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by RockDoctor
Sat May 18, 2024 7:40 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7485
Views: 1837967

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And that's the black, and a three-ball break which rates an MBP.
I'd suggest that, as question-setter, ffutures sits out this round. "Drudge, jury and executioner" probably isn't a good look.
by RockDoctor
Fri May 10, 2024 4:57 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7485
Views: 1837967

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Which reminded me of this - not sure if it counts since it's something a character read about rather than actually occurring in the story. From the final episode of the first TV series of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy : Ford Prefect : I read of one planet in the seventh dimension got used a...
by RockDoctor
Wed May 08, 2024 12:41 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7485
Views: 1837967

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In the Red Dwarf episode "White Hole" the crew use a thermonuclear device to cause a solar flare, knocking a planet off its orbit, sending it cannoning around a solar system, colliding with other planets, and eventually plugging up a white hole … I can't give Series and Episode on that, b...
by RockDoctor
Mon May 06, 2024 5:30 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7485
Views: 1837967

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

One of these powers they use is the Sheewash drive, consisting of several small pieces of wire twisted together in a special arrangement and activated by Klaatha. {...} Later in the story it's mentioned that the witches occasionally move their planet from one solar system to another to get away fro...
by RockDoctor
Sat May 04, 2024 5:43 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7485
Views: 1837967

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Given that the total area of two hands is well under 0.1 square meters, the logical consequence would be him driving into the ground with ridiculous amounts of force, but apparently comic book physics doesn't work like that. Sorry, I've just been facing a torrent of the Niburu-gormless in response ...
by RockDoctor
Thu May 02, 2024 1:55 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7485
Views: 1837967

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

spud42 wrote: Thu May 02, 2024 1:16 pm
dont worry about the planets are not rotating
Ohhh, that would change the geometry of the diced planet. More like thin-sliced planet. Cosmic-scale bacon slicer.
by RockDoctor
Thu May 02, 2024 1:51 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7485
Views: 1837967

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

even if it was physically possible! The materials are not strong enough - by a LOT. You'd need to put your tisket and tasket of a planet into some sort of little basket. I'm not sure what spacing of your unobtanium cables would need to be, to avoid them cheese-wiring through the continents and mant...
by RockDoctor
Thu May 02, 2024 11:49 am
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7485
Views: 1837967

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

So we have
[*] 1 -ffutures with SuperBoy doing a dope-on-a-rope trick with a chain of planets from an exploding galaxy,
[*] 2 - Disembodied having everyone's chain pulled by the Tardis
Very much the Usual Suspects.
by RockDoctor
Thu May 02, 2024 11:43 am
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7485
Views: 1837967

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Disembodied wrote: Thu May 02, 2024 10:21 am
Arguably this is a blue, for planet and police box … in the Doctor Who story "Journey's End", the TARDIS tows the Earth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxILNKZCMzE&t=34s
I should have guessed the Tardis would get involved somewhere.
by RockDoctor
Thu May 02, 2024 11:27 am
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7485
Views: 1837967

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Not sure which colour this is - green? VERY silly anyway... https://imgur.com/a/kP1pz Green? Doubly-ionized oxygen - "OII" - emission, usually triggered by fluorescence from ultraviolet in the stars spectrum. Which would imply that SB has only just got started, or has been very unlucky in...
by RockDoctor
Wed May 01, 2024 4:42 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7485
Views: 1837967

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Oh, rude words. OK, in the last couple of rounds we've had the Puppeteers using the "Outsider drive" to hurl planets around like Rocket Ronnie with the bit between his teeth, EE Doc Smith's Lensmen doing the same, and the whoever doing whatever to the Great Evil to cause the Great Evil to ...
by RockDoctor
Tue Apr 30, 2024 2:08 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7485
Views: 1837967

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Having knocked out the "Great Evil" in it's repeating orbit around the Sun (not "rogue"), I'll try for the #4 post, with the "ice planet" encountered by the good ship "Long Pass" in Niven and Lerner's "of Worlds" series, tying up lots of Niven's &quo...
by RockDoctor
Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:49 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7485
Views: 1837967

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

I'm prepared to accept it: it's sufficiently large enough to form itself into a sphere. Which isn't involved in the (current) definition of a planet. But in any case, being in an orbit - even a 5000 year orbit - isn't "rogue". We've several observed objects on orbits that long in the Sola...
by RockDoctor
Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:44 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7485
Views: 1837967

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

the "Great Evil," which appears to be a small planet- or planetoid-sized being that threatens earth every 5000 years Ummm, if it reappears on a 5000 year cycle, then it's in orbit around the Sun, not "rogue". Off the top of my "Solar system notes" sheet, at 5000yr, it'...
by RockDoctor
Sun Apr 28, 2024 5:01 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7485
Views: 1837967

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

How about: five examples of scifi set on, or at least involving, "rogue" planets Urrgh ... I'm remembering a ... Poul Anderson book I read once, many many years ago, set on a planet between galaxies (the description of the Milky Way in one direction and Andromeda in the other ... like the...