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RockDoctor??? hello is anyone here??

Multivac from Isaac Asimov is acceptable as it evolved over a thosuand years and i believe from memory there was only 1.. Caravaggio in the Starhunter TV series , MBPs for this one as i have never heard of it and had to google it.. not a lot of direct info in the short time i could be bothered to lo...

Disembodied has the first and 10 MBP for the one i was hoping someone would use...

NiteOwl swoops in ( pun intended) with Holly/Hilly also Queeg

2 down 3 to go.

its starting to get hard to remember if a question idea has already been covered recently...... name 5 "named" computers. by this i mean are known by this name and not a brand name HAL from 2001 was known by that name and responded to the name even though it was a HAL9000 computer... usual...

going for the low hanging fruit... Jordy LaForge.... his visor lets him see a huge part of the electromagnetic spectrum way beyond mere mortal humans.. ST-TNG.....

you can download a UI fro PC... https://twisteros.com/download.html

i was going to say frac or frak and it is originally from the first Battlestar Galactica. Starbucks favorite word..lol may i postulate the following for your consideration Bowb Harrison introduced a new euphemism, "bowb", in the series to cover the vulgarity necessary to render military li...

not bothered with fedora or redhat since 2000... was too hard to do anything back then. recently tried a few distros and have Twister OS on a rasp pi4 and i think a laptop and a few VM.s running Mint. im stilla windows user mainly i need it for work. learnt my way ( barely) around mac os to help wit...

would " the Repairman" by Harry Harrison count? he is sent to repair a hyperspace beacon which is 2000 years old and finds a race of lizzards who worship it as a religeous monument . they seem to have built a pyramid around it and developed a priesthood. one of whoms actions had caused the...

Hum … is "JV" Jack Vance? I've been trying to think what TPOF is, but all I can think of is The Palace of Love , which would be TPOL. But there's another Demon Princes novel, The Face , where one character does use a lot of bombs to make a very, very, very large sculpture … And we have ou...

not my field either but being an avid watcher of arcaeological dig,reports etc from what i remember it can be quite accutate. According to the wiki "Dendrochronology (or tree-ring dating) is the scientific method of dating tree rings (also called growth rings) to the exact year they were formed...

did a bit for Covid-19 but had to stop when Mothr board died and havent started up again

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not sure if this would count but...
the nuclear missile in planet of the apes used as a religeous object, i.e. it was worshipped.

we have a winner... yes all Gerry Anderson related so niteowl gets $5 and #2 is the Eagle transporter... that should have been easy seeing as i did a model ( with a lot of help from forum members) for oolite.

the prize goes to ffutures. your turn Commander

the reason i very rarely buy new books is because here in Australia the paperbacks are anywhere from $20 to $33 each im damned if i will pay $33 for a paperback ! i can get 10 books for that at my second hand bookstore. As also stated everyone wants to write a trilogy at the least then most continue...