Last night's Horizon

[Alf]

Not too impressed with the way the new series has kicked off . Where's Prof Cox with the latest on CERN's Large Hadron Collider, and how's the search for water on Gliese 581c going?

I think Prof Cox is working on the FRA Large Number Folder at the moment

[mr brightside]

Anyone see it last night? That feature on developing a 6th sense that is sensitive to magnetic north was fascinating, could this explain people who find themselves to have a good sense of direction? I've always found my sense of direction quite reliable, but put it down to an ability to guess angles accurately based on an unfamiliar route i memorised earlier, am i now a fell running pigeon?

[mr brightside]

According to last night's episode i can report that there is a god...and it's an asteroid! In particular the one that slammed into the earth a while ago and brought all the water and possibly the long chain chemicals commonly known as 'the building blocks of life'.

Joking aside, the program chose not to link this discovery with the argument about existence of life on other planets

All hail our gods:

[Alf]

[QUOTE=mr brightside;370804]According to last night's episode i can report that there is a god...and it's an asteroid! In particular the one that slammed into the earth a while ago and brought all the water and possibly the long chain chemicals commonly known as 'the building blocks of life'.

Joking aside, the program chose not to link this discovery with the argument about existence of life on other planets

All hail our gods:

Its life Mr B. but not as we know it :w00t:

[mr brightside]

Its life Mr B. but not as we know it :w00t:

Ha ha ha! It's just a stage hand shuffling along in what looks like an Arts and Crafts bedspread . Does it make a noise? this computer's got no speakers. Is it a cheesy vocoderated rooooar!

[Alf]

Ha ha ha! It's just a stage hand shuffling along in what looks like an Arts and Crafts bedspread . Does it make a noise? this computer's got no speakers. Is it a cheesy vocoderated rooooar!

That is the famous "Horta" a silicon-based lifeform from Janus VI. It is composed of a material similar to fibrous asbestos. It makes no sound but Spock did a mind meld with it once "the pain!...the pain!"


........errr not that I'm a Trekky you understand