Oolite Bulletins

The scenic route, alright - that google search led me (amongst other places) to Huckleberry Finn, and thence into another sci-fi subject.

It were the 7.6mm Spandaus that gave it away

New question:

Germans are not fit to travel to the moon, men from Spain and old women however are.

Title & author of this short story, please?

Bonus points for the language and year in which it is written.

New hint:

The son of a witch and (presumably) a fisherman travels overseas and becomes the student of a famous scientist.

Somnium, by Johannes Kepler? If this is the answer, it was written in Latin and published in 1634, although I can't find an exact date for when it was written: between 1620 and 1630, probably.

Disembodied wrote:

Somnium, by Johannes Kepler? If this is the answer, it was written in Latin and published in 1634, although I can't find an exact date for when it was written: between 1620 and 1630, probably.

Grats, this is most correct.

The first manuscript of Somnium circulated around 1611, which may have triggered the witchcraft trial against Kepler's mother (who was a herbalist). Kepler added hundreds of footnotes to the text after that incident to explain the allegories.

Online text of Somnium (in English with annotations).

According to Carl Sagan & Isaac Asimov this was the first SF story: fragment of COSMOS on Somnium.

Over to Disembodied.

OK, simple question: first correct screen grab wins:

Where's WALL-E?

Disembodied wrote:

OK, simple question: first correct screen grab wins:

Where's WALL-E?

Here:

There's some old favourites on there. Who else remembers the Telly-witch from Will o' the Wisp (voices by Kenneth Williams)?

SandJ wrote:

There's some old favourites on there. Who else remembers the Telly-witch from Will o' the Wisp (voices by Kenneth Williams)?

SandJ scores! WALL-E is hiding behind the Cyberbully:



I remember Evil Edna. I'm sure I'm far from unique in having at least one teacher named in her honour ... Do you remember Ludwig, the violin-playing egg standing in front of her?

<laughs>

CYBUS STOP

<falls off chair>

<nudge> Who's up next?

Okay he's a quick easy one that will only take 2 seconds - consider it a race to see who posts first!

"Last night, Darth Vader came down from Planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out, that he'd melt my brain."

Name the film and the year it was released.

hahahahaha! I see 2 films and a series: Star Wars, Back to the Future and Star Trek. Check?

That was George McFly in Back to the Future - 1985
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You named one of the films but I won't say which one, but you didn't say what year it was released!

Edit: Smivs got the film right!

Pleb wrote:

You named one of the films but I won't say which one, but you didn't say what year it was released!

Edit: Smivs got the film right!

and added the date when he realised you'd asked for that as well