Posts by Ian Oliver 1

Nipper's toy train enjoys journey to edge of SPAAAAACE

The music reminds me of another railways related piece called "Dumb ways to die." :-)

Absolutely brilliant stuff...looks like I'm going to have to raid my collection of old mobiles and son's toy trains ... all in the name of science which ain't a bad thing!

LARGEST BELCH EVER SEEN devastates gassy GIANT Saturn

Re: Monoliths?

Actually Clarke 2001 was set in the Saturnian system: the moon Iapetus specifically...

The move to Jupiter was made for the film 2001 with Kubrick and this continued in subsequent books. Interestingly there came the idea of life on Jupiter's moon Europa which is believed to host a sea under a thick shell of ice: water being the key ingredient for life.

In a bizarre twist that only the University could think of, turns out they could have stayed at Saturn with evidence for water (and organic compounds) at Enceladus...

Post-pub nosh deathmatch: Haggis pakora v huevos rancheros

Re: These are all warm-up acts

Surströmming....wonderful stuff. Must admit though the haggis pakora looks good. Will also have to agree with another poster that one of the joys of visiting Scotland was deep fried battered haggis in curry sauce...

Who ate all the iPies?

iPad....

...to me this sounds like some feminine hygiene product...

iSanitaryPad?

Suicide bum-blast bombing startles Saudi prince

Airports...

....quick, we need a new bizarre, ineffective, contradictory airport security measure to prevent people smuggling 100ml of water concealed up their bottoms...

...I for one, will be taking the train...