....But realistically I don't care when I think about it I'm not going to the moon anytime soon so it's not like I can send a postcard and be like "Whooooooo it's freezing up here!".
I really don't care at all, sod the moon, sod mars, sod space travel, sod it all, I'll concentrate on life here on Earth....in all it's flat glory ;)
Frank, could you recommend some good scifi books? You seem quite educated on space trips.
If you're serious, then I'd personally suggest anything by Arthur C. Clarke (EXCEPT anything that also has a co-author, as his final books were co-wrote when he was too old to write, and the ones I've read were awful - and I've not read the Venus Prime stories as he didn't write them). Clarke's books are based on real world physics (though a few of his short stories cover fantasy such as time travel) and he's my favourite Science-fiction author. Start with Songs of Distant Earth, 2001: A Space Odyssey, or The Fountains of Paradise. Or start with his short story anthologies.
Is this still going, I ran outta popcorn pages ago.... Anyway, who gives a bleeeeep whether it is true or not? It's not like we will ever go there for a weekend trip...
Conspiracy-theorists only try to breed themselves... Bromide is the answer... and a gun for the rest.... lol
Frank, could you recommend some good scifi books? You seem quite educated on space trips.
If you're serious, then I'd personally suggest anything by Arthur C. Clarke (EXCEPT anything that also has a co-author, as his final books were co-wrote when he was too old to write, and the ones I've read were awful - and I've not read the Venus Prime stories as he didn't write them). Clarke's books are based on real world physics (though a few of his short stories cover fantasy such as time travel) and he's my favourite Science-fiction author. Start with Songs of Distant Earth, 2001: A Space Odyssey, or The Fountains of Paradise. Or start with his short story anthologies.
Thanks for the recommendations on C. Clarke! I quite liked the outmoded sentimental tone of The City and the Stars and right now I'm listening The first novel of Rama in audiobook format. Another one from Clarke which I'm interested in is the scubadive-esque The Deep Range.
I can't read much these days due to Googleitis though lately I've discovered that I can listen to lots of books which seems to helps on my lack of concentration too. I take digital books and convert them to audio with Asimov's robotic voices.
I don't know why but I try to avoid fantasy involving time travels and alternative history, I'd like to find good realistic hard scifi stories some better than the theories brought up by Frank, startrek-esque space operas, old pulp stories with Verne's taste, conspiracies like 1984 are also interesting.. One about googleitis which I "read" recently is The Orchid Cage.
I plan to "read" these two in the next weeks: Tales of Pirx the Pilot (hard scifi short mysteries), Lord of Light (space opera based on Buda).
Frank, could you recommend some good scifi books? You seem quite educated on space trips.
If you're serious, then I'd personally suggest anything by Arthur C. Clarke (EXCEPT anything that also has a co-author, as his final books were co-wrote when he was too old to write, and the ones I've read were awful - and I've not read the Venus Prime stories as he didn't write them). Clarke's books are based on real world physics (though a few of his short stories cover fantasy such as time travel) and he's my favourite Science-fiction author. Start with Songs of Distant Earth, 2001: A Space Odyssey, or The Fountains of Paradise. Or start with his short story anthologies.
Another good Clarke story is Childhood's End. You should read that one, ewgf, if you haven't already. Written in the 1950s, but it could have been done yesterday.
Frank, could you recommend some good scifi books? You seem quite educated on space trips.
If you're serious, then I'd personally suggest anything by Arthur C. Clarke (EXCEPT anything that also has a co-author, as his final books were co-wrote when he was too old to write, and the ones I've read were awful - and I've not read the Venus Prime stories as he didn't write them). Clarke's books are based on real world physics (though a few of his short stories cover fantasy such as time travel) and he's my favourite Science-fiction author. Start with Songs of Distant Earth, 2001: A Space Odyssey, or The Fountains of Paradise. Or start with his short story anthologies.
Another good Clarke story is Childhood's End. You should read that one, ewgf, if you haven't already. Written in the 1950s, but it could have been done yesterday.
I have (thanks for the recommendation, though), and I do think it's great, but I don't agree with the people who say it's his best work. It's also a little bleak, which is why I didn't mention it in my post.
What I don't understand is why the Americans (Not being racist, it seems like it's almost always Americans who doubt the moon landing/NASA/related things, and of course it's only the tiny minority who do doubt them) doubt these things, yet seem oblivious to the way their civil rights are being eroded post 2001.
Although it's happening everywhere, not only in US:
It doesn't matter. There is no Mars, no Moon, no Earth and no Sun. What you are all experancing is a very complex and extensive simulation run by mice :D
Human beings never actually evolved from apes. And anyway, the Vogons build the intergalactic highway thousands of years ago...
! Standby alert !
“There are four lights!”
Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb!
Looking forward to summer in Somerset later in the year :)
! Standby alert !
“There are four lights!”
Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb!
Looking forward to summer in Somerset later in the year :)
! Standby alert !
“There are four lights!”
Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb!
Looking forward to summer in Somerset later in the year :)
Proof....I don't believe a word of it......BUT....if you look very carefully in the bottom left corner right at the edge you can just make out some sort of space lander???.....THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE...cue X files music....
If that's in response to my post, then I meant that it's strange, or at least unwise, the way people are blind to real-world issues that will effect them, when they spend so much time concentrating on things that are at best peripheral to their lives.
Plus it's not at all unlikely that the government (or people acting on behalf of government agencies) stoke the fires of ridiculous conspiracy theories, to take attention away from serious matters. After all, the more people who spend their free time debating/investigating/studying* 'theories' like Did-We-Land-On-The-Moon-in-1969/Crop-circles/Big-Foot/etc, the less people are asking intelligent questions about really questionable things like 9/11 or the 'war on terror'.
It's a well know political technique - get the people to concentrate their time effort on something unimportant (unimportant to you, the government) whilst you do things that the people would otherwise inconveniently object to.
* Granted the terms 'debating', 'investigating', and 'studying' are applied very broadly with regard to some people, but that's irrelevant, of course.
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I really don't care at all, sod the moon, sod mars, sod space travel, sod it all, I'll concentrate on life here on Earth....in all it's flat glory ;)
JSpeccy-win32-portable
If you're serious, then I'd personally suggest anything by Arthur C. Clarke (EXCEPT anything that also has a co-author, as his final books were co-wrote when he was too old to write, and the ones I've read were awful - and I've not read the Venus Prime stories as he didn't write them). Clarke's books are based on real world physics (though a few of his short stories cover fantasy such as time travel) and he's my favourite Science-fiction author. Start with Songs of Distant Earth, 2001: A Space Odyssey, or The Fountains of Paradise. Or start with his short story anthologies.
Conspiracy-theorists only try to breed themselves... Bromide is the answer... and a gun for the rest.... lol
Thanks for the recommendations on C. Clarke! I quite liked the outmoded sentimental tone of The City and the Stars and right now I'm listening The first novel of Rama in audiobook format. Another one from Clarke which I'm interested in is the scubadive-esque The Deep Range.
I can't read much these days due to Googleitis though lately I've discovered that I can listen to lots of books which seems to helps on my lack of concentration too. I take digital books and convert them to audio with Asimov's robotic voices.
I don't know why but I try to avoid fantasy involving time travels and alternative history, I'd like to find good realistic hard scifi stories some better than the theories brought up by Frank, startrek-esque space operas, old pulp stories with Verne's taste, conspiracies like 1984 are also interesting.. One about googleitis which I "read" recently is The Orchid Cage.
I plan to "read" these two in the next weeks: Tales of Pirx the Pilot (hard scifi short mysteries), Lord of Light (space opera based on Buda).
JSpeccy-win32-portable
Another good Clarke story is Childhood's End. You should read that one, ewgf, if you haven't already. Written in the 1950s, but it could have been done yesterday.
I have (thanks for the recommendation, though), and I do think it's great, but I don't agree with the people who say it's his best work. It's also a little bleak, which is why I didn't mention it in my post.
Although it's happening everywhere, not only in US:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/03/home_office_mega_database/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/07/mps_approve_ipb/
Human beings never actually evolved from apes. And anyway, the Vogons build the intergalactic highway thousands of years ago...
Repair Guides. Spanish Hardware site.
WoS - can't download? Info here...
former Meulie Spectrum Archive but no longer available :-(
Spectranet: the TNFS directory thread
! Standby alert !
“There are four lights!”
Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb!
Looking forward to summer in Somerset later in the year :)
Repair Guides. Spanish Hardware site.
WoS - can't download? Info here...
former Meulie Spectrum Archive but no longer available :-(
Spectranet: the TNFS directory thread
! Standby alert !
“There are four lights!”
Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb!
Looking forward to summer in Somerset later in the year :)
- IONIAN-GAMES.com -
JSpeccy-win32-portable
WoS discovers light speed bull$hit $-)
Of course, Mythbusters have already produced working poo powered sub-light rockets 8-|
Repair Guides. Spanish Hardware site.
WoS - can't download? Info here...
former Meulie Spectrum Archive but no longer available :-(
Spectranet: the TNFS directory thread
! Standby alert !
“There are four lights!”
Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb!
Looking forward to summer in Somerset later in the year :)
JSpeccy-win32-portable
Or have I? Have I been watching some massive ruse?*
*No.
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1441020
who should pop up near the end of that thread:) you're a shape shifting lizard Mel, just admit it
If that's in response to my post, then I meant that it's strange, or at least unwise, the way people are blind to real-world issues that will effect them, when they spend so much time concentrating on things that are at best peripheral to their lives.
Plus it's not at all unlikely that the government (or people acting on behalf of government agencies) stoke the fires of ridiculous conspiracy theories, to take attention away from serious matters. After all, the more people who spend their free time debating/investigating/studying* 'theories' like Did-We-Land-On-The-Moon-in-1969/Crop-circles/Big-Foot/etc, the less people are asking intelligent questions about really questionable things like 9/11 or the 'war on terror'.
It's a well know political technique - get the people to concentrate their time effort on something unimportant (unimportant to you, the government) whilst you do things that the people would otherwise inconveniently object to.
* Granted the terms 'debating', 'investigating', and 'studying' are applied very broadly with regard to some people, but that's irrelevant, of course.
(Or was it? Maybe karingal just re-posted my post, to draw attention away from the subliminal messaging they've started to put into our posts).
........Or at least not in a working form anyway :p
Would you be upset if I banned boozie?
I don't think we can ban anyone for being truthful?