Oolite Bulletins

But how public should this "good-for-the-soul confession" actually be? Three-line advert in the Personals of The Times, as per Bill Tilman's classic "Success dubious, no pay" advert. Awww, sad : seems likely to be a hoax. Firstly, Shakleton, not Tilman (though neither would be i...

drew wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2024 7:50 am

I would love to come, but am in the midst of moving house, so may not be able to attend in person.

Surely you'd be able to park the house outside the pub for a few hours?

..... Delete your post! Quick! Do you have any idea at all as to what you are letting yourself in for? the Chalice of Doom? What did he do? Confession is good for the soul - particularly as someone else quaffs from the Chalice of Doom. I have a vague memory (and no remaining copies) of "Dirk G...

For myself that London is a logistical problem, but if I can work that out I'll do my best to be there. My geography of London is pretty vague (Overspill town boy - I generally need to be paid to go there) but, IIRC, tottenham Ct Road is approximately aimed to between Kings Cross/ St Pancreas for t...

a non-SF example all Smurfs wear weird caps, so a picture of a Smurf wearing one would be a good answer and earn an MBP. Never having looked closely enough (Smurfette being a multiple-bag experience), I wonder why the Smurfs are wearing Phrygian caps . I suspect some horrendous reason in the distan...

7th July, Tottenham Ct Road ... I might well be able to do that. I was sort-of planning a trip down the road to the Plains of Englandshire, so a bus into London (or for that matter, Oxford) is do-able. Given the number of "I can't come in person, but could Zoom in ..." messages, would one ...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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.

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...

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.

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.