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These things are getting way too easy. Maybe I should start reading books!!! :roll:

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Well, that last one came and went while I was eating lunch! :lol:
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Okay let's try and make things harder...

A scientist is investigating an artifact found ON a small planetoid, that when people enter INSIDE, THEY are killed...

Book Title and Author please?
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The artefact are killed? What kind of grammar are that, man?
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Lol it sounded okay in my head but I see what you mean if its written down...

I've edited it to include 'they'. Hope that makes sense now! :)
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Pleb wrote:
A scientist is investigating an artifact found a small planetoid, that when people enter THEY are killed...
It still does not parse. Does the scientist find a planetoid? Did the artefact find the planetoid?
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Right it would seem I made it so hard that it isn't even in english! :lol:

It makes sense now, sorry about that... :oops:
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Is it Rogue Moon, by Algis Budrys?
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Lol well done Disembodied. Over to you...

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Pleb wrote:
Lol well done Disembodied. Over to you...

At least Fatleaf didn't answer it and the cycle is now broken! :lol:
Eh, what? >Fatleaf looks up<

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Well I said I'd make it harder, but obviously by not writing out properly turned out to be too hard for some! :P :lol:
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Pleb wrote:
Lol well done Disembodied. Over to you...

At least Fatleaf didn't answer it and the cycle is now broken! :lol:
No, it's worse than that. Fatleaf DID answer it, on 13 June. It was the right answer, just the wrong time. Now we're in a chronic hysteresis. The only way out is to identify the source of the term "chronic hysteresis".
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Disembodied wrote:
Now we're in a chronic hysteresis. The only way out is to identify the source of the term "chronic hysteresis".
That would be Dr. Who's "Meglos" episode.
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Gimbal Locke wrote:
That would be Dr. Who's "Meglos" episode.
Score! And the loop is broken. :wink:
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There are still some weird temporal effects: I did see Thargoid answering this question too, but I am not sure if it was in the past or in the future.

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