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Absolutely. I was considering posting a message of thanks on the test thread, where all of those involved in getting the board back up and running were to be found. I'm amazed that the site has been recovered - I did think perhaps all was lost.

Brilliant work all round - well done and thank you.

In the early 1970s in the UK we had the children's series called Timeslip. In each series, a different portal opened up into the past or future, where the protagonists would typically meet their future selves (not always happily) or encounter the past history of members of their family. According to...

Well done - Orbitus it is. And that's the very picture I intended to post when the right answer came up. After reading that story there was nothing I wanted more than an Orbitus of my own. So far, the Roomba is the nearest I've come.

So, the chalice goes straight back to the guy in Galasphere 347.

_ R B _ T _ S The first of the stories is "The Log of the Gypsy Joe", about a deep space mission to the planet Esmera. Captain Rod Marlow obtains the device there, and on his return to Earth in the second story, he gives it to his son Roger as a birthday present. Given the nature of its or...

(Getting slightly worried this one is more obscure than I'd intended.) However, it won't have helped that I put the letter R in the wrong place. Here are two more letters as penance. _ R B _ T _ _ The book it appeared in was "The Dalek World", published in 1965. Unlike my Roomba, it is a v...

This question is inspired by my Roomba vacuum cleaner, which sometimes reminds me of a fictional robotic device I read about in the 1960s. I encountered the device in one of those comic book annuals that come out around Christmas. The book was based on a popular SF television series. However, the d...

Okeley dokely. This question is inspired by my Roomba vacuum cleaner, which sometimes reminds me of a fictional robotic device I read about in the 1960s. I encountered the device in one of those comic book annuals that come out around Christmas. The book was based on a popular SF television series. ...

It occurs to me that there were at least two episodes of Star Trek: Voyager that featured Malon ships. These were toxic waste disposal vessels, and the Malons were dumping their waste anywhere except in the vicinity of their home system. One episode featured a character who had spent too long in the...

There's an Asimov short story I read many years ago, called "Strikebreaker". A human colony on a small and distant planet operates on a caste system. All waste disposal is handled by a single family, who are treated as untouchables. The family has gone on strike in an attempt to end their ...

The Raft could be a reference to the novel "Snowcrash", by Neal Stephenson. In that story, the Raft is a large collection of ships and boats, tethered together, housing a population of refugees. I think it's been travelling the oceans for some time, and during the novel is close to the US ...

Isn't there an oxp (or maybe an in-game option) that reverses the controls when you look aft?

I wonder if it's worth me scripting scan class according to player ship size??? Then anaconda pilots could scoop worms or maybe even a viper but the asp could do no such thing. Need to find out if I can change how much space they occupy when scooped... There might be some odd side-effects though. I...

The UK's pub industry must really wonder what they've done to offend the fates. From today they're allowed to serve drinks outside, and it's snowing.

OK... For no. 4, the film is A Clockwork Orange . It is indeed. Horrorshow quizzing! One further link (according to Wikipedia, I don't remember this from the book) is that when the protagonist thinks he hears the name "Grendel Grendel Grendel Grendel" over and over again, he later realise...

ffutures wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 11:02 pm

OK, number 3 is is the rock group Heaven 17 - there's at least one other with 17 in the name, but this is the right one for various reasons.

Correct! One MBP to ffutures, and one question to go.