I feel like ficcin' tonight

[kaitou]

I'm trying to get back into the fun bits of writing, nano, fanfic and all, and I ran across this meme and thought that it sounded like fun.

You post a topic, list, category, whatever, in my comments section. (examples: "Five Things Mal Renyolds Remembers About His Childhood", or "Five colours the Torchwood Hub was painted" or "Five Things Mitchell Will Never, Ever Tell George"). Then, in a separate post, I'll post the answers to your Top 5 ideas, according to me. Serious or fun!

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[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

XD Oh I *LIKE* this one. And now you've made me write RPF.

1. There is a bust of Archimedes in the British Museum. What the world doesn't know is that the rest of the statue was destroyed by the Roman Catholic Church because it's perfection was considered blasphemy.

2. The Archimedes Claw was actually a giant wooden clockwork mecha in the shape of a crab. It was waterproofed with pitch and oiled skins so that it could go underwater and decimate the Roman ships from land and sea.

3. The Archimedes Screw is an invention used for pumping water. It is also a technique used for pumping--- well, I'll let you guess the rest.

4. Archimedes supported a heliocentric theory of the solar system. This is because he built a bronze spaceship powered by Hero's aeolipile and saw it for himself.

5. "Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth," is actually a misquotation. It was actually "Give us a place to lay on and you will feel the Earth move."

[m-steelgrave.livejournal.com]

And now you've made me write RPF.

Based on how cobbled-together most of what we know about people who lived that long ago, it's almost like reading fiction, anyway.

I adore your genius libertine Archimedes.

1. There is a bust of Archimedes in the British Museum. What the world doesn't know is that the rest of the statue was destroyed by the Roman Catholic Church because it's perfection was considered blasphemy.

XD Too funny.