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I'm in the middle of National Novel Writing Month at the moment (37 000 words done out of 50 000!) but just before bed I have been re-reading The Island of Doctor Moreau. Read through it a few times for my thesis last year on H.G. Wells. It feels good to be reading his stuff for fun and not to...

While it is true that a lot of successful people do not have a formal tertiary degree, tertiary education does still have a lot to offer in terms of a broad foundation of knowledge, a source of independence and self confidence, a way of learning persuasive arguing skills, and practice in...

I wish there was an "I don't know but probably not" option. Occam's razor works for me too.

Wow I bet that's intense.

Just got out of a year-long Literature/Creative Writing postgrad. course so while a lot of the books I was reading for that were fun (lots of H.G. Wells, The Hobbit, The Princess Bride, and other super-sweet books) it feels good to be reading stuff again without having to take notes! At the...

Not interested at the moment in any monies that I can't spend at the corner shop.

(When there is an alien on the viewscreen whose face is redder than a dead man's shirt, jumping up and down with smoke coming out of his/her ears, Troi is the one who looks at said alien and says "I sense anger.")

Had to log in particularly to confirm that yes it was indeed Picard who said that!

The other question is, even if there may be documented, unequivocally proven cases of injury/death from UFOs, how do we know that they're all dangerous? I believe the point was made much earlier in this thread, of assumptions that this is a case of Earth vs. UFO... us v. them -- where "UFO" is a...

Forgive my ignorance, but what's "tp"? Is it a Halloween thing?

hmm.Yeah that's a point. I'm going to see if I can channel by Yahtzee.

In that case I solemnly promise never to chuckle again. Except when Chris O'Brien does his ET voice(s)~~ permission to sneak a little smile then? If the reviewer is referring to your occasional pop culture / sci-fi references Mr Steinberg, this listener actually does ~~how to say~~ appreciate...

Get Mr Camping to say that the end is coming, and that'll be our insurance to see that it doesn't. I hope that something out of the ordinary happens in 2012. And I hope that it's a positive thing. But then that's something I hope for every year. Make sense??

Neandertal people's brains were also larger than ours. We don't know whether that means that they were smarter, per se, but general belief is that they would have been just as smart (although more stuck in their ways) than Cro Magnon. And our ancestors were almost extinct at a time when...

Ummm......... Sometimes. But then, Dung beetles spring to mind.:rolleyes:(mmcrunchy) When Hawking said that it wouldn't be so good for aliens to land on Earth, did he mean they would meet trouble if they landed on Earth, or if they landed in Arizona? Has anyone ever read that short story by...

Well, she could still be a "Space Babe" because she is also in Firefly ne? Chapel is cool too -- although I kind of like Lwaxana a little bit better as a really interesting character [told yas I'm a female person, my criteria are a wee bit different, and my mouth free of drool... :p] I...

That depends on what is interesting to you. Some people might say the same about altered consciousness.:rolleyes: But then I'm a history buff and there's something interesting in any new scenery -- so I think for me (Assuming that it is non life-threatening) it would be fun. ---------- Post...

Giant jellyfish are always going for brief stratospherical jaunts don'tcha know? I mean, they're boneless deafblind blobs of transparent stuff. What other hobbies are they gonna have?

John Noble as in Denethor?:) Wikkid. Would be great to be able to watch it! Welcome to the forums. (Am kind of an on-again-off-again member here but in a similar position -- just keeping an ear out for a good starter book [on a shoestring budget], so cheers heaps for asking I'm sure we're not...

Well... a time machine and a Universal Translator and / or Babel Fish, and a bail out option should things turn sour! :shy: I would like to meet Herodotus of Halicarnassus and ask him about his travels in Persia and Egypt. You guys like field researchers, right? I reckon Herodotus was the...