Oolite Bulletins

Speaking as a claustrophobe with weight issues and a bad back, I would hopefully never be close enough to any of those to be in danger, but I like the terminology. Do they have anything for "this whole cave is actually a giant spaceship-eating monster and we landed the ship in its throat"...

Not quite in the world of science fiction, but in the wonderful world of caving there is a whole genre of names for chambers, boulder chokes, and the like, through which you have to squeeze to try to access the more distant parts of a system. Names along lines like "the Sword of Damocles" ...

Well, that looks like five, and as though ffutures provided the fifth. Again, my sincere apologies for blundering into here and upsetting the smooth running of things. When I receive the Chalice of Destiny (which has it's own account with Oohaul, and will make it's way to the recipient automagicall...

name a story (in any format) featuring one or more black holes Black holes are doing something, not merely being mentioned as existing, but the story does not involve space-farers trapped in a black hole's gravitational embrace, fighting their apparently inevitable doom. ... Though re-reading it no...

How many do we have now? Sure you've done the counting up and got to the same non-answer as me, but for the record, I get 2 rejected entries, and 4 which are still with the Returning Officer to count postal votes, stuff ballot boxes, or (since we have an Odyssey in several senses) weave whole cloth...

ffutures wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 12:58 am

and later added the "oops, we destroyed the Earth" ending as an omake at the end of the story.

Is that a .. Japanese manga ?? term?

Going with the most obvious answer of all time. THE BLACK HOLE And this cross-over of replies (I haven't checked the times ; but I assume a cross-over) is precisely why we had the "Five answers that fit <pattern>." style of challenge. not that there is anything magical about the number &q...

Name the TV show that had an Anthropomorphic Vegetable as an adversary for a single episode. If it wasn't Red Dwarf, it should have been. Rimmer revealing his inner self - as a soil-dwelling noxious fungus. (episodes 3, 7, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, Series 3, 4 and 5 consecutively ...) name a story (in any for...

low hanging fruit. Spock... startrek movie something ( ok its 2,Wrath of Khan ) . dies at the end , genesis devise get shot at nebula. creates aplanet and Spocks body is launched at it... Star Trek 3 Spock body resurected and reunited with his "spirit"trapped on McCoy... Almost completely...

ffutures wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 8:21 pm

It's free to watch on Youtube, but the subtitles are a pretty dire translation

https://youtu.be/tVBPNfKfgNo?si=QEKp7rlTSF5X3liM

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

EDIT : Downloading ; I may live to regret this.

People CARE about what might have happened if Hitler was assassinated I bet they can't bring themselves (or their characters) to assassinate the Vienna art teachers who denied Hitler recognition and triumphant acclaim ("sieg heil!") as a watercolour artist. That would be to sticky a wicke...

People CARE about what might have happened if Hitler was assassinated I wonder if the "fan fic" side of our resurgent problem with Nazis are writing time-travel stories about people going back in time to assassinate problematic real world characters to promote Hitler. Churchill, Roosvelt,...

Looks like ffutures has the final podium, the Chalice, and an appointment for some serious plastic surgery to add (or extend) limbs - podia for the occupation of.

v2.11 makes no difference. NaN still displayed at Digebiti. Could the NaNs be implying that no rail route exists between (Present.Location) and that destination. Thargoid bombing, triffid leaves on the line, or "the distance is too short to make a train link feasible. Which, crazy though it so...

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2024 1:24 pm

We're just terrified of the consequences if we happen to win....

Well, I suppose I could offer a peek at my collection of a half-dozen ideas for SFT challenges. But then I'd have to think up some more.

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