I was reading the amazing Dan Dare this morning, and noticed that the spaceship he was stationed at was called the HMS Achilles. I didn't think much of it at first, I was much more interested in Dan generously giving aliens idealistic asskickings, but as I closed the comic, it popped into my head, why the fuck would anyone name a major ship the Achilles? Achilles, as we all know, is a metaphor for a specific weakness. Confident that this was just a little joke confined to comic books, I spent minimal effort in checking if anyone would ever actually be stupid enough to name their ship after a name that means weakness, and guess what? The ship actually existed, its real, its British, and it sank. Wow.
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| Can anyone tell me why "spreads" is in quotations? Gross. |
Dan Dare also famously flies his badass spaceship, the Anastasia, named after the young Russian princess who was brutally murdered along with her entire family in a political coup, only to be revived a century later in a campy Disney movie. What is it with Brits and horrible ship names?
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