100 billion star systems

SeptimusOraka

SeptimusOraka
NeilF said:
I'd much rather find a damaged one of these floating in a nebula to fly around and look at :)

http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7/Essays/Pics/space188.jpeg
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Meh. I never liked of the design of this ship. :rolleyes: I prefer the "improved version" used in Babylon 5 for the Drazi:

Drazi_Sun-Hawk.jpg


This "version" is faaaaaar way better than the original design of the Liberator! :D
 
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SeptimusOraka

SeptimusOraka
Mazhurg said:
I'd love to see encounters like Babylon 5 Sector 87 - The old ones where no interaction other than visual (or bad end if in wrong place for player - ie in path of whatever...) one witnessed one of those god like species. :cool:
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I would fly to the other extreme of galaxy and back just for the chance of being witness of such encounter! :smilie:
 

Quantum Enigma

Quantum Enigma
MrChaos said:
If I may

The idea, even given the idea of "shipping lanes" and "shipping planes", that something willl randomly hit you 100s, 1000s, millions of years after being tossed is statisically ludicrious... and that is being really super kind and nice.

Disagree than by all means educate my shot from the hip post... using numbahs ;)
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Me, Janna Levin, Lawrence Krauss and Richard Feynman all disagree :D

The following vid is 15 mins long and an excellent presentation by Janna Levin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVubvLgTcxg

And the following quote is taken from a talk given by Lawrence Krauss:

"Richard Feynman used to go up to people all the time and he'd say 'You won't believe what happened to me today... you won't believe what happened to me' and people would say 'What?' and he'd say 'Absolutely nothing'. Because we humans believe that everything that happens to us is special and significant. Everything that happens is unusual and I expect that of the likelihood that Richard and I ever would've met. If you think about all the variables: the probability that we were in the same place at the same time, ate breakfast the same. Whatever. It's zero. Every event that happens has small probability... but it happens and then when it happens; if it's weird, if you dream one million nights and it's nonsense but one night you dream that your friend is gonna break his leg and the next day he breaks his arm... *sound of revelation* So the real thing that physics tell us about the universe is that it's big. Rare events happens all the time."
 

SeptimusOraka

SeptimusOraka
Quantum Enigma said:
Me, Janna Levin, Lawrence Krauss and Richard Feynman all disagree :D

The following vid is 15 mins long and an excellent presentation by Janna Levin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVubvLgTcxg

And the following quote is taken from a talk given by Lawrence Krauss:

"Richard Feynman used to go up to people all the time and he'd say 'You won't believe what happened to me today... you won't believe what happened to me' and people would say 'What?' and he'd say 'Absolutely nothing'. Because we humans believe that everything that happens to us is special and significant. Everything that happens is unusual and I expect that of the likelihood that Richard and I ever would've met. If you think about all the variables: the probability that we were in the same place at the same time, ate breakfast the same. Whatever. It's zero. Every event that happens has small probability... but it happens and then when it happens; if it's weird, if you dream one million nights and it's nonsense but one night you dream that your friend is gonna break his leg and the next day he breaks his arm... *sound of revelation* So the real thing that physics tell us about the universe is that it's big. Rare events happens all the time."
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Who is Janna Levin?!?:S
 

Yaffle

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Yaffle
NeilF said:
I'd much rather find a damaged one of these floating in a nebula to fly around and look at :)

http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7/Essays/Pics/space188.jpeg
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I'd never noticed before that The Liberator had a bit of a droop on the two lower (in that pic) er, pointy thingies. I really liked that ship, and (I was a kid, remember) was really upset when it and Zen were destroyed. I liked it because it looked like a spaceship, as in something built in space and never needing to, or able to, land. Even though surreally it did in a couple of episodes. At the time most spaceships looked like aircraft.
 

Mazhurg

Mazhurg
Yaffle said:
I'd never noticed before that The Liberator had a bit of a droop on the two lower (in that pic) er, pointy thingies. I really liked that ship, and (I was a kid, remember) was really upset when it and Zen were destroyed. I liked it because it looked like a spaceship, as in something built in space and never needing to, or able to, land. Even though surreally it did in a couple of episodes. At the time most spaceships looked like aircraft.
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You guys piked my curiosity... Series is available in DVD format? (All I could find so far is VHS)
 

Slythe

Slythe
Yaffle said:
I'd never noticed before that The Liberator had a bit of a droop on the two lower (in that pic) er, pointy thingies.
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I think the droop is just a feature of it being a physical model rather than being part of the design. The pointy thingies are usually believed to be the main weapon system (Neutron blast cannons according to wikipedia).

Yaffle said:
I really liked that ship, and (I was a kid, remember) was really upset when it and Zen were destroyed. I liked it because it looked like a spaceship, as in something built in space and never needing to, or able to, land. Even though surreally it did in a couple of episodes. At the time most spaceships looked like aircraft.
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I totally agree.
 

Nagual

Nagual
Loved Blakes 7 as a kid. Tried to rewatch it again a few years ago.. let's say it hasn't aged well. At all. :(

I do remember Blue Peter doing a "lets make a teleporter bracelet from Blakes 7" bits of ribbon , paper, sticky glue sticks, scissors (get an adult to help you there). The end product was a bracelet that looked just like the real thing, because it was. Thats how the props team made them too.. :D

Check out the youtube vid on how to make your own..!
 

Erimus Kamzel

Erimus Kamzel
Mazhurg said:
Thanks, was looking at chapters.com amazon.ca and .com and all they had were the VHS.

Ordered. Should be watching the series in a week or so :)
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Its a strange one is Blake's 7. Some dire episodes in the later series, but some absolute gems amongst them too. Terry Nation, Rob Holmes, and Chris Boucher were brilliant writers though.

While you wait for the real thing, have a gander at this for a bit of lighthearted B7 fun :smilie:

Blake's Junction 7 (2005) - Short Film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWuTeR7xCU4
 

NeilF

NeilF
Yaffle said:
I'd never noticed before that The Liberator had a bit of a droop on the two lower (in that pic) er, pointy thingies. I really liked that ship, and (I was a kid, remember) was really upset when it and Zen were destroyed. I liked it because it looked like a spaceship, as in something built in space and never needing to, or able to, land. Even though surreally it did in a couple of episodes. At the time most spaceships looked like aircraft.
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I suspect that's simply down to the cheap model bending :)
 

Cosmo Bozo

Cosmo Bozo
Nagual said:
Loved Blakes 7 as a kid. Tried to rewatch it again a few years ago.. let's say it hasn't aged well. At all. :(
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It's true it hasn't aged well, but they had some guts to have that story arc on a 'kids' show, dark stuff at times, I couldn't see it happening now.

Special effects are worse than the clangers though...
 

Mazhurg

Mazhurg
Nagual said:
Loved Blakes 7 as a kid. Tried to rewatch it again a few years ago.. let's say it hasn't aged well. At all. :(

I do remember Blue Peter doing a "lets make a teleporter bracelet from Blakes 7" bits of ribbon , paper, sticky glue sticks, scissors (get an adult to help you there). The end product was a bracelet that looked just like the real thing, because it was. Thats how the props team made them too.. :D

Check out the youtube vid on how to make your own..!
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I am in the process of collecting Sci-Fi oldies, so this should fit right in, with the likes of Flash (and flesh) Gordon, Space 1999, Dr Who, Farscape, Lost in space, the Trek series, the Stargate series and many others. ;)
 

Yaffle

Volunteer Moderator
Yaffle
Erimus said:
Its a strange one is Blake's 7. Some dire episodes in the later series, but some absolute gems amongst them too. Terry Nation, Rob Holmes, and Chris Boucher were brilliant writers though.

While you wait for the real thing, have a gander at this for a bit of lighthearted B7 fun :smilie:

Blake's Junction 7 (2005) - Short Film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWuTeR7xCU4
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B7 was more "Blake messes about in disused quarries and power stations" than the latter-day FX laden things. Chris Boucher is (was?) a great scriptwriter. B7 allowed him to write wonderfully acerbic dialogue between the protagonists, who didn't actually like each other all that much.
 

Erimus Kamzel

Erimus Kamzel
Yaffle said:
B7 was more "Blake messes about in disused quarries and power stations" than the latter-day FX laden things. Chris Boucher is (was?) a great scriptwriter. B7 allowed him to write wonderfully acerbic dialogue between the protagonists, who didn't actually like each other all that much.
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+1

Boucher also wrote Star Cops a few years later ('86/'87), which followed the same theme of all the main characters not really liking each other very much.

Star Cops was cancelled by the BBC after just 9 episodes. Shame really I thought it was a great series that was actually set in the near future, and not off in some distant sci-fi dystopia.
 
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