Tamdunk Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 If you can give him a good enough description of gravity I'm sure he'll happily accept it... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Alien built megastructures found orbiting a star far, far away. Maybe. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/forget-water-on-mars-astronomers-may-have-just-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-a-star-near-a6693886.html 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Alien built megastructures found orbiting a star far, far away. Maybe. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/forget-water-on-mars-astronomers-may-have-just-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-a-star-near-a6693886.html A Death Star? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranaldo Bairn Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Speaking to someone about that earlier. The chances of it being alien megastructures are a million to one, he said. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Speaking to someone about that earlier. The chances of it being alien megastructures are a million to one, he said. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Speaking to someone about that earlier. The chances of it being alien megastructures are a million to one, he said. Better odds than winning the lottery 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Speaking to someone about that earlier. The chances of it being alien megastructures are a million to one, he said. They were talking about it on Radio Scotland at lunchtime. The boffin said it was unlikely but so were all the natural explanations they had come up with so far, so it couldn't be ruled out as yet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 They were talking about it on Radio Scotland at lunchtime. The boffin said it was unlikely but so were all the natural explanations they had come up with so far, so it couldn't be ruled out as yet. Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Jim Leishman 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 (edited) They were talking about it on Radio Scotland at lunchtime. The boffin said it was unlikely but so were all the natural explanations they had come up with so far, so it couldn't be ruled out as yet. I'm out of red dots (used them up on the Benefits Sanctions thread), but if I remember tomorrow you'll be receiving one for the use of a brain dead tabloid term. I make no apologies. Edited October 15, 2015 by DA Baracus 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 I'm out of red dots (used them up on the Benefits Sanctions thread), but if I remember tomorrow you'll be receiving one for the use of a brain dead tabloid term. I make no apologies. Do what you must. It was shorthand for Malcom MacDonald, Lecturer in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Strathclyde University. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0359j1f 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranaldo Bairn Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Nobody. Not one person got the War of the Worlds reference. Shame on you all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Ian M Banks and Alistair Reynolds are the only Sci Fi references I would get. Vote Yes to get Faslane turned into a Space Port! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Nobody. Not one person got the War of the Worlds reference. Shame on you all. I did, alas I was too late though Mate used to play the soundtrack constantly 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Isn't this an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, when they find scotty crashed on the Dyson sphere? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Even if this is bollocks, sounds like a great idea for a sci-fi film. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE KING Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Ibrox floating casino with parking for 500'000000? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antiochas III Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 (edited) Isn't this an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, when they find scotty crashed on the Dyson sphere? If it was a Dyson Sphere you wouldn't be able to see the star as it would be inside the sphere.Going for it being the Unicomplex myself. **** making contact with that Edited October 16, 2015 by Antiochas III 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fide Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 I think it's this frigger - http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Unicron 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 "Also known as the Lord of Chaos, the Chaos Bringer, and the Planet Eater" Sounds a charmer. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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