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I'm registered on a couple of the zooniverse sites and I find it interesting on several levels, the gamification, the ease with which you can make a difference, plus it pushes the buttons that motivate me. I've been thinking of similar for vidiere and am curently listening to the Hanks...

I think UK has got the best deal - we've had Jean-Michel Jarre checking out places and British citizenship to avoid Hollande's 75% tax on the rich. Once he gets here we can chillout a little with some lasers, smoke and crazy gloves.

put an engine under each of those shirt collars and he's good to fly I reckon.. got no idea what he's saying but I'm going to try some of those lines when I next take a lady out.... he's on fire.

Parking the anthropomorphic arguments for a sec. The ant farm analogy is flawed because you only assume a kid's point of interest. What about all the biologists that study ants and their colonies for their entire professional life?.. with a view to applying what they learn to the human world...

i never knew jim but liked listening to him when you had him on. Yes he was funny, but he was also the dose of reality that is sometimes/often needed with other characters on this topic - he told us when the emperor had no clothes. @gene You have the memories and the recall(hopefully!) to get...

Yes, and not just natural rediation. If they saw in the radio or m/wave spectrums for example then it would glow pretty well. The 'dark side' of the Moon has oft been proposed as a good place to put a radio tekescope as it would be masked from all the crap we currently push there in pollution -...

:rolleyes: ok I'll bite. For clarity. The 'dark' side of the Moon would be the hemisphere that is perpetually facing away from the Earth over the 28 day cycle, is completely dark during a New Moon and is unable to receive radio transmission from Earth. The Moon, as with all planets/moons is...

Why? You have the dark side of the Moon, so not everyone can observe that side of the Moon. Also, many countries are adept at keeping their own bases secret on Earth even with satellites, so why cannot the same techniques be applied on Luna? Cheers, Bb

Hi, (Chris it's pronounced "Blay bee boy") Some queries for expat: 1. What is his opinion of the appetite within a major news org to deliver impartial information on space and the possibility of life? The BBC strives for impartiality - often facing allegations of favouritism from many...

Makes sense... going pretty much the way that Arthur C Clarke predicted in the 2/3000 series. They'll be the first on Mars as well... unless we skip and go to Europa ;) Bb

Conversely, plenty of people claim to be time travellers but are ignored as having mental 'issues' so you can argue that they are already amongst us. The point being that they can't win even when they do say they are here. So perhaps the question should not be 'where are they' but rather, why...

Surely a brand of condoms aimed at those with premature ejaculation a 'hair trigger' during intimacy?

For god's sake it's the weather! It's bound to be unpredictable, not like it's controlled or anything... what next? people sue car makers because rain doesn't run down the same rivulets on a windscreen each time?? embrace chaos!

Thanks for the show. It was entertaining.

so... as ever sex is going to drive innovation :D I think, when they(if) they do around to selling this concept seriously, they need to be careful. These 'catoms' still have a set size and mass, so converting from one form to another isn't always going to be possible - I wonder if the phone to...

It amazes me, given hollywood's liking for sequels of popular films that they haven't completed 2063 and 3001. It's surely prime for a 'reboot' and in these economic times they already have a massive brand and following to dip into, so less work for the marketing. :mad: madness.

I heartily recommend that you all read 2010 (and see the film starring Roy Scheider and Jon Lithgow), 2063 and 3001 to complete the series as Clarke intended. There are many indicators to things that we have seen or are just on the cusp of developing in today's societies and technologies. The...

Heh, indeed. It was just a gentle dose of humour into the thread - it was 'of the moment'. A bit of sarcasm spun with feigned innocence of the term. My next move would've been how the OP could possibly have made the comparison to the colloquialism in question :p

Sir, This is a really valuable contribution which should help the OP reach a more reasoned decision. Now we simply await a coherent definition for the colloquialism under question and I feel our work will be done here. Your description is pretty much as I expected to receive. From all the...

Sir, I have never seen the show, nor have I read the American version of UFO Monthly. I was merely attempting to help the fellow in making his decision based on the parameters he had presented as his considered assessment of the tv programme under question, coupled with the very real dilemma he...