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- Sun May 20, 2018 7:35 am
- Forum: Fiction
- Topic: Extracts from the Tre Clan Addresses on Interplanetary Life
- Replies: 14
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Re: Extracts from the Tre Clan Addresses on Interplanetary Life
i like good reads. just finished between the devil and black space (i think?) it was a pretty good book of short stories. sure it focused on INRA, but i liked how the various threads tied together. definitely will be looking into this (crack open the oxz) If you like good reads, allow me to shamele...
- Sun Apr 01, 2018 4:47 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: NASA finds seven Earth-sized planets around a single star
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8653
Re: NASA finds seven Earth-sized planets around a single star
Indeed. Trouble with all that water is you need some dissolved solids as well to make bio-compounds out of, I think - you can't get very far with just water and a reducing atmosphere. And possibly some shallows for the reactions to occur in.
- Sun Apr 01, 2018 8:30 am
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: NASA finds seven Earth-sized planets around a single star
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8653
Re: NASA finds seven Earth-sized planets around a single star
And when they say "water worlds" they mean literal globes of water with a solid core. Earth's proportion of water is about what you'd get if you picked a pool ball out of a bucket of water (a couple of miles depth on a 4000-mile radius is almost literally just a film of water, in planetary...
- Tue Mar 13, 2018 9:12 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: A question of lore
- Replies: 191
- Views: 102177
Re: A question of lore
Ah, right... so Data has an evil twin? I ain't a Trekkie, you see. Yes. Or an evil older brother if we're picky. Didn't turn up in many episodes but made a big impact when he did (not least because of Brent Spiner's excellent acting skills). My family just got through watching the entire boxed set....
- Tue Mar 13, 2018 1:27 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: A question of lore
- Replies: 191
- Views: 102177
- Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:19 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: A question of lore
- Replies: 191
- Views: 102177
Re: A question of lore
Haven't read the thread, but eventually Data deactivated and disassembled him. He was just flat-out evil whether it was summoning the Crystalline Entity to murder an entire colony or building a private army of renegade Borg - there was no alternative.
- Wed Feb 21, 2018 9:09 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: inter stellar propulsion
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4206
Re: inter stellar propulsion
There may be no feeling of acceleration, but I promise you that you are accelerating - and even removing a corresponding amount of momentum from the sea wave in the process. TANSTAAFL. Of course, a cubic metre of seawater weighs comfortably more than a tonne, so the ocean doesn't even notice you, bu...
- Sat Feb 17, 2018 12:11 pm
- Forum: Fiction
- Topic: Christmas reading
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8169
- Sun Feb 11, 2018 9:51 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
- Replies: 7396
- Views: 1758274
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
lol. I thought "Who's this Gimbal Locke person then?" and it turns out you haven't posted since before I registered.
- Thu Feb 01, 2018 5:07 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
- Replies: 7396
- Views: 1758274
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Star Trek had plenty, beginning with the very first episode aired, "The Man Trap" - the salt vampire that looked either like Nancy or Dr McCoy or someone else according to need and was only seen in its true form right at the end when it was trying to murder Jim Kirk.
- Wed Jan 31, 2018 6:52 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
- Replies: 7396
- Views: 1758274
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
It is! At the conclusion of Under the Yoke , three characters are locked into a bomb-proof bunker with a suicide bomb (which the nun is carrying, with her hand on the dead-man's switch). She is now faced with an ethical problem: her religion forbids suicide, nor can she pass the decision on to someo...
- Wed Jan 31, 2018 4:12 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
- Replies: 7396
- Views: 1758274
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
*crickets*
The book is one of a series, and an earlier volume shares a title with one of the few US Civil War songs that almost everyone can whistle even if they don't know the words.
The book is one of a series, and an earlier volume shares a title with one of the few US Civil War songs that almost everyone can whistle even if they don't know the words.
- Mon Jan 29, 2018 7:22 am
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
- Replies: 7396
- Views: 1758274
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Okay, this dystopian science fiction novel ends with someone kicking a bomb out of a nun's hands - why would anyone do a thing like that? (Or at any rate, what's the title and author? And technically it ends a tiny fraction of a second later, of course...)
- Sun Jan 28, 2018 10:35 am
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
- Replies: 7396
- Views: 1758274
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 2:29 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
- Replies: 7396
- Views: 1758274
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
preserved as in "smoke me a Kipper" ?????? There's another type of smoked herring, particularly associated with Lowestoft and stereotypically made into fish-paste. 8) Gotcha - the Bloater drive, used in Harry Harrison's Bill the Galactic Hero and sequels. The ship changes size (if I recal...