In Tim Schafer’s fantastic point-and-click adventure “Broken Age” you end up trying to get a space ship to warp away, and have to deal with the “warp and weft” drive which takes the form of a knitting robot.
Really fun game.
@cerebrate
Oooh good one!
Am I to understand you are a weaver?
@Snowshadow Alas, I'm just a yarn casual (needlepoint, some crochet). My wife, on the other hand, is an epic level yarnista. 😁
@cerebrate Hey @craftygardennz I was going to boost this in the hope you’d see it when I spotted your boost was the reason I was seeing it 😆
@cerebrate Hence the "fabric of spacetime".
@cerebrate @petrillic OMG I just laughed so hard. 😂
@cerebrate That's fantastic!! Appeals to multiple inner nerds.
@cerebrate Hugo first!
@cerebrate Automated looms make cloth at warp speed.
@cerebrate This prompted an etymology expedition to find out whether "shuttle" was first used in the weaving sense or in the transportation sense.
Wiktionary has this to say: "The name for a loom weaving instrument, recorded from 1338, is from a sense of being "shot" across the threads. The back-and-forth imagery inspired the extension to "passenger trains" in 1895, aircraft in 1942, and spacecraft in 1969, as well as older terms such as shuttlecock."
@jendefer TIL this, too!
...and it occurs to me that "weft drive" makes a perfect umbrella term for all those drives, like stutterwarps, that rely on dipping in and out of fittle/realspace.