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weirdelf
weirdelf
Aug 15, 2017 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

Faster Than Light

We  want   FTL.

When  do  we   want  it?

Soon.


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We want FTL.
When do we want it?
Sooner.

We want FTL. When do we want it? Now.
WdeowwaenwtaFnTtLi.tW?hNeonw!

Yesterday.
We wanted FTL.
When did we want it?


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmpChd5D0d0
 

About This Poem

Last Few Words: *** I made a mistake with this. My assumption was that most people would associate FTL with Relativity and time distortions automatically and the repeated lines would draw attention to the structure and make a connection to the Doppler Effect. Any way I can fix it? ***

Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

Editing Stage: Editing - rough draft

About the Author

Region, Country: Sydney, Australia, AUS

Favorite Poets: The Romantics, The Mersey Sound, The Beats and, of course, The Bard

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Scatterhatter

7 years 11 months ago

I didn't know what you meant

I didn't know what you meant
Until I saw your comments
I first thought
Fish Trout Live
Then fu*****ing Throw Love
Back.....
See if the fish frenzy over it all....

vandiemenspeak

vandiemenspeak

7 years 11 months ago

Where is the hover board, as promised.

In Back to the Future?
Hmm..

This is a fun bit of incoherence as the future whizzes past us.

Reminds me of the march for Ganja joke that did the rounds in the UK:

"What do we want?"

"We can't remember.."

"When do we wannnn ittt!??"

"Ohhh...just drop it round some time man..."

(not to disparage those who partake - but my days of buckets are over ;) )

Funny first read for the night.

Thanks Jess.

weirdelf

weirdelf

7 years 11 months ago

Thanks folks

It's the first time I've used the Doppler Effect as a poetic device.
Came to me intact watching the Star Trek TNG episode "Yesterday’s Enterprise".

"incoherence", Chris? Did you not get what the enmeshed line said, and why it was enmeshed?

vandiemenspeak

vandiemenspeak

7 years 11 months ago

ahh - I see/saw/will see..

The information paradox at the event horizon clicker switch thingy wasn't working last night...where's Chief O'Brien? Yeah I get it ;) Like Cummings on speed.

weirdelf

weirdelf

7 years 11 months ago

The 'garbled' line

is where past and future overlap, the rising sound of the approaching train becomes cacophonous noise and blur as it is passing and then the sound changes to a dying fall.

Literally it is the lines-
We want FTL. When
Do We want it? Now.
Overlapped, letter for letter.

jane210660

jane210660

7 years 11 months ago

You did

You missed FTL - it was too quick for you
grin
Jxx

weirdelf

weirdelf

7 years 11 months ago

ah

but I remembered, and it was glorious.

jane210660

jane210660

7 years 11 months ago

Only you

The rest of us would still be waiting at the bus stop.
Jxx

weirdelf

weirdelf

7 years 11 months ago

All aboard!

Next stop Big Bang Viewing Platform followed by Milliways- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe followed by Time And Place Of Your Choice.

Passengers please be aware that transport is provided free of charge by mutual consent with 'The Tardis Heart of Gold But It'll All End In Tears' which is a sentient massively intelligent and somewhat eccentric AI mass transit ship so please be courteous, open-minded and quite prepared to go insane or die. No responsibility taken.

(a nod to The Doctor, Douglas Adams and Iain M. Banks)

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Geezer

Geezer

7 years 11 months ago

This could be...

the newest style of poetry! If you travel in the opposite direction, does the effect reverse itself?
Although I was an avid Star Trek fan, I never did get all the quantum-physic stuff straight. ~ Gee.
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weirdelf

weirdelf

7 years 11 months ago

Not reversed

Anything approaching rises in pitch and lowers in pitch departing, regardless of direction.
Similarly things approaching look bluer and things departing look redder.

Ta, Gee

weirdelf

weirdelf

7 years 11 months ago

yeah, as I said earlier in reply to you and Chris

The 'garbled' line is where past and future overlap, the rising sound of the approaching train becomes cacophonous noise and blur as it is passing and then the sound changes to a dying fall.

Literally it is the lines-
We want FTL. When
Do We want it? Now.
Overlapped, letter for letter.

Eumolpus

Eumolpus

7 years 11 months ago

A quiery

Ok I know it's one of these....but I don't which one. Several work with your poem. As usual a very unique post, from the mind of...wieldelf!

FTL For the Loss
FTL For the Lose
FTL French the Llama (Nerdfighters)
FTL Financial Transactions for Lawyers
FTL Flight Telecommunications Laboratory
FTL Financial Transaction Ledger
FTL Friends Turned Lovers
FTL Full Truck Load
FTL Fruit of the Loom
FTL Federal Tax Lien
FTL Field Team Leader
FTL Faster Than Light
FTL Feel the Love
FTL Flash Translation Layer (media format for linear flash memory)
FTL Follow The Leader (Korn album)
FTL For the Ladies
FTL Forget The Law (polite form)
FTL Fluorescent Tube Light
FTL Flying Tiger Line (airline; 1945-1989)
FTL Faster Than Light (Xenosaga game)
FTL Fluid Transfer Line (oil and gas industry)
FTL For the Lord
FTL Flight Time Limit
FTL Far Target Locator
FTL Free Talk Live
FTL Flip Top Lighter
FTL Far Too Loud
FTL Freedom to Learn (Michigan)

Eumolpus

Eumolpus

7 years 11 months ago

miised your notes

got it now.
(Also a trekkie. So little is mentioned about Deep Space 9, a Wagnerian spiritual story with a great depth..and a real story with a beginning and an end. )

weirdelf

weirdelf

7 years 11 months ago

I made a mistake with this.

My assumption was that most people would associate FTL with Relativity and time distortions automatically and the repeated lines would draw attention to the structure and make a connection to the Doppler Effect. Any way I can fix it?

weirdelf

weirdelf

7 years 11 months ago

could work

though it would means the lines, with slight variations, got repeated an awful lot.
Remember the Doppler effect doesn't change perception it actually bunches up the sound or light waves in front and stretches them out behind. The original sound or light is unchanged.

weirdelf

weirdelf

7 years 11 months ago

Let me try again.

I made a mistake with this.

My assumption was that most people would associate FTL with Relativity and time distortions automatically and the repeated lines would draw attention to the structure and make a connection to the Doppler Effect. Any way I can fix it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmpChd5D0d0

Sparrow

Sparrow

7 years 10 months ago

Jess

I exist in the now, now look what you have done,
you approached and compressed my vision,
then in an instant you stood still,
I observed the strange awareness in your being, WTF
are we both doing on this page.
Then you sped away like shit off a shovel growing longer.
Was this another now ?
and where were you?
In which now did you exist.
The children told me that as there was no "Time", that's why they can be in more than one place at the same instant.
I have now lost sight of you, as there is just a smudge on the horizon, as if the Parallel lines met and became confused or just fused..
Take care young traveller, just whisper my name should you become lost, I shall hear you, and stand at your side,
Loves you Bru, Yours, Ian and the Children..

weirdelf

weirdelf

7 years 10 months ago

Where have I gone?

Fucked if I know. As far as I know still sitting here twiddling my thumbs somewhere in the vicinity of Betelguse.

Sparrow

Sparrow

7 years 10 months ago

Mark

Can't seem to see Jess anywhere, even the smudge has faded into a neutrality.
He will return and compress my thoughts again of that I am sure, lol.
This subject is so open, and there is scope for thousands of words.
We should rund a series on some themes just to read others values and experiences in maybe dimensions we can play with..
Take care and know I read as many words as possible.
Yours Ian..

Sparrow

Sparrow

7 years 10 months ago

Jess

Oh! there you are back in my now, thank whoever sent you back.
It is good to play sometimes and this gave me the best opportunity for a while.
I had to make a meaningless write into a topic, there are no answers to these philosophical thoughts.
Just a lot of words seldom with a positive direction, so we have talked and returned to a nothingness that pervades our now.
So I shall just enjoy all things as usual..
Loves You Bru..
Yours as always, Ian