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Re: 50k Boat Names

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Post by vikingerik »

ButlerianJihad wrote: post #77
BalinKing wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wikipedia (FWIW) says that the fictional USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) was named after the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) rather than the Space Shuttle Enterprise (OV-101).

Folks, you're both correct! GP is referring to in-universe canon, where the NCC-1701 was conceived and constructed by Starfleet, long after the Space Shuttle program was obsolete. Wikipedia articles are largely discouraged from using in-universe perspectives or content, as opposed to Fandom/Wikia/Memory Alpha.

Right. Although in-universe, it was the NX-01 that was the genesis of the name for starships. NCC-1701 was a century later.

Re: 50k Boat Names

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Post by TacticalCoder »

rob74 wrote: post #45
Gravityloss wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the actual word is French too...

...although the French spell it with an extra "r". And they had more ships that were named Entreprenant(e) (Enterprising) than Entreprise ...

> .although the French spell it with an extra "r".

We don't:

    enterprise
    entreprise
It's not "entrerprise" (that'd be an additional 'r').

It's not totally unlike "center", which is "centre" in french and also "centre" in UK english (but pronounced "center", unless I'm mistaken).

Re: 50k Boat Names

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Post by TacticalCoder »

CSMastermind wrote: post #53

This reminds me of a girl I knew in college who worked as a contracter for a book publisher. I was surprised to learn that one of the most common types of books people submitted were dairies of their sailing. Like, "we sailed to this island and there was bad weather then we sailed to this other island". Apparently they'd get a manuscript like this once a week or something. Not sure what the market is like for books l…

> Not sure what the market is like for books like that since I don't think I've ever seen one in a book store.

Same.

But then vlogs about people sailing can be extremely successful, with millions of subscribers. But then I take it there's more appeal in seeing young couples, with a six-pack dude and a beautiful woman in bikini, sailing around the world than reading description of the various kind of waves.

Re: 50k Boat Names

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Post by jandrese »

arethuza wrote: post #31
squigz wrote: post #20

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Err, the Enterprise has been a ship name for a few hundred years, quite a bit before Star Trek was ever conceived. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise

Amusing that the page for ships called HMS Enterprise linked to from the USS Enterprise page points out that the name came originally from the French! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Enterprise

I always thought the carrier was named after Enterprise, PA since the US Navy usually names cruisers after medium sized cities and the earlier carriers were converted cruiser hulls.

Re: 50k Boat Names

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Post by abruzzi »

squigz wrote: post #20
rob74 wrote: post #18

I can't help but think this article could have used some more polishing. The stats say that there are 101 boats named "Freedom", but if you enter "Freedom" in the search, it shows 48 boats with names including "Freedom", of which however only one is called just "Freedom". That doesn't really add up?! Also, clicking "Movie/TV" yields a paltry 22 boats, which I think is far too few. E.g. the boat called "USS Enterprise…

Err, the Enterprise has been a ship name for a few hundred years, quite a bit before Star Trek was ever conceived. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise

Nostromo could be a reference to Joseph Contrad's novel. Its also an italian word for boatswain (according to Wikipedia)

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Post by detourdog »

gmiller123456 wrote: post #56
CSMastermind wrote: post #53

This reminds me of a girl I knew in college who worked as a contracter for a book publisher. I was surprised to learn that one of the most common types of books people submitted were dairies of their sailing. Like, "we sailed to this island and there was bad weather then we sailed to this other island". Apparently they'd get a manuscript like this once a week or something. Not sure what the market is like for books l…

Ocean sailing leaves a lot of free time. Also the people who can afford to do it have a lot of free time. So I don't find it that surprising.

Sailing can be such a transformative experience I'm not surprised many people write books of the experience. My guess is most people's experience is that interesting to others.

Re: 50k Boat Names

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Post by detourdog »

throwup238 wrote: post #52
lossyalgo wrote: post #47

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If I had a boat I would totally steal that (and wait for other nerds to strike up conversations).

I’ve always been impartial to Sea++

I feel I like I have seen that name. I know I have seen puns on C but can't remember the specifics.

May have been C-Shell.

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