Oolite Bulletins

despite the possibility of the Poisoned Chalice being thrust into my possession i shall hazard a guess , Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert A Heinlein if correct i should kick my self for having to resort to a little googling on this one, i recently ( within the past 18 months) have reread all of RAH's...

and yet another turn around the local star has passed and still the noble Queenslanders resist the folly of DST.
GMT +10 rules !

true plus hes AWOL.

entropy has beaten regression.
we are witnessing the heat death of the trivia thread...... RIP

I'll drink to that!

Today is the 88th day of the year, which means it's Piano Day. Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 8 should serve, methinks! Eight is such a nice number! nice, it always puts me off a bit at first with classical musicians ( not all of them) with the smug superior attitude . They take themselves too serious...

i feel the pain. Due to various domestic upheavals i have had to divest my self of my paperback collections several times. i still have to digitise my music collection about 1/2 way through. its a tedious process. not a lot of fun. I lost a 2 TB external HDD a couple of years ago. It had my Movie an...

You sir, are an enabler.

Fortuitously my digital library has a few gigabytes of shelf space left. which is fortunate due to the lack of physical space available to me.

This, this is the reason i dont read too many new authors. i keep getting reminded of classics and know i read them but have no idea any more of the story. so i have to get them again and re-read them. besides its comfortable re-reading stories you enjoyed. Like a favorite comfy chair and pair of sl...

a bit premature there Rockdoc...lol

ok ffutures that is a valid answer ( both of them)

now the Ball is in your Court Sir. Serve away.

a plethora of MBP to you Sir!!!

that was indeed worth downloading. It took me till halfway through the second page to "catch on". A most amusing read.

Its only 5 pages long and quite fun so please have a read commanders... still 1 answer to go.

will accept

Watney in Andy Weir’s the Martian uses a solar energy powered electric buggy

rocket fuel is too generic a term could be anything...

so Old Murgh has number 4. so 1 to go...

The Simpsons strike me as fantasy not SCI FI. sorry Big D.

" OK, one more try. The one-man beer-propelled "spaceship" in Poul Anderson's short story "A Bicycle Built For Brew" - pedalling drives a dynamo and the electricity is used to heat kegs of beer with live yeast. The beer ferments and produces CO2, which is let out through no...

Old Murgh gets the first point. 4 to go. Nite Owl... matter/antimatter reactors are too big for PERSONAL transport. RockDoctor you should know the rules by now 1 answer to give others a go. i consider Pern to be fantasy even though eventually she tied in a spaceship to explain how they got there. al...

dang, i was hoping you would reject it..lol and here i was thinking MBP was must buy petrol... go figure. Oh well here we go again. Give me 5 examples of fuel for personal transport. Your answer must have source, Author , type of fuel and how it was used. we are talking car type vehicles or equivale...