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- Mon Jul 09, 2018 8:19 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
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- Sun Jul 08, 2018 8:34 am
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
- Replies: 5944
- Views: 826199
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Traveller certainly qualifies in terms of Jump mechanics, but isn't it largely the inspiration for Elite?
- Tue Jul 03, 2018 2:05 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
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Re: Science Fiction Trivia
That'll do nicely. Another species could have been the Kurii, from the Gor series - stated in Beasts of Gor to comprise dominants, non-dominants, egg-carriers and blood-nursers. The dominants fertilise the egg-carriers, who then implant the blood-nursers, not unlike the Puppeteer breeding cycle - an...
- Tue Jul 03, 2018 6:41 am
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
- Replies: 5944
- Views: 826199
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Yes, they do. And another?
- Mon Jul 02, 2018 4:49 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
- Replies: 5944
- Views: 826199
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Yeesh. Nobody likes this. OK, here's an alternative: give me two sapient alien races which have more than two sexes (and whose breeding cycle also involves more than two). Any science fiction you like, not restricted to Trek.
- Thu Jun 28, 2018 8:35 am
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
- Replies: 5944
- Views: 826199
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Lordy. That's the trouble with coming up with smart answers - you have to come up with smart questions to follow up. Okay, some Trek trivia then: at least three actors who have appeared anywhere in the franchise as characters of different humanoid races. (One quite well-known one played three differ...
- Wed Jun 27, 2018 10:49 am
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
- Replies: 5944
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Re: Science Fiction Trivia
The Grogs. In their adult or sessile stage they are blind, deaf and immobile - all they can do is open their mouth and mind-control something into walking in.
(Larry Niven, short story "The Handicapped", occasionally mentioned elsewhere.)
(Larry Niven, short story "The Handicapped", occasionally mentioned elsewhere.)
- Fri Jun 01, 2018 7:02 am
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Methane dunes found on Pluto
- Replies: 1
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Re: Methane dunes found on Pluto
In the low forties Absolute, I'd say you were pretty much right. 

- Sun May 20, 2018 11:56 am
- Forum: Fiction
- Topic: Extracts from the Tre Clan Addresses on Interplanetary Life
- Replies: 14
- Views: 19732
Re: Extracts from the Tre Clan Addresses on Interplanetary Life
As long as I get a warning bullet through the kneecap first, we're all good.Cody wrote: ↑Sun May 20, 2018 9:40 amTempt the manglement at your peril!Malacandra wrote: ↑Sun May 20, 2018 7:35 amThe management are welcome to advise me when this is becoming tiresome.

- Sun May 20, 2018 7:35 am
- Forum: Fiction
- Topic: Extracts from the Tre Clan Addresses on Interplanetary Life
- Replies: 14
- Views: 19732
Re: Extracts from the Tre Clan Addresses on Interplanetary Life
i like good reads. just finished between the devil and black space (i think?) it was a pretty good book of short stories. sure it focused on INRA, but i liked how the various threads tied together. definitely will be looking into this (crack open the oxz) If you like good reads, allow me to shamele...
- Sun Apr 01, 2018 4:47 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: NASA finds seven Earth-sized planets around a single star
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6585
Re: NASA finds seven Earth-sized planets around a single star
Indeed. Trouble with all that water is you need some dissolved solids as well to make bio-compounds out of, I think - you can't get very far with just water and a reducing atmosphere. And possibly some shallows for the reactions to occur in.
- Sun Apr 01, 2018 8:30 am
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: NASA finds seven Earth-sized planets around a single star
- Replies: 14
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Re: NASA finds seven Earth-sized planets around a single star
And when they say "water worlds" they mean literal globes of water with a solid core. Earth's proportion of water is about what you'd get if you picked a pool ball out of a bucket of water (a couple of miles depth on a 4000-mile radius is almost literally just a film of water, in planetary terms).
- Tue Mar 13, 2018 9:12 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: A question of lore
- Replies: 40
- Views: 9951
Re: A question of lore
Ah, right... so Data has an evil twin? I ain't a Trekkie, you see. Yes. Or an evil older brother if we're picky. Didn't turn up in many episodes but made a big impact when he did (not least because of Brent Spiner's excellent acting skills). My family just got through watching the entire boxed set....
- Tue Mar 13, 2018 1:27 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: A question of lore
- Replies: 40
- Views: 9951
- Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:19 am
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: A question of lore
- Replies: 40
- Views: 9951
Re: A question of lore
Haven't read the thread, but eventually Data deactivated and disassembled him. He was just flat-out evil whether it was summoning the Crystalline Entity to murder an entire colony or building a private army of renegade Borg - there was no alternative.