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Continuing the theme of time travel, let's have five examples of time travel with the intent to stop a HISTORICAL figure before they begin to do whatever makes them a historical figure. (toe on ice : loud creak) little toe on ice : loud, ominous creak) That sounds about right. Lead waistcoat on, I ...

Did you ever work out why it appeared? Was it something else plugged into the USB? Blind stag (no-eye deer). Once I'd worked out how joysticks worked back in the 90s and realised that the circuitry wouldn't work for what I wanted to do, they went into the junk pile and I've never brought one since....

Cody wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 17, 2020 12:13 am

Kangaroos are able to intentionally communicate with people and "ask for help", a study has found.

What's that you say, Skippy? Sonny's fallen down the well?

(In voce Skippy) No, stoopid hoomin. I pushed him.

lets see if we can come up with 5 instances of a law enforcement agent being sent back in time to aprehend a criminal or group of criminals that have escaped into the past. Slippery Jim diGriz travelled in time to defeat "Him" several times in "The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World". Harry Harris...

Got a source for that? Yeah, here . Thanks. Haven't checked the news today. The scientists worked out the combined mass of all human-made stuff from 1900 to the present day and compared this with the weight of all the living things on the planet (known as biomass). (...) The exact timing is sensiti...

Scientists say the weight of human-made objects will likely exceed that of living things by the end of the year. In other words, the combined weight of all the plastic, bricks, concrete and other things we've made in the world will outweigh all animals and plants on the planet for the first time. H...

Cody wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 09, 2020 4:40 pm

French classes seemed to pass me by. I was much more interested in Latin classes.

Facere ese para ludo del legion stannum.

Starro the Conqueror and other members of its race - basically five-armed starfish with mind control powers from DC Comics And with the stewards enquiry settled, you have the poisoned chalice. The example I was thinking of was, which would have got a MBP if anyone had come up with it, was five-limb...

This is a description of the aliens from the Ted Chiang short story "Story of Your Life", which the movie Arrival is based on: It looked like a barrel suspended at the intersection of seven limbs. It was radially symmetric, and any of its limbs could serve as an arm or a leg. The one in front of me...

so all those words we're not allowed to use anymore will remain in the OED? But of course. Don't tell me that you didn't spend days at the back of the French class, looking up the rude words in the French-English dictionary? OK : I'll accept the get-out clause that you never thought of it. Unlikely...

The ice ants of Titan are three-legged, about three inches tall, in Stanley G. Weinbaum's short story Flight on Titan (1935) One, and not the tripods I was thinking of. The movie ARRIVAL features aliens who are called Heptapods for their seven limb, radially symmetrical appearance. Hmmm, do we see ...

Shall we try something different, with a simpler criterion? Name five SF creatures with an odd number of limbs/ tentacles pseudopoda etc. For example, in one universe I can think of two distinct species with 5-fold symmetry and a third species with three-fold symmetry on a mirror plane, while a diff...

Cholmondely wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 08, 2020 5:53 pm

I'm told that Yedioth Ahronoth is the sort of newspaper our dearly beloved chum Donald the Troomp would read.

"Would have read to him", surely?

Nite Owl wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 07, 2020 12:49 am

Joystick Sensitivity Indicator if memory serves - removed it from my H.U.D. of choice a long while ago so any info beyond that is beyond me.

Hmmm, I wonder what prompted that to appear. I've not had a joystick since ... 1995?

I recently installed v1.90 and found this feature on my (as-standard) HUD : a new "compass"-like object between the short-range scanner and the roll/pitch indicators. I've posted an image on BOX, but the link seems to not be working - or I've forgotten the correct ju-ju for "img=https://app.box.com/...