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by Disembodied
Wed Jun 19, 2024 10:43 am
Forum: Fiction
Topic: Been on a short trip to Aronar
Replies: 10
Views: 2347

Re: Been on a short trip to Aronar

You can't beat Aronar for R'n'R!
by Disembodied
Sat May 25, 2024 4:10 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7512
Views: 1859260

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Examples of suckers in an SF connotation, with multiple bonus points for making it disturbingly sexual. For your consideration … Noctupulis the Night-Squid, from the Adventures of Zirk (a character from the equally dubious adventures of Axel Pressbutton and Laser Eraser). The four-page story, by St...
by Disembodied
Sun May 19, 2024 12:40 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7512
Views: 1859260

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Hoban Washburne wrote:
A man walks down the street in that hat? People know he’s not afraid of anything.
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Jayne Cobb's cunning hat, from Firefly, which ended up producing real-world consequences.
by Disembodied
Wed May 08, 2024 10:48 am
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7512
Views: 1859260

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

In the Red Dwarf episode "White Hole" the crew use a thermonuclear device to cause a solar flare, knocking a planet off its orbit, sending it cannoning around a solar system, colliding with other planets, and eventually plugging up a white hole …
by Disembodied
Thu May 02, 2024 10:21 am
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7512
Views: 1859260

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Arguably this is a blue, for planet and police box … in the Doctor Who story "Journey's End", the TARDIS tows the Earth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxILNKZCMzE&t=34s
by Disembodied
Tue Apr 30, 2024 9:02 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7512
Views: 1859260

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

I'm prepared to accept it: it's sufficiently large enough to form itself into a sphere. Which isn't involved in the (current) definition of a planet. No, but part of the definition of a planet is that it has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit; since "rogue planets" don't have orbi...
by Disembodied
Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:04 am
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7512
Views: 1859260

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Another one - the "Great Evil," which appears to be a small planet- or planetoid-sized being that threatens earth every 5000 years and turns up in our solar system on a collision course with Earth in The Fifth Element (1997). While the Wiki and video linked below seems to think it's plane...
by Disembodied
Sun Apr 28, 2024 4:06 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7512
Views: 1859260

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

SPACE 1999 had Earth's Moon go Rogue. The Low Hanging Fruit Trend Continues. OK - more low-flying fruit if you'll accept weaponized planets - the dirigible planets used by E.E. "Doc" Smith's Galactic Patrol in their war against Boskone in Gray Lensman (1939) Both good examples, I think … ...
by Disembodied
Sun Apr 28, 2024 11:45 am
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7512
Views: 1859260

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Danann (LE Modesitt - The Eternity Artifact) a sunless planet they name Danann, travelling the void just beyond the edge of the Galaxy… Yup - that's one! And for clarity (because many definitions of the term depend on bodies being in orbit around a star) I'll define "planet" here as any n...
by Disembodied
Sat Apr 27, 2024 9:19 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7512
Views: 1859260

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Arrgh … OK. How about: five examples of scifi set on, or at least involving, "rogue" planets - i.e. planets which do not orbit a parent star. They might enter or pass through a pre-existing solar system, but they are not in any sort of conventional orbit - so this excludes planets on long-...
by Disembodied
Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:11 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7512
Views: 1859260

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

There's the Winslow, which is 66cm from nose to tail. The revelation that humans are its current custodians triggers all sorts of threats from a myriad of alien species who variously worship it or wish to attempt its destruction.
by Disembodied
Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:30 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7512
Views: 1859260

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

I'm going to dial it up a notch - mere nukes are now off the table. (Which also takes one of the minor characters in Banks' "Consider Phlebas" off the table). It's continent-buster and upwards now, which mean really big nukes (say, a gigatonne TNT equivalent and upwards ; I make that 4.20...
by Disembodied
Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:40 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7512
Views: 1859260

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Spectacular SF suicide methods. MBPs for stars/ galaxies / universes/ multiverses going onto the funeral pyre. The Predator, in the original movie: after being defeated by Arnie it triggers something akin to a mini-nuke. However, rather than just pressing a self-destruct button, it activates a coun...
by Disembodied
Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:19 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7512
Views: 1859260

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

There's the film Small Soldiers, which I think would count as SF: it "depicts two factions of toys which turn sentient after mistakenly being installed with a military microprocessor":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Soldiers