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Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Damned if I do - Alan Parsons Project

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? The Only Way is Up - Yazz & The Plastic Population

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did I loved some of the sci-fi stuff they brought out in the 80's and 90's, but it's like I was the only one. Electric Warrior from DC was an excellent piece, but it only ran 12 issues. At least they ended it, unlike Open Space by Marvel, where they just never published the last issue.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Englishman in New York - Sting

Re: Future submarine warfare? One thing you could explore is the interceptor-torpedo concept. Having secondary tubes firing short-range interceptors at the big shipkillers could make a battle sub much more survivable (and B-G lasers for the next layer of defence, perhaps..?)

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Gonna Rice - Yoko Kanno

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Smalltown Boy - Bronski Beat

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? The Loner - Cinnamon Girl - Down By The River Medley - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

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Re: WWYCD: Quantum Leap I think you mean World War One...

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... Just completed The Watch on the Rhein, by John Ringo and Tom Kratman. I found it very interesting, both as a straight actioner and because of the philosophies espoused, which can be stated basically as "Stereotypes have no merit; everyone is an individual, with their own reasons for their actions" and "Survival trumps all else." It's the interaction and conflict of those two philosophies that drives a lot of the conflict in the book. The book is part of the Posleen Saga. The German Chancellor, knowing that his nation is going to be overrun by the Posleen hordes within five years, is forced to decide whether to use alien technology to rejuvenate ALL of the available old men who were once soldiers - including those who were members of the Waffen-SS...

Re: WWYCD: The Campion Protocols Terminus would get The Edge together and have them investigate the original robbery. Most of The Edge have public IDs, so the protocols aren't that important to them; they'd be most interested in stopping whoever it was from releasing information about mor vulnerable heroes.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Kosciuszko - Midnight Oil

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? I Can't Be Cool - Yoko Kanno

Re: WWYCD: Quantum Leap Terminus isn't from this timeline anyway. He'd just go back and find the landing sites of all of the Disruption personnel who escaped to this universe...and kill them.

Re: WWYCD: Vengeance From Duress Actually, Terminus would be in two minds about the situation. It would seem to him that Nebula brought this on herself. On the other hand, letting a bunch of demonic/villainous being have their way with her - that's not on. He'd summon The Edge, and Primus, then put a railgun shell through the marble jar. "I'm taking Nebula into custody. Anybody want's to leave, go ahead. No one's going to try to stop you. But Nebula is coming with me." Let the melee commence...

Re: WWYCD: The Nebula Affair Terminus would point out that her laws hold no jurisdiction on earth. If she replied that she did not accept that argument (as I have no doubt she would), Terminus would request the presence of the other members of The Edge, and ask Zero to mindlink them all. After explaining the situation, Terminus would then ask the team to aid him in taking Nebula down. I'm pretty certain we could nail her without getting hit (Miss Chaos slaps on her "flash everything" attack, Terminus uses his Light Lance, and Trawler haymakers - end of fight).

Re: The Champion Protocols (ie how to take down your character) With Terminus, things could be easy or difficult. His major weakness is Mentalism. On his world, there were no powerful Psis, so he wasn't engineered to deal with their powers. Otherwise, you'd probably want to hit him with gas attacks when he isn't wearing his Hardsuit - it's atmosphere sealed. He's quite good at dealing with conventional attacks.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Crunchy Granola Suite - Neil Diamond (Live version, of course!)

Re: Stupid firearms question Near-absolute zero would be one problem, but solar exposure would be much worse. I'm not sure just exactly how hot an exposed oblect would get in near-earth space, but if it's enough to gang-fire the shells...

Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines) Blood on the stone. That's what it was all about, in the end. 1863 - The quarry was old, the crane rickety and weak, the man unlucky. The piece of rock fell from a height of fifty feet - and the tombstone he had just finished carving from the living earth was baptized with his own life's blood. The stone was scrubbed, and cleaned, and sprayed with noxious chemicals - and soon it was white again, and Geoffrey Walters bought it for his family's burial plot. Geoffrey was a good man. He provided for his family; he gave what he could to those less fortunate than himself; he tried to be the best he could. He laid three children beneath the stone, and their names were etched in the face of the rock. In time, his son, Edward, laid him to rest there also. Edward fought for his nation, and for his family. In two wars, and with the deaths of three of his own children, he slowly grew old before his time, and was laid to rest beside his wife of thirty years, at the feet of his father. His son, Martin, was the only survivng child, as Edward had been. He stood tall, fought when it was asked of him, and came home safe, determined to make a difference. He wore a badge, he walked a beat, and he fathered a fine son to come after him. James followed after his father. An only child, he worshipped his father, and loved to hear the stories of his ancestors. And when he was a man, he married, and took up his father's cause as his own. James did not walk a beat. He wore a fine suit, and his badge was gold. He put drug smugglers and gangsters in prison, and he went home to his wife and his three fine daughters. But then came the day, Martin died, easy in his sleep. And James and his family took him to be buried in the family plot, for his name to be engraved in the stone placed there so long ago. But James had made enemies, evil men who wanted him dead. And their bullets sprayed the blood of James upon the stone; and his wife, Samantha; and his three fine daughters, all the blood mixed together. The blood of good people, the blood of it's people, the blood of those the stone was made to guard, blood on the stone. Some say, the earth has a soul, a spirit as alive and real as any of us. Some say, even the smallest and least part partakes in it's own right of that soul. Can a stone be offended? Can a simple piece of carved stone grieve? The evil men did not long celebrate their success. Their house was smashed inwards, their bodies broken, their weapons less than useless. And the tombstone of the Walters family was nowhere to be seen. Only deep, deep footprints walking away from the grave...

Re: Plot Seed: Six Places to Nuke When You’re Serious Tokyo, Japan. Japan is the only nation besides Iceland that has specifically renounced offensive warfare. If it gets nuked, the entire non-proliferation deal is OFF. Plus, Japan would almost certainly rearm - which would cause political chaos throughout East Asia.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project.

Re: Greatest Post-Apoc Film of All Time I'll say double for the Beeb version of Triffids. It's got to be the best adaptation of Wyndham I've ever seen (though I have to admit I haven't seen the latest version of Children of the Damned - why couldn't they have kept "The Midwich Cuckoos" as a name? It's much more evocative.) Apparently, there's a new version of I am Legend in the works. Maybe they'll get it right this time (not that Price's version was bad, but from what I've seen of it it wasn't too faithful).