundantly common and generic a word that it holds about as much weight in formality as the word "blaster" does. Also, "Vacuum Accelerator" is the first thing that the device is ever even called, and as its official given name by <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">doc </del>and Boulder. Shouldn't that alone give it precedence over any eventual nicknames and layman's terms? --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 22:18, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::::::<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''Why''? That doesn't make any sense. </ins>How much science fiction have you seen? The word "teleporter" is so abundantly common and generic a word that it holds about as much weight in formality as the word "blaster" does. Also, "Vacuum Accelerator" is the first thing that the device is ever even called, and as its official given name by <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Doc </ins>and Boulder. Shouldn't that alone give it precedence over any eventual nicknames and layman's terms? --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 22:18, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td></tr> </table>

Sabrblade https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Talk:Vacuum_Accelerator&diff=859048&oldid=prev Sabrblade at 03:18, 4 March 2014 2014-03-04T03:18:30Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:18, 4 March 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l5">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::::Same with the Temporal Station. It's called a "time machine" more than anything else, yet we know it has a proper name. It's also like how people say "car" more than they say what specific type of car it is because it's easier to just say "car" like how it's easier to just say "teleporter". But "car" isn't a specific car's proper name, and nor is "teleporter" the proper name of the Vacuum Accelerator. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 20:06, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::::Same with the Temporal Station. It's called a "time machine" more than anything else, yet we know it has a proper name. It's also like how people say "car" more than they say what specific type of car it is because it's easier to just say "car" like how it's easier to just say "teleporter". But "car" isn't a specific car's proper name, and nor is "teleporter" the proper name of the Vacuum Accelerator. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 20:06, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:::::I disagree that they're using "teleporter" in a generic sense. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 21:00, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:::::I disagree that they're using "teleporter" in a generic sense. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 21:00, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::::::How much science fiction have you seen? The word "teleporter" is so abundantly common and generic a word that it about as much weight in formality as the word "blaster" does. Also, "Vacuum Accelerator" is the first thing that the device is ever even called, and as its official given name by doc and Boulder. Shouldn't that alone give it precedence over any eventual nicknames and layman's terms? --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 22:18, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::::::How much science fiction have you seen? The word "teleporter" is so abundantly common and generic a word that it <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">holds </ins>about as much weight in formality as the word "blaster" does. Also, "Vacuum Accelerator" is the first thing that the device is ever even called, and as its official given name by doc and Boulder. Shouldn't that alone give it precedence over any eventual nicknames and layman's terms? --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 22:18, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td></tr> </table>

Sabrblade https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Talk:Vacuum_Accelerator&diff=859046&oldid=prev Sabrblade at 03:18, 4 March 2014 2014-03-04T03:18:02Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:18, 4 March 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l5">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::::Same with the Temporal Station. It's called a "time machine" more than anything else, yet we know it has a proper name. It's also like how people say "car" more than they say what specific type of car it is because it's easier to just say "car" like how it's easier to just say "teleporter". But "car" isn't a specific car's proper name, and nor is "teleporter" the proper name of the Vacuum Accelerator. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 20:06, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::::Same with the Temporal Station. It's called a "time machine" more than anything else, yet we know it has a proper name. It's also like how people say "car" more than they say what specific type of car it is because it's easier to just say "car" like how it's easier to just say "teleporter". But "car" isn't a specific car's proper name, and nor is "teleporter" the proper name of the Vacuum Accelerator. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 20:06, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:::::I disagree that they're using "teleporter" in a generic sense. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 21:00, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:::::I disagree that they're using "teleporter" in a generic sense. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 21:00, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">::::::How much science fiction have you seen? The word "teleporter" is so abundantly common and generic a word that it about as much weight in formality as the word "blaster" does. Also, "Vacuum Accelerator" is the first thing that the device is ever even called, and as its official given name by doc and Boulder. Shouldn't that alone give it precedence over any eventual nicknames and layman's terms? --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 22:18, 3 March 2014 (EST)</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

Sabrblade https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Talk:Vacuum_Accelerator&diff=859038&oldid=prev Abates at 02:00, 4 March 2014 2014-03-04T02:00:57Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 02:00, 4 March 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l4">Line 4:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 4:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:::It's still what they commonly called the device in the episode outside of one line from Boulder. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 15:40, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:::It's still what they commonly called the device in the episode outside of one line from Boulder. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 15:40, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::::Same with the Temporal Station. It's called a "time machine" more than anything else, yet we know it has a proper name. It's also like how people say "car" more than they say what specific type of car it is because it's easier to just say "car" like how it's easier to just say "teleporter". But "car" isn't a specific car's proper name, and nor is "teleporter" the proper name of the Vacuum Accelerator. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 20:06, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::::Same with the Temporal Station. It's called a "time machine" more than anything else, yet we know it has a proper name. It's also like how people say "car" more than they say what specific type of car it is because it's easier to just say "car" like how it's easier to just say "teleporter". But "car" isn't a specific car's proper name, and nor is "teleporter" the proper name of the Vacuum Accelerator. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 20:06, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">:::::I disagree that they're using "teleporter" in a generic sense. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 21:00, 3 March 2014 (EST)</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

Abates https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Talk:Vacuum_Accelerator&diff=859031&oldid=prev Sabrblade at 01:06, 4 March 2014 2014-03-04T01:06:12Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 01:06, 4 March 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l3">Line 3:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 3:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::It really, ''really'' is a common, generic term. - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] ([[User talk:SanityOrMadness|talk]]) 15:27, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::It really, ''really'' is a common, generic term. - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] ([[User talk:SanityOrMadness|talk]]) 15:27, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:::It's still what they commonly called the device in the episode outside of one line from Boulder. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 15:40, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:::It's still what they commonly called the device in the episode outside of one line from Boulder. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 15:40, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">::::Same with the Temporal Station. It's called a "time machine" more than anything else, yet we know it has a proper name. It's also like how people say "car" more than they say what specific type of car it is because it's easier to just say "car" like how it's easier to just say "teleporter". But "car" isn't a specific car's proper name, and nor is "teleporter" the proper name of the Vacuum Accelerator. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 20:06, 3 March 2014 (EST)</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

Sabrblade https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Talk:Vacuum_Accelerator&diff=859003&oldid=prev Abates at 20:40, 3 March 2014 2014-03-03T20:40:57Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:40, 3 March 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l2">Line 2:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:As far as I know, teleporter isn't a common term in science fiction like "time machine" is, and even Doc Greene was referring to it as the teleporter. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 14:24, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:As far as I know, teleporter isn't a common term in science fiction like "time machine" is, and even Doc Greene was referring to it as the teleporter. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 14:24, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::It really, ''really'' is a common, generic term. - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] ([[User talk:SanityOrMadness|talk]]) 15:27, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::It really, ''really'' is a common, generic term. - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] ([[User talk:SanityOrMadness|talk]]) 15:27, 3 March 2014 (EST)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">:::It's still what they commonly called the device in the episode outside of one line from Boulder. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 15:40, 3 March 2014 (EST)</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

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