captain scarburg and dr. spurgeon loo kim conferred with each other for a couple of moments , turned and one of them said softly ( as if someone might hear ) , which one actually related the words to msg scarburg is unknown but he said the best translation of the french sign into english was : photographic histories of telemetric occurrences both agreed the translation might not be totally accurate since some of the french words used are archaic and not in common usage today .