Oolite Bulletins

another_commander wrote: ↑Sun Apr 09, 2017 10:54 am

This looks very cool. Hope to see it soon in-game.

Me too. The original Deep Space went brilliantly with bigger ships, it really added to the feel that you were at the helm of a Python or a Boa II instead of a nippy little fighter.

"The Star" proves that Wells's grasp of orbital mechanics was lamentable. <grins> He could write a damn good tale though! Yes, I enjoyed a number of his shorts when I was a schoolboy and we studied a collection of them in English class. It's just that in story after story he displayed a r...

Close enough to give it. The celestial body in "The Star" is actually the product of a collision between Neptune and a foreign body that causes the resulting object to fall into the Sun, grazing Earth as it passes, while in "A World out of Time" the planet Uranus is deliberately ...

From my bookcase... The Martian astronomers – for there are astronomers on Mars, although they are very different beings from men – were naturally profoundly interested by these things. I'll not answer Malacandra's question though, as my question-fu has gone walkabout. Well, half the answer will be...

Okay, try this. There is an unlikely cosmic event that is common to both A World Out Of Time (Larry Niven) and "The Star", an H. G. Wells short. What's the event?

Okay, your Allowed Burglar is called Drake Maijstral and the reason such a thing is allowed is that the Emperor was a thief and so burglary had to be declared legal.

A rocket - they're looking for stuff left over from the old Terran Empire(?) that colonised both systems which will give them a technological boost. If they can build a ship, they get better status in the current terran empire. At least that's how I remember it, it's been a long time since I read i...

No time travel is involved...

Okay, a science fiction novel here: a planet with steam-age technology sends an expedition to a planet with mediaeval-age technology in search of a technological advancement. What is it that they are looking to build?

The Black Hole?

Cody wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2017 12:45 pm

Disembodied wrote:

At last, some good news:

It's good news week
Someone's found a way to give
The rotting dead a will to live
Go on and never die

"Hedgehoppers Anonymous" UIVMM. Amazing what sticks in the brain for fifty years...

Yes, the McAuslan stories are very funny … if you've not read it yet, you might also like GMF's memoir of his wartime experiences as a private in Burma, called Quartered Safe Out Here . It's not funny (and for funny wartime memoir, you can't beat Spike Milligan's Hitler: My Part in His Downfall and...

Be warned, you'll find you get a taste for it!

I'll take that, but I was really hoping for "Susan Calvin" since Susie was Calvin's antagonist in the strip. Over to you.

Okay, a hasty one as it's my son's birthday weekend... what's the connection between a leading roboticist from a number of well-known stories, and Bill Watterson?