The Picard ManeuverIt's free real estate
DagwoodIIITOS came out at a time when people still talked of Columbus discovering america.
TOS came out at a time when Columbus was still being held in high regard. :)
Quick search suggests that the people of Columbia are still pretty happy with the name.
Meanwhile the people of Ohio’s capital aren’t
I live in NYC and no one is actually pushing to get rid of Columbus Circle.
otoh, Trump has a Building right on Columbus Circle, so maybe we should ask Mamdani to rename it Obama Circle.
Captain AggravatedThat’s the part of the story I can find funny. Columbus made four trips to the New World, set up colonies, and explored. He never set foot on the American mainland but he saw it with his own eyes, sailing up and down the Mexican coast looking for the Singapore Straight, which he obviously never found because it was busy being on the other side of the planet. He went to his deathbed believing he’d visited Asia. It wasn’t until Mr. Vespucci made it all the way to Argentina before going “Dudes…there’s no fucking way we’re in the Philippines. There isn’t a landmass thousands of miles long in the Philippines.”
And he was right, which is why AMERICA! FUCK YEA!
ProdigalFrogI’ve only driven through Columbus Ohio once via highway, so I don’t have a complete picture of it, but all I remember about it is it had the worst highway layout of any I’ve experienced, and it had the ugliest, most souless corporate signage along the road that I’ve ever seen as well.
I also stopped to get some fast food, and immediately had a couple people loudly mock me for wearing a mask after I let them ahead of me while I was looking at the menu.
The place just left me with really bad vibes, honestly.
I lived there for a time and love it for what it is. I’ve had many a fun night in the old north and occasionally was able to afford some time in the short north. I love their main library and to this day one two three of my favorite bars of all time is there. Hell I got married at their lesbian bar. They’ve also got/had some other awesome and unique stuff in some alternative scenes.
But yeah, it ain’t a pretty city outside certain parts. They hid one of their rivers, the city is dominated by the highways, they’ve got abysmal public transit, and large portions of the city have strip mall feel. But also night time bike rides through the city with a group felt magical.
And yeah they’ve got some shitty folks but plenty of places do. I guess I partly love it because I had to work hard to get there from even worse parts of Ohio.
Thanks for sharing your experience there, glad to hear it’s much better than my very brief trip through it seemed. I guess it kinda stood out to me as negative from the highway, since other cities that I’ve been through happened to look really cool even passing through on the highway, like St. Louis (though they had the big Arch thingy right in view from the highway, which gives them a pretty unfair advantage :p).
which makes no sense, because even then, we knew Columbus wasn’t the first person there.
SubArcticTundraSo I suppose Star Treck are just the Colombus of space
Yes? the whole show is based on naval exploration, mercantilism, colonialism. That is why they have that whistle when an officer enters the ship, that is why there are no seatbelts.
I’ve seen a lot of far-fetched arguments over the years, but I’ve never seen anyone tie together mercantilism and seatbelts.
I have to say I do like the cut of your jib, sir.
Because even in a tea clipper there would be no needs for seatbelts, and seriously, a red alert should also mean “Buckle up”. no more flying round the bridge at every torpedo hit, and how much voltage goes though those terminals? they should not explode, put some breakers maybe!!!