Science Fiction Trivia

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 6:26 pm

Yup. Your turn...

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 6:57 pm

Just as an aside, I'd never heard of The Other Side... ' either so I had a look on IMDB. Probably best described a Romantic Thriller, it looks like total rubbish! Apparantly it grossed $24,652,021 in the states. I suspect Star Wars did a little better.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 7:00 pm

I've never seen the film... the book was bad enough... sex and revenge etc. I never read another Sheldon novel after that.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 7:31 pm

CheeseRedux wrote:
Wait, they actually built this?!?

Look Here: http://www.da.mod.uk/colleges/jscsc

Centre picture is the atrium viewed from the doorway - so yes, they built it - I guess only those in the know - understand what the plan view actually represents.

(The whole building looks like in places Manga v A 'V' Mothership)

Edit: Sorry for derailing the thread - I found this image take from the back of the building, the central atrium looks a bit like the bridge section of a Star Trek starship from this angle (which I've never noticed before!)

CheeseRedux · Post by **CheeseRedux** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 7:47 pm

Makes me wonder* about the things you're not showing us...

*Only slightly, mind you. No need to send any visitors over to convince me that I should stop wondering.

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 4:46 pm

Off topic here, but I bet I could destroy DH's productivity in one link.

http://www.secret-bases.co.uk/secret.htm

Incidentally, look up the JCSC's location on Google Maps using the following postcode: SN6 8TS

It even looks like the falcon from the outside!

maik · Post by **maik** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 6:50 pm

Selezen wrote:
Off topic here, but I bet I could destroy DH's productivity in one link.

http://www.secret-bases.co.uk/secret.htm

Incidentally, look up the JCSC's location on Google Maps using the following postcode: SN6 8TS

It even looks like the falcon from the outside!

No need to go secret bases, just browse to the site that D_H pointed us to, click on the contact link, and use their embedded google map.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 4:26 pm

Shush! Please take your architectural deviations out of this thread.

Time for another question, and no, I won't ask for secret government buildings which are designed after science-fictional spaceships

(although I have to admit, it would have made for a cool question

).

Instead—as you are used to from me, and who am I to disappoint you—something very continental and very obscure:

To prevent an impending global disaster, a group of scientists travel back in time in order to retrieve the mythical way of preventing it. However, once they are in the past, things turn out to be more complicated than they anticipated. Finally, though, the disaster is prevented by a completely unexpected measure. Which?

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 4:33 pm

Sounds a bit like Star Trek IV The Voyage Home, but I don't think it is.

Cmd. Cheyd · Post by **Cmd. Cheyd** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 4:34 pm

Star Trek 4, The Voyage Home?

Edit: Bah! Joke-Ninja'd!

CheeseRedux · Post by **CheeseRedux** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 4:42 pm

I was going to say that the reason they had trouble retrieving the Mythical Way of Preventing was that it had already been retrieved by the other group of scientist who had traveled back in time just a little bit farther because the first group failed. Then I noticed you were asking for a completely unexpected measure.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 7:10 pm

It's not Star Trek (remember, I said "continental" and "obscure").

CheeseRedux · Post by **CheeseRedux** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 7:14 pm

Commander McLane wrote:
(remember, I said "continental" and "obscure").

A-ha! In other words it's German and from the 60's!

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 7:44 pm

CheeseRedux wrote:
Commander McLane wrote:
(remember, I said "continental" and "obscure").
A-ha! In other words it's German and from the 60's!

Not necessarily. (The continent does is fact comprise of more countries than Germany*, and it does in fact have more history than the 1960's*.

)

*Believe it or not!

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Thu Oct 14, 2010 7:51 pm

Ah well, I tried to retreat from the "I can out obscure you" approach.

It's not so much a trivia challenge these days as a Google challenge...