Death Star At Saturn Options

[volcanopele]

http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=1596

Okay, the movies aren't loading for me, maybe the rest of you are having better luck.

[volcanopele]

...Just loaded for me... Yep, poor Prometheus (what do it do to Mimas, huh?) gets it.

[deglr6328]

Oh my, what was that noise?!! Ahh right, the sound of a thousand internet NASA conspiracists/anomalists heads exploding.

[elakdawalla]

I wonder if CICLOPS actually has the right to use the Star Wars theme music? It would be terrible if they were slapped with a restraining order by Lucas and Spielberg

[mhoward]

http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=1596

I laughed really hard at that. My fiance thinks I'm nuts.

[Tman]

Hehe that's cool!

We should begin instantly to build... USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)! That's the right (impossible) job to James T. Kirk and the Crew.

Edit:
Hey just seen in another forum, that's one of Hoag(y)land's visions: http://www.enterprisemission.com/moon4.htm
Now it comes clearer that's an allusion to "15x60=900", right!

This post has been edited by Tman: Dec 30 2005, 11:05 AM

[mars loon]

[quote=volcanopele,Dec 29 2005, 06:37 PM]
http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=1596

enjoyed that !!

now whats the next target

[ilbasso]

ey just seen in another forum, that's one of Hoag(y)land's visions: http://www.enterprisemission.com/moon4.htm
Now it comes clearer   that's an allusion to "15x60=900", right!   

What is even more amazing to me is that the ancient civilization used degrees and miles for their calculations! Just like Americans!

[ljk4-1]

What is even more amazing to me is that the ancient civilization used degrees and miles for their calculations!  Just like Americans!

They all speak American English, too - it's the truly Universal Language.

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/lingua-franca.html

[lyford]

You should submit that to The Force.NET fan films... Um, not that I hang out with those people.... they're too geeky for me

PS - volcanopele I couldn't get Safari to load the video on OS 10.4.2 - FireFox works fine though.

[nprev]

....very good!!!

I suspect that the Empire covets the rich water reserves of Enceladus and the rings, to say nothing of the abundant and highly accessible hydrogen on Titan...we may be seeing a garrison of the entire Saturnian system in progress...(insert more dramatic music here... )

[Bob Shaw]

I wonder if CICLOPS actually has the right to use the Star Wars theme music?  It would be terrible if they were slapped with a restraining order by Lucas and Spielberg 

Emily:

No worries.

Those guys have certainly *not* had a sense of humour bypass!

Bot Shaw

[Guest_BruceMoomaw_*]

Uh-uh -- given the level of science in the Star Wars movies, all the rebels would have to do is toss a lighted cigarette at Titan and the entire world would go up in flames, along with the Empire garrison.

[edstrick]

Bruce: "...Uh-uh -- given the level of science in the Star Wars movies, all the rebels would have to do is toss a lighted cigarette at Titan and the entire world would go up in flames, along with the Empire garrison."

<grin> I still want to see somebody competent (not Spielberg, who can do Scifi and Skiffy but not science fiction) film Larry Niven's first novel (first known space novel, too) "World of Ptaavs", with a Thrint escaped from a stasis field running amok in the nearish future solar system. The climax has a geochemically layered (layer-cake) Pluto burning when a fusion torch-ship attempting to land or hover penetrates ice layers and lets a methane ice (I think) layer mix with an oxygen snow layer. The planetology and geochemistry is loony, but hey... this was 1966 or so. Yeah.. the ENTIRE world goes up in flames in the story. It's a blast!

[Guest_BruceMoomaw_*]

Nobody will ever accuse Niven of scientific profundity early in his career. Consider "Neutron Star", in which a race of sophisticated star-travelling aliens don't realize that neutron stars must have extremely strong tidal forces close to them (and which inexplicably won a Hugo -- Carl Sagan had a comment on that). Or "Becalmed in Hell", in which Venus is pitch-black beneath its cloud layer (although in that case the greenhouse effect obviously wouldn't work). Still, Niven had no science education when he started writing, so I suppose you can put this down to on-the-job training -- his recent work has been better. But his early popularity among SF fans didn't do much for the genre's literary reputation.